Average electricity units used a day

Magentasue

In that case, it looks right. They are expensive, as is an immersion heater. We average about 12 a day (24 hour day) but cook/heat/hot water by gas so the 12 are just fridge/freezer/lights/TVs/washing machine/dishwasher etc. We are high users. Plenty of smaller households (there's six of us) use fewer than 10 units a day.

Edit: Just noticed you're in a 2 bed flat so perhaps the daytime units are quite high - do use use washing machine at night? Dishwashers and tumble driers are even more expensive to run during the day for you.

libra10

We live in a 3 bedroom semi-detached house and use around 10 units a day. Usually there is someone in, PC on during day, TV, general electrical usage.

purplegirluk1

Magentasue wrote: »

In that case, it looks right. They are expensive, as is an immersion heater. We average about 12 a day (24 hour day) but cook/heat/hot water by gas so the 12 are just fridge/freezer/lights/TVs/washing machine/dishwasher etc. We are high users. Plenty of smaller households (there's six of us) use fewer than 10 units a day.

Edit: Just noticed you're in a 2 bed flat so perhaps the daytime units are quite high - do use use washing machine at night? Dishwashers and tumble driers are even more expensive to run during the day for you.

Yes I only wash during the night, I currently have to use the tumble drier during the day every now and again for around 30 minutes but only once or twice a week. No dish washer. I have also changed all our sockets so that things can easily be turned off. We now unplug things when they are not being used like the cooker, microwave, tv, baby monitors. I can't imagine why our units are still high.

Magentasue

Would be worth getting a timer for the tumble drier and setting it to come on at cheap rate.

What else during the day? Old fridge or freezer? Plasma TV? Playstation 3 on a lot? I think they all use a lot if they're on a while.

purplegirluk1

All our appliances are only a few years old, we have an LCD tv which is on a lot of the time, the tumble drier is not vented so can't be on at night but we are in the process of ordering a new condensor. We have a vivarium with a snake in that has a bulb and a thermostat and is on all the time.

lee999fire

i used to be with Npower as a supplier but i had issues which started some time ago .

now i have only electric in the property and economy 7 which when i moved in the summer of 2003 every thing was fine but as winter approached i noticed the heaters although programmed never really came on as they should . i asked npower who said the heaters were old and needed replacing so i did at about £900 but they still didn't work . i also noticed that the bills were all over the place . in the end the meter was the fault as it wasn't switching over to E7 at night . i eventually had the meter changed to a digital meter .but on leaving npower early this year had a whooping bill and found out that they had the readings transposed as day and night around the wrong way ..

i have since changed to scottish power and nearly died the other day when i did the last reading and uploaded it the online meter reading site to find that we had used 6000 units on the night in 3 months....?????

there is absolutely no way this could be as the heaters haven't been on and nothing else at night has.....scottish power this usage is equivilent to a 12 bed houses annual consumption £688 for the quarter..?

has anyone got any ideas what might be wrong as this is a 3 bed house me the wife and 3 and 1 year old..

could a fault jump a digital meter 6000 units..!!

oh and the readings are still transposed..!

Magentasue

Really not sure - I've picked up a lot of knowledge on stuff applicable to me but I don't have a vivarium!

I believe fish tanks can use quite a bit - it's the 24/7 factor again. It all mounts up. TV the same. It's not that it uses a lot of electricity over an hour say, but it's how much it's on. I don't put ours on until about 8pm and it's off by midnight most evenings.

But my carbon-fiends can happily have a TV on most of the day, Does my head in!. On those days, we always have higher readings - by three or four kwh. It's not just the TV most of the time either, also games console or DVD player or Sky.

I see you have a baby so maybe you're up at some point in the cheap rate period when you can put tumble drier on? Will make a big difference over the winter.

Magentasue

lee999fire wrote: »

i used to be with Npower as a supplier but i had issues which started some time ago .

now i have only electric in the property and economy 7 which when i moved in the summer of 2003 every thing was fine but as winter approached i noticed the heaters although programmed never really came on as they should . i asked npower who said the heaters were old and needed replacing so i did at about £900 but they still didn't work . i also noticed that the bills were all over the place . in the end the meter was the fault as it wasn't switching over to E7 at night . i eventually had the meter changed to a digital meter .but on leaving npower early this year had a whooping bill and found out that they had the readings transposed as day and night around the wrong way ..

i have since changed to scottish power and nearly died the other day when i did the last reading and uploaded it the online meter reading site to find that we had used 6000 units on the night in 3 months....?????

there is absolutely no way this could be as the heaters haven't been on and nothing else at night has.....scottish power this usage is equivilent to a 12 bed houses annual consumption £688 for the quarter..?

has anyone got any ideas what might be wrong as this is a 3 bed house me the wife and 3 and 1 year old..

could a fault jump a digital meter 6000 units..!!

oh and the readings are still transposed..!

Could the opening reading for this bill have been incorrect?

yellowsaver

got my meter reading for today... (i've been told by EDF to get 7 days readings and then discuss with them if there's a problem)

used 26 units of electricity today as compared to 18 yesterday. :mad::mad:

no changes in electrical usage.

LesU

To purplegirluk1
When you put the washing on at night, when do you think the Economy 7 kicks in. Remember it will be 1 hour later in the summer, because the meter's clock doesn't change to BST. My E7 starts at 01:30 and goes through to 8:30 GMT in the winter, but in the summer I have E7 electricity from 2:30 through to 9:30 in the morning. It is worth checking the time that the meter kicks over to the higher rate.