Electric heaters = HUGE Bill!!!

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Hi just need a little help really with some electric heaters and what to do!! I have just had a bill for £500 for the month :eek: This is with British Gas so they are meant to be the cheapest for electricity but not gas. Our Gas came to £45 so that is not the issue.

We have no gas fire or central heating just 2 2400w electric wall heaters and to be fair I have been a little silly having them on most of the day. I just am in shock and cannot believe 2 heaters can produce a £500 electricity bill. I have phoned and asked to check the bill to see if its incorrect but it seems not!! :( I need some recommendations on what to replace them with???


Any help please guys!! Been thinking about oil filled ones? Anybody know of any energy efficient ones can you please show me some links :D

Many thanks!
 
What are you paying per Kwh that doesn't sound right at all.

Also if you have no gas heating or water. How on earth are you spending £45 a month on gas.
 
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Oil filled are often more efficient, but it does depend what type of heaters you have now. Might be worth looking at insulation etc first if you own the house, or just wearing more clothes.
 
If my calcs are right, your kw/h must be about 18p?, but thats if your running 24/7 for 31 days. Is your electricity bill quaterly? I know my nans was until she changed to payg.
 
Glaucus said:
What are you paying per Kwh that doesn't sound right at all.

Also if you have no gas heating or water. How on earth are you spending £45 a month on gas.
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I think 13p or somewhere around that figure. We have a gas boiler which is used for our cooker and hot water. We use a lot of gas. My GF has a bath most nights if not all and we cook a lot. Gas is not the issue here its the electric heaters I think!

They have been on an awfull lot and we have quite a big home, so it has to be the heaters causing the issue! We have all the normal stuff, A* Energy fridge freezer and washing machine, all the normal electronics and gadgets etc!!!

I have seen these http://www.heatingdirect.co/Econo-Heat-Panel-Heater-p/eheater.htm they must save me a bit of money?? :)
 
I pay ~£45 a month for gas and that's cooking, heating and hot water. So that's stilly high.

Is it your house?
If so get gas central heating

That's still about 130Kwh a day. Would need to run your heaters almost constantly to rack up that.
We use 12kwh a day, that's everything on standby, 9x grow lights on and a lot of gadgets.

Could gt a gas heater, but they're bulky due to size of bottle.
 
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last winter i didnt have central heating so used a halogen heater to warm my bedroom my quarterly bill is usually £100/120 was £240 that quarter, so that one halogen heater effectivly doubled my bill
 
If you already have a boiler fitted, it may well be worth looking at whether you can expand that system to include some normal water-fed radiators too. Over the fullness of time, it may work out considerably cheaper.
 
Holy cow, 2400W heaters? Running one of them is like having a kettle on the go non-stop.

Do they have a thermostat so that you can set them to click on and off given the room temperature?
 
Even so, you shouldn't need to run heaters like that constantly... £500 is crazy-expensive even at 28p (your bill should say how many kWh you get at Tier 1 before moving onto the cheap rate).
 
We have central heating but down and in my room we have heaters that take £23.butane gas - heaters start at £50-£60 but I spent £100 for delonghi

my room gets cold so for night heated mattress.
 
Comparison Yeah 28p is quite high! I am on the 'Elec Online Energy with EnergySmart' tariff. I may need to do some serious homework it seems.

They guy above posted a link and I worked out just having the heaters on for 1 month is around £450. Having one 400W Eco heater is £37!! That is a huge saving. Looks like they are coming off the wall ASAP and a comparison site getting open!

I just have been silly and naive thinking some little heaters could use so much ££ up. Ahhhh well lesson learnt I guess :( :(
 
Electricity:
1. For single rate credit meters, Tier 1 rate applies to the first 180 kWh per quarter (or 60 kWh per month for monthly billing customers) and all subsequent consumption is charged at Tier 2.
2. For two rate meters, the two rate prices apply. Tier 1 day rate applies to the first 180 kWh per quarter (or 60 kWh per month for monthly billing customers) of day consumption and all subsequent consumption is charged at Tier 2. Night means a period, or periods, determined by us (and as may be varied from time to time), totalling 7 hours (at present between 22:00 hours and 08:00 hours) and the night rate applies accordingly.
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When I was decorating my property which had economy 7 heating, I run this for a month whilst I installed gas central heating and with one electric radiator on low cost me £30 for the month, with gas I could do my hot water & heat the whole top floor Maisonette for £30.
 
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