Gas and electric daily use

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Towards the back end of last winter I noticed our combi boiler was leaking. Got an engineer in a few weeks back who said several parts had given up. There was visible corrosion and water damage so I took him at his word and had the boiler replaced. It was our first year in the house last year and it was clear that the old boiler was struggling to get the thermostat up to temp and the house just generally felt cold, even in mildish weather. Definite improvement, the house is warming up faster and retaining the heat with only about 3 hrs of usage per day so far, with the temp set to 19. Not a massive difference in usage, it looks to be about 10% less gas at present. Be interesting to see when we have a cold spell.

 

[fossyant]

Keeping a close eye on ours as gas is tracking as expected, about 29KWh a day, around £2.30 (this is with heating on and some days all day).

Electricity is 15-17KWh a day - two dehumidifiers (garage and drying clothes) and a gaming pc being the main users, and an oil filled radiator in the conservatory at weekends.

Gas is as expected from previous years but we've cut electricity use (no hot tub) and Scottish Power keep saying I'm using more, despite monthly readings - they just sent a quarterly bill, but the reading for October was way out, so I've given them two readings over the last couple of weeks. They are wanting to add 50% onto my monthly bill, but I'm using less than I am paying and am over £600 in credit. I've worked out I'll maybe dip into that £600 by £200 to £300 maximum by April, so I'll be having that back in a few months.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Electrickery - lighting & cooking only runs at about £2.50 per day. Seems very reasonable to me.

 

[fossyant]

Electrickery - lighting & cooking only runs at about £2.50 per day. Seems very reasonable to me.

Don't run a gaming PC that's on maybe 12 hours a day, either processing animation (for a MSc) or gaming. I think it ticks over around 300w and does more when gaming. 3-5kw a day ! At least we only have 'one' of these machines at home now. I'm around £4-5 a day electric, £2 gas

 

[Electric_Andy]

We've been averaging £8/day roughly 4 each for gas and electric. We're £900 in credit so we've reduced our DD by 20 quid or so. Octopus actually wanted to put the DD up, but luckily you can just set it on the app. My partners friend had only just installed her app, and had 700 quid credit she didn't know about!

 

[Drago]

Towards the back end of last winter I noticed our combi boiler was leaking. Got an engineer in a few weeks back who said several parts had given up. There was visible corrosion and water damage so I took him at his word and had the boiler replaced. It was our first year in the house last year and it was clear that the old boiler was struggling to get the thermostat up to temp and the house just generally felt cold, even in mildish weather. Definite improvement, the house is warming up faster and retaining the heat with only about 3 hrs of usage per day so far, with the temp set to 19. Not a massive difference in usage, it looks to be about 10% less gas at present. Be interesting to see when we have a cold spell.

We've got whatever boiler was supplied new with the house. I dont recall the make, nothing id heard of before.

Come service time daughter #3 sent one of her chaps round (she andnher feller own a building company) and he reckoned it was operating at 104% efficiency compared to the manufacturers spec, so I was happy. It certainly doesnt cost a limb to run, does the hot water well and keeps the 3 storey house warm enough.

 

[biggs682]

We ended the day at about £4 on the smart meter.

Looking at the forecast there's not much sun due today so had a shower on the night rate to try and keep it down.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

We've got whatever boiler was supplied new with the house. I dont recall the make, nothing id heard of before.

Come service time daughter #3 sent one of her chaps round (she andnher feller own a building company) and he reckoned it was operating at 104% efficiency compared to the manufacturers spec, so I was happy. It certainly doesnt cost a limb to run, does the hot water well and keeps the 3 storey house warm enough.

Got a Worcester Bosch. When I took over the gas/elec, my first tariff was obviously based on the previous owners and was way higher than our usage. Obviously the previous owner must have had the heating on more but my guess is that the boiler had been playing up for a while hence their massive usage. I suspect they left it for me to deal with and conveniently forgot to mention it to save themselves £££

 

[fossyant]

SP have now updated my bill for a negative £50 for the last two weeks after they over egged the estimated bill. My energy use graph will look wrong for October/November.