Date: 2021-06-09 04:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] brin_bellway
While doing some preparatory basement cleaning a couple days ago, I found out that the "28-year-old" figure is outdated. The oldest inspection sticker on the furnace is dated July 1990: it's nearly 31. That's roughly double the life expectancy of a natural-gas furnace: I suspect the auditor will be amazed that it still works at all, an amazement likely tinged with horror at its presumably 1990-tech-level efficiency. (I know the dryer repairer was amazed that our then-13-year-old (also gas-heated) dryer had still worked until recently and was still repairable: he hardly ever saw that model anymore, it was so old.)

I'm kind of curious how much more life we could eke out of the 31-year-old furnace, 28-year-old secondary freezer, and 14-year-old refrigerator (apparently that is the life expectancy of a refrigerator), but I suspect that all of them are inefficient enough that various official programs will offer to pay for their replacements to get us to stop wasting power on them, and said programs have a very good point. A bit of poking at hardware-store websites suggests that modern secondary freezers consume *an entire kilowatt* less than ours.

(Despite the hundred subtle fingerprints, our electricity consumption is about average. Upon reflection, I suspect that our baseline frugality and our old (read: inefficient) major appliances are cancelling out. I look forward to giving that baseline frugality a chance to shine through. (...especially since last year we made too much to qualify for subsidised electricity this year. Fortunately the income requirements for the gas and electricity audits are a bit more generous, and we still qualify for those.))

Edit: well, to be fair the averaged electricity figure is very possibly assuming a smaller household size, but OTOH a lot of electricity consumption is independent of or otherwise nonlinear with the number of people. If my parents lived alone, they'd have just as many space heaters.
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