electric bill
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Eanto
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You’d have thought they would have written the correct notes!
Prakhonchai Nick
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A nippy night for Loy Khatoey
nomad97
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Aye, take a hip flask with you to ward off the cold ...........................
EnglishAlan
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You guys must have massive pensions to pay big Bahts ev/month? There s 3 of us in our house (wife,son & myself) & we re usually around B1000/1100 pm. Away last week 11th to 18th,meter read on 17th &
bill was B 945 . With the GBP going down so much to all the currencies,if I had to pay some of the mnthly figs quoted, I m not sure if I would be here much longer.
If you re paying say B 4000 pm,that s almost GBP100!
bill was B 945 . With the GBP going down so much to all the currencies,if I had to pay some of the mnthly figs quoted, I m not sure if I would be here much longer.
If you re paying say B 4000 pm,that s almost GBP100!
mario299
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I am not posting on this thread anymore because I am almost embarrassed that we only are charged about Bt800/month. Granted, there is just my lovely wife and I, daughter is away at Ubon University, but what in the world costs so much for electric every month for all of you? It's not so hot for me now to want or need air con, are you all using it daily?? Hard for me to understand, maybe it's just because village life is cheaper?
Yorky
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I haven't turned our aircon on since August. And even then it was probably for only 1 hour per night. And I am not uncomfortable. Over the last 25 years I have acclimatised.
merlin
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Despite the size of our bills now, they are far smaller than I was used to paying for electricity and LPG (the latter for hot water and C.H) in the mountains of Wales. I'm happy to exchange the freezing cold of my past for the heat here which the family feels needs A.C. to temper it... Our house has more windows than solid walls (literally!) and the solar gain is huge. The walls are powerful radiators too (single skin) and the sun shines on some part or other of the house from dawn to dusk on a sunny day. My upstairs bedroom has a 10' wide patio door, plus 4 further windows... Although I'm usually up until 1-2am, going to bed is like entering an oven ( well over 40C anyway) and there's no way that I can sleep in that heat. with kids in the other bedrooms that have dual aspect windows, they have their A.C. on timers to limit the bills to some extent. I do sometimes wonder if my engineer neighbour's bills are similar, or if he's tapped into my meter!
Yorky
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Our main bedroom has two windows, one facing north and one facing east. The east facing window gets the sun, if there is any, from around 06:00 to 08:00. The lounge doesn't see the sun at all, the main windows being protected by the car port and the stoep roof. The kitchen is really the only room that is affected by the sun's rays and it has only one window which is in direct line of the southern sun and that has closed blinds.
You may think that it was as a result of clever planning but I can assure you that it was pure luck.
You may think that it was as a result of clever planning but I can assure you that it was pure luck.
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nomad97
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Damn straight...maybe that is why you don't see them out and about at night.
Nights out are way more expensive than B150 per night for electric.
(Oh sure we love our mates 24 / 7 / 365 .)
Coffee, you have got it on one. We stay in every night and most days too, 125 baht/day is a small price to pay for an air conditioned environment. We do not cool excessively as the thermostat is set for 26 degrees C, against an ambient temperature of 30 to 31 degrees without. If anything, I prefer the comfort of the reduced humidity more than the lower temperature. If the truth were known my Thai family, wife plus 2 daughters, use the aircon more than me. I am the one who goes round turning off the aircon, especially in the wee hours. Everyone has their own comfort zone and I used to enjoy 40 degrees plus without aircon in Saudi Arabia. However, the humidity on the 2,000 foot high plateau where Riyadh is situated was very low, less than 20%. You would sweat and not know it, it just evaporated.
nomad97
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Apart from the electric kettle, microwave, Halogen oven and rice cooker everything else is cooked on gas.
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Eanto
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No toaster?
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merlin
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Correct guess Yorky (in my case anyway.) I do have two electric ovens but they are not used daily, whereas the hob seems to be in almost constant use. We use between 3 and 4 bottles a year for a family of four people. I've been toying with buying a halogen oven too, wondering if that might reduce energy costs, but have put it off so far.
Prakhonchai Nick
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Apart from cooking, there are the fridges (we have 3) freezers (2) air-cons (4) hot water heaters (3) computers (2) fans (several) lights (too many to count, but I have changed all of the bulbs to LED) and the water pump drawing from a deep well. The fridges and freezers were more necessary than now, since a) the kids were at home and b) needed to keep food in stock as it was the best part of 100km round trip to Tesco/BigC Tops (for bread) and Makro. Now have Tesco 2kms away, but still need regular trips to Makro/Tops
Anticipating a bill of circa 3,000Baht in the next day or 2. Suits me fine after an average of 6,000 Baht before
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nomad97
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Once you get into it you will find the Halogen oven an indispensable cooking aid. Watch a few instructional videos on YouTube, read a few recipes and experiment a little. I have not used my gas oven in nearly a year - everything I enjoy is now 'Halogened'. Vegetables are steamed or boiled on the gas, all the meat and potatoes (jackets) are baked/roasted in the Halogen oven. I pre-cook my 'jackets' in the microwave, as in par-boil, and finish them off with the meat in the Halogen. In contrast to you, we use about 2 bottles of gas a year, also for a family of four.
We have a halogen cooker and Wood, I are both use it almost daily.
There must be a saving in cost against using our full electric oven and there is no waiting time for it to heat up