How much gas do you use a day?

George_Bray

victor2 wrote: »

What do you live in, a heavily insulated shed?!:D

Sorry, I made a mistake with the summer usage. The 21p per day for all gas is correct but it's 6kwH per day (now corrected). The 0.18 figure was the meter reading before conversion to kwH.

No, it's a house. These gas usage figures still come to about £175 for the year, and the supplier is now suggesting £200 as a likely figure for the next year. It still seems quite a lot to me, so I arrange my energy so I don't spend more than I want to. This includes going against some of the guidance often given here, which I don't always agree with, like keeping the heating on all day because "it's cheaper to hold it at a constant temperature, rather than let the house or water tank cool, before heating up again." IMHO, that's nonsense and I think my low usage figures prove it.

victor2

Couldn't agree with you more about the idea of keeping the heating on low all day, but my summer daily cost is just below £1, with just gas used for hot water and cooking. I don't have a combi boiler, just a good old tank of water to heat up, but we do have an electric shower. Still my winter usage soars by comparison. Sunday the heating was on most of the day and it was cold, but it still cost me £4.30 in gas, and I think I'm on quite a reasonable rate!

victor2

energysavingexp wrote: »

you will save a lot of money with a new energy saving boiler
from £450 (b&Q)
just get a good local plumber to fit it:j

One problem is my existing boiler is not condensing, so it would be expensive to install a new one. Would be nice to get rid of the hot water tank, but popular opinion is that modern boilers won't last anything like as long as old ones. The current one was bought in the late 80's and is still going strong. The little man who services it every year always says "They don't make 'em like that any more."
I'm a great believer in if it ain't broke, don't fix it.:)

retepetsir

George_Bray wrote: »

Sorry, I made a mistake with the summer usage. The 21p per day for all gas is correct but it's 6kwH per day (now corrected). The 0.18 figure was the meter reading before conversion to kwH.

No, it's a house. These gas usage figures still come to about £175 for the year, and the supplier is now suggesting £200 as a likely figure for the next year. It still seems quite a lot to me, so I arrange my energy so I don't spend more than I want to. This includes going against some of the guidance often given here, which I don't always agree with, like keeping the heating on all day because "it's cheaper to hold it at a constant temperature, rather than let the house or water tank cool, before heating up again." IMHO, that's nonsense and I think my low usage figures prove it.

Lucky for some then. £175 a year?! Mad, don't know how you manage that! I don't mind the cold so much but the other half prefers to be comfortable which is fair enough. Our costs for the year are probably double that for a 2-bedroom 70's flat.

George_Bray

energysavingexp wrote: »

you will save a lot of money with a new energy saving boiler from £450 (b&Q) just get a good local plumber to fit it:j

I'm not sure that would be such a good, money-saving idea. The £450 is likely to be just the 'down payment'. These 'new energy saving boilers' are packed with electronics, almost guaranteed to be a nice little earner for the manufacturers when they sell replacement circuit boards, valves and other spares for hundreds of pounds each, plus the cost of a qualified plumber to fit them. Such repair costs (highly likely), from 3 or 4 years out, are likely to dwarf the relatively small energy savings.

SailorSam

Because repair costs can add-up quickly with central heating repairs i think insurance is well worth the money.

[Deleted User]

we don`t have gas but we do have a wood pellet stove ( very expensive and already in our new house) which heats the whole house and the hot water. During this freeze it is on from 6am to 11pm, unless the sun shines when I can turn it off as we have solar panels and the sun heats the house. The rads are about 6 inches high. If full on, like today then I estimate the cost for the whole 17 hours is about £2

This is down to being very highly insulated including triple glazing

janninew

I've just worked my useage out and since my last bill (30th Oct) I have used 602kwh, which I work out will cost me around 23.00. This seems quite reasonable to me, I'm 120.00 in credit with EDF and hope this will see me through. Will be keeping an eye on my meter at weekly intervals though!

aelitaman

victor2 wrote: »

One problem is my existing boiler is not condensing, so it would be expensive to install a new one. Would be nice to get rid of the hot water tank, but popular opinion is that modern boilers won't last anything like as long as old ones. The current one was bought in the late 80's and is still going strong. The little man who services it every year always says "They don't make 'em like that any more."
I'm a great believer in if it ain't broke, don't fix it.:)

It is not a big job really. My parents replaced a 20 year old ineffcient boiler with a new condensing one over the summer. Cost was a grand fitted, including boiler, they used existing pipe work and tank, just put a new flue in and a hole in wall for condensate pipe. Took 1 day total work. Chatting to my father now his gas usage has halved because of the increase in effciency.

So with your bills if you halved them it would pay you back in less than 2 years.