1p an hour heaters?

beingfrugal

diable wrote: »

As it's you FIL you are allowed to take the !!!! out of him and his deluded comments............... but it may mean less sex from your missus in retaliation lol

:rotfl:nope.. no able to take the pee.. he would chuck his toys out of the pram, anyway I respect my elders no matter how deluded they are

I am the misses I do worry DH is turning into his deluded Dad though! :eek:

Thanks for the feedback! I had a sneaky feeling it wouldn't be quite so good. I'll not tell him though, if he's happy with his fuel bills and thinks he's getting something for cheaper who am I to burt his bubble.

diable

Just tell him you pay nothing as your hamster generates all your electricity for you and you even make money by selling it to the national grid....... ;o))

Ebe_Scrooge

As has been said earlier, you get what you pay for - a 4 KW applicance costs more to run than a 2 KW appliance, but will put out twice as much heat ( near as makes no difference ).

To work out what an appliance costs to run is very simple ( this could be anything, a heater, toaster, light bulb, TV set. etc. ) You need to know how much it consumes - a 100W bulb uses 100W, a 2 Kw fire uses 2Kw ( 2000 watts ). Pretty much any appliance will have its rating stamped on it somewhere, or else in the instructions. Just be careful with things like microwaves - you need to know the input, not the output. So a "900W" oven may consume 950w, but it'll tell you in the instruction book.

Anyway, next look at your electricity bill, and see how much you are being charged. It'll be in pence per KWh - kilo-watt-hour. For the sake of argument, if your cost is 50p per KWh, then it costs 50p to run a 1Kw appliance for 1 hour. Or £1 to run it for 2 hours. Or 50p to run 10 100w light bulbs for an hour ( 10 * 100w = 1Kw ). Once you know your appliance's consumption, and your cost per Kwh it's just simple maths to work out the cost.

Just remember that a kilo-watt is 1000 watts, so bear that in mind when looking at light bulbs that are 40 or 60 watts - 60 watts is .06Kw, 100 watts is 0.1 Kw etc.

One other thing to remember is things like an iron or a heater - if they're switched on for an hour, they won't necessarily draw current for an hour, as the thermostat will switch them on and off. So if you calculate the cost for an hour's use, it'll actually cost you slightly less than that, but it's near enough to give you an idea.

Sorry for the long post, and I'm not meaning to sound patronising, but hopefully this may be useful to someone :-)

27col

If you could heat a room for 1p an hour, don't you think that other people might have noticed. I can't imagine that any other form of heating would be used anywhere. People would be queuing at the factory gates for them.