COSTS IN DUNEDIN HOME

Evening Star, Issue 19723, 25 November 1927, Page 2

COSTS IN DUNEDIN HOME

“Electricity does help. How much? A lot more than of yore,” writes Mr W. H. Inglis, whoso homo at i’urksidc is electrically equipped. Ho writes that for Is per day :i II the year round he obtains electricity lor lights ami ironing with a GOO-watt occasional radiolator. In the winter only 7.Jd a day is spent on coal for the range (heating and cooking) 1 . In tho winter (ho electricity for the circulator is on from 10 a.in. to 7.30 p.m., and during tho summer on full time. Tho charge for gas all tho year round is 3(d daily. The gas is used on tho cooker during summer, and in winter ami sr-imcr_ ior the rings. Tho gas cooker and rings are preferred, because of tbo double cost of installation and operation of any other type. In the winter the two adjoining rooms receive enough warmth to expel the frost if the circulator room doOr is kept open. A J kilo torpedo cylinder is ample for tho circulator, according to Mr Inglis. It is not quite so speeding in heating up a full circulator, but it causes no noise in super-boiling, and tho cast is only 6d a day during tho summer. Mr Inglis has sent the figures, as he believes that they will be highly appreciated by anybody who wants to know tbo cost of electricity in the homo.