Money Moral Dilemma: Should I ask guests to keep their energy use down?

al223

Surely any increase is more likely to be due to more lights being on, maybe the TV being on more, more showers, more cups of tea, more cooking, maybe more laundry, rather than a few chargers?

gaving7095

As others have said, I feel that it depends how long they're staying for, also what the "devices" are. Portable stuff up to about the size of a laptop isn't going to use much.
But... Why do they need to be using so many devices? Even a family of 3 having a phone, tablet & laptop EACH still doesn't get to 10 :rotfl:

Credz4

I'm going against the general consensus here. Your visitors should fully recharge any items required before leaving their own home. Unnecessarily leaving items charging all night is a big waste of energy, never mind the bill think on the bigger environmental impact if we all did the same thing.


I once had a visitor stay for 2 weeks in that time they chose to make use of my broadband and completed hours of work via the net, downloaded every film and music dvd they required for the year. Negligible you might think, except my broadband provider then charged me for the extra usage, I argued with them which resulted in a stand off for a week where I couldn't work from home due to a lack of broadband until the issue was sorted. Did I ever mention this to the visitor? No. Has visitor stayed over since? No!


If visitor was staying in even a half decent hotel they would pay upwards of 75.00 a night for the privilege of plugging in 10 devices and likely a surcharge for wifi.


By all means boil the kettle a second time so everyone can have a second cup of coffee but I too am a householder with bills to consider (eg...the heating is on more when you have visitors, where on my own I would just wear a big jumper) visitors should treat your home and you with respect and not take advantage of the free electricity/wifi etc...


So yes, say something, even if it is to ask exactly why they require so many gadgets.

crmism

You have a simple solution to this - don't invite your friends to stay overnight.:)

OnanTheBarbarian

This thread is a wind up, right?

Pound

It costs about £0.005 to charge an ipad so you're looking at about 5p for 10 devices.

Moon_Keh

Cardew wrote: »

In the real world it would be much less: and who pays 15p/kWh for electricity?

Scottish Energy Online Fixed Price Energy June 2018 v2 is over 16p/kWh according to Which's comparison, and there were plenty below it in the list. So I'd say a quite staggering amount of people. Which is shocking!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Take the fuse out and then kick them out!

Swipe

I hope MSE didn't publish the name of the person who asked the question. Talk about public humiliation. MSE is promoting this thread on twitter now.

Voyager2002

There is a serious issue, obscured by the stupidity of the question...

Overnight guests do use utilities and increase household bills, although recharging mobile devices does not have a measurable impact on these. A considerate guest would, for example, ask whether the internet is on an unlimited data contract before downloading entertainment, and would perhaps contribute to the increases in the water bill that they may have caused. The cost of this kind of contribution would still be very much less than that of a hotel room.

The convention used to be that the overnight guest would take her/his hosts out for a restaurant meal as a kind of repayment for their extra expenses, but sometimes this is not how people choose to spend their time.