Is your heating ON or OFF?

larmy16

We just happened on some mens dressing gowns reduced to £4 each in Primark. They are nice cosy fluffy checked ones. I got one in small and my son a medium. We keep them downstairs hanging on the living room door. They have made it much cosier and easier to have the heating down a bit. I can also get on with my chores wearing it.

My sister bought me a slanket but they are only ok if you can stay lounging on the settee. Prefer my £4 dressing gown.

ceridwen

I_luv_cats wrote: »

Central Heating on 3 - 9 hours a day (few hours at a time) to get Living Room from 57f (12c) up to 64f (17.7) Cost £1 for 3 hours!!!!

Is that gas central heating? (wondering if it might be electric or off-peak electric......). I would be glad of some sort of ballpark figure of what its costing to "whack it on" - as I've just been thinking "blow it - I cant stand being cold" recently...

I've got a rough estimate in my mind of an extra £10 per week for greater central heating use (evenings and weekends only) and wondering how accurate or otherwise that is...

According to your figures - i think £1 for 3 hours of extra central heating per day might not be too far out...

I_luv_cats

It is Gas Central Heating.

Always used to cubic feet/therm BUT now they seem to measure in gas kwh.

As on Ebico/SSE pre-payment trying to eek out whats on the meter and doing it in 3 hour or mutiples of 3 hour stints.

I_luv_cats

Big freeze could add £60 to energy bills


Guy Anker
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11 January 2010

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Households could see winter fuel bills rocket by £60 if the cold snap continues into February, it is claimed.
It costs £3 a day on average to heat a home, but this could rise by £1 a day during the big freeze, says price comparison site uSwitch.com.
If the cold snap, which began in mid-December for many, lasts a fortnight it will add £14 on to household winter fuel bills. But if it lasts two months, it could cost households an extra £60.
Reports the price of energy could rise due to increased demand are misleading, says uSwitch, because much of suppliers' energy is bought in advance.
The Met Office expects heavy snowfall across the South West on Tuesday as milder conditions from the Atlantic battle against the cold air currently over the UK.

jackieb

I_luv_cats wrote: »

Big freeze could add £60 to energy bills


Guy Anker
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11 January 2010

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Households could see winter fuel bills rocket by £60 if the cold snap continues into February, it is claimed.
It costs £3 a day on average to heat a home, but this could rise by £1 a day during the big freeze, says price comparison site uSwitch.com.
If the cold snap, which began in mid-December for many, lasts a fortnight it will add £14 on to household winter fuel bills. But if it lasts two months, it could cost households an extra £60.
Reports the price of energy could rise due to increased demand are misleading, says uSwitch, because much of suppliers' energy is bought in advance.
The Met Office expects heavy snowfall across the South West on Tuesday as milder conditions from the Atlantic battle against the cold air currently over the UK.

I'm using a portable gas fire as well as my central heating. That costs about £1 day to run as the canister costs about £25 and lasts just over 3 weeks with daily use.

Hubby spends a fiver a day on ciggies. :mad: I'd much rather spend some extra on being warm.

azureblue_2

Trying to keep the central heating on only when neccessary but we've found sitting in the living room in the evening we do need to put the gas fire on (CH goes off at 8pm). I suppose e.on will put our monthly direct debit up to some horrific amount as a result.
Eeeeek.

gemma1984

urgh I HATE gas/electricity companies charging so much for what is a basic human need.

ixwood

gemma1984 wrote: »

urgh I HATE gas/electricity companies charging so much for what is a basic human need.

Whilst I'd love lower prices like everyone else, I don't think gas or electricity are particularly expensive.

I'd guesstimate that the average bills are around £50 pm for each. So that's say £1200 per year for both. One person earning the minimum wage would earn about 12k gross and I guess would get at least the same in tax credits as they'd pay in tax, so would have at least 12k.

So all energy costs for heating, hot water, refrigeration, cooking, entertainment, lighting etc etc would cost 1/10 of 1 minimum wage. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Quasar

It's a lot milder today and I have the heating on very low tonight. It was off all today as I was out.

BitterAndTwisted

I cracked and put the heating on for a couple of hours on Saturday night so it wasn't too Baltic to get ready to go out. Since then it's been off again and the thermostat is showing a constant 11 degrees centigrade day and night. It's a tiny bit chilly but I've got layers and layers on so it's tolerable, really. I just can't afford the quarterly bills for full-on heating which both arrive within about a week of each other in the middle of next month. I'm managing a lot better than I thought I would.