My mate reckons keeping is fridge switched off is saving him a lot of money?

superman909

Just how much does a fairly modern fridge cost to run per month?

paulwellerfan

does your mate actually have food in this fridge?

HappyMJ

Look it up on the web. Randomly picking one out of currys online selection I found a nice looking one and it consumes 340kWh per year. That's about £34 per year at 10p per unit or about £3 per month. You can look at your bill to find what your rate is and multiply the 2 together.

YORKSHIRELASS

According to our electricity monitor (which I know arent 100% accurate) we use 2p per hour overnight. We have a large fridge freezer and a separate smaller freezer and these are the only things running overnight.

This should give you a guide and I would say the fridge actually uses a very small amount of electricity compared to other appliances. There must be a cost in food wastage as well if your mate is not switching his fridge on?

Hope this helps.

Fruball

Keeping his fridge off, with food in it, is risky to say the least.

Running a fridge is cheap, taking several months off work with food poisoning isn't :eek:

Slinky_Malinky

I think fridges are one of the cheapest white goods to run, there is more money to be saved by not boiling the kettle too often ( use flask), only washing full loads of laudry, not tumble drying etc. Lots of tips on here for small things you can do that all add up. As much as money saving is a good thing, I would not want to risk a case of food poisoning due to not storing food correctly. Also it could be money wasting if food goes off and has to be thrown away.

Stephen_Leak

I respectfully suggest that this may be a money saving too far. My A+ rated Indesit BAAN134X fridge/freezer will allegedly cost me 284Kw/h a year to run.

PS. Mental note to self to look up how much a Kw/h costs me.

HelenYorkshire

Depends on his fridge - an old model may well bump the bill a bit....

GreyQueen

HelenYorkshire wrote: »

Depends on his fridge - an old model may well bump the bill a bit....

I advise not to automatically assume that. I went shopping for a new fridge a couple of months ago and was astonished to find most A-rated undercounter fridges use more kWh per annum than my 11 year old B-rated model. Think you need to get into A + or even A++ to notice improvements.

Flatscreen TVs are major energy hogs; does the OP's mate run one of those?

JulieGeorgiana

I have a Huge Chest Freezer and a 10 year old Fridge... at night my electricity monitor reads at 0p per hour!!!

When I am on holiday I use so few clicks of electricity it's not worth mentioning.

I really think your friend should leave his fridge on! As someone said above... it's money saving gone too far!

davetrousers

Slinky_Malinky wrote: »

there is more money to be saved by not boiling the kettle too often ( use flask),

Err just boil the right amount each time