How many units of Gas are you using daily?

TITEASCRAMP

Woodgnome wrote: »

Zoiks!!! :whistle: that is low. Surely you can't be using gas central heating?

Our last week average is 93 Khw per day and our Gas heating hasn't been over used. I am calculating our Gas central heating costs about 60p per hour to run at BG Click Energy 5 prices.

Its on in the morning when we get up and again for a couple of hours in the evening. We also have Gas shower and Gas cooker.
To be honest it wasnt that cold last week. When its freezing aboout February we average about 44kwh's a day.
Our house is a very warm house, its too warm in Summer.

derrick

Woodgnome wrote: »

Zoiks!!! :whistle: that is low. Surely you can't be using gas central heating?

Our last week average is 93 Khw per day and our Gas heating hasn't been over used. I am calculating our Gas central heating costs about 60p per hour to run at BG Click Energy 5 prices.

That is similar to what I said earlier in this thread here.

littleange

We have used 110kWh gas and 74kWh electricity this week. So far managed to resist the central heating and have been using a small heater running at 450watts to take the chill off in the room we spend most of our time in (bedroom/office), not too hard to keep one room at 18C, the rest of the house is currently 14C so not too bad!

espresso

derrick wrote: »

That is similar to what I said earlier in this thread here.

derrick wrote: »

The people on here who are only using less than 20 KWh of gas per DAY? must not be using any gas, except maybe the pilot light!

My meter, (imperial), uses ½ unit/therm, (measured on the meter), per HOUR if I have the CH on,this is 16 KWh per HOUR!

Calculation done by multiplying the unit/therm by 32, to give the KWh per unit/therm as measured by the gas meter!

I find your figures hard to believe, as ours averaged 52.57 kWh per day over the last week, with the central heating on for 15 hours each day, which equates to only 3.5 kWh, less than a quarter of your figure!

Do you have the central heating on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening?

derrick

espresso wrote: »

I find your figures hard to believe, as ours averaged 52.57 kWh per day over the last week, with the central heating on for 15 hours each day, which equates to only 3.5 kWh, less than a quarter of your figure!

Do you have the central heating on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening?

Hard to believe or not, they are true.

If I put the heating on, the first hour uses nearly 1 therm,(measured on the IMPERIAL meter), that is 31 Kwhs, each subsequent hour uses ½ therm, 16Kwhs
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Now it is an old Baxi back boiler, but even so it has roughly used this amount since day one nearly 30 years ago when it was installed.

My latest bill, arrived yesterday from Ebico, (Southern Electric), was for 33 Units, (therms), 1045.19 Kwhs. (So the maths are correct, the heating has not been on until the other day, so I am not giving a bill reading for heating, just confirming the units/therms to Kwhs are correct), I am in the process of changing to BG Click 6, but this only has relevance to the amount used or not as the case may be, i.e if I have the heating on for 6 hours the meter will register 3½ units,(108.5 Kwhs), so I still cannot see how people on here get such low consumptions? Unless it is down to the boiler, but as I say, this has been the consumption since day one.

espresso

derrick wrote: »

Now it is an old Baxi back boiler, but even so it has roughly used this amount since day one nearly 30 years ago when it was installed.

So glad that we haven't got an inefficient back boiler!

:rotfl:

derrick

espresso wrote: »

So glad that we haven't got an inefficient back boiler!

:rotfl:

Never had to pay for any overpriced repairs in that 30 years, jut a couple of thermocouples, unlike the newer combis and condensing boilers, as there is nothing to go wrong

Magentasue

We're using 80kwh a day - and I think we're doing well.

espresso

derrick wrote: »

Never had to pay for any overpriced repairs in that 30 years, jut a couple of thermocouples, unlike the newer combis and condensing boilers, as there is nothing to go wrong

Likewise but my old boiler seems to be more than four times more efficient than yours! That's a lot of money to waste!

idrilaki

My partner and I, a working couple, bought a newly refurbished ex-council 3-bedroom semi in July. A new Worcester Bosch combi boiler had just been installed and all radiators except the bathroom's have thermostatic valves and newish plumbing of good quality - or so the plumbers said.

We were initially very impressed about the relevant driness and heat in the house, as we had not managed to sleep without a thick down duvet in our rented, above-cellar, 1 bedroom flat for the last 2 summers. Without any curtains and sleeping on the floor, we were very contented throughout July, August and September.

We only had to pay for 20 metric units (220.5 kWh) of gas consumption during those months (including 2 weeks away), totalling £12.5. We managed not to turn on the heating until October when it suddenly started to bite in and our ground/top floor sensors dropped to below 16 C. At first, we only switched c/h on for the couple of hours we were at home during the week evenings, but then it started to become necessary in the mornings as well (dropping below 12C!)
That took about 23 kWh of gas daily without the living room & master bedroom ever reaching above 17C.

We were advised to install a central thermostat, but decided to try out the 24/7 heating on regulated by the individual radiator thermostats. It took 48 hours and 132 kWh for the whole house to reach an acceptable 18C two weeks ago, and with daily readings the consumption to keep this at 16-19C is unwaveringly 55-60 kWh per day, counting in at least 1 shower a day for each (usually 2 as we're modifying a couple of rooms and are very dusty by the end of the day).

I took this 55/day/7 winter months and an average of 22/day/5 summer months for cooking and showering, to calculate an overall average of 14,850 kWh per year. The national household average is 20,500 annually and it still keeps us below the personal average of 8,750 a year.

My question is: am I too optimistic, as we were paying a lot in the flat and this seems only a bit more? Should it be less? We are considering added loft insulation and maybe cavity as well, but the numerous spotlights make it tricky. Will the central thermostat improve this? Any suggestions will be very welcome