heating house over 2500sqft?

[79ford]

I am not a big fan of large houses, more into the large yard thing but I know of a large yard with a fairly sizable house on it for an okay price and figured maybe the heating bill may be worth the yard size and awesome shop.

The house is fired by a two furnaces and is about 2600sqft. Natural gas and single level.

What sorts of bills can a guy rack up with a monstrosity of a house like this?

[dmcbride]

With the new Carbon tax, run.

[Talking moose]

Can't you rent it instead?

[dewalt18]

Going to have more to do with the efficiency of the furnaces and quality of construction than anything else. Good insulation, high quality doors and windows, tight building envelope have more of an impact than actual square footage. Also exposure, wind protection etc

[wags]

Originally Posted by dewalt18

Going to have more to do with the efficiency of the furnaces and quality of construction than anything else. Good insulation, high quality doors and windows, tight building envelope have more of an impact than actual square footage. Also exposure, wind protection etc

This!

I had a 1100 sq ft 2-storey townhouse - 8 years old, built terribly, every window had a draft, and furnace was not an efficient, likely cheapest one out. I always thought my bills were outragous.

Moved to a 4 level split built in '82, 2700 sq ft, solid house, new windows, new high efficiency furnace, and i'm paying more than half of what i was in my old location.

(disclosure - this is gas and power in one bill, but the same in both cases).
The new house also has A/C which we run in the summer.

Cheers

[Sledhead71]

Why don't you request the previous years utility charges for this home and determine yourself if heating costs are acceptable ? Appears you are looking at purchasing so the property taxes, insurance costs and utilities should be easily attained.

[hal53]

Originally Posted by Talking moose

Can't you rent it instead?

pretty quick for a Monday TM....

[Talking moose]

Originally Posted by hal53

pretty quick for a Monday TM....

Haha, especially since I still feel like Sunday morning...

[79ford]

Originally Posted by Talking moose

Can't you rent it instead?

Probably couldnt rent a 2600 sqft house with a plumbed 2500sqft drive through shop and the amount of acres included for the same price

[amosfella]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwZrg4xWSQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrb6jFdfLU

ideas for heating...

[Coiloil37]

It depends on the furnace and house efficiency more then anything. My house is 3k sq/ft and we heat the 24x26' attached garage. Everything is very high efficiency from the construction of the home to the furnace and we burn on average 5-8 gigs of gas on a cold month in the winter. That includes the on demand hot water and underfloor heat.
Being as I work in Australia, I hate the cold now so the thermostat sits on 23 degrees in the winter.

My previous house was 1900 sq/ft, built in 77, couldn't even spell efficient and if I didn't burn wood I saw $300-500 gas bills per month through the winter with the thermostat set at 19.

There's an easy way to find the answer to your question. Ask the seller for the last 12 months of their utility bills. I've been asked that selling houses and I've asked when buying.