40% off electric bill

Freebiehunter81

All I did was turn off the immersion heater

Cardew

There is a big switch - usually near the meters - turn that to off and you will save 100% on your electricity bill(if you have a 2 tier tariff)

Nicole_B

I did this aswell and am amazed at how much it used. Saying that I used a pre-payment meter and had just under £4 in credit yesterday, left the immersion heater on all night by mistake and it used all of my credit up :eek:

Cardew

Nicole_B wrote: »

I did this aswell and am amazed at how much it used. Saying that I used a pre-payment meter and had just under £4 in credit yesterday, left the immersion heater on all night by mistake and it used all of my credit up :eek:

Impossible for an immersion heater to use that amount - unless you left the hot water tap running all night.

Even if your tank was full of cold water it wouldn't cost more than £1.(electricity at 10p/kWh)

paceinternet

There seems to be a few of these immerson horror stories about. You have to wonder if they are working correctly, as in is the temperature set to 65 ish and are they switching off on the stat when they reach that temperature.
Maybe the users will comment on how hot their water temperture is, and are there continuous rumbling noises.

nathanimate

my immersion water cylinder needs 20 KWh daily!!!
How can I avoid it?
when you say you switched it off, how do you then have hot water?
don't you need to re-boil the whole thing from the start?

Cardew

nathanimate wrote: »

my immersion water cylinder needs 20 KWh daily!!!

So you are using approx 400 litres of hot water every day?

That is 400 litres of hot(60C) water - which presumably you mix with cold for a bath/shower

nathanimate

no just my immersion heater keeps working like mad! You should have a look at the meter dial! I just called British gas homecare to come have a look at it.
Can one skip the immersion heater completely and use the gas boiler whenever one has a shower?

Cardew

nathanimate wrote: »

no just my immersion heater keeps working like mad! You should have a look at the meter dial! I just called British gas homecare to come have a look at it.
Can one skip the immersion heater completely and use the gas boiler whenever one has a shower?

I have just seen your other thread.

If an immersion heater 'keeps working like mad' then the water will boil and you will hear it bubbling away(and you will scald yourself)

You obviously should be using gas to heat your water and not the immersion heater. However I don't think it possible to use 20 kWh(or 28kWh) per day(with normal use) to heat water. That is over 7,000kWh pa which is well over double what the average family uses for their hot water.

I suspect with the immersion heater off, your electricity consumption will be a lot higher than you think.

nathanimate

with the immersion heater off, my electricity consumption is 8KWh per day.

albyota

with a 3 kilowatt immersion heater element on for 1 hour will use 3 units of leccy... if the thermostat has got stuck in the on position, it could be boiling the water up and expanding/overflowing it over into the header tank in the attic assuming you have an F&E system. if this is allowed to go on for 6 or seven hours you will quite easily use 20 units, how hot is the water coming out of the taps?

a new thermostat will cost about a fiver!

edit... sorry, just saw your pics from your other post, forget the F&E system bit. its a mains pressure unvented cylinder, and i can see you are already getting help from others.