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Old 12-12-2009, 12:57 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
More energy gets used by large appliances... maybe somebody did extra loads of laundry and left the fridge door open? The hot water left on?
I have a separate (off peak) meter for my water heater, and a couple bills ago, that meter reading doubled for a month. Sure enough, the hot water faucet down cellar was right on the line between a fast drip and a slow stream.
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