Electric cost - guestimate help please.

Jamcee

I appreciate that this is a piece of string question. But just some rough guestimates would be real healpful at the moment.

I live in a two bedroom 2nd floor flat. The flat below me is occupied and I have neighbours either side of me. There is an insulated rood space above me. If it helps, the insulation is at ceiling level and is approx 250mm thick glassfibre.

There is no gas supply, only electric and it is Economy 7. The second bedroom is hardly used and the heater in there is not switch on at the mains. The heater in the main bedroom is on for 2.5 hours in the morning and 2.5 hours at night. The heater in the living room is rarely on. The heater in the hall is on, but hardly puts out any heat. All windows are double glazed, but there are no curtains or blinds in the living room.

The water supply is electrically heated. 1 x 10min shower per day.

Fridge / freezer on constantly. TV switched off at wall, but occaisionally left on standbye. PC switched off at wall, but router left on.

How much (per week or month or quarter) do you think I should be paying for electric.

Like I say, it's a piece of string question. Just a rough guess would be good. Based on some kind of logic....

Oh, and I live alone and work full time. So i'm out from 6:30am til 6:30pm.

Thanks in advance.

JasX

you can ignore anything except the heating as its small fry by comparison. All electric heating with no gas is much more expensive compared to having gas.

Get ther hall heater turned off, that likely very expensive and sounds like its doing nothing.

Budget £100pm average over the year (more in winter), if you are lucky you might be able to get a little under that perhaps £80 - £60 if you start being very stringent with heating -do you really need it on in the morning before you leave? if you need it can you get away with 30 mins rather than 2.5 hrs?

does your water heating 'pre heat' the water or only heat when needed (former is also wasteful and expensive)

you can get an estimate of your useage by taking a meter reading ever 24hrs over a few days, you can measure how effective your energy saving is doing that too.

Also do you actually use more energy off peak than on peak? if not you could be paying a premium for E7 you don;t use.

Doing the right thing with all the above will get you down to £60-80pm if you're lucky, going the other way will push you above £100pm (my boss moved into a poorly setup electrically heated flat and burnt thru £1500 inside the first 6 months)

JasX

EDIT: just seen your previous post, the above is based on being on a normal credit meter on a competative tariff, on a pre-pay meter expect to pay thru the nose (methinks £52 to switch to a normal one is a very good investment, but shop around and you might get it switched for free)

Jamcee

JasX wrote: »

EDIT: just seen your previous post, the above is based on being on a normal credit meter on a competative tariff, on a pre-pay meter expect to pay thru the nose (methinks £52 to switch to a normal one is a very good investment, but shop around and you might get it switched for free)

Yeah, thought as much. Just trying to work out what I should be paying, as I know I'm being stung at the moment. I'll be calling SE to get the meter changed asap. Thanks JasX.