Can someone give me their av. kWh & spend Gas/elec for 3 bed house

1carminestocky

moonrakerz wrote: »

I'm afraid I don't understand this demonising of certain products/services by people who think they are "saving the planet", or themselves from disaster by this action.
A tumble drier is a useful household item, as is, perhaps, a MacDonalds !




To be blunt, I would say a tumbler was more essential to the average household than all the other stuff you mention above.
But of course saying that the tumbler is banned has a far better "green ring" to it - rather like saying "I've just bought a Prius" - when a diesel Fiesta would probably be a much "greener" choice !

I drive a Seat Toledo TDI (pretty low emissions, to be fair, and due to my total change of driving style average 56mpg) and my wife drives a Toyota Aygo (VERY low emissions, to be fair and very similar mpg to the Seat). A tumble drier may be 'more essential' than the other stuff but it's not nearly as entertaining, considering the juice it uses.

And, to be COMPLETELY honest (and I make no apologies for this), my motivation is more to save money than the planet (the planet has proved to be very good at saving itself over the millions of years it has been spinning, something that is not in the interests of those many thousands making a very good living from spreading the global warming 'myth' to admit to )

almar_2

Ours is a 3 bed semi and have just used quidco to switch from e-on to british gas for both gas and lecky got £20 cashback plus £15 back from British gas for joining on line and going paper free and our dd have been reduced to £50 Gas per month and £27 for electricity per month. The best tarriff for us was click energy 5.

Overall saving about £185 per year - but not capped so fingers crossed. HTH.

moonrakerz

1carminestocky wrote: »

I drive a Seat Toledo TDI (pretty low emissions, to be fair, and due to my total change of driving style average 56mpg) and my wife drives a Toyota Aygo (VERY low emissions, to be fair and very similar mpg to the Seat). A tumble drier may be 'more essential' than the other stuff but it's not nearly as entertaining, considering the juice it uses.

And, to be COMPLETELY honest (and I make no apologies for this), my motivation is more to save money than the planet (the planet has proved to be very good at saving itself over the millions of years it has been spinning, something that is not in the interests of those many thousands making a very good living from spreading the global warming 'myth' to admit to )

TWO cars eh ! Tut Tut ! :D

blue_monkey_2

LOL, it had to be a bloke complaining about the tumble drier and having a ton of gadgets in the house!! Just how do your clothes get clean and ironed..... Of course, in the winter you should make use of the heaters being on to dry the clothes on those rather than tumble drying them. That being said, I have a tumble dryer and if it broke I'd get another for definate.

markbloke

On average on the E-on super duper wonder tariff version 5 2008 64bit edition I'm spending an average of £103 pm on electricity and gas combined. That's two adults and two kids in a three bedroom semi (no double glazing).

blue_monkey wrote: »

Of course, in the winter you should make use of the heaters being on to dry the clothes on those rather than tumble drying them.

I'm not convinced drying clothes on a radiator is more efficient than using a tumble drier. Wet clothes on a radiator use the heat to evaporate water rather than heating the surrounding air. Incidently, the moisture will then go and condense on the coolest surface in the house and make it damp (unless you open a window to let it and a lot of your heat out). The clothes also insulate the radiators, making them less efficient at delivering the heat where it's supposed to go. We all do it of course but I suspect it results in us turning the heating up to compensate. Gas is about a third of the price of electricity per unit though so maybe that makes up for it.
As usual, being green is about figuring out the highly complex equations needed to take all factors into account. Common-sense is next to useless. We need a national green laboratory to carry out experiments in this area.

myozone

Our use below......

Woby_Tide

almar wrote: »

Ours is a 3 bed semi and have just used quidco to switch from e-on to british gas for both gas and lecky got £20 cashback plus £15 back from British gas for joining on line and going paper free and our dd have been reduced to £50 Gas per month and £27 for electricity per month. The best tarriff for us was click energy 5.

Overall saving about £185 per year - but not capped so fingers crossed. HTH.

just to query, because the company has reduced your DD doesn't actually mean you are saving money. Are those direct debits actually based on your actual useage (from meter) figures so you don't end up with a big shortfall next winter?

myozone

Amounts to in £'s :-
£53 month Gas and Electicity (SP fixed 2011 tariff)
Gas £383 PA
Elec £226 PA
Water £109 PA

moredeadthanalive

Like Jaxxy00, my consumption figures are 5000 elec, 11000 gas. 3 bed detached, cavity wall and loft insulation, double glazing and low energy lightbulbs, didnt mend tumble dryer (probably a fuse) after it went kaput last year, and me nagging everyone to turn everything off.

I am with scottish power in a capped online no standing charge rate due to end soon but they advised not to switch until september. Their fixed until aug 2009 rate will add about £80 to the bill so not too bad and more agressive energy saving will counter that.

What does the panel think about switching now, or leaving it a few months while the fuel costs lower to a reasonable level.

Tip - the online deal is for me to add my own meter readings. One time I made a mistake :rolleyes: and put lower readings in. This lowered the direct debit for a while from over £60 to under £40 until I entered the correct readings and now I am back in line again with the readings. It helped in a small way to balance the books for a small period. Yes I know they have to visit to make real readings but they havent done one for years.

moncman

I've just taken an average for my last couple of years bills to help work out the best deals via uswitch.

Its not rocket science but I'll say it anyway, not only does the size of house and construction type affect consumption but also number of people and living habits.

I have 3 young kids who get regular baths and a stay at home wife so the heating is on during the day in Winter. This puts my consumption much higher than a professional couple who shower in the morning then go out to work for 10 hours!

Nonetheless I use 35,000 Gas and 5,800 electric (with 40% economy 7) so I think 60-70% or so of that would be a sensible average. Currently that's around £1,200 pa with EON.