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Bluecube said:
Sure it’s not 70p as opposed to £7?
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I did think that, at SVR prices to use 66.6kWh in 2 hours you'd have to have a 30kW boiler on max burn for the entire 2 hours, not many houses even have radiator capacity to dissipate that heat unless you're looking at a 25+ rad system. Could be electric heating or oil which would sound a bit more realistic. Or perhaps its an accumulated 2 hours spread across the whole day :p
 
chroniclard said:
Our thermostats are gash, temperature seems way off, have to set it to around 25 before the heating even comes on, which is way off.

They look like these......can you just swap these for something smarter and/or digital....assume there is very little power to this....

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Had a yellowing one of these. Garbage.

Would come on at 17 and turn off at 23 if you set it on 20!

Easy to replace. In my case 230v supply though. Actually I just removed mine and bridged the wires
 
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MatsyLR said:
Still going to work in shorts here and shorts in the house.
Its "cold" but not cold enough to justify any other measures yet.
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Its definitely cold enough here, upstairs is 15c right now, heating set to come on at 18:00 at 16c master bedroom and 17c in the children's rooms.
 
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Thanks to Go and Solar my October usage was pretty good, I'm definitely going to be dipping into more full price peak units starting this month though.

93% of those units were off-peak cheap units.

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LCG-xyz said:
It's a 35kw condensing boiler, it was on for two hours solidly, so at 10p/kwh that's £7 right?

Goodness knows what I'll do when it's really cold. I'm disabled and don't do well in the cold.
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It wont be running at full output for that whole time, most modern boilers will modulate down to typically 20-25% of their max rating. I'm assuming its a combi boiler as theres no need for a 35kW system boiler unless you actually live in a mansion. Its also likely that the max central heating output is somewhat lower than the domestic hot water for which most combis are sold as for their power rating. Best thing to do would be to make note of the gas meter before and then again after using the boiler to find out how much m3 of gas you used, you can then convert it to kWh and find the price it cost
 
Gammawolf said:
It wont be running at full output for that whole time, most modern boilers will modulate down to typically 20-25% of their max rating. I'm assuming its a combi boiler as theres no need for a 35kW system boiler unless you actually live in a mansion. Its also likely that the max central heating output is somewhat lower than the domestic hot water for which most combis are sold as for their power rating. Best thing to do would be to make note of the gas meter before and then again after using the boiler to find out how much m3 of gas you used, you can then convert it to kWh and find the price it cost
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Thanks, it's a condensing combi, new last year.

It's a 4 bed, 20 years old. It would be a good to know what I'm actually using. I'll ask the neighbour to check the meter and then again in a couple of weeks.
 
LCG-xyz said:
Thanks, it's a condensing combi, new last year.

It's a 4 bed, 20 years old. It would be a good to know what I'm actually using. I'll ask the neighbour to check the meter and then again in a couple of weeks.
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Have smart meters fitted and you'll be able to check as often as you like.
 
Curlyriff said:
Well Bulb hasn't thanks to gov and now Octopus have brought them then what happens there? They should be able to dilute those savings for instance across their total customer base then
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Octopus has some production just not nationally. We live just a bit too far from one of their large wind farms otherwise we'd be able to get on a special tariff that drops prices when its windy. At present the market is cheaper then the svr so being unhedged in this situation allows them to be confident on buying Bulb I guess, in future they had better be careful. I agree with the French pres, next winter is when it might be worse.

Anyone know a good source of wood, I guess from a retailer otherwise its local knowledge. I got a car load of wood for 10 but two problems its wet and also its pine the stuff with sap in it so I only got it as cheap spares use. I can dry and use it to some extent but ideally for somebody with a wood burner (not me) I need to source nicer kinds of wood. epic pine fresh drying going on with that presently, where its stored is 16c
 
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