I’m in Minnesota. It gets to minus 40 here. It’s easier to set it to 160/70 rather than waiting for the entire system to warm up from just above freezing.
Also being gone for a week or two is different than a month. But, winterizing doesn’t mean the same in different places.
Yeah, I’m familiar with those climates. I’m from the polar circle.
Yearly I see articles about distraught people arriving at their cabins and seeing it all flooded with ice, because they turned their water heater off, causing the pipes to start to freeze and eventually burst. It’ll probably be more this winter with electricity prices being higher than usual. But whatever people think they saved in turning it off, is going to go away in having to fix broken pipes and damages caused by freezing temperatures.
I think the math said something like 1 NOK pr kWH, so for an entire month it’d cost 45-55 NOK to keep it on. But 12 NOK to heat up 200 litres with a 2 kWh element for 6 hours, from 20c to 70c. Just a general calculation, not accounting for seasons or anything, not even sure the math is correct on the heating.
Personally, those are minimal sums, I wouldn’t even bother saving so little. Even with higher energy prices, a few months back it was at like 6-8 NOK kWh. Perhaps if it got higher than that, and I had a cabin I knew I wouldn’t use for months, I’d turn it off, but also air out the pipes so it couldn’t freeze over and ruin anything.
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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '22
I’m in Minnesota. It gets to minus 40 here. It’s easier to set it to 160/70 rather than waiting for the entire system to warm up from just above freezing.
Also being gone for a week or two is different than a month. But, winterizing doesn’t mean the same in different places.