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Your heat pump is terribly expensive and not at all typical, Lucky. Ours works out, according to the man who came to service it, at about 25 - 30 cents an hour. Average 12 hours a day is $3.60 per day or an extra $108 - $110 a month. This is what we have found to be the case

So Faye, are you saying that your total power bill,..including the heat pump use could be closer to about $240 a month?

This months power bill for us was a total of $126.53, after the 10% early payment reduction.

This does not include gas tank refills.

If I were to add the $108 to $110, to $126 would make our power bill approx $235.

So not much difference. I took the highest figure based on maximum number of hours but we do not always use the heat pump for as long as this daily.

Angila85, I am afraid that I am going to dispute your claim that " undertile heating is the best form of heating and that anyone can afford it. "
I wonder in fact , if you have ever personally lived in a house with this form of heating, where you have had to foot the bills for it yourself ? I rather think that it is more likely that are you in fact being paid a commission to advertise for this company you have included the link to ?
The reason I query you, is in fact that I have had experience with this form of heating, and while it was a pleasant and non drying heat, it was definitely NOT easily affordable. It was in fact very expensive in more ways than one !.
It was expensive initially to have installed, and it was expensive to run . Not only that, ours went bung in a couple of areas in the house - ie the hallway, and my sick daughter's bedroom, and we would have had to tear up the flooring and take out a lottery grant to get it fixed at huge inconvenience and expense. Even with a guarantee of 10 years, no one would want to be in this position. So we didn't ever get it fixed in the end. At least DVS /HRV and heat pump appliances are a lot more accessible.

Just as a matter of interest, our bill for the whole of June (a really cold and dismal month) was $197.00, less than I had reckoned on as we had the heat pump going a lot through the month.

Having a long large roomed house we have 2 heat-pumps & are still low power discount users.

The most expensive way to use a heat-pump is to switch it on & off, or use it on auto.
We set ours to heat to18 deg & leave them to it 24/7 all Winter.
We use a log burner to heat the water when needed (or just for the sight of logs burning) so when it is going & the temp is above 18 the heat-pumps go on stand by.
When the temp falls below 18 they kick in, thereby never having to do a great power eating boost to reach ambient temp.
We are very happy with their economy compared with electric or gas heating.