Winter 2023/24 - It's FREEZING!

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retaining perfectly at 18c here, no heating window slightly opened pretty sure the neighbours are helping keeping the walls warm
 
dlockers said:
Not looking forward to this again........... was very cold overnight, this morning the heating came on at 6. A typical days usage for hot water is between 8 and 14 kWh depending on how much water we consume.

Up until ~12 I'd already used 52.56kWh :(.

Octopus tracker is up to 6.5p too, and I am not holding my breath it doesn't go higher...
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I had a heavy day of electricity yesterday, 9.853kWh! :p
 
dlockers said:
Not looking forward to this again........... was very cold overnight, this morning the heating came on at 6. A typical days usage for hot water is between 8 and 14 kWh depending on how much water we consume.

Up until ~12 I'd already used 52.56kWh :(.
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Jesus wept, thats a months average usage here :eek:
 
last two years I did not put the heating on till mid Nov, but i am lucky to have built the house in the last 10 years with modern insulation.

in my old house the cold seemed to chill the walls and the place was freezing all the time.

my point is i think everyone has a different experience of it, older houses are considerably colder.
 
dlockers said:
Not looking forward to this again........... was very cold overnight, this morning the heating came on at 6. A typical days usage for hot water is between 8 and 14 kWh depending on how much water we consume.

Up until ~12 I'd already used 52.56kWh :(.

Octopus tracker is up to 6.5p too, and I am not holding my breath it doesn't go higher...
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i take it you have electric heating through your house? (either that or a hot tub / small swimming pool?)

we are generally considered higher than average electricity usage, but even including a sunday dinner for 5 we "only" used 20kwh of electricity yesterday (of which only 8 was imported at 7.5p kwh thanks to our panels providing the rest).... we did use 12kwh of Gas as well however.

granted there are colder parts of the country than East Anglia where i am now, but 52kwh for half a day is a lot of juice!. (not judging btw)
 
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bigmike20vt said:
i take it you have electric heating through your house? (either that or a hot tub / small swimming pool?)

we are generally considered higher than average electricity usage, but even including a sunday dinner for 5 we "only" used 20kwh of electricity yesterday (of which only 8 was imported at 7.5p kwh thanks to our panels providing the rest).... we did use 12kwh of Gas as well however.

granted there are colder parts of the country than East Anglia where i am now, but 52kwh for half a day is a lot of juice!. (not judging btw)
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That was gas not electricity.

For electricity I used 16.5kwh but that included charging an electric car for 4 hours on a granny plug.
 
200sols said:
Lovely cold morning dog walks for the past 2 days.


Properly dry wood is fine, it doesn't really smoke after the first 5 minutes of lighting. The issue is people burning all sorts of crap, treated timbers, old pallets, wet wood etc.
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Yup. Absolutely no smoke visible from my flue once it gets up to temp. Clean burn tech combusts the smoke before it goes up the flue.
Some buggers round here burn swamp wood by the looks of things. Happy to fill the entire street with awful smoke.
 
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