The Happy thread!

[sswilson]

It snowed and covered up all the road markings again?

No, that was last week.

This week was a couple of trips across the Confederation bridge, and today's was on the far side of the island driving through Charletown. There's something like 8 roundabouts on the transcanada just in Charletown and another 3 or 4 random ones thrown into the route for good measure.

 

[Marzipan]

snuggling with a purring cat is awesome!

I have spoken.

 

[Lysrin]

snuggling with a purring cat is awesome!

I have spoken.

SO SAY WE ALL!!

Just to mix a couple sci-fis together there

 

[Marzipan]

SO SAY WE ALL!!

Just to mix a couple sci-fis together there

 

[lowfat]

Ordered a Denon X3800H a few days ago. Was out of stock locally but store in Calgary had in stock. So they'll get stock transferred. Get a phone call today that its in stock. Cool. We were about to head out for a work lunch so I'll grab it after.

Browsing FB during lunch and I see someone selling the same AVR. For $730 less than I paid. And I thought I paid a good price. So I go and buy it. Same guy I bought the Pioneer AVR from a few weeks ago.

Haven't picked the new one up from the Visions yet, but I do hope I can return it immediately upon pickup.

 

[Lord Smithy]

Ordered a Denon X3800H a few days ago. Was out of stock locally but store in Calgary had in stock. So they'll get stock transferred. Get a phone call today that its in stock. Cool. We were about to head out for a work lunch so I'll grab it after.

Browsing FB during lunch and I see someone selling the same AVR. For $730 less than I paid. And I thought I paid a good price. So I go and buy it. Same guy I bought the Pioneer AVR from a few weeks ago.

Haven't picked the new one up from the Visions yet, but I do hope I can return it immediately upon pickup.

Were you successful in your return of the AVR at visions's?
750 is incredible savings!

 

[lowfat]

Were you successful in your return of the AVR at visions's?
750 is incredible savings!

Had no issues at all returning.

 

[sswilson]

Wasn't for the full month of feb, but so far the results are encouraging with last year's daily being 119 kWh and this years was 100 kWh. That is a fairly significant difference and we had some really cold snaps during the month this year.

edit: Not clear from the post but this is WRT the heat pumps we had installed mid february.

Full month of march was even more encouraging. Daily KWH of 56 this year compared to last year's 103 .

Using co-pilot to find the average temps between the two years suggests that last year was slightly warmer than this year although not by enough that it isn't a mostly apples to apples comparison. That's a huge difference that will have a significant effect on our bill.

 

[great_big_abyss]

We had to replace our Air Conditioner last year as the old one packed up. It musn't have been working very efficiently at all for the decade that we've owned the house, as it would run 100% of the time on hot days, and couldn't keep up - the temperature in the house would just slowly creep up to the high twenties, especially on hot days.

I'm hoping this new AC unit will solve that, and bring our bill down as it won't have to run as much.

 

[sswilson]

We had to replace our Air Conditioner last year as the old one packed up. It musn't have been working very efficiently at all for the decade that we've owned the house, as it would run 100% of the time on hot days, and couldn't keep up - the temperature in the house would just slowly creep up to the high twenties, especially on hot days.

I'm hoping this new AC unit will solve that, and bring our bill down as it won't have to run as much.

We've replaced an electric hot water baseboard heating system with the three heat pumps as our primary heat source. On top of that, our boiler had an issue with one of the relays being stuck on which resulted in the boiler keeping the water temp up 24/7 instead of cycling on as required (It was essentially operating as a hot water tank instead of an on-demand boiler) resulting in an excess of power use. (our power bills used to nag us about using 30% more power than our neighbourhood average).

I strongly suspect we'll be using much less electricity overall even though we'll probably be air conditioning the main living room area during the day, while we previously had only been doing the bedroom at night using a large portable unit.