High electric cost in 1 bed flat

sniggings

jack_pott wrote: »

The OP is using 10165kWh pa, which is in the TOP quartile, and over half as much again as the median. You can argue until you're black in the face, but the fact remains that for whatever reason his consumption is HIGH!!!!

Factors like dehumidifiers etc etc may explain where his electricity is all going, but they don't prove that his consumption isn't high. Gas leaks don't explain anything in an all electric flat.

The OP says his flat is "very small", and wants to know if 10165kWh pa is "normal". Er, no it isn't. If we take the mode as normal, then that will be lower than the median , which itself is only 6600kWh pa, and even that figure is for all homes not just small ones.

As for your own figures, they're as clear as mud:

"not sure what heating etc I can run on £10 a week? as said before, take off the standing changes, gas pilot light cost (around £2 a week, you are not left with anything for heating, £6 for gas and £8 for electric a week."

Where's the £6 gas going if it's not heat? My water's half that. My two pilot lights each cost about 58p/week. £8 after S/C will buy you around 3500kWh pa, which must be nearly three times what it takes to run the few appliances you have listed. Is the £10 your target for the whole bill or just heating?

If I can run a bigger house with more appliances on the same amount as you're spending you must be going wrong somewhere, so I don't know what makes you think you're in a position to offer energy saving advice to others on the forum.

you say you don't understand my figures but then go on to say you run a larger home on the same! which is it, you don't understand my figures or you do?

Once again I will run through my figures, £10 on gas and £10 on electric is all I can afford atm, not even that if I'm honest.

Gas, is nearly £2 for standing charge and my boiler must be older than yours as it uses at least £2 a week, I have checked it as I have a PPM.

so from the £10, take off the SC and pilot light charges, leaves £6 left for the hob and any hot water I need, no matter which way you slice it, £6 will not heat a flat for a week, even without cooking and hot water is taken into account.

£10 for electric, SC just under £2, leaves £8, the oven is electric, washer, TV etc etc which means my £8 will buy me around 8 units a day, again no matter which way you slice it,8 units is not going to heat a flat. even if I were not to use my electric for anything else, 8 units is about as low as you can get imo without sitting in the dark.

As for the OP, their question was is this high for a one bed flat, not is this high usage, to answer yes is impossible to do, if they had asked is such and such usage high, then yes you could say yes, as an average it's high, but to answer yes it's high for a one bedroom flat, that implies you know the OPs uasge, my point is simple, lets know the OPs usage and then we can tell them if for his usage in a one bed flat if it's considered high.

I get what you are saying, as an average it's high, but that really doesn't help the OP, I'm coming at it from usage point of view, I see we are not going to agree on this, all good we don't have too.

I just think some people put too much emphasis on the number of bedrooms and not what they use, as the post above says, they live in a bigger place and still have low usage.