£80 pcm electricity bill for one?!!!

PopIsDead_UK

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Currently paying £55 per month for an all electric home with storage heaters. It is two bedroomed and has four storage heaters. Never run out of heat and rarely need the boost - as I'm disabled and home all day I would need heating on whatever the system. This is a very cold part of the country but I wouldn't want to change my heating system.

Can't understand why people are so negative.

Thanks for backing me up here. As I said, storage heaters can work out just fine. If my electric bills are around £50, I'll be happy.

Cardew

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

I'd like to get away from the argument around electric being the most expensive form of heating and look at the OP's usage.

The OP says they used 381 (av 42.3 per day) low units and 86 (9.6)normal units in 9 days. That seems quite a high number of units to me, around 6 units more in total than we do, and so maybe other sources rather than heating should be looked for the high number of units.


HTH, MrsB.

That should cost around £3 a day for CH and hot water(lots of hot water!) which in mid-Nov seems pretty reasonable to me.

If people get on OK with storage heating, then fine. However it is by far the biggest source of complaint on MSE from those who have the system fitted.

spanner200

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Currently paying £55 per month for an all electric home with storage heaters. It is two bedroomed and has four storage heaters. Never run out of heat and rarely need the boost - as I'm disabled and home all day I would need heating on whatever the system. This is a very cold part of the country but I wouldn't want to change my heating system.

Can't understand why people are so negative.

Really?!! How are you doing that?

I'd like to think that I'm not wasteful by insisting on heating up the home to T-shirt tempartures, I am prepared to wear a jumper, but I don't think my bilss will be only £55 per month. I live in a newish two bed end of terraced house, fully double glazed. I only put the heaters to charge to about half way (maybe just over) - at least at the moment! And I'm walking around in thermals and jumpers!

spanner200

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

I'd like to get away from the argument around electric being the most expensive form of heating and look at the OP's usage.

The OP says they used 381 (av 42.3 per day) low units and 86 (9.6)normal units in 9 days. That seems quite a high number of units to me, around 6 units more in total than we do, and so maybe other sources rather than heating should be looked for the high number of units.

In comparison, I live in a 3 bed bungalow, with two kids, and OH . We have had 2 storage heaters (2.2kW) and 2 convectors (in the evening) running every day during the last 17 days as well as when the kids get back from school- 2 xboxes &TVs, lights (not all are eco ones), router etc, 4 showers and tank gets heated up too, cook every day on electric cooker, have laptop and pc on in evening/tv etc , and washing machine/ tumble dryer every day and our daily usage works out at 10.29 normal units and 35.8 heating over this period.
I would think that a single person would have to try hard to use more than this, as I am forever turning lights and tvs etc off around the home that were left on by other people.
My DD is £90 per month, and has been for the last 3 years. I reckon it needs to go up by around another £10 to cover our usage, but will wait and see if prices fall before I tell the elec company that though .

I would suggest that the OP checks what other electrical items they are using/leaving on etc, as the usage does seem quite high to me.

HTH, MrsB.

Hi there,

those units were when I had first moved into the house, and I hadn't yet really experimented with usage- soI don't they were typical. So far over the last few days, usage on E7 was averaging around 26 units

Do you have Dimplex?

I am confused about the automatic damper opening on the instructions- don't suppose you can clarify?

Many thanks

Magentasue

Whenever storage heaters are mentioned, there are posts from people who claim they are happy with them and they are not concerned about the cost. But there are more people who find them inefficient and expensive - that was certainly my experience and I have yet to meet anyone who is happy with them. As with every form of heating, a lot will depend on how they are used, how old they are and the building they're used in.

PopIsDead_UK

The more I think about it, the more I don't think the heaters in this property I'm moving into are storage heaters. I don't recall seeing any dials (input/output) on them, just a thermostat dial on the top far right.

I was round there at the weekend measuring up and I switched them on (the apartment was freezing), and they kicked heat out straight away. Not what I would expect from a storage heater.

Magentasue

PopIsDead_UK wrote: »

The more I think about it, the more I don't think the heaters in this property I'm moving into are storage heaters. I don't recall seeing any dials (input/output) on them, just a thermostat dial on the top far right.

I was round there at the weekend measuring up and I switched them on (the apartment was freezing), and they kicked heat out straight away. Not what I would expect from a storage heater.

These sound like ordinary wall heaters - very expensive to run. Don't be deceived by the power rating - unless you have very small rooms, they will need to be on a lot to keep the place warm. They don't retain heat like radiators and use expensive day rate electricity.

spanner200

Well I spoke to Southern elctric today, because for the last few days the light switches attached to the storage heater and immersion had been coming on during funny times- and not during E7 times as expected.

They have decided to send someone out to check it, the meter may be configured wrongly so that it doesn't know what time it is....

Its just strange that the meter readings are so erratic, as everything bar the fridge, freezer and storage & immersion heaters are turned off at night, so don't understand why the units I us overnight should fluctuate so much, as I haven't changed the input/charge settings on the heaters...

Magenta

espresso wrote: »

Well I do not have access to the essentials tariff details, how much to you pay per kWh?

Unfortunately I should know but I don't. I will find that out.

Magenta

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Currently paying £55 per month for an all electric home with storage heaters. It is two bedroomed and has four storage heaters. Never run out of heat and rarely need the boost - as I'm disabled and home all day I would need heating on whatever the system. This is a very cold part of the country but I wouldn't want to change my heating system.

Can't understand why people are so negative.

I am absolutely amazed!!.
I have a one bed all electric flat with one storage heater and I am ill, so in bed 90% of the day, and pay twice as much as you!!