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Learning, Sharing, and Teaching => Ask a Mustachian => Topic started by: mozar on July 14, 2015, 05:18:44 PM
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I got a new tenant/ roommate and he is a distracted young person. So far he's mostly remembers the things I've told him (please turn off the a/c when you leave etc.) but I'm afraid he will forget to turn off the stove top after he makes breakfast. To be fair, I wonder almost every day whether I turned off the stove top. Any suggestions?
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The solution for me has been my wife - she basically catches the fact that I leave the stove on once in a while and turns it off for me... phew. I'm surprised I haven't destroyed anything by now.
We do have a sprinkler system in our place, but I really hope it never comes to that point... *knock on wood*
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If it's electric, you can get one of those home electricity use monitors. You attach it to your breaker box and then it puts something online so you can monitor your energy use.
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It's electric, boogie woogie woogie.
Any suggestions for systems? Some of them seem to need to be installed by an electrician.
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It's electric, boogie woogie woogie.
Any suggestions for systems? Some of them seem to need to be installed by an electrician.
I think they could be self-installed easily. The ones I've seen just have a velcro or other clamp that goes around an insulated electrical wire. So it's safe to put it on yourself and would take about 5 minutes to unscrew the panel , locate the main, attach the meter, and screw the panel back in.
This one is expensive but has a nice monitoring software:
http://www.theenergydetective.com/prohomestore.html
You'd want one that connects to the Internet somehow (for remote monitoring). I'd imagine those are available. I didn't spend any time looking around.
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thx