bATH v shower

samtastic7

thanks al we phone e on yeh we was on ecomony 7 but should not have been got new tarriffs found the acerage and it about 10p a shower so we using £1.98 a day not £3.50
THANKS glad i came here now

Wickedkitten

I checked a current cost meter out of the library last week and putting on the shower was silly. Before it was £23 a month, turning on the shower whacked it right up to £117 a month :eek:



So yeah, these days the shower is a get in and get out type of affair.

samtastic7

we have the correct reading in the owl now i believe, its and eye opener.
the x box and the tv cost about 8p an hours does not sound much but on weekends and ALL (far too many) school holidays it is on for almost 12 hours a day.
and they say a family of 4 should use approx 1.96.?

kd1975

Wickedkitten wrote: »

I checked a current cost meter out of the library last week and putting on the shower was silly. Before it was £23 a month, turning on the shower whacked it right up to £117 a month :eek:



So yeah, these days the shower is a get in and get out type of affair.

ouch that is not cheap. Have you tried shower heads which can reduce flow or is that just gas showers?

kelloggs36

I was considering getting an owl too - however, I am a bit thick (despite my degree lol) and don't really understand the tariffs! The electricity has a limit at one rate and then switches - how do you enter that into an owl (that incidently I have not seen so I may be asking a totally stupid question!!)

patty65

turning on the shower whacked it right up to £117 a month

But you are not standing under the shower for a month.

What's wrong with 37p for a shower anyway?

I know someone who was paying £2 a time for a shower when he had no hot water so he went to the swimming baths every day after his work to get clean after getting dirty at his work.

Patrick,

Foggy

kelloggs36 wrote: »

I was considering getting an owl too - however, I am a bit thick (despite my degree lol) and don't really understand the tariffs! The electricity has a limit at one rate and then switches - how do you enter that into an owl (that incidently I have not seen so I may be asking a totally stupid question!!)

The tiered tariffs are just another way of having a standing charge. Most consumers will go over the higher unit charge limit so you can work out the difference between the two tiers and multiply it by the annual allowance for tier 1. This will give you an old style standing charge figure for the year, quarter, month etc.

I've read it can be very difficult to set up an Owl where there are two tiers for the unit charge anyway. An alternative is to use a meter that checks individual appliances which I think Aldi sell for 6 quiddish. An Owl will only tell you what is being used overall so an individual meter is possibly better at checking individual power hungry appliances.

ronald208

Just do what I did, cost of electricity for a year £500 number of units used 4200 therefore 1 unit costs 500/4200 = 12p approx so if using 12 kWh of electricity it gives near enough £1.44 a day.

Same with gas mine works out at 3p per kWh. Before I put my heating on I was using, on average, 20 kWh of gas a day so it was costing 60p a day for 2 power showers, a bath and cooking
Ron

samtastic7

what you do you get you last bill and add up the units and cost for example if you used 300 units and it cost £45 you divide the £45 by 300
add up all units and cost if you hasve two readings
hope that helps

Wickedkitten

patty65 wrote: »

But you are not standing under the shower for a month.

What's wrong with 37p for a shower anyway?

I know someone who was paying £2 a time for a shower when he had no hot water so he went to the swimming baths every day after his work to get clean after getting dirty at his work.

Patrick,

Obviously I'm not standing under it for a month, the point is that it still uses a hell of a lot of electricity compared to evetything else in the house and it was an eyeopener seeing exactly how much more cost wise.