Save $1,000 or $2,000 per year to buy new pinnies !

[Caveoftreasures]

This is very simple.
Turn your hot water service of three quarters of the time and your electricity bill will half. Only after about two days do u turn your hotwater service back on for 3 hours.
My bills have gone from $550 per quarter to $250 per quarter. That's a $1200 saving per year and will be almost double for bigger families or households.

The savings in your elec bill will pay for your next Pinny or two per annum.

It's worked for me 3 bills in a row and I always got hot water ! Just saves the most power hungry thing in the house being on for no reason.

Does anyone else save $ like this ?

[Pop Bumper Pete]

Looks like a spammer has hacked caveys account
;)

[spacejam0]

Our HWS is instantaneous gas and only turns on when you turn the tap so how do we get our $1000 to $2000 ( or 1 or 2 new pinnies a year)?
I think you will find most Victorian HWS services are gas these days.
Looks like were going to have to do it the old fashioned way of hard work and saving  .

[Freiherr]

I just checked my last quarter bill. We have off peak hot water (NSW) and the total was $31.23 for a family of 5. Our tank is 250 litre.
Check you plumbing for leaks to see if there is significant loss.

[Replay]

I got solar hot water

[robm]

Its too hot in Townsville for hot water. I man up and have a cold shower

[Cursed]

Its too hot in Townsville for hot water. I man up and have a cold shower

I think you would be 'manning up' if you had a hot shower! 

[pinball god]

I find it difficult to man up while having a cold shower. I get the opposite with lots of shrinkage

[pinoffski]

I wish i could save some cash for a new pin..
I don't think it is possible for me unless i cut of the internet and pay tv.

in the end wife and i just buy it and then go with out something else ...

have solar hot water and didn't realize that it was leaking for 2years ..
the bills were up to $1k a quarter

[Caveoftreasures]

The thread was designed obviously for people with hotwater services run on electric and obviously not gas, hence the wording "electric".
Obviously the 14 percent of people in Aust who have solar on the roof receive a much discounted hot water rate so this thread won't help those.
Thread designed for people without gas and without solar.

I live in a gated community and everyone has the same hotwater service and the 60 homes were all built by same builder. At a owners meeting I passed on my idea and over half of the estate have saved a lot of money on their electricity.
Maybe someone out in pinball land will benefit. You can only try.

[Toads]

I'm guessing your hws is running 24/7 and not running off peak mr cavey.
Do you have a separate cost on your bill for hot water?

[Caveoftreasures]

Yes. The 60 homes in the estate run this way because of they way the developer did things.
Seperate part of the bill for elec.
In doors hot water service. No leaks, just the dumb design the way the community is. No forwards thought when complex was built.
Bills down by over 50 percent by turning off hotwater three quarters of the time.
A lot of people get screwed this way.

Body corp looking to add solar water to complex sooner or later.

[vinito]

My problem with new pins isn't that I can't dredge up the cash to get one, but rather they cost so much today that I can't justify the expenditure regardless. Even used pins seem to fetch double what they cost back when I sold my collection off, so it's difficult for me to imagine getting back into it again unfortunately.
I guess if pins were the only thing I wanted then I could easily rationalize spending money on them, but several other things have overtaken their place on the priority list.

... Well I'm just a wriggling ball o' fun tonight ain't I?

[The pinballist formally known as Dean Morgan]

Might turn half my pinballs off. Now that would save some kilowatt hours

[pinball god]

Pinball doesn't consume my life to warrant trying to find ways to save for them. If I said pinball took up more than 2-5% of my time might be stretching it. And yet I'm pretty active in the hobby. I'll continue to have hot showers, 3 meals a day etc etc and let pinball be a small a realistic part of my life.