Gas used in summer

jannowretired

I know most people will be using their heating just now but how much gas do use use in the summer for cooking and hot water when using a combi boiler?

I use 18 kWh of gas a day when my heating is off with my present HWC.

2 people in the house.

carefullycautious

We live in a 1 bed bungalow with a combi boiler. This boiler is left on all the time and I use the thermostat to turn it on and off. In the summer months my dual fuel bills average 42 - 44 pounds per month. My last monthly bill was 88 dual fuel.


I used 17 cubic metres 189 kWh of Gas in June last year. It does vary by a few pounds each month

carefullycautious

July to August I used 19 cubic meters 212 kWh


I always take meter readings monthly

daveyjp

July to September 509 kWh, 3 in the house.

tim9966

From April to October I used between 2 and 4 m3 a month.


1 person, just hot water to taps as I have an electric shower, and electric cooking.

zeupater

jannowretired wrote: »

I know most people will be using their heating just now but how much gas do use use in the summer for cooking and hot water when using a combi boiler?

I use 18 kWh of gas a day when my heating is off with my present HWC.

2 people in the house.

Hi

That's really quite high for summer usage .... two people should average something around 90litres of 60C DHW/day which is around 4kWh of heated water demand - so allowing for (say) 70% boiler efficiency that's somewhere around 6kWh/day of gas consumption ...

I guess that a power shower or large shower rose is the likely cause ... either that or wallowing under the shower for much longer than average, or abnormally long pipe runs ...

Are you looking to reduce your current level of usage ??

HTH
Z

Cardew

Don't forget many older boilers have a pilot light on 24/7 and these can be 'mini flamethrowers'.


There have been several threads discussing just how much gas they use; often several kWh a day.

zeupater

Cardew wrote: »

Don't forget many older boilers have a pilot light on 24/7 and these can be 'mini flamethrowers'.


There have been several threads discussing just how much gas they use; often several kWh a day.

Hi Cardew

Tell me about it .... our old floor standing GCH boiler used to burn somewhere around 6kWh of gas/day else it'd keep blowing out in the slightest breeze, the inefficiency this caused was one of the main reasons we finally changed it ....

I did think about a pilot light being a major factor, but considering it's a combi-boiler I thought that it would probably be more modern (but could be wrong! ... ) ....

HTH
Z

Consumerist

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Cardew

zeupater wrote: »

Hi Cardew

Tell me about it .... our old floor standing GCH boiler used to burn somewhere around 6kWh of gas/day else it'd keep blowing out in the slightest breeze, the inefficiency this caused was one of the main reasons we finally changed it ....

I did think about a pilot light being a major factor, but considering it's a combi-boiler I thought that it would probably be more modern (but could be wrong! ... ) ....

HTH
Z

I have a combi with a pilot light in an annex; and an older floor standing boiler with pilot light.


I wonder when pilot lights were phased out in favour of auto ignition?

matelodave

I installed a combi (Vaillant) about 17 years ago in our previous house and it was microprocessor controlled with electronic ignition so some have been doing it for quite a long time