Winter heating electric or gas

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Henryy wrote: »

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use per year do not know take a few months living in this house

In a house with so many people and rooms, using gas to heat is the way to go. Where there is a choice, use gas over electric.

It terms of getting your costs down, you need to find out what tariff you are on and compare it. Look on your bills.

If you do not have annual KWH readings for both gas and electric, use the national average (may be slighlty higher as you have so many people in one house). Maybe use 4000kwh for electric and 16000kwh for gas as yearly estimated readings. Use these figures in a comparison against your current tariff and see how yours compare.

What you can also do is compare what you are using now on a daily basis. That will give you a rough idea of what you may use over the long term. Start reading your electric and gas meter at the same time each day (before you go to bed).

Your electric meter will be in KWH, your gas meter will be in units (either m3 or ft3) it will say on the meter itself. You need to convert gas units to KWH. If it is an m3 gas meter, multiply the daily usage by 11.2 to get a gas reading in KWH.

Start taking note of these for a week or longer, this will reveal what you are using at this time of year.

Ensuring you are on a good tariff before winter really hits can save a lot.