Has it been working? Well, we just got our latest utility bill and I see a definite improvement from a year ago. Last year at this time, our electricity cost us $215, this years bill it cost us $185 – approximately a 16% drop. That’s with adjusting the AC thermostat up three degrees around the beginning of April (the last month of the billing cycle), blowing in insulation – which was done with eight days left of the billing cycle, and with contractors here for the last week of April using power tools to pressure wash/sand/paint the outside of the house for eight plus hours a day. So not really big differences, and the changes we made weren’t fully realized on this bill, and extra electricity used by the on-site contractors, but still a 1/6th drop in the bill from a year ago.

I’m betting the next electric bill will be even more noticeably lower than last years bill from the same time period. We’re heading into the hot time of the year so the bills are only going to get bigger, but we can control how much bigger if we continue to make just a few minor, and relatively inexpensive, changes.