Help- Advice cheap type of heater and electricity

Richie-from-the-Boro

"" presently without heating the whole i am spending btw £r 80 - 100 a month on E7. ""

Didi that's not right, something is very wrong here !

- you are being ripped off somewhere
- do you have ' double glazing ' ?
- you re mistaken and are not on E7, are you ?
- you are on a ' key [ pre-paid ] meter, are you ?
- your use of alternative electric fire's and the naked hot water cylinder can easily consume £80 a month, is this the case, what are you using for daytime heat ?

The WM1 tariff you are on delivers 2300 to 0730 GMT [ summer ] and 2345 to 0815 [ winter ] assuming you have the clock set correctly.If your storage radiators are ' switched off ', an unlagged tank can easily use most of £2.60 per night [ £80 per month ] Get your tank lagged as a first job with some urgrency You can not manage without [ hygene ] hot water !

(1) If you read the meter each day for a week and record the day / night rate numbers, and ;

(2) Switch of the ( ring mains ) heating & water at the ' fuse box ' then read the meter each day for a week and record the day / night rate numbers

You will be able to separate the truth of what's happening to your costs. I suspect that a combination of sitting in front of a very very expensive electric fire on daytime rate, a badly insulated property and the unlagged water tank is haemorrhaging your money away. Continuously operating appliances such as freezers, fridges, cooking, washing machines, computers and lights also add to the cost.

£80 per month should provide you with a permanent 18-20 degree centigrade environment, that's all day and all night temperature and all hot water for the whole year.

You need to get to the nitty gritty, get objective facts, do the (1&2) tests above and spend £10 on a hot water cylinder jacket - get one too big, and let the segments overlap slightly to prevent heat loss as a fist job. When you've done those things go onto the other problems

markharding557

Agree that does not seem right.
My mother and partner heat their home all day on e7 and pay around £100pm over the year