now I know, cost of pilot light

st999

I have just come back from 14 days holiday and had left my pilot light on, although I had turned off the water heater.

I used approx 4 cubic meters of gas which converts to 45kwh so my pilot light uses just over 3kwh of gas a day which works out about 10p per day.

So £36.50 per year for a pilot light.:eek:
And I have just had to turn the second pilot light on for my heating so that is another 10p a day till next spring.

And for a fridge and a separate frost free freezer and a sky box on standby recording an occasional programme and a 12watt lamp on a timer for 4 hours every night, that used 31kwh for the 14 days, so that is costing about £100 per year.:eek:

Stan, just back from sunny Spain

Cardew

There have been lots of posts on pilot light costs, and £36.50 is low - many are well over double that figure.

Of course you can argue that for much of the year that heat is not wasted as it warms the fabric of the house; unless - like mine - your boiler is in an outside boiler room.

A fridge and a freezer might use 1kWh each, and a Sky box is normally 14watts on standby so in 14 days it will use 5kWh.

joe134

Hi, We are all useing timers to save energy, how much does a timer cost to run 24 hours?