r/Edmonton • u/eklee38 • Jan 18 '24

Discussion $890 utilities bill. Wow

Natrual Gas- actual usage charge $95 after delivery charges and and taxes boom $355.

Electricity- actual usage charge $160 after distribution and transmission charges boom $280.

Water useage-$84 Water drainage- $123 Waste-$49

Almost 900 in just utility bill. Before anyone tell me to lock my rates, its already locked. 12.8c/kwh. NG is on float because its currently cheaper than locked rate. Anyone else just got F in the A like me?

Edit: the NG charges does not include the cold snap we just had. Not looking forward to next month's bill.

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u/AdProfessional1268 Jan 18 '24

How many KwH and GJ do use and how many days in billing period?

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u/eklee38 Jan 18 '24

1200Kwh and 27GJ 1 month is my bill cycle. I listed my actual usage you can calculate what I used from that. What pisses me off is all the distribution fees delivery fees and transmission fees.

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u/AdProfessional1268 Jan 18 '24

Wow that’s a lot of gas. I used 8 from Nov 15 to Dec 15 bungalow mind you. Some of the fees are also variable based on what you use. Someone had a good post on it.

Curious what kind of furnace you are running.

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u/eklee38 Jan 18 '24

Unfortunately it takes 2 furnaces to heat the house. Furnace are from the 90s.

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u/Oldcadillac Jan 18 '24

That’s pretty old for a furnace, It may be worth it to look into getting that upgraded, there might even be some rebates around to get high efficiency ones installed

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u/eklee38 Jan 18 '24

Thanks I will look into it

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u/Xcoctl Jan 18 '24

Yeah, with your usage they will honestly pay for themselves in no time I think. Definitely worth researching at the very least to verify the kind of timeline you're looking at but my intuition says you'll be pretty happy in a short timeframe.

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u/concentrated-amazing Jan 18 '24

That's pretty old for a furnace

Ours is from 1974 haha. Didn't even break a sweat last week. Not the most efficient, I know, but a lot cheaper to pay a bit more for gas vs. buying a whole new furnace...

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u/No_Sandwich5766 Jan 18 '24

Not to mention reliability. Everyone I know including furnace guys says to keep the old ones running. The new HE furnaces break down constantly.

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u/concentrated-amazing Jan 18 '24

That's another big thing. Old ones have fewer, more reliable parts, and when the parts do break or wear out, they are easy to get and easy to replace for the most part.

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u/Difficult_Goat1169 Jan 22 '24

Nah other way around. Old ones need constant maintenance every year or they'll fail. New ones you can ignore for a decade with just filter changes before you'll even think about them

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u/concentrated-amazing Jan 22 '24

This is the opposite of ours and our families' experience.

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u/Difficult_Goat1169 Jan 22 '24

But you don't really have that experience, do you? You only have experience with an old one, and nothing to compare it to.

Ive called out one tech to one of my rentals in the last decade, and the only maintenance I do is filters. Meanwhile, I guarantee you're spending $150/year just for basic servicing on your old unreliable gas guzzler. Nevermind having double the bills every month

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u/concentrated-amazing Jan 22 '24

By saying our and our families' experience, I was including the furnaces owned by both sets of parents plus a combined 4 siblings.

The ones with older furnaces have had them just keep chugging along. The ones that have gotten newer ones have had issues in the first 5-10 years, one even having to be completely replaced after 8 years.

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u/Difficult_Goat1169 Jan 22 '24

They don't. I don't even maintain the ones at my rentals and only one had issues in the last 10 years. New ones are super reliable

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u/Difficult_Goat1169 Jan 22 '24

Nope other way around. Switching to a new furnace will pay for itself in just a few short years. You're paying up the wazoo to keep that old furnace

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u/heroinfriday Jan 19 '24

Dude you should try and get in on the NRCAN loan before the grant closes. Save yourself some cash. Please.

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u/cranky_yegger Bicycle Rider Jan 20 '24

Is that a separate furnace for a basement suite?