Our heating bill is higher (this Ohio, no surprise) but we've had 2 things happen in this house that have NEVER happened before. We've had the house for 33 years and never had a frozen pipe. My husband resorted to cutting a hole in the drywall - it worked! We're thinking about putting a door similar to what's on the kitchen cupboards to keep one on super subzero nights
Last week I heard a noise like someone was here, but the dogs didn't get up, very unusual for them. There was no one on the back porch so I just figured I was hearing things. A few days later we noticed one of our windows was broken. There was snow below it and no footprints so we just figured the cold broke it! I honestly never heard of such a thing.
We're going to worry about it in the spring because it's double paned and only the outer pane was shattered. The screen was holding the glass on the outside and the other pane was holding it on the inside.
We got all new windows 20 or so years ago, and they have argon gas between the 2 panes. My argon escaped!
Weird