Cost per hour of heating?

speedy2056

I have 5 radiators and live in a single bedroom bungalow and live on my own. I just moved to EDF Energy from Npower and EDF were going to set my bill at £60 for the heating so I disputed this and the bloke on the phone reduced it to £40. I moved to EDF to get a cheaper price, not more! Npower were charging only £68 for duel fuel before so I would have been paying extra staying with EDF.

Does anyone know what it might roughly cost to have the heating on in my place per hour?

I'm not sure what factors into it.

Premier_2

Why not ask to pay quarterly on receipt of bill? Then you could reduce your monthly DD by another £40

I reckon if you want to pay monthly by DD. it should be about 1/12 of your annual consumption. Does that sound fair?
Of course, if reducing that monthly amount by a few quid means the salesman gains a sale, they'll do that. After all, the supplier will still bill you the full amount eventually ... and whilst you have an outstanding debt they can prevent you from switching supplier too. Can't lose can they?

Viper_7

How much it costs to heat per hour?

What temperature do you like it?
Loft insulation?
Wall insulation?
Window/Door types?
how many windows?
Ambient temperature outside?
Boiler type/Age?

All of which factor in, in how much it costs to heat the house for an hour.

speedy2056

Premier wrote: »

Why not ask to pay quarterly on receipt of bill? Then you could reduce your monthly DD by another £40

I reckon if you want to pay monthly by DD. it should be about 1/12 of your annual consumption. Does that sound fair?
Of course, if reducing that monthly amount by a few quid means the salesman gains a sale, they'll do that. After all, the supplier will still bill you the full amount eventually ... and whilst you have an outstanding debt they can prevent you from switching supplier too. Can't lose can they?

Sorry, I neglected to mention I am paying it by monthly direct debit. So if I ask to pay quarterly, I can reduce it even more? Or was that a joke? Couldn't tell by your smiley face LOL.


Edit: I'm not with it today, of course it was a joke, I'm a million miles away. I just re-read what you wrote. LOL.

penrhyn

Nobody does.
But you can work it out.
Get hold of your gas/electric bills from 12 months ago and subtract the meter reading from your present meter reading.
Now you know how many electric/ gas units you have used over 12 months.
Convert gas units to Kwh using the method shown on your bill. Electricity units are already in Kwh.
Go on a comparison site put in all your data and you will get an fairly accurate cost estimate, with alternative tariffs as well.

speedy2056

Viper_7 wrote: »

How much it costs to heat per hour?

What temperature do you like it?
Loft insulation?
Wall insulation?
Window/Door types?
how many windows?
Ambient temperature outside?
Boiler type/Age?

All of which factor in, in how much it costs to heat the house for an hour.

My temp is normally around 20. Not sure of the wall and loft insulation, door type is PVC. There are 3 big windows but they are divided by two top windows and side opening windows.

Boiler is over 7 years old.

speedy2056

penrhyn wrote: »

Nobody does.
But you can work it out.
Get hold of your gas/electric bills from 12 months ago and subtract the meter reading from your present meter reading.
Now you know how many electric/ gas units you have used over 12 months.
Convert gas units to Kwh using the method shown on your bill. Electricity units are already in Kwh.
Go on a comparison site put in all your data and you will get an fairly accurate cost estimate, with alternative tariffs as well.

Thanks for the help, penrhyn!

Lesley_Allan

Viper_7 wrote: »

How much it costs to heat per hour?

What temperature do you like it?
Loft insulation?
Wall insulation?
Window/Door types?
how many windows?
Ambient temperature outside?
Boiler type/Age?

All of which factor in, in how much it costs to heat the house for an hour.

I would like to have known roughly this information as well, I have just moved into my first home at the beg of October since leaving my parents house so I have no bills to check from previous.

I am getting cavity wall insulation in 3 weeks time, upstairs neighbour has loft insulation, Have double glazing windows, very heavy wooden front door, about 7 windows in the property all together.

worscter bosch combi boiler fitted nearly 2 years ago.

have 5 radiators in total in the house, spare bedroom 1 is always off, bedroom at 3 on thermo valve, living room on thermo valve at 2 or 3 and hall radiator doesnt have a valve as its a bypass radiator.

i would possibly be having my heating on for 3 hours at night when it starts to get really cold from about 5.30 when i get in til 8.30pm

penrhyn

Hopefully you have meter readings from when you moved in, if not read them now.
Then read them every month, weekly if keen.
As this is the most expensive time of year you will soon build up a picture of your consumption, a simple spread sheet could be created to convert the consumption into cost.
There is a website where you can do this as well.

Link here
http://www.imeasure.org.uk/

Hope this helps.

allan673

i check my meters every week, and work out how much ive used per week.
i pay on receipt of bill and i prefer this method.
both fuels with ebico, im a low user really.

KimYeovil

Read your meter.

Live your life for a day or three.

Read your meter again.

Do some sums.

Repeat until you begin to get an idea of how much heating your home costs.

It does not matter how much information you submit here - none of us are going to be able to give an accurate answer to how long your piece of string will be. VERY approximately you get ten electricity meter units to the pound, three metric gas meter units to the pound and one imperial gas meter unit to the pound. Plus there are monthly flat charges of up to £4 to £12 to pay each month per fuel.