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[kidkensei]

How much do you guys pay?

I live in Suwa where its a bit colder in the winter so I need to pay for water pipe heaters. With them on it seems my electricity bill is about 6500 yen higher than it would be with them off. Is that too high?

Kensei

[natsume]

I live in a 2LDK, but really live in the living room/kitchen in the winter, using two electric space heaters when I am home. Last year, my December electric bill was 12000 yen (ouch!), and I still don't know why. They seem to float around 5000-6000 these days, down to 2000 in the spring and fall when I am not using heating or aircon. Water and gas are about 3000-3800 each year round. Relatively, it is not too cold where I am, lows rarely much below 0, so no water pipe heaters.

[flyer]

so you pay 6500yen more, I assume electricity would be at least 3500yen normally (??) so that means over 10,000yen?
Yes, that seems a little high, but then it is cold there

I am in Hokkaido (obviously much colder than Suwa) and I have never heard of water pipe heaters.
But thats not to say that we don't have them, I am no expert, we could have them and I never knew it?
anyway, I pay about 5000yen per month all year round for electricity as we normally use oil for heating. But we are on a different playing field, we get below zero all day long for weeks somtimes and we don't have air conditioning in summer.
Our oil bill is just over 10,000 yen in the coldest months, but would average out way below that all year
hhmm Shizuoka would be nice (above post)

I should have said, this was for a 2LDK (2 people)

[ShioriEigoKyoushi]

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[Apsara]