How much an hour for electric cooker please?

bundly

My lodger switched the oven on at 200c put a bit of garlic bread in it, and fell asleep for six hours.

I want to tell him off and tell him how much per hour it costs to run that darned oven.

Trouble is, I have no idea how much it costs so I have no words to shout at him when he eventually wakes up!

Can anyone give me a rough ball park figure, or shall I just tell him I'm fining him 50p an hour for the sake of having some figure to shock him with?

Thanks!

NeverInDebt

It would depend on how many watts it uses and how much you pay per kWh

For example if it used 2kWh and you paid 12p it would be 24px6=£1.44 this is just a guess as I dont know how much it uses per kWh and how much you pay

bundly

Thanks. I should have said, I really don't want to get into finding out the wattage, looking up the tariff, etc. I just need a plausible figure to shout at him with when he finally wakes up - lazy tyke still asleep at 10am!

I'm thinking along the lines of shrieking "Do you realise that it's costing me XX an hour for you to have that oven on while you sleep soundly upstairs?????"

Should XX be 20p? 50p? £1?

Which of these amounts is likely to be nearest the mark or sounds most plausible?

Cheers!

grahamc2003

A reasonable guess would go something like

Assume it's a 2.8kw heater, actually heating for 4 hours out of the 6 hours the oven was on, therefore using 11.2kwh, and if you pay say 11p/kwh for your tier two electricity, that works out at about £1.23 +-25%, so between say £1 and £1.50 would be a good guesstimate for the total cost.

The cost per hour would therefore be something like 20-25p per hour.

McKneff

I think you are being really petty for the sake of a quid or so.

You will be far better talking to him reasonably and requesting that he should be a lot more careful in future,
200 degrees is pretty high, the bread must have been burnt to a cinder after six hours. Its the safety aspect I would be more bothered about.

No point in shouting, all it does is show lack of self control, be adult and talk like an adult.

bundly

Thanks for the replies guys.

McNeff - There isn't a safety aspect re the oven. However, next time he might put something on the hob and fall asleep for seven hours while I am away and cause a fire.

I've tried the other approach - having a quiet word, being friendly, reasonable, etc and he continues to do silly, irresponsible things like this.

As it was, I didn't shout, I just gave him two weeks notice to quit. He just shrugged and said, "fair enough".

I think he'd be better off in a hippy-student squat than a beautiful, well-run house like mine :-)