bATH v shower

Fire_Fox

You should also factor in the cost of the water if you are metered - I've just been to read my meters today, and noticed we have used half as much water as all other flats in the block (bar one) over the last five years! Partly that is occupancy levels as there was only one person in my flat for two years and some flats have had three residents. My neighbour upstairs has lived on his own for the entire five years and he has consumed double what we have. :eek: That's got to add up in terms of both water and energy bills over time.

ronald208

One of the advantages of living in Scotland, no metered water, disavantage is it is cold and the heating bills are higher.

Ron

MrsE_2

Cardew wrote: »

The Aldi meter only works for plug in appliances, so won't show for an electric shower.

However if your shower is 10kW(few are as powerful) every 6 minutes will use 1kWh and cost approx 10p.

I think mine is a 10.5:eek:

I'm in there for 12 minutes every morning, so is DD:eek:

DH does his bit for the planet, every other day:o:rolleyes::mad:

Dreamnine

My electricity bill is always higher in the summer when I use the shower, and lower in winter when I take a bath (heated by gas).

samtastic7

interesting we are not on a water meter either

tfspark

Foggy wrote: »

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.

You can set up the Owl to monitor different tarrifs if they are at different times of the day. So if you are on economy 7 you can set one tarrif on the day rate and one on the night rate.

What you can't do is monitor two tiers if they switch after the number of Kwh used. So if you get a higher tier for the first 900 kwh/quarter, then a lower tier therafter you can't automatically monitor it.

I'm in the process of switching from E7 to non E7 and haven't worked out what I'm going to do with the Owl!

Cardew

tfspark wrote: »

You can set up the Owl to monitor different tarrifs if they are at different times of the day. So if you are on economy 7 you can set one tarrif on the day rate and one on the night rate.

What you can't do is monitor two tiers if they switch after the number of Kwh used. So if you get a higher tier for the first 900 kwh/quarter, then a lower tier therafter you can't automatically monitor it.

I'm in the process of switching from E7 to non E7 and haven't worked out what I'm going to do with the Owl!

My view is you simply set it to the tier 2(lowest) rate.

The vast majority of people will use all the Tier 1 allocation each quarter on 'essential' or unadvoidable usage(fridge/lights/TV etc) so just treat that as a standing charge(which of course it is!) and use the tier 2 price to calculate.

samtastic7

you look at how many units used on last bill and find the average tarriff its only a rough guide helps u see what appliances use the most