While I'm loving that lower electric bill, it seems our water bill has doubled! From $44 last month to $88 this month. It's that time of year where we are running our sprinkler system. It runs four mornings a week. I think it takes two hours to do all the zones.
Oh, and I should mention our lawn is huge! It takes us 1.5 hours to mow with a standard walk behind mower. Luckily the grass in the southeast doesn't grow too fast, so we don't mow every week.
If we weren't renting I'm pretty sure my husband would have convinced me to buy a riding lawn mower. But since we don't expect to have a huge lawn long term, the standard mower has been just fine. And walking is good exercise!
Double Water Bill
May 16th, 2017 at 01:30 pm
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Unfortunately, the rain has been causing the grass to grow insanely fast. My poor husband mows every week/week and a half, and it takes him 3 hours to do our lawn with a push mower. I was considering a riding lawn mower for his 30th birthday, but I think I'd like to try and get it sooner than that.
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The truth is my husband likes a nice lawn. Watering keeps the weeds down, which seems counter intuitive, but it does work. And the lawn looks pretty good. Again it is a huge lawn. So water for two hours sounds like a lot, but each section is only getting a little bit of water in that time. And unfortunately, we live in a very nice neighborhood with a homeowner's association. Most people don't let the lawn go dormant. And they don't let me hang my laundry out to dry on my lawn either.
Good ideas most definitely to lower the costs!