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How to keep tabs on Elec & Gas usage?

cleggie
cleggie Posts: 2,169 Forumite
I am trying to keep tabs on how much gas & electricity i use on a weeky basis.
Can anyone gives me any clues as to how i could do this effectively?
i dont even know where to start!

i have pre-payment meters for both, if that helps.

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  • HappyMJ
    HappyMJ Posts: 21,115 Forumite
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    Read your meter weekly and enter the results here http://ebico.imeasure.org.uk
    :footie:
    :p Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) :p Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. :p
  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,638 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi cleggie,

    I've moved your thread over to the Gas and Electricity board where you should get more replies.

    Pink
  • cleggie
    cleggie Posts: 2,169 Forumite
    Hi pink.
    Thanks for moving it, i thought i shoud have put it here in the 1st place!
  • cleggie
    cleggie Posts: 2,169 Forumite
    Thanks HappyMJ, i will have a look at it now.
  • Terrylw1
    Terrylw1 Posts: 7,038 Forumite
    Start taking readings that are meaningful to your usage e.g. daily, seperate weekdays from weekends, weather changes where more heat and light are used. The latter are for a longer period but it good to work out daily averages that show how you weekday vs weekend can look. You can then take grand averages over the other averages and widen it all out over several weeks. Many people do this in a spreadsheet to understand it all.
    :rotfl: It's better to live 1 year as a tiger than a lifetime as a worm...but then, whoever heard of a wormskin rug!!!:rotfl:
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