£20+ electric in 4 days.....really?!

annie_d

..my daughter's new rented flat has cost......£60 electric in 7 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and yes, they have been sensible.

mrs-stressed

annie_d wrote: »

..my daughter's new rented flat has cost......£60 electric in 7 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and yes, they have been sensible.

OMG thats ridiculous!! I think an investigation here needs to be done. Landlord needs to be contacted to see if this is the norm for her flat!!

Good luck

HappyMJ

mrs-stressed wrote: »

OMG thats ridiculous!! I think an investigation here needs to be done. Landlord needs to be contacted to see if this is the norm for her flat!!

Good luck

Why is that ridiculous? I work it out at £8.60 per day. Assuming it's a PPM then the rate of electric will average out at about 16p/kwh including standing charges so they are using about 53kw per day. If they were home the whole Xmas/New Year period and had the heating on for 16 hours per day then they would only be using 3.33kw per hour. As an electric heater usually uses 2kw per hour then they are probably using 2 of them to keep 2 rooms warm so to me it sounds about right. I use half that but I only keep 1 room warm at a time using electric heating my lounge has a gas fire. Hope it gets warmer soon.

moomoominx

well i find that crazy £60.00 for a week! definately need to have that checked out - i have a 3 bedroom house - 2 kiddies - the usual tv in everyroom laptops etc etc - and i pay d/d of £67.00 a month - giving regular acurate meter readings - i am carefull as regards energy bulbs - turning all tvs etc of at the mains over night -(does help - belive me!) - but if your using electric heater s etc then they eat money like its going out of fashion ?-

HappyMJ

moomoominx wrote: »

well i find that crazy £60.00 for a week! definately need to have that checked out - i have a 3 bedroom house - 2 kiddies - the usual tv in everyroom laptops etc etc - and i pay d/d of £67.00 a month - giving regular acurate meter readings - i am carefull as regards energy bulbs - turning all tvs etc of at the mains over night -(does help - belive me!) - but if your using electric heater s etc then they eat money like its going out of fashion ?-

It isn't crazy though you are paying £67 per month that's £804 per year. That's very low BTW. Well done... 60% of gas and electric bills are for heating and hot water so that's £482.40. Assuming you heat the house for 6 months of the year then that is £18.55 per week then you need to triple it for an electric only flat on PPM rates to £55.66 per week. Then the difference of £4.34 per week (£18.80 per month) is the normal electric usage for appliances and so forth. They also would use the heating less as it's a lot more expensive than gas central heating. They are only using £60 per week as it's very cold. It will go down.

Dontknowanymore

victor2 wrote: »

An "A" rated fridge is pretty energy efficient, so shouldn't cost much to run. I think the ratings go up to A++ now, but yours should be good. Bear in mind that a fridge compressor cuts in and out as required, so at times the fridge may be using a noticeable amount of power, but then almost nothing as the compressor switches off.
How do you get hot water? An immersion heater is an electric heating element in a hot water tank. They can use quite a lot of power, but are controlled by a thermostat, so only drawing electricity when the water requires heating.

I just have hot water, there were 2 switches in the airing cupboard, I switched them on in June and have never switched them off.

Dontknowanymore

Well I am doing hourly readings, I? put the blow heater for one of the hours, will post results later, I dont really know what i'm loooking for?????

victor2

You could do with finding out what the switches in your airing cupboard do. One will almost certainly be for the hot water, not sure about the other.
You're looking for the number of kWh, or units used, between the two readings. That will give you an indication of how much your electricity consumption is on a daily basis with whatever you had running during the time between the readings.

savemoney

Up to Dec 27th (32 days) we used on average 16.3kWh per day £52.35 = £1.63 per day.

Its mainly for 3 tv's, 4 computers, washing machine, dishwasher, lighting, two freezers no heating though and no immersion heater and xbox360, seems quite high £20 for 4 days

Actually my usage has gone up in recent months too which is usually as I monitor my usage for years I wonder if xbox360 is making a big contribution give daughter plays it for many hours

Heating a immersion heater will make a big difference and its best to heat water with gas along with heating when you can

HappyMJ

Dontknowanymore wrote: »

Well I am doing hourly readings, I? put the blow heater for one of the hours, will post results later, I dont really know what i'm loooking for?????

Sounds like you could do with an energy monitor. Ring your supplier and see if they can give you one for free or you could think about spending a small sum on one. An electric heater will use between 0.8kw and 3kw of power. It will only use what is necessary to keep the room warm. Most well insulated rooms will lose about 1kw of heat each hour when the outside temperature is zero and you want the inside to be 21. This depends on how big your room is and how your house is built you could lose more or less. Currently my heating is on and the energy monitor says 2.1kw @ 29p/hour (i've set it to 14p/kw as that is my average rate....yes i get it cheaper with the £100 annual discount but every extra hour of heating will cost that). Then on the other hand if I press the daily button I've only used 11kw since 7am this morning so about 1.5kw per hour.