In the summer of 2016, I built a new house for my family, but the budget allocated for the project was exceeded quite quickly by the team of workers, so we decided to install only an electrical system based on cables mounted under the roof as the heating source. floor.

The company that installed the heating system told me that even if it is a heating system that uses only electricity, the energy bill during the winter will be quite small, around $200 per month.

During October 2016, the temperatures began to drop, so we decided to use the new heating system installed under the floor.

Everything went normal in the first two or three days (the system needed 24 hours to reach the required temperature inside the house – very low efficiency), but on the fourth day I noticed that the electricity consumption is very high.

Checking the electricity meter, I realized that the system had a consumption of around 200 kWh in 24 hours, to heat only one floor of the house (about 100 square meters).

After three months of use, I decided to stop the heating system because my electric bill was too high (I paid $2,300 for three months of heating).

In January 2017, I bought a fairly large wood stove that easily managed to heat the first floor of the house.

Firewood consumption was decent, so the price paid to heat the first floor of the house for an entire month was only about $150 (much lower than using the underfloor heating system).

Using the wood stove was not a very clean activity, not to mention the presence of smoke (from time to time) inside the house.

However, using wood and wood pellets to heat the first floor of the house helped me save some money for a better heating system.

During February 2017 the outside temperatures dropped very low -27 degrees Celsius (-16.6 F) and the wood stove was somewhat overwhelmed by the sub-zero temperatures.

During those freezing February days, a friend told me that he needed to use central heating that runs on natural gas to heat the whole house and keep the energy bills at a decent level.

The heating system using natural gas heats the house through radiators mounted in each room of the house, so not just on one floor of the house.

I presented the documentation required by the gas supplier, but they immediately told me that I have to wait around 9 months for them to connect me because the area where the house is is not connected to any gas pipeline.

I visited a neighboring house that used a central heating system that runs on natural gas, and he even showed me his energy bill during the freezing month of February 2017.

Using natural gas, he managed to heat a house that was about the same size as mine, and in February 2017 he paid an energy bill of only $500.

Using the underfloor heating system, I was paying about $800 per month to heat just one floor of my house (half the house), while my neighbor who used natural gas was paying only $500 to heat the entire house (two floors) during the freezing month of February 2017.

Today I am still waiting to be connected to the gas network, and I am quite worried because winter is very close, and I do not want to relive the experience of last winter.