Same £5-7 a day ( No gas, all electric , storage heaters , eco 7 )
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Same £5-7 a day ( No gas, all electric , storage heaters , eco 7 )
I'm gas and electricity with eon I about £8 a day does make you think about turning stuff off.
I spend roughly £6 a day on gas and electricity albeit on a fairly big house. I’m delighted it’s as cheap as that. At one point fairly recently it was over £10 a day
More it just gives you a figure slowly creeping upwards that makes you judge your usage habits.
Although I find it bizzare how much people use. I'm never over £2 a day when I'm in the the house including heating on for around 5-6 hours (including standing charges)
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Soldato
Yeah that's not accurate if you're talking Flex/svr rates at all for most people.
If I put my heating on for 5-6 hours and set the target temp to one it will never reach, it will burn through maybe 40 kWh or so of gas, and subsequently that will cost a few £ not including standing charges, or electric usage.
Everyone has different heating systems and house sizes etc, but with a standard combi this is around what I'd expect at that usage level.
Are you setting a target temp? if it's reached it will turn the heating off, and then you're really not actively using it for that length of time.
On Octopus tracker rates.
Target temp is 21 then turns off allowed to slowly drop
Soldato
You cant compare houses unless you actually compare them in detail.
Irrelevant measure what one person uses vs another.
We used 60kwh on day this week (was on from morn to night at 20) where as other days it can be 15kwh or less.
Irrelevant measure what one person uses vs another.
We used 60kwh on day this week (was on from morn to night at 20) where as other days it can be 15kwh or less.
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Even in the same exact house, cost could vary wildly depending on various factors. Living in a 3 bed with say 2 adults and 1 or 2 children will be a whole different scenario than being single in the same 3 bed. The family in this case will have a need for more electric and to heat the whole house mostly. The single person can get away with putting a pc in the livingroom, heating that one room where they'll be most of the time and leaving the rest of the house unheated, while of course using less electric. Its more bizarre not understanding that everyone has different situations that result in different costs.
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Soldato
Leading to damp and mould
Soldato
I'm on the tracker also but there is no chance that heating my house for 5-6 hours would only be £2, it would easily get above that.
December this year my gas bill was £42, but then I wasn't heating the house for 5-6 hours on those days, December was fairly mild, so was maybe doing a couple of hours per day on average.
January so far has been colder, so I am expecting to use more gas this month.
Yes as per above poster I wouldn't do this, need to ensure whole house hits a reasonable minimum temp, I tend to just heat all of it to a base level of around 18C.
I always set it to like 25 then manually turn it off. Otherwise it will just keep turning back on when it drops. Drops from 21 to 17 or 18 by midnight. Always 12-13 in the passageway/upstairs as the front door sucks away any heat (no draft) same in the kitchen
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Associate
I'd contacted them previously and they had told me that my meter was not supported and this info is still in their FAQ. I tried again, simply asking for a single rate tariff and then asking about tracker when they provided me with alternatives.
They said that my meter would need to be updated and they've put this request in for me, but it will take some time. In the mean time I've switched to a single rate as it doesn't make sense for me to be on economy 7.
All in all a positive experience with customer services. Hopefully the meter update doesn't take six months or something.
Soldato
Right so you didn't say that, you just said that it was bizarre people are spending more than a couple of quid a day, whilst you're just heating one room which obviously costs less, but the rest of your house is cold/unheated.
I'd say what you're doing is not that common, and most people don't want to be relegated to just using one room all winter. Heating my whole house to about 18C or so in the day isn't costing that much more to do, so I do that instead.
Indeed and avoids damp building up in otherwise cold rooms
Soldato
Indeed and why it is called central heating and not spot heating or room heating.
Soldato
We've used 496KWH of electric this week costing us £110 (and still 2 hours to go)
Does that seem completely crazy for 2 adults and 2 kids in an electric only 3 bed semi on economy 7 with storage heaters, or is that borderline understandable? Its a 70s build so not so great insulation etc.
Does that seem completely crazy for 2 adults and 2 kids in an electric only 3 bed semi on economy 7 with storage heaters, or is that borderline understandable? Its a 70s build so not so great insulation etc.