Please help me work out my usage

oldskoo1

Hello everyone,

I would like to work out what i'm paying daily for gas but i dont know where to start.

What i have done is take a reading 6 days apart for my experiment.

Day 1
02686.994

Day 6
02694.113

Difference
7.119

So i take it i have used 7 units in the last 6 days. So roughly 1.1865 units per day.


I'm on BG Click 6 - but i'm not sure what the click 6 costs are and could someone help me work out the avg. cost per day please.

Magentasue

Ignoring the decimals, you've used 8 units - if you have an imperial meter, that's about 248kwh (8x31). If it's metric, it's about 88kwh (x11).

Is Click 6 online? I reckon on about 4 or 5 pence a kwh but don't know what you are being charged.

Does you meter say square feet or square metres?

Magentasue

I think this might be the link for finding kwh prices for you:

http://www.britishgas.co.uk/products-and-services/energy/dual/click-energy.html

using the price finder tab.

bryanb

https://www.i-measure.org is a website run by a university dept, It will help you keep track of weekly usage/spend/carbon emmissions.

oldskoo1

Hello

Thanks for your help so far - i checked my meter for the m or ft and every number was followed with m but i think it was m(3) cubed.

So i assume it is metric.

I also found a pdf for click 6. It is 2 tier pricing. Tier 1 being the first 670kwh per quarter at 6.8p and tier 2 the remainder being 3.5p.

So very roughly, my usage per month is 1300kwh. So 670kwh (tier 1) is pretty much half. So work out the meadian of the 2 tiers, its basically 5.1p for my tarrif based on my last 6 days of usage.

So i worked it out at :
Unit x 11
78kwh in 6 days
13kwh per day
5p a kwh on click 6 (based on my 6 day usage using teir 1 and tier 2 prices)

13kwh per day x 5p)
66p per day - rounded up
£19.80 pm

Which seems awfully low to me. We have had our heating on 24hrs a day for the last 6 days (part of the experiment).

Can anyone pick holes in my workings and point out if i have gone wrong.

Magentasue

Seems low to me but maybe you're a small household? There are six of us with a combi boiler, gas cooker and heating in a 3 bed mid terrace. We were using 22-25 kwh a day but it was 76 a day last week with the heating on.

Someone else posted their gas use and mine was double so yours looks normal, I guess. I would expect higher for 24hour heating but maybe your house is very well insulated and you don't have it set very high.

oldskoo1

We have a 4 bed detatched which is 13 years old.

Has upvc DG all round, 270mm loft insulation, fairly sure the cavity walls are filled. Heating is on 24/7 on 17degrees on the hall thermostat but all rooms are 18degrees based on our thermometer.

Water comes on for 30mins in morning and 1 hour in the evening.

Worried its imperial now as that works our at 57quid pm.

Our dd to BG is £37pm but we were slightly in credit on our last bill after being something like £120 in debit to them around last winter.

Magentasue

oldskoo1 wrote: »

Worried its imperial now as that works our at 57quid pm.

Do you have a bill or statement you can look at? It should have the meter readings on and the units used. Then it'lll have how many kwh you're being charged for. If you look at both numbers, you should be able to see if it's roughly x11 or x31.

To be honest, it's new to me - we had a metric meter at our last house and I assumed our present one would be the same. Couldn't understand why it went round so slowly! It does say ft squared quite clearly on the meter but I guess some don't.

oldskoo1

Our meter does say m cubed which is metric i'm sure.

I will check our bill but BG close their bill section on sundays. I will have to check tomorrow! .... Its all managed online as we get paperless and dual fuel discounts.


Thanks

Magentasue

I'm sure it's metric if it says cubic meters - I meant cubed, not squared!

Dustykitten

Thanks for all the help on this thread. I was using the units rather than converting no wonder the figures were way way too low compared with my bills!

Do I need to do a conversion for electric units used too?