Is it cheaper to have electricity throughout an ENTIRE APARTMENT, where at any given time, the only things running are a lamp, the TV, the DVD player, a fan, and a laptop (a total of 5 things, give or take.) or is it cheaper to run it all off of one surge protector?
I’m attempting to prove a point to my mother that it would benefit her more to turn the electricity on in the upstairs apartment where I’m living for the summer as opposed to running everything on ONE surge protector for the entire apartment.
So which is cheaper, electricity completely, or a surge protector that, according to my mother, is "drawing on the power from downstairs and dimming the lights"?
do you mean to say that instead of turning the power on in your apartment that you have an extension cord and it is run up to your apartment from your mothers apartment….there is a few things to condsider here ..1..you have to pay a deposit to have power turned on….2 it would be safer than running your power through an extension cord from her apartment and overloading one of her circuits…3..as far as cheaper i would doubt it would be cheaper but it definitely would be safer …. how cheap would it be to replace the building because of an electrical fire caused by an overloaded circuit as to turnin the power on for a few months..
