Gas and electric units per month

[Deleted User]

Hi everyone

Thought it might help as a guide if we listed our unit usage per month for gas and electric, plus a brief description of house size and usage as a guide to others.

Checking unit consumption each month is also a brilliant way of estimating your bills and keeping on top of your usage.

Pick a date, say the 1st of each month and make a note of the gas/electricity units. Then each month you will be able to check how many units you have used! Easy! :T

[Deleted User]

This past month I have used 208 units of electric and 14 units of gas!

brysiewysie

Won't this do a similar thing for you?

http://www.imeasure.org.uk/

I apologise if I keep posting links to this site but it does seem to be a good way to compare usage with similar people. I've only just started using it after the reommendation of others here.

Magentasue

I've been using imeasure. It's of limited use at the moment because it doesn't have many users but as it gets more popular, I think it will be more useful. It does allow you to record weekly readings and compare with others - god knows how it does this as it doesn't seem to make sense to any MSE users.

There is an MSE carbon club on this site, so if you use it, do join!

MoneySaving Carbon Club

Maybe this thread would be useful to all those 'Is this normal' posts that are generated by surprise bills? Problem is, there are no meaningful averages, IMO. For example, I live in a mid terrace but there are six of us, whereas our neighbours are couples. We are also gadget and appliance heavy where other households might spend their time and money on eating out.

But, for the record, this month, we have used 364 kwh elec and 680kwh gas.

purple - are they imperial gas units? Or am I calculating incorrectly here?

[Deleted User]

Our gas is measured in cubic metres, kwh. I know it's not a lot at the moment! Haven't had the heating on at all!

frugallass

I randomly check (once or twice a week) the gas and electric meters and input the readings onto a home-made spreadsheet, I can monitor my average use and keep a track on how much I should expect my next bill to be....the only thing I haven't taken into consideration yet is the standing charge but I'm working on that.

brysiewysie

Magentasue wrote: »

........There is an MSE carbon club on this site, so if you use it, do join!

MoneySaving Carbon Club ............

Thanks Magentause, I hadn't seen that

mech_2

Hmm, let me see. I've been away a lot, but if I compensate for that by filling in the gaps in my gas usage graph I get this usage per month:

Sep-07 556.77
Oct-07 673.69
Nov-07 1153.07
Dec-07 1732.45
Jan-08 1753.50
Feb-08 1336.47
Mar-08 1340.26
Apr-08 879.59
May-08 385.17
Jun-08 222.15
Jul-08 168.15
Aug-08 183.73

(In kWh).

My electricity usage is much more regular, so I don't track that in such detail. About 150kWh per month.

Edit: Forgot to add details of the household! The numbers are a bit meaningless otherwise. It's a 1930's semi-detached house with one occupant. 90% efficient combi boiler and gas hobs, electric oven. About 82 square metres of living space heated to 18-20 degrees. Partial cavity wall insulation, 4 inches of loft insulation, uPVC low E double glazing.

libra10

frugallass wrote: »

I randomly check (once or twice a week) the gas and electric meters and input the readings onto a home-made spreadsheet, I can monitor my average use and keep a track on how much I should expect my next bill to be....the only thing I haven't taken into consideration yet is the standing charge but I'm working on that.

I also take readings every Sunday morning and enter details in a spreadsheet. I'm currently using around 73 - 75 electricity units per week and 1 unit gas. I started doing this around three years ago and can compare readings with previous years.

We live in a 3 bedroom semi-detached, there are three of us and two of us are retired, being in the home quite a bit with TV, PC etc being used.

Trune

i use 25 units of electric a week.

and 2-4 meter reading numbers of gas... which i think is about 33kwh

2 bed flat, me and my gf, built 2006, gas central heating with boiler and water tank, shower fed from water tank. no baths.
electric cooker but gas hob.

HaushinkaGreenDay

From 23/04/2008 to 06/09/2008 average monthly usage:

Gas: 578.47 kWh
Elec: 139.04

We live in North Yorkshire on the coast - can be very cold here!

Large 2-bed flat in late victorian conversion; mid-floor (flat below and above us); huge original sash windows (conservation area!) with secondary glazing in lounge only; dropped ceilings; unknown insulation (rented property) but may have some insulated plasterboard as external walls not cold to touch.

Due to illness, I'm in all day and need constant temp of around 20 degrees celsius, although when the sun's out the large windows allow the solar heat in

Shower connected to hot water tank (96 litres), again due to illness have to bathe every night and OH showers every day (me too most times!)

Gas used for CH, HW and hob; electric fan-assisted oven (2100 watt); A-rated washing machine; C-rated dishwasher (soon to be replaced with AAA); no tumble dryer (hate the things!); 20-year old regularly serviced Ideal Elan 2 boiler with permanent pilot (around 75% efficient); TRVs to all rads except one hallway and utility room.

Energy-saving bulbs throughout except bathroom and main light in bedroom (damn silly SES spotlights :mad: )

Oh, and I turn off at the socket anything that's not needed straight away - even dishwasher/washing machine - no standby for us!!