cost of having a bath is 96p!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

trying-very-trying

If you want to compare the amount of water your shower uses compared to a bath, stick the plug in the bath the next time you have a shower. Of course this will only work if your shower is over your bath. lol

trying-very-trying

LJM wrote: »

we all have showers unless the odd occasion ill have a lazy bath

We too all have showers, but hubby works outdoors all winter, and there's nothing quite like a long hot soak to ease the bones and warm the body thoroughly. Mind you, I don't need to worry so much in the winter 'cause the fire heats all the water and we don't yet have a water meter.

PasturesNew

30 years ago a huge proportion of houses still had no bathroom and only a tin bath hung on the wall.

ceridwen

tiff wrote: »

When my Mum got a new bathroom put in recently, they did away with the bath as they dont use it. The owner of the bathroom company that fitted the new one said that in the last 18 months the number of people having baths removed and not replaced had increased considerably.

I've just seen one teensy "silver lining" then - when I had my bath ripped out and replaced by a shower cabinet years ago everyone thought I was mad and made comments to effect "It will be more difficult to sell your house now".........er....maybe not:D

Think people might also stop telling me I was mad to put the wall back up again between the 2 reception rooms - instead of keeping it as the through lounge it was knocked into back before I bought the house!

tiff

I agree Ceridwen, I was going to say estate agents always used to say taking out a bath in family home will reduce its value etc but I dont think so if we need to be more green.

PasturesNew

Just tried to find the figures and the Guardian reckon it's cheaper

They reckon 19p to heat the water. The thing is, their figures are unsubstantiated - and everybody's bath capacity and water heating system and tariff will be different.

For those able to and on Economy7, you cold either bath late at night, or get up early in the morning.

The front page of yesterday's Times claimed the cost of a hot bath has more than doubled over the past four years, from 41p in 2004 to 96p today. Research for today's Guardian suggests otherwise - our tests put the cost at just under 19p - but that is 4p more than it cost earlier this year and almost twice what it cost in 1995. And that's before you pay for the water, if you're on a meter.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/08/soaking_up_money.html

And here is the Times' version: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4449120.ece

sisbod

Whilst looking for proof that over filling a bath is expensive I found this old thread and it made me wonder if it cost 96p 5 or 6 years ago how much is it now to fill a bath?? _pale_
Any good links to find out?

grahamc2003

sisbod wrote: »

Whilst looking for proof that over filling a bath is expensive I found this old thread and it made me wonder if it cost 96p 5 or 6 years ago how much is it now to fill a bath?? _pale_
Any good links to find out?

The 96p is a load of cack.

Many days this summer there have been 5 baths in our family, and I've neve come near to using almost £5 of electricity in one day in total this summer(which includes several laptops on for many hours). Although we're on E7 and no gas, only 1 bath would be at cheap rate, the rest at peak rate.

It takes our tank about 20 minutes to heat up for a bath, so at 3kw, that is 1kwh. At my recently increased electricity rate of almost 12p/kwh, a bath, at peak rate, costs me about 12p. If you heat by gas, it will be quite a bit cheaper than that (if the boiler is heating the whole house).

HappyMJ

sisbod wrote: »

Whilst looking for proof that over filling a bath is expensive I found this old thread and it made me wonder if it cost 96p 5 or 6 years ago how much is it now to fill a bath?? _pale_
Any good links to find out?

You need to know the cost of your water and the cost of your gas units when averaged over the primary and secondary units.

i.e I live in South Staffs Water area the cost of water is £1.81 per 1,000 litres and the cost of Gas with Ebico is 4.788p/kWh. How big is your bath? Mine when filled to the brim is 180 litres. I would put 120 litres into it when I overfill it but usually only put 60 litres of water in as that's all I feel I need. What does the gas cost? That is a difficult one. How hot do you want your water and how cold is the water is the pipe? A Combi would supply warm (not hot) water at about 10 litres per minute averaged over winter and summer and uses about 24kWh of energy to do so. So about 6 minutes to fill the bath one third. That's about 2.4kWh of gas.

So now the maths.
60 litres divide by 1000 multiply by 1.81 = 11p
2.4kWh multiply by 4.788 divide by 100 = 11.5p

Add the 2 together and it costs 22.5p to have a bath. Double that if you fill it quite high to 45p. And triple it if you fill it to the brim. (which would be silly as you couldn't get in)

deshepherd

Though there is also the opposite question of "how many seconds under the shower can I have it I remember to turn my TV off and not leave it on standby" (with a 10kW shower and a TV with 1W standby then its about 3 hours standby == 1 sec shower!) ... I'm sure I remember someone saying in a TV/radio discussion around the time of one of the "don't use standby" campaigns that a much better campaign to reduce CO2 emissions would be to tell people to take one less shower a week!