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Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)
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When are these price increases happening? Will try to get the meter before then.
I’m somewhat hoping the government have a plan ready to be announced once Liz gets into the big seat to give them a nice boost in popularity.
But then I remember it’s the Conservatives so guess that’s very much wishful thinking.
I need to think about how I can get my house less leaky for winter but it being a 1920s semi, there’s not much that I can do beyond draught exclusions. How I wish I had cavity walls!!
But then I remember it’s the Conservatives so guess that’s very much wishful thinking.
I need to think about how I can get my house less leaky for winter but it being a 1920s semi, there’s not much that I can do beyond draught exclusions. How I wish I had cavity walls!!
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Electric shower, or immersion water heating?
I would walk round together, list out all the items plugged in/wired in.
You can then eliminate the smaller items for now, such as TV boxes, and focus in on the big ones, washing machine, tumble drier, immersion heater, cooker etc
Then assign average times the things are on, some will be more tricky than others of course, like immersion, but your ideal is to get an estimated usage per device that covers something like 80% of your usage
Then you can start to focus on if you can change patterns on those devices.
Taking slightly shorter showers etc.
We have a 10kw electric shower and still don't go over 10kw a day usually. Forgot about that big boy!
Yeah I remember seeing the meter say 10kw. Gf was in shower. Kind of shocking!
I think the next price cap will be announced at the end of August then applied from the end of September.
It's going to be a significant increase over the current prices so you need to make sure that you pay for all of your actual usage at the current prices before the increase.
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Yeah but if you have a 10kw/h shower and you have a couple who both like 15 min showers your at 5kw a day. So right now about £1.50 a day, or £45 a month just for that! Come October will be approaching £100 a month!
And in theory one of he easiest things to realy make a difference on, certainly for blokes, I mean 3-4 mins should be enough.
I actually turn our shower off mid shower, so I wash my hair then turn off, lather myself up, turn it back on to rinse off. Not to save money (thats a side gain) but because we have one of those daft rainfall jobbies
(Yeah it wasnt my choice but I gave in), totally daft things, trying to lather up whilst its trying to wash it off you!
stick some kingspan on the external walls and get a negative air pressure door test done.
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I don't think this is true, they will bill at the rates applicable for the date range of the usage. There may be overlap at the sides due to them estimating how the actual usage was spread out but they won't charge all of it at the rates at the time of the bill.
My smart meter was having issues sending reads earlier this year and they rebilled me for the period overlapping January to April at my old fixed rate, the pre-current cap rate and new cap rate respectively.
showers are for amateurs, real mean just clean their balls with an oily rag before going to bed..........................
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Pulled out my old 17 inch 4.3 monitor 
It uses less than 20w compared to using 100w using my Plasma so i will challange myself to put in most of the hours on the monitor for now simple maths
It uses less than 20w compared to using 100w using my Plasma so i will challange myself to put in most of the hours on the monitor for now simple maths
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All of the things we use electricity for, it is easy to forget what we can't really avoid.
Just running your fridge and having a shower once per day will cost you nearly £50 a month soon.
That is simply wrong.
Just running your fridge and having a shower once per day will cost you nearly £50 a month soon.
That is simply wrong.
Without sounding overly stinky, I grew up in a time when you had a wash every day at the sink, and a bath once a week.All of the things we use electricity for, it is easy to forget what we can't really avoid.
Just running your fridge and having a shower once per day will cost you nearly £50 a month soon.
That is simply wrong.
The daily shower seems a fairly modern thing. Unless you've been out getting sweaty you don't really need it.
Mine is just a standard mains fed mixer shower. Doesn't cost anything to run??
Just logged in to octopus, and they've got a 'crystal ball' mode, which seems to bung in some future price cap predictions. I currently pay £226 a month, and Octopus are recommending I drop that monthly to £191, but also present me with this graph:
Which I can only balance the "account balance" blue line on, by upping my monthlies to this:
Which I can only balance the "account balance" blue line on, by upping my monthlies to this:
Well pay for heating the tank, and a nominal fee for the water itself.
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by adding the /h you have made a problem.
By saying you've used 5kw/h, means you have used 5kw for an unknown amount of time, meaning it is impossible to determine actual usage in kwh.
If you simply remove /h from your sentence, everything makes sense, this is what the other poster was talking about.
We don't full shower every day.
Also we don't use our hot water tank with the power shower. So it probably isn't as expensive as it sounds.
Sometimes I'll shower in the evening and not the next day, then in the morning. Obviously with sports or when it's hot it's every day!