Does this heater run up your electric bill?
1019495
Ralph G.---for us, it hasn't. We have 2 homes, 1 in the western Piedmont of NC and one in the Pee Dee area of SC. We have one at each home. They have actually saved us money---you use them in the room where you spend the majority of your time and turn your thermostat down for the remainder of the house. Hope this helps!
1598548
Yes. I have one in each of 3 rooms we spend the most time in - heating bill has gone down.
403171
I live in FL. so my bills are different. However, I did trend my bill after using this Heater and it was very Very low change. And I used it a lot due to having a Home heater issue. It does a good job with little cost.
1937858
thats one of the things i was upset about it advertised having the humidifier but there is not one basically its just a heater and really didn't do a very good job at heating my march electric bill was 777.27 when it normally runs around 160.00 so it pulls a lot of wattage i bought a lasko heater from walmart for 70.00 does a much better job hope this helps
2183736
I've never noticed an increase in my electric bill from using mine(I run two at once)but I run air conditioners in the summer and edenpure heaters in the winter so the energy consumption of my dehydrators is probably minimal compared to those.
1452206
It didn't go up much higher for me. The amount I saved on my gas bill pretty much transferred to electricity, but previously I was freezing in my second floor bedroom at night while my 1st floor living room was almost too warm. At least now the heat is where I need it to be. I was considering getting a thermostat controlled heater because sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night and its in the upper 80's in my room.
1388655
Honestly mine is only used for maybe 20-25 minutes a day warming our Master bath, which runs colder than rest of house, while my wife takes a shower and dries off. I don't see any appreciable rise in electric bill in winter and my wife is very happy with how much it heats the room. It is a fairly large bathroom roughly 9 x 16' and seems to warm up pretty good. I doubt if I answered your question but we are pretty happy with ours.
974461
We are actually using two of the AC12000 units - one purchased last year, one this year - in two different parts of the house. The second unit went into operation during the recent heat wave so, yes, our electric bills did go up. Both units were running full time. I have found them to be very useful, since their output may be directed more freely than that of window mounted units. It helps to "back up" the window panel of the unit with insulation and, of course, to close off the inter-pane space to prevent outside air intrusion.
310662
I haven't really noticed a huge difference In my electric bill. Certainly not enough to stop me from using it. I think it's one of the best dryers I've ever used. And if it ever stopped working I would just replace it with the same model.
29860
Can't really answer the question because it replaced a broken ac unit so no noticeable change in the electric bill. Also we have 6 units so our electric bill is always high and depends how much we use our ac units
534738
Our electric bill went WAY up using this thing. We live in SoCal, with those high electric bills, and found just using the whole house furnace (ours is energy efficient) and heating the entire house was much cheaper than using this piece of junk to heat a single room.
2149870
It's hard to say exactly. I keep this one on all winter downstairs and I keep an oil filled heater on all winter upstairs. My electric bill is about $100.00 a month more for both running pretty much all the time. But, my gas bill is way lower than it would normally be so, it balances out. My gas pack air handler doesn't come on unless it gets real cold. It saves wear and tear on that so, I figure all in all it's a good deal. When it gets extremely cold this heater wont keep up but, neither will the oil filled. It was 5 degrees earlier in the week with a two day high of 23. The air handler came on a lot. My iheater is several years old now. It's still working. It's hard to say exactly. I keep this one on all winter downstairs and I keep an oil filled heater on all winter upstairs. My electric bill is about $100.00 a month more for both running pretty much all the time. But, my gas bill is way lower than it would normally be so, it balances out. My gas pack air handler doesn't come on unless it gets real cold. It saves wear and tear on that so, I figure all in all it's a good deal. When it gets extremely cold this heater wont keep up but, neither will the oil filled. It was 5 degrees earlier in the week with a two day high of 23. The air handler... » Read More It's hard to say exactly. I keep this one on all winter downstairs and I keep an oil filled heater on all winter upstairs. My electric bill is about $100.00 a month more for both running pretty much all the time. But, my gas bill is way lower than it would normally be so, it balances out. My gas pack air handler doesn't come on unless it gets real cold. It saves wear and tear on that so, I figure all in all it's a good deal. When it gets extremely cold this heater wont keep up but, neither will the oil filled. It was 5 degrees earlier in the week with a two day high of 23. The air handler came on a lot. My iheater is several years old now. It's still working. « Show Less
1711754
I have not noticed any increase in my electric bill. The fan is used primarily in a bedroom on the medium setting. It works great!
1542535
Started using heater 3 weeks ago; after checking my electric usage online, it seems there is minimal change to my electric consumption within the last month. I've used it continuously throughout the night during sleep and while at home. There is a Economical setting that I use during the day. I haven't gotten my bill yet but I believe it does not make a substantial increase in the electric bill, which makes me very happy.
1443321
When we got ours, I ran it constantly and never noticed a spike in the energy bill. Depending on your friends situation, they may find that if they are running it with the cold setting it is cooling off the house then causing the heat to run, or if they are running it on the warm setting it could cause the house to warm up causing the AC to run more. I'd suggest keeping it away from the thermostat and running cold in the summer & warm in the winter.
1784648
Yes, I have found that it does. I have two electric heating units in my apartment. I start my Duraflame when I get home and run it for 4-5 hours. It heats my whole apartment (850 sq ft) and I rarely turn on my heating units. I live in NH so it gets cold! But my electric bill rarely get above $100 in the winter. Previously, when using my heating units, the bill ran $150-200 in the winter months. I hope this helps.
534734
I have two of these heaters fans each in bathrooms and I have not noticed any significant changes in my electric bill. Of course they're only used on cold days. But again no real big change even during the winter months.