You think that's low? We're in an end terrace, 1950s-built brick three bedroom. We run the heating 24/7/365, keeping the house at an actual 19oC. This month, we used an average of 20kWh/day in gas. I'd be mortified at 30!If you're heating your house up from cold all the time, it's going to need the boiler running flat out each time. We find it cheaper to just leave it ticking over, along with being sensible about not opening doors/windows more than needed, having curtains closed and over exterior doors etc.
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On the other hand, the 'leccy has murdered us lately. This month it was £170, and that's with LED-everything and running the bare minimum. Our background usage is about 400W in the day and 200W for 12 hours overnight (plus bursts for dishwasher, washing machine etc). Before this quarter, our whole energy bill was £90/month for dual fuel. Jumping to £170 for electricity and £80 for gas is an eye opener... We've basically gone from paying £22.50 a week all in to £62.50 a week. Not at all terrible by some standards (my in-laws on pre-pay spent that a week even before the rises!), but it's a jump nonetheless!
Edit: Weekly maths fail (no coffee yet).
I’m astonished at how bad some of the houses are on here at keeping in the warm, my house is a 1950s concrete with insulation bonded to the outside, and seems to hold it’s temperature quite well, ATM I’m seeing how long the heating has to be on to keep it at a constant 20c, since midnight it’s needed 1h32m of heating to stay at 20c
No mate, mid terrace and it’s in the living room.@woppy101 do you have a detached house? Also where is your thermostat?
3 bed mid terraceIs your house quite small? your stats are good.
I have Hive but it's on two zones (downstairs and upstairs). I suspect my front door and patio door are both pretty good at leaking heat to be honest, one day I may change them for better insulated ones, or at least one that seal better.
3 bed mid terrace
No mate, mid terrace and it’s in the living room.
Looks like the cold spell is going to end this weekend (in the South at least), which is good.
Yea we're seeing similar (3-bed detached). Thermostat on 19ºC, we drop it back to 16ºC at 2130 and I've yet to see it kick in before the "normal" morning on-time of 0540, even when it was -6ºC overnight like last night.Our house doesnt seem to drop below 16 degrees overnight with the current cold spell which is quite good. Usually turn heating off at ~10pm, and have it set to about 19/20 in the day. So in about 9 hours with no heating on it only tends to drop about 3/4 degrees.
Yea we're seeing similar (3-bed detached). Thermostat on 19ºC, we drop it back to 16ºC at 2130 and I've yet to see it kick in before the "normal" morning on-time of 0540, even when it was -6ºC overnight like last night.