electricity bill

azad

How much is electricity bill for 2 bedrooms flat with electric boiler 12kw in winter? Our bill is very high . The engineer came couple of times and could not find anything and meter is 3 years old and we had this problem before. The boiler is on program and not on all the time . How we can investigate this?

matelodave

Sorry to give you bad news, but with an electric boiler you bill will be high, very high - they are the most expensive way possible to heat your home. Unless you can change it for something else then your only option is to move house.

There is no way anyone can give you an estimate of the costs because all homes are different and people use them differently but an electric flow boiler could cost 4-6 times that of a house heated by mains gas. What tariiff are you on, how much per kwh, how much is the standing cahrge and do you have a peak/off peak supply

All you can do is keep a log of your consumption, get yourself on the cheapest possible credit tariff (not E7) and send in meter readings every month and keep saving up to move home as soon as you can.

Cardew

By electric boiler do you mean a boiler that supplies hot water to radiators?

It is impossible for us to know how much your electricity costs as there are many factors that will determine the size of your bill.

Do you have an Economy 7 tariff?

On daytime rates when the heater is 'on' the 12kW boiler alone could be costing about £1.80 an hour(3p a minute). However  'on' means when the heater is operating, not just switched on - quite a lot of the time the thermostat will have turned the heater off. On top of the boiler cost is all your other consumption, lights ovens, fridges TVs etc.

Heating by daytime electricity is the most expensive method in UK

Ectophile

A 12kW electric boiler is going to be frighteningly expensive to run.  Maybe £2 per hour, depending on your tarriff.

Almost anything else would be cheaper, even buying individual electric heaters for each room, and only heating the rooms you are occupying at any time.

welshmoneylover

Your usage and price will depend upon many factors; and you cannot compare your usage to others. For a start you have to consider your lifestyle, the property and how many people live there; whether you are all working out if the home FT or PT or working from home etc.
are you looking to have cheaper bills? 

Leave nothing on standby;
check your meter daily and monitor your usage, 
anything that produces heat and hot water will cause the highest usage.
check you are on the cheapest tariff;
get a smart meter to monitor what you spend,
getting an engineer is sometimes folly especially if this has happened before.
remember an all electric property is more expensive to run compared to others with different heat sources such as gas CH.
if you are renting, consider moving to a property with gas and electric if possible.
electricity is expensive so goodness know how this government thinks everyone can afford an air or ground source heat pump & charge all the electric vehicles they want us to buy! 

Talldave

What's your tariff? That'll determine how much your massively high consumption is going to cost you.

An electric boiler will probably be as cost effective as burning £5 notes to keep warm.  Move home asap.

Robin9

The best you can do is a) restrict the hours of use , b) get on the cheapest tariff you find , c)  put on another jumper - then move.  You can do a), b) and c) today - moving takes a little longer.

Hasbeen

azad said:

How much is electricity bill for 2 bedrooms flat with electric boiler 12kw in winter? Our bill is very high . The engineer came couple of times and could not find anything and meter is 3 years old and we had this problem before. The boiler is on program and not on all the time . How we can investigate this?

Is this the same 2 bedroom flat that you bought in 2015 and rented out initially? Where you did not know if you had a gas or electric boiler?

Is it still a Slim Jim?  Slimjim Electric Flow Boiler | Electric Heating Company (electric-heatingcompany.co.uk)

Would not think the answers then to your previous 2 threads have changed?

Sell and move somewhere to a cheaper running heating system.

Or rent back out to an other tenant LOL

Cardew

Just a further point on your boiler. If a boiler uses xxxxkWh, then it actually uses xxxxkWh to heat water, i.e there is no fault condition, (e.g. faulty wiring as you suggested in an earlier thread) that can make the boiler produce less than xxxxkWh of water heating

A clever guy called Albert Einstein proved many years ago that you cannot destroy energy.

So if you are using a lot of electricity, that electricity is all being used to heat water, and you need to find out where that heat is going.

Emilyandhadley

I have had problems with EDF for a long time. I switched to isupply and two months down the line they went bust - isupply claimed I owed £670 in bills (Im a single mum living in a 2 bed flat) EDF took on all responsibility of getting the money and haven’t stopped pestering me for nearly a year now. I took it to the ombudsman and they said that they took on the responsibilities correctly and everything looked correct in their eyes - I just don’t know what to do?! I can’t afford this, along with EDF over a year ago claiming I owed £800 which I’m still paying off.. and I would also have to pay my current supplier. So paying for 3x elec bills at once???!! Help please! 

Gerry1

Emilyandhadley  Welcome to the forum.

Untangling all the answers can get very messy if additional people post questions specific to them in an existing thread.

Better to delete your post and start your own new thread.