TINY HOUSE – MATHEMETICS INFO SHEET
Regular Size Home
Average House Size: 2,600 square feet – mortgages are over 30 years at 4.75% interest
Average cost to build a house: $283,000
Average Monthly Electric Billwithout Solar Panels: $500
Average Monthly Electric Bill with Solar Panels: $85 – plus financing the solar panels for 10 years at $25,000
Average Monthly Water Bill: $150 (approx. 80 gallons of water used daily per person)
Average Monthly Trash Bill: $80 quarterly
Average Monthly Gas Bill: $30
Tiny House
Calculate the cost to run your tiny home using these websites – your tiny home may not use all these utilities.
Visit website and you can only pick “The Limited”
Solar Panel Info: solar panels, don’t forget that you have to finance them!
Electric Info: (When you have solar panels cut your electric bill by ¼)
Visit the following website – be careful of what you pick it’s a Tiny Home!
(If you don’t know what its asking – google it)
Water Info:
Trash Info:
Its $80 quartley if you chose to have trash pick up services.
Gray Water Info:
Questions:
These questions need to be typed or hand written NEATLY – All answers must be on a separate sheet of paper and written in complete sentences and involve as much detail as possible. You must attached your organized work as well.
- What will it cost in total for you to run a regular house monthly? Yearly? Over 30 years? (With Solar Panels)
- What will it cost in total for you to run a regular house monthly? Yearly? Over 30 years? (Without Solar Panels)
- What utilities will your tiny home use?
- What will it cost in total for you to run a tiny house monthly? Yearly? Over 30 years? (With Solar Panels)
- What will it cost in total for you to run a tiny house monthly? Yearly? Over 30 years? (Without Solar Panels)
- What is the difference in pricing monthly between regular sized home and tiny home? Yearly? Over 3o years?(with and without solar panels; compare all 4)
- Use a bar graph your findings of the monthly, yearly and 30 year costs on the graphs below – you may print them and color them or you may graph them on the computer.
Regular House V. Tiny House Monthly Cost
Regular House V. Tiny House Yearly Cost
Regular House V. Tiny House 30 Year Cost