£59 per month electricity, tiny flat, help?!

apt

80p per day is not expensive for a storage heater, but no point having the heating on once the weather is warm enough. Gas would probably be more expensive for a small flat as it has higher maintenance costs.

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Hi, I have 2 night storage heaters and im on E7. Mine cost around £10 each per week to run individually. So if I used both (which I cant afford to) that would cost me roughly £80 per month just for there usage alone. I don't heat my water up every day, only when I have a bath. I have a separate shower and when I wash up I boil a kettle have a cuppa and use the left over water (once a day only). I batch cook to save on electricity and when I do this I use a slow cooker overnight (cheap electric). My washing machine only gets used over night too and I charge up my laptop and phone an hour in the morning before my electric switches over to the day rate. I hope this helps. Oh also my bathroom heater gets switched on for between 5 to 10minutes on cheap rate electric in the morning and I have a shower, brekkie, wash up, charge electrical items all before 7.53am which is when my electric switches to the day rate. You just have to be orgainised....My electric is around £42 to £50 per month in a 2bed flat, mainly one storage heater used and only me here.
Edited just to say. In the winter I do try and get up an hour earlier as my electric switches over at 6.53am ish . Summer time 7.53. Not always possible after a late night out..

nick.evans

£59 really isn't high at all

i live in a 2 bedroom flat, on my own, no dependents

A rating efficency, double glazed etc and modern boiler regularly serviced

Gas hob and central heating althought central heating was only put on manually for a total of about 8 hours in the past 10 months

I pay 60pm electricity
i was paying £40 pm gas but BG adjust my last years bill to £1700 approx so monthly payment of £200 combined..

I think £59 pm is pretty good

GolfFoxtrot

Your water heater seems to use hardly anything - to give you an idea most kettles are 3 KWH. My water heater uses 10 KWH overnight.

I live in a modern 2 bed electric only flat and on average use 4 kWH of day electricity (out at work most of the day) and around 25 night units (1 storage heater + water heater).

This was costing us around £18 per week, including a standing charge, so I'd say that your bill is quite reasonable for the winter months especially. As others have suggested you can cut your electricity usage and save money that way. Use a blanket to keep warm rather than the heating, no heaters in the bedroom as it's a waste etc.