Thread: Propane usage
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Old 04-27-2005, 03:56 PM   #6
sreigle
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2002dura, what was your thermostat setting on the furnace? Actually, that usage sounds a bit excessive to me unless you had it set at 72 all night.

The fastest we ever use propane is 3 days on a tank. That includes nights in the teens and days in the mid to upper twenties or less. At night we turn the furnace down to 50 and run an electric heater upstairs with door closed. We also have the water heater on gas during that time, 24x7.

We emptied a bottle last week. We had been on that bottle for 3 weeks. The water heater was on gas 24x7, Vicki did some cooking with the oven and the stove for evening meals, and the furnace ran in the mornings, maybe an hour per day total. The furnace did not likely run overnight because the electric heater kept the living room in the low sixties. Most nights were down to the low forties, upper thirties, with one night to 27.

Make sure the fridge is not set to run on gas fulltime. Carlson probably nailed it.
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