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strider3700 · 10-25-10, 01:22 PM

Weekly update Oct 18 - 25th

It's definitely fall here with lots of rain so the clothes line didn't get much use and the indoor one is in the middle of a construction zone at the moment.

We did 7 loads of laundry, 100% washed in cold 6 dried in the dryer 1 on the clothes line and 2 partial dryer loads ( one of quilts wasn't quite dry and the clothes line was a bit damp)

Usage was

16.08 kwh, costing $1.24 saved was 2.257 kwh or $0.174

This is a pretty typical weeks worth of loads for me in my mind, we'll see if the numbers stay consistent. During summer I'd dry 3/4 or more of those loads outside. Not counting any possible hotwater costs we're near $65/year to do our laundry.

I decided that my savings calculation was wrong. I no longer account 2/3 of a dryer load to savings when doing a partial dry. I instead just count it as 1/3 the cost.

<edit> correcting my numbers </edit>

10-25-10, 01:22 PM	#3
strider3700 Master EcoRenovator Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Vancouver Island BC Posts: 745 Thanks: 23 Thanked 37 Times in 30 Posts	Weekly update Oct 18 - 25th It's definitely fall here with lots of rain so the clothes line didn't get much use and the indoor one is in the middle of a construction zone at the moment. We did 7 loads of laundry, 100% washed in cold 6 dried in the dryer 1 on the clothes line and 2 partial dryer loads ( one of quilts wasn't quite dry and the clothes line was a bit damp) Usage was 16.08 kwh, costing $1.24 saved was 2.257 kwh or $0.174 This is a pretty typical weeks worth of loads for me in my mind, we'll see if the numbers stay consistent. During summer I'd dry 3/4 or more of those loads outside. Not counting any possible hotwater costs we're near $65/year to do our laundry. I decided that my savings calculation was wrong. I no longer account 2/3 of a dryer load to savings when doing a partial dry. I instead just count it as 1/3 the cost. <edit> correcting my numbers </edit> Last edited by strider3700; 10-25-10 at 02:32 PM..