Does anyone know how much electric 'things' use?

GreenandThrifty

I know you can buy those gadgets that tell you how much electric appliances use but they're dead expensive and i'm not supposed to be buying anything else this month!!!
Does anyone know how much it cost to run....

Oven?
Laptop?

or anyother things about the house?

cheers
G&T

noonesperfect

This might help you get an idea of some of the running costs

http://www.ukpower.co.uk/running-costs-elec.asp

Reverbe

we run on a meter and the washing machine is about 50p when we use it.

[Deleted User]

I have found by turning off things at night instead of having them on standby it has saved me quite a bit .I even turn off at the plug my computer.My energy bill for this last quarter has just come in at £52.78 for mid November to mid February.This is with changing all my light bulbs to low energy ones and having a Remoska instead of using my oven and using my SC quite a bit.
I'm actually using less electric now than I did this time last year.
My gas went up a bit though as its been a lot colder, and that bill was £102. 47. For that the water was on for two hours in the morning everyday to get a hot tankful, plus I would only put my heating on as and when it was cold and not on a timer all the time. But I am quite pleased as I thought the bills would be higher.I live alone but because of my arthritis I cannot be cold. My energy bills have been not as bad as I expected them to be, but I did have a new boiler installed last year which I think has helped and have extra insulation in the roof, and had my walled filled with insulation as well.

Lily-Lu

Reverbe wrote: »

we run on a meter and the washing machine is about 50p when we use it.

:eek: blimey, are you sure there's nothing wrong with your meter.

I can do a 40 degree quick wash for 3-4p (variable due to weight of load, cold water temperature etc). Even a 60/70 degree long wash (about an hour and a half) only costs around 10p.

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Cardew

Lidl are selling a meter that will tell you how much any plug in appliance will cost to run for £6.99

In general terms it is anything that heats that costs the most money to run.

The biggest culprits in most house(besides heaters/immersion heaters) are Electric showers(about £1 an hour) Tumble dryers, Plasma TVs

Washing machines are nowhere near 50p - 6p would be more like it.

Standby consumption for most appliances is tiny - pence per year - but adds up if you have loads of them.

This site gives some indication of costs - but normally their prices are high.

http://www.sust-it.net/

dannymccann

On load (as in turned on fully working, not standby) my stuff (everything per hour) -

Wireless router - 9w
Laptop - between 40 and 70w (depends on spec ofc)
PC - boggo spec 175w, 'gaming pc' will be looking at over 200w
32" LCD - 170w
Xbox 360 - 150w
Wii - 70w
DVD Player - 20w
Lightbulbs - whatever it says on the packet, I have the brightest energy ones (11W = 100W?)
Oven - depends entirely on size, age, make etc and dont know what mine uses
Fridge/Freezer obv works on a thermostat, when running - 600/700W
Electric blanket, level 3 (again thermostat i think) - 50w
Electric showers - tend to be 10.8kWh :eek:
Mobile phone charger - 7 - 15w each

Thats a roundup of some of the popular gadgets people have, obviously its going to vary based on the specifications of all your equipment, but as Cardew says (and see the shower cost ^) anything which is designed to heat the air or water will munch quite happily through the output of one of those coal power stations