How many units of Electricity are you using a day?

talulahbeige_2

anywhere between 6 - 8 units a day.
3 bed bugalow inhabited by 2 adults and a cat.
washing machine - 3/4 times a week
dishwasher - 5 times a week
large fridge / freezer and another small freezer in the garage.
computer on most evenings, as is the tv.
Always have a digital radio on at weekends
Ironing - 4 hrs (minimum) a week
We dont have a microwave and the cooker and hob are electric and we cook most evening meals.
Our living room is very dark so we usually have to have the light on whenever we are in there.

pencekeeper

I'm very frugal.

About 4.5 - 5 KWh per day. I have a 4 bed detached house, but I live by myself, and try to keep to usage down (my network laptop turns itself off at 23:00 every day for example).

I have an electric cooker, dishwasher and shower, but I don't have a tumble dryer. I also know where most of the power is used, and have both a power consumption monitor for the house, and an accurate plug monitor so I know how much specific appliances use.

I have a spreadsheet of how much things use, and have a good idea what my annual bill is comprised of. I am sad by the way.

furndire

Bloomin heck I wouldn't want your leccy bill Andy. :eek:

You should meet my SiL, Pencekeeper. When she got a water meter in, she used to keep a bucket int the shower to catch the water to water the garden. Stopped that now, as she has got rid of most of the garden.

Thanks for that Moonrakerz - I had a feeling it could be one of the culprits. Its on maybe 8 hrs a day, but its got a hard drive in to record, so has to stay on standby if we want to use it to record on.

Talulahbeige - you seem to be getting a good deal for your usage.

Cozworth806

220 units a day even on a cheap ish tarrif would be £15 per day or £462pm!!!! Yikes!

furndire

220 units a day could run an awful lot of halogen lights!!!!!

Dreamnine

furndire wrote: »

220 units a day could run an awful lot of halogen lights!!!!!

You could run a methamphetamine lab...

Big_Tone_2

I hope not an inappropriate post, still a freshman here, but I had a wasteful experience recently which is sort of on topic I think...

I moved into my current abode 18 months ago and about 9 months ago someone knocked on my door.

Now e-on are the big cheese in my area and I was happy with them TBH but when someone called at my door with an offer, I was taken in by a very nice young man from n-power. (No fool like an old fool).

The bate and main selling point, apart from a £200 reduction of my bill if I stayed with them for two years, was how the electric per unit went down from 8 pence per unit to just over 2 pence per unit!

It was all there in black and white and I read it thoroughly.

What I didn’t know or question at the time, because I’d only been in my home for less than a year, is that the rate only goes down to that level after some 2000+ units and as a single man I found out later that I used about 500 in a year!

I’ve since gone back to e-on, not because there’s much to choose between them but on a point of principle! (When will they learn that if you sting someone, you leave and get no recommendation from the punters you've conned? Rhetorical).

I know he would have known because I told him my situation, but doubtless he got his commission; nuff said.

Caveat emptor, and never ever by from the door! A rule I broke, to my shame...

angels01

Been in my property (2 bed) nearly 9 months and only just recieved my electricity bill, which gave me a near miss heart attack when I read I owed them 424.53 and that is on top of my monthly direct debits i was paying. So don't know my usage till I recieved my bill but looking at the readings im using approx 11 units per day now.

I am married but live on my own I would say 80% of the time as husband works away from home. The appliances that are in use are;

42" Plasma TV - used in evenings as soon as I come in from work and on all day every weekend
2 Sky HD Boxes, which goes into standby mode when not used
Computer x 1 when I am here and the two are on when husband is home
Microwave - was constantly on till I recieved the bill!!
Washing machine/tumble dryer - between 2 - 5 times per week
Alarm clock - constantly on
Fridge Freezer (american type) - constantly on
cooker - constantly plugged in and on ready for use as the plug is consealed behind the kitchen units.
2 plug in air freshers - constantly on

Did use electric heaters to heat utility room and keep kitchen at a luke warm temperature during winter months and also my heating packed in for 5 days at end of Jan so they were used constantly then.

I can only assume that my hefty bill has orginated from these two heaters that were on more or less most of each day from November - March. Learnt my lesson the hard way there unfortunately.

Big_Tone_2

angels01 wrote: »

I can only assume that my hefty bill has orginated from these two heaters that were on more or less most of each day from November - March. Learnt my lesson the hard way there unfortunately.

Almost certainly angels01; just about the most inefficient and expensive means of heating a room. Depending on the type you have and what setting you use, it could easily be 3KW. (so times that by 2 in your case for however long = not good).

If you really need to go the electric route an oil-filled convection heater is better, but not as instant of course. So maybe used in conjunction with a timer to pre-empt your arrival.

You can buy these plug-in monitors to detect how much energy an appliance is using quite cheaply these days, from Wilkinsons and such like, which I would recommend. Plasma TVs consume more than LCD and with the advent of LED screens the technology is getting better and more efficient. You might be in for a bit of a shock to see just how much your TV consumes like I was recently.

When the digital tuner failed on my old Samsung 32" from about five years ago I replaced it with another of the same make and size. Not only was the new one thinner and much lighter but it consumes 95WATTS compared to the old one's 240WATTS!

Food for thought I hope...

KimYeovil

Big_Tone wrote: »

Almost certainly angels01; just about the most inefficient and expensive means of heating a room. Depending on the type you have and what setting you use, it could easily be 3KW. (so times that by 2 in your case for however long = not good).

If you really need to go the electric route an oil-filled convection heater is better, but not as instant of course.

There is no difference between one electric heater and another. What magical properties do you imagine oil-filled heaters have? There is no difference in efficiency. Do you mean a switched off cooling radiator is comforting? - in which case it would be a lot cheaper to just use a hot water bottle.