Surprised at my gas usage

cifpower

Checking my last two Scottish Power bills and helpfully it shows a bar graph to compare the same periods now and a year ago. My daily gas usage has fallen from 71kwh to 36 kwh for October and 67kwh to 41kwh so far this month. Electricity has been fairly static - just a touch lower.

The power of loft insulation!

Yolina

October and November this year have also been much warmer so far than last year

cifpower

Well there's that too! But the house does feel like its keeping its heat with no need for top up bursts

Pincher

This is the first year I can test drive the fully finished house.
New boiler, new insulation.

I am all set up for a really harsh winter.
I have two Calorgas bottles for a portable heater on stanbdby, even though it is virtually impossible for the internally run condensate pipe to freeze.

I want -10 degrees for Christmas.
Close the airports, I'm staying put to see how the house performs.

redboy1

Yolina wrote: »

October and November this year have also been much warmer so far than last year

He is right, this time last year it was snowing and around -5, this year is above average temps so far.
That's the reason you have not used as much this year, insulation doesn't perform that good, I'd say it takes years to get back what you pay for insulating your house.

cifpower

Looked back at the weather charts for first half of November last year. Surprisingly mild. Cold didn't come til the last week.

Andy_WSM

Pincher wrote: »

Close the airports, I'm staying put to see how the house performs.

You can only close them AFTER I have left for Florida on Xmas Eve. Then keep them closed indefinitely

My consumption is also less this year than last, it's not so much the daytime temps making the difference, but the long run of double digit nights. We haven't seen a frost here yet, but by this time last year we had seen dozens of frosts.