Concerned over electricity usage

Norman_Castle

CloughiesBrewerArmy wrote: »

re-heated water for 45 minutes so I can wash up.

I boil the kettle to wash up. 100% of the heated water is used with none left in the pipework.

CloughiesBrewerArmy

DELLBOY wrote: »

turn the thermostat down on the imersion maybe ,
fit an electric shower just to heat the water going into the bath maybe .

Is that easy to do? I know when it was serviced in April the engineer turned it down because it was set to too hot.

Norman_Castle wrote: »

I boil the kettle to wash up. 100% of the heated water is used with none left in the pipework.

I'd need a few kettles? Still cheaper I guess as kettle is 3kw but a few minutes to boil a few kettles.

CloughiesBrewerArmy

So, for a week I had 1 bath a day on non gym days, 2 on gym days. The rest of the time, the immersion heater was off and I boiled kettles to wash up.

I've gone from £3+ per day to an average of £1.71 per day (£11.97 for the week) so i'm saving £10ish minimum per week - that's over £40 a month.....and I don't feel any dirtier.

I like this new routine.

MikeWhite

CloughiesBrewerArmy wrote: »

So, for a week I had 1 bath a day on non gym days, 2 on gym days. The rest of the time, the immersion heater was off and I boiled kettles to wash up.

I've gone from £3+ per day to an average of £1.71 per day (£11.97 for the week) so i'm saving £10ish minimum per week - that's over £40 a month.....and I don't feel any dirtier.

I like this new routine.

Good on you. You're saving carbon emissions, too.

lisag1_2

Apologies as I've probably put this in the wrong place but have a similar issue with gas usage. Left Scottish Power at the beginning of this year (having been a customer for about twelve years) because I could not believe we were using the amount of gas they were billing us for...previous few years had been between 46317kWh and 64,000kWh. We live in a pre1920s semi with two bedrooms upstairs and one downstairs and two public rooms and only have gas central heating which we switch off mostly end of May to beginning of September. Anyway, with new supplier now and usage is at 26000kWh for the first nine months of the year so I think it will be less than we usually use but I still cannot understand why it is so high. We had the gas boiler serviced today and when I was mentioning usage to the chap he said he doubted that our boiler had the capacity to use/provide the kWh usage that we have been billed for. The boiler is a Vokera Mynute 28e - 35e...any advice appreciated.

matelodave

Easy isn't it - with just a few changes you are suddenly around £480 a year better off - that's equivalent to £600+ of your salary before tax and NI.

See what else you could work on.

matelodave

lisag1 wrote: »

Apologies as I've probably put this in the wrong place but have a similar issue with gas usage. Left Scottish Power at the beginning of this year (having been a customer for about twelve years) because I could not believe we were using the amount of gas they were billing us for...previous few years had been between 46317kWh and 64,000kWh. We live in a pre1920s semi with two bedrooms upstairs and one downstairs and two public rooms and only have gas central heating which we switch off mostly end of May to beginning of September. Anyway, with new supplier now and usage is at 26000kWh for the first nine months of the year so I think it will be less than we usually use but I still cannot understand why it is so high. We had the gas boiler serviced today and when I was mentioning usage to the chap he said he doubted that our boiler had the capacity to use/provide the kWh usage that we have been billed for. The boiler is a Vokera Mynute 28e - 35e...any advice appreciated.

Have you been reading your meter and checking your bills and getting them correeted. You should only be paying for the energy that you use and that's what gets recorded by the meter.

Unless you have had the meter changed or your previous supplier was recording your consumption incorrectly you should be using about the same. I'd be very inclined to examine your bills very carefully and establish whether your gas consumption has been calculated using metric or imperial units. You should then check that your meter is the same.

Hopefully you've got bills from your previous supplier as well as from your current one to make sure that they are all correct.

molerat

lisag1 wrote: »

Apologies as I've probably put this in the wrong place but have a similar issue with gas usage. Left Scottish Power at the beginning of this year (having been a customer for about twelve years) because I could not believe we were using the amount of gas they were billing us for...previous few years had been between 46317kWh and 64,000kWh. We live in a pre1920s semi with two bedrooms upstairs and one downstairs and two public rooms and only have gas central heating which we switch off mostly end of May to beginning of September. Anyway, with new supplier now and usage is at 26000kWh for the first nine months of the year so I think it will be less than we usually use but I still cannot understand why it is so high. We had the gas boiler serviced today and when I was mentioning usage to the chap he said he doubted that our boiler had the capacity to use/provide the kWh usage that we have been billed for. The boiler is a Vokera Mynute 28e - 35e...any advice appreciated.

Did you actually check the bills and readings and that they were using the appropriate correction factor ?

26000 for the warmest 9 months of the year is not a good sign, the coldest 3 could easily use the same amount.

rtho782

Back when we lived in rented with only an immersion heater, I just gave up with it and turned it off permanently. We then used the electric shower, kettle for washing up, etc.

They are just too expensive to operate.

We have a gas combi boiler now so don't worry about it. Gas is way cheaper anyway but it also only heats as much as you need.

trickytree1963

lisag1 wrote: »

Apologies as I've probably put this in the wrong place but have a similar issue with gas usage. Left Scottish Power at the beginning of this year (having been a customer for about twelve years) because I could not believe we were using the amount of gas they were billing us for...previous few years had been between 46317kWh and 64,000kWh. We live in a pre1920s semi with two bedrooms upstairs and one downstairs and two public rooms and only have gas central heating which we switch off mostly end of May to beginning of September. Anyway, with new supplier now and usage is at 26000kWh for the first nine months of the year so I think it will be less than we usually use but I still cannot understand why it is so high. We had the gas boiler serviced today and when I was mentioning usage to the chap he said he doubted that our boiler had the capacity to use/provide the kWh usage that we have been billed for. The boiler is a Vokera Mynute 28e - 35e...any advice appreciated.

The average Gas usage according to OFGEM is 12500 kWh per year. Seems there's something odd going on if you're using 64000!

As previous poster suggested is your bill based on meter reads? Is your meter recording use in m3 or feet3? Is that being reflected on bills? There have been cases where the wrong units are calculated .