P87 - how to calculate home energy costs

cc321

Hello

I work from home full time - 8-5 m-f ocassionally I am asked to travel to client sites. I have a desk, dual monitors, laptop, printer, shelving unit I installed specifically for the role. I have an open plan kitchen/diner and the diner bit is my 'office' . My husband is basically banned from the kitchen until 5pm when I finish

My kitchen/diner is basically the whole of my ground floor of lets say 3 equal floors.

Now my biggest concern is the energy costs because surely, it is costing more than the 18 GBP per month to heat the room in the winter - its super cold on the ground floor - like a cave and I am from a warmer climate! The problem is that I've worked from home since we moved here so I have no energy bills to say, compare and to prove the costs are much higher with me being homw all day. Also in the fall/winter months the lights were on more of the day because of the short days. These are all things I consider that would not be if I worked outside the home. It's not like I can control the heating and lighting so much I have to basically heat this whole room.

SO the way I see it, its only my husband and myself. we would be home say from 5pm - 10pm and then alseep from 10pm - 6am and then getting ready for work say 6a-8a . 2 of us being home do not use any more heat (which is the main cost in the winter) especially because the higher floors are always warm we never run the heat in the pm

SO is it fair to say...since we are not awake during most of the time we are home and not working that I feel it is fair to divide the energy into 2 my 8-5 day 5 days a week and my the rest of the day, if you exclude the weekends - so am i right in thinking that my house expenses should be about 35%??



if so, can I say that I want to claim 35% of my energy bills?

OK let me just say that I am a math failure so feel free to poke holes in my ideas and my maths!! I would really appreciate assistance from anyone who has done this.

Caz3121

Are you an employee or self-employed?

cc321

employee - i get a regular taxed paycheck from my company

cc321

they provide all of the main supplies like computers, monitors and reimburse me for internet and any phone calls and any other expense like travel, etc

but they do not have a local office here, hence I work from my house.

I should add,that other than the energy costs, I don't really have a lot of expenses that they dont reimburse from just the odd office supply stuff I think it will be straight forward once I get a percentage right on the energy

Caz3121

Some HMRC examples here
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/bimmanual/bim47825.htm