4 people in house, av 147 units/week...is this a lot?

northernsoul

Hi
4 people live in the house. Gas CH. 3 laptops and 1 desktop are used a lot (1 laptop from coming home from work to bedtime). 3 rooms (2 bedrooms and lounge) are in constant use (3rd bedroom only used for sleeping!). The rest normal things like using Kitchen, shower, washing machine, plasma TV (more expensive than LCD but better picture Pioneer 428), 3 upright freezers, 1 fridge etc. Our usesage over last 10 weeks has been 1473 units (147 per week). Is this a lot? How does it compare with others. At 12p/unit thats £917 a year! although a bit less during summer.
Thanks

Mrs_Thrify

Hiya, your fuel use sounds OK to me although I cannot see why you need 3 freezers. The shops are plentyful of food. My freezer costs £36 per year on electric to give you an idea. Yours must be near the £100 mark? depending on size.

northernsoul

We all want to buy our own food. Everybody eats so differently so we have 3 freezers! Even 2 is not enough for everybodys food! Silly, i know!

KimYeovil

It's a lot (but not for four adults) but more worrying is the idea of paying 12p per unit - there must be a tariff available that would be 25% cheaper - you should not be paying much more than 9p per unit most regions.

You should also double check with single fuels from separate suppliers - with that high an electricity consumption you may find them cheaper than a dual fuel tariff.

northernsoul

Im looking into this tarrif. With EON, Primary units on Energy saver(!) R1 are 23.9 and Secondary are 10.5 before dual fuel/Direct debit discounts. Both include VAT. My old less expensive plan with EON came to 13p with discounts and this new plan is more expensive. Looking into comparison sites where they say i can save 25% on dual fuel bills if i go to EDF v6. I will move soon
Edit to say prices above were before latest EON price reductions

spinningsheep

We use an average of 23 units a day costing approx 9p per kwh, 3 of us in house, so id day 147 a week for 4 is good. We do use alot of electricity hungry appliances, plamsa tv on for 6 hours a day roughly, tower PC on 24/7, laptop plugged in 24/7, tumble dryer and washer used for about 6 hours a week, a 10kw electric shower used for about 45 mins to an hour a day in total. My housemates are mostly to blame on leaving things plugged in all the time despite my trying to educate them, but I can't cut the usage back any further, done as much as I can. Think we've found a level!!

macman

spinningsheep wrote: »

We use an average of 23 units a day costing approx 9p per kwh, 3 of us in house, so id day 147 a week for 4 is good. We do use alot of electricity hungry appliances, plamsa tv on for 6 hours a day roughly, tower PC on 24/7, laptop plugged in 24/7, tumble dryer and washer used for about 6 hours a week, a 10kw electric shower used for about 45 mins to an hour a day in total. My housemates are mostly to blame on leaving things plugged in all the time despite my trying to educate them, but I can't cut the usage back any further, done as much as I can. Think we've found a level!!

I spot an inconsistency here...

spinningsheep

macman wrote: »

I spot an inconsistency here...

Thanks Macman, would never have spotted that one! As my post says, my housemates are the culprits with leaving things plugged in when they honestly don't need them! The laptop in question is not mine. I'm not that dense.

macman

spinningsheep wrote: »

Thanks Macman, would never have spotted that one! As my post says, my housemates are the culprits with leaving things plugged in when they honestly don't need them! The laptop in question is not mine. I'm not that dense.

But is the socket yours? In which case, you can switch it off...:D

spinningsheep

Trust me Macman, been there, done that, it's not worth the arguments. All I get is the "it doesn't cost that much, just a few pence" and on balance the extra money is better than the constant battle.