nocar wrote:For years, I have been disturbed or irritated by the fact that in winter we use energy to heat the house and also use energy to cool things in the fridge. All that free outside coldness! Last year I finally got the idea of putting water bottles , plastic, outside til they freeze and then put them in the fridge, and returning them out when they melt while taking in another set. I have no idea how much we save, but I know that the fridge does not work as much.
nocar
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If you live in the North, why use your fridge at all between Oct and Apr?
For years, we have shut down the fridge in the fall and converted the pantry into a sort of walk in fridge. You keep the door shut, and you have plenty of room for stuff.
You can do the same with any back room or hall. Just put a thermometer in there to monitor the temp. Worst that could happen is a few things freeze. You open the door then and let the room warm up a little.
tinosorb wrote:I am in the semi-tropics, 29N. We get very few below freezing temps. Most Nov-Feb temps are in the 40s to 60s Farenheit. The house is usually 5-10 degrees F warmer resulting in one long continual shiver. It is pretty mild compared to what most of you experience, but it is cold enough to make me miserable with all my layers. I don't think I would gain much by putting the fridge outside for a few days a year. Not as much as learning to get by without it.
dukat wrote:There is off peak and peak energy rates, someone mentioned turning the fridge off at night.....it would be cheaper to turn it off during the day and turning it on at night.
Doly wrote:dukat wrote:There is off peak and peak energy rates, someone mentioned turning the fridge off at night.....it would be cheaper to turn it off during the day and turning it on at night.
Problem is, one usually opens the fridge during the day, and it's when you open it that heat gets in.
Anyway, the fridge isn't usually the highest electricity usage at home. Top usage is always anything that uses electricity to heat, with electric heaters well at the top, followed by electric cookers, and then anything else including irons, toasters, electric kettles, etc. Next, TVs and monitors (of the non-flat kind). Everything else uses little electricity in comparison.
Doly wrote:dukat wrote:There is off peak and peak energy rates, someone mentioned turning the fridge off at night.....it would be cheaper to turn it off during the day and turning it on at night.
Problem is, one usually opens the fridge during the day, and it's when you open it that heat gets in.
Anyway, the fridge isn't usually the highest electricity usage at home. Top usage is always anything that uses electricity to heat, with electric heaters well at the top, followed by electric cookers, and then anything else including irons, toasters, electric kettles, etc. Next, TVs and monitors (of the non-flat kind). Everything else uses little electricity in comparison.
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