Dishwasher - cost to run

dawn2dusk

Hello, does anyone how much a dishwasher costs to run .? We have a Beko dish washer and it washes at 65%. Like everyone else, am worried about gas and electric prices. Thanks for any repies.

Hardup_Hester

Hi D2D
I can't help, but I hope you get a reply, I looked in the daily mirror as they had a list of costs, but DW weren't on the list.

catnap53

Found this link on another thread recently
http://www.sust-it.net/energy_saving.php?electricity=32&id=19

Put in make and model and gives cost for all the items I have got at home.

Zzzz

moanymoany

I don't care how much they cost to run - the rented house I'm in has no room for one and I miss mine. I have to go into the garage where it's stored and tell it I still love it.

Magentasue

I read on another thread it's about 15p-20p a cycle depending on how much you pay per unit and which model. A 2l washing up bowl of water heated by a gas boiler works out at less than a penny. Now I'm on a water meter, I'm more bothered about the water as well.

IMO, I'm the only person in this house that loads the d/w properly. Everyone else loads it and claims it's full until I rearrange everything and make enough space for lots more. This isn't an attractive side of my personality but I'd rather use a dishwasher economically than not at all. I have no draining board (not much else in kitchen either) and so washing up for six every day wouldn't be practical for me.

Lazy_Ike

I have an old Hotpoint DW, and have no idea how much water per cycle it uses, no information in the Handbook. I have checked power usage with a meter. On Normal wash cycle (65DegC) and cold fill, it ran for 1hr24mins and used 1.332kWh which works out at (1) 28p/cycle if on Initial Charge electricity[£0.21226p/kWh] (2) 16p/cycle after minimum use electricity [£0.12p/kWh) and (3) 6p/cycle on Economy 7 [£0.0470p/kWh]. I used to hand wash, but now about 95% machine wash. I always wash in Eco7 time, and wait until full DW. I believe this to be cheapest (including water usage even though I do not have a figure for throughput), more effective, and certainly most time efficient method of washing.

catnap53

I don't care how much they cost to run - the rented house I'm in has no room for one and I miss mine. I have to go into the garage where it's stored and tell it I still love it.

I thought I would try to do without when my 20 yr old one died, couldn't do it

IMO, I'm the only person in this house that loads the d/w properly. Everyone else loads it and claims it's full until I rearrange everything and make enough space for lots more.

DH got so fed up of me complaining that he stopped doing it altogether, or maybe I was set up? He also used to put bowls on top of each other and then complain it wasn't working properly.

A 2l washing up bowl of water heated by a gas boiler works out at less than a penny.

I can't do a batch of washing up on less than 3 bowls of hot water, a first wash, a wash in clean soapy water, in the order of the first, then a rinse, or maybe two depending on what I have washed. And then it needs to be dried and I don't like to use tea towels.

My back doesn't like all this either, so DW it is.

Magentasue

catnap53 wrote: »

I can't do a batch of washing up on less than 3 bowls of hot water, a first wash, a wash in clean soapy water, in the order of the first, then a rinse, or maybe two depending on what I have washed. And then it needs to be dried and I don't like to use tea towels.

My back doesn't like all this either, so DW it is.

Haven't got a problem with using tea towels but I am fussy about washing up in clean, hot soapy water and it has to be in the right order (glasses through to the greasy trays). For a full load, I do keep tipping the water away and running another bowl. Does my head in when I see someone washing up in dirty water. I am a bit of a sloppy cow though, cos I don't rinse.

miss_corerupted

a 2litre bowl are u sure? that's doesn'r sound like much

atm we have no hot water so i boil the kettle 6 times to do dishes everyday. takes ages. So my thinking is that has to more expensive than dw. also when we get boiler fixed i don't want to fill a whole tank with hot water for a few bowls of washing

Magentasue

miss_corerupted wrote: »

a 2litre bowl are u sure? that's doesn'r sound like much

atm we have no hot water so i boil the kettle 6 times to do dishes everyday. takes ages. So my thinking is that has to more expensive than dw. also when we get boiler fixed i don't want to fill a whole tank with hot water for a few bowls of washing

You're right - I was going by the Daily Mirror chart this week. My bowl is small but it's 8l so at 0.5p for 2l that works out at 2p a bowl. I have a combi boiler now so only heat water as it's used but when I had a conventional boiler, I'd only wash up when there was hot water there anyway. I try to wash up big things like saucepans and baking trays once a day in the evening.

trying-very-trying

Well, I've just checked that given link and it says 15p per load for my dw. But I often use the quick wash setting, it only takes 25 mins, so surely it'll be cheaper still.