178.00 elce bill

earwig

hi id this normal i have my electric bill of 178.00 this morring my bills are always seem to be high to me bear in mind that this is for 12 weeks electric
if it is high whats the norm and what is eating up my electric we live in 3 bed house and i will list all our electric stuff what we use so if any one can tell me whats eating the electric it would be grate
kitchen
washing machine used daily
dish washer used daily
oven used most days
tumble dryer only used when raining about twice a week
elec wisk used 3 times a week
fish tank 24/7
kettle used once daily
blender never
smothie maker once a week
iron used daily
micorwave used daliy
laptop
24/7
stero 12 hours daily

front room
telly18 per day
viedo dvd player sky box 24/7
stero on 24/7 on low setting
bedroom 1

streo weekend 4 hours
telly vedio sky box weekends 10 hours
lamp all night
bedroom two arlam clocks 24/7

bedroom three lamp all night

also the light get swictched on when dark and get turned off around 11pm
apart from bathroom light which is on all night
central heating set for 4 hours in moring and 4 hours in evening
this is a long list but any help would be good

Stompa

Generally it's heating (both central heating and water heating) that uses most electricity. Do you find that your bills in the summer months are significantly cheaper?

Chortle_2

Sounds like you'd save a fair amount just by not leaving your sky box/DVD players/stereos etc on standby 24/7? You seem to have a lot of equipment on a lot of the time, and just by turning them off at the plug whilst they are not in use would cut down your electricity usage.

fizzel81

heating and tumble dryer seem to be biggest in my house but we dont have a huge amount of elec equiptment left on, you seem to have alot going at any one time saying that i do not think your bill really is all that high we pay 30 a month dd but seem to have an outstanding bill of around 200(this is over a year iv done little yet as im hopeing it will even out over summer)

lynzpower

Do all you can to save electric.

Some ideas here https://www.energysavingtrust.co.uk

Is your dishwaster/ washing machine ALWAYS full
do you have any energy efficient lightbulbs in
Do you have your boiler & loft lagged properly

There are some OS tips like, turn your oven off for 5 mins before the food will be ready, the oven will continue to cook for 5 mins at the same heat, if you are cooking a pie, stick in some sausage rolls ( just an example) at the same time, so you dont have to have your oven on.

I woud say, having the heating on in this weather :eek: No need really. We "get used to a certain level of heat, my parents dont really bother with heating till the pits of winter, and nor do I, as a result when I go hot places, I always overheat a bit. Weve got the patio doors open most evenings.

If you have central heating, are there any radiators/ heaters you can turn right down or off. I havent had the hall one on in my flat for over a year, and Ive NEVER turned the kitchen one on, it just doenst need it.

Turn your thermostat down a few notches, chances are you wont notice the difference!

tina68

Hi Earwig hopes this helps
cooker av use 1.5 units per meal
f/f all day 2 units per day
iron 500 watts 0.5 units per hour
kettle 12 pts water 1 unit
microwave 1000 watts 1 unit per hour
toaster 60 slices 1 unit
washer 1 load 3 units
tumbler 1 load 2.5 units
dishwasher 1 load 2 units
vac 500 watts 0.5 units per 30mins
pc 3 hours 1 unit
games console 3 hours 1 unit
tv 6/9 hours 1 unit
tv on standby 60p p/w
immersion heater 3kw 3 units per hour
electric shower 9.0kw 1.5 units per 10 mins

Tina x :eek:

amosworks

If this is really bugging you, look at all the bigger and heavier equipment (and also the equipment that spend a lot of time on regardless of size) and find out it's Kw/H rating. This will tell you how much energy the device actually uses and is often on a little sticker at the back near the power cord inlet or underneath out of sight. Things like lightbulbs have it printed on the bulb etc (note that a 100w bulb will be 0.1 Kw/H but energy saving bulbs "equivelant rating" should not be used, most ES bulbs will tell you the exact Kw/H).

When you have the Kw/H for the devices likely to be the culprits, multiply the time the device spend on (in hours) by it's Kw/H rating and then multiply that by the price of each Kw/H (aka "unit") which should be printed somewhere on your electric bill.

If you're on a dual-rate (Economy 7 etc) then bare in mind there will be 2 different unit prices, and sometimes when you reach a certain number of units on a single rate, the unit price will also drop.

The answers to the calculations above will show you the approximate cost of each device for the day, and thus you can start to factor things like only using it half the time will save you a tenner a week etc. You'll probably find some surprising things come up in your list! (Also keep an eye out for white goods that still claim to have a high energy efficiency rating - it means nothing as they are wasteful by nature!!)

Happy hunting

mom23

Hi i don't think that's to steep if it includes heating!!
I was paying 56.00 month for leccy but have gas heating, gas water heater and i cook by gas!! i have since changed providers so i don't really know as yet how it will compare!!
I have also stopped using tumble dryer as i know this clocks up and am waiting to see what difference this will make!!

lynzpower

tumble driers really clock up. Earwig, can you get some clothes horses to dry clothes on? We got some for a fiver in wilkos and they are fine. On windy days you can pag clothes to them to & stick them in the garden. otherwise we have them in the hall and everything dries within a day ( except jeans- they take day & night)

tina68

Earwig
try changing lightbulbs as well as you seem to have them on alot more than the average person
100 watt bulb =1.0 unit per 10 hours
60 watt = 1.0 unit per 16 hours
40 watt fluorescent strip= 1.0 unit per 25 hours
20 watt cpl = 1.0 unit per 50 hours
11 watt cpl = 1.0 unit per 80 hours

Tina x :j :T

earwig

thanks everyone the tv/sky/stero are on all the time there not on standby the telly is like moving wallpaper in our house the thing is i love music were the rest of my famley love the tv so i will be in the kitcen with the music on and everyone else is in the front room with the telly i forgot to mention that there is a fridge and tall frezzer in kictchen as well and hair dryer strighterns in bed room used daily and ps2 in frontroom used most days for a couple of hours
i have just spoken to next door and they live in the same type of house as us and there bill was 72.00 so there is a lot of differance between us i know that there is only two of them though
my electric bill is around the 150.00 mark in the warmer months so not a great diffence between the summer and winter i think my bills are high as at my old adress we used to have card meters and i was paying about 30.00 per month in cards we moved here and the bills are just huge but we didnt have dishwasher or elec oven or dvd player there though and i know gas prices have gone up