Or do energy companies have standardised prices?
Gas prices vary by provider - and each town may have a different provider. Then, the efficiency of people's heating system varies. And how well insulated their home is, and how high they crank up the thermostat.
It isn't the price that I care about, but the usage. I know there's going to be a huge range, but it should give me an idea at least. My hypothesis is that our apartment is very poorly insulated, and that we are paying too much. (It's also unreliable and stops working every other day and we have to call the landlord to turn it on again.)
If you tell us what you heat with and what your consumption is, we can figure out BTUs quite easily, then we'd only need pertinent geometry and your weather. For approximation, if 100 sq ft, is that rectangular? Does it share a wall or ceiling/floor? and for temp your USDA hardiness zone's basically sufficient.
Thermographic auditing usually runs about $300+, its upside is it identifies exactly where heat is leaking from if you do turn out to have poor insulation, but to just figure out if you have poor insulation or not you really need to know how many BTUs (or KwH) your using.
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What is your typical heating bill?
- 18/11/2010 04:09:25 PM
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Is this the kind of thing where prices differ across states?
- 18/11/2010 04:13:44 PM
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everything varies.
- 18/11/2010 04:18:17 PM
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A thermogrpahic audit is the best way, however...
- 18/11/2010 04:39:26 PM
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Very much, unfortunately.
- 18/11/2010 04:53:00 PM
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I'm not talking about overall bill.
- 18/11/2010 05:52:07 PM
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That tends to vary as well, I believe; supply and demand and all that.
- 18/11/2010 09:42:41 PM
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I heat with wood, so I can't help you. *NM*
- 18/11/2010 04:21:58 PM
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I miss a logfire so very much. It's the most comfortable heat. <3 *NM*
- 18/11/2010 04:23:57 PM
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Well...
- 18/11/2010 04:28:34 PM
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That seems really carbon-intensive, actually.
- 19/11/2010 12:48:31 AM
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Creating heat is a big deal. 
- 19/11/2010 02:11:40 AM
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- 19/11/2010 02:11:40 AM
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Yeah, it's interesting. I'm going to try to find something out about that.
- 19/11/2010 02:49:54 AM
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I got it. I know, delayed reaction.
Numbers
- 18/11/2010 05:01:57 PM
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That's very helpful.
- 18/11/2010 06:27:59 PM
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I live in South Texas 
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- 18/11/2010 05:12:13 PM
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- 18/11/2010 05:12:13 PM
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Yeah, we south Texans swap high winter bills for high summer bills! *NM*
- 18/11/2010 06:02:26 PM
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- 18/11/2010 06:02:26 PM
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not very high, but I don't use much heating until I NEED it.
- 18/11/2010 05:43:29 PM
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Ugh, I try not to think about it. Electric storage heaters are a very expensive way to heat a house.
- 18/11/2010 09:19:39 PM
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we just use the ac less in winter. But the ac bill in summer is about $ 350 *NM*
- 18/11/2010 09:57:57 PM
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mine is usually 150-220 int he winter in CT, i like to be really warm im from TX *NM*
- 19/11/2010 03:59:46 AM
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