Help with my bill

MARKMAKAVELI

Firstly, thankyou all for taking the time to reply.

Fairzo - my bedroom isn't very warm by the evening time but it's better than compared to no heating at all, where it's very cold.

So I couldn't go less input based on that I don't think.

As for the living room, I'll try reducing it and see, but all the guides say that you usually need full input in the cold winters. Plus my heaters are old, so not very efficient.

Am I right in saying you're using more than me at night then, even with newer, better heaters?

MWT - My daytime use in October was 176kWh when i was just turning it on as and when, which is about 5kWh per day over the 36 days. So even if I doubled that to 10kWh per day, i'd still be better off that doing the overnight storage. Is that right? 

QrizB

MARKMAKAVELI said:

So I got my answer. A whopping £140 for 25 days, using only the overnight heating everynight. I somehow thought this might work out cheaper but I was very wrong. I only have 2 heaters, a larger one in the living room and a small one in the bedroom.

895kWh night for 25 nights is roughly 36kWh/night. That's about the same amount of heat as we're using in a 3-bed semi, although our thermostat is relatively low at 18C.

You say you have two storage heaters, Can you tell us the make and model of each?

MWT

Robin9 said:

MWT said:

Robin9 said:

@MARKMAKAVELI     Is there a year  date on your meter or on  card next  to it?
It is looking like the night has gone around the clock.

Could you photo the meter please - once with the day display, secondly with the night

If you look back at the earlier posts you'll see that happened back in July, all was handled properly at the time.

I appreciate the copies of the bills -  1) I am trying to find out how old the meter is and hence an average annual consumption 2) indication of the night day L N 1 or 2  - perhaps they are interchanged.

74,000 day and over 100,000 suggests a very old meter

I did wonder, but the high night reading coincided with the use of the NSH so probably correct. Good to check the switching times as well of course, but nothing here seems out of step with two NSH charging for most of the 7 hours at night rate.

Fairzo

MARKMAKAVELI said:

Firstly, thankyou all for taking the time to reply.

Fairzo - my bedroom isn't very warm by the evening time but it's better than compared to no heating at all, where it's very cold.

So I couldn't go less input based on that I don't think.

As for the living room, I'll try reducing it and see, but all the guides say that you usually need full input in the cold winters. Plus my heaters are old, so not very efficient.

Am I right in saying you're using more than me at night then, even with newer, better heaters?

Using a little more I would say but with 2 x Duoheat 500 and a maximum size Quantum.

The reason I suggested reducing the input is that on the Duoheats there is adequate heat retained for the day and evening with a middling input setting. As @QrizB has said, might be helpful to know make and model of heaters.

MARKMAKAVELI

Thanks guys it seems there were additional replies made as I was replying myself!

Gerry - I will do this thanks. Although as I have kept tabs on my usage, it all does seem in line, for example when I had it turned off for 2 months etc.

The storage heaters are Dimplex CXL24N 3.4kW  (living room) and Dimplex XLS12N 1.7kW (bedroom).

QrizB

MARKMAKAVELI said:

The storage heaters are Dimplex CXL24N 3.4kW  (living room) and Dimplex XLS12N 1.7kW (bedroom).

Those two heaters, together, will draw 5.1kW when charging. For 7 hours on max that's 35.7kWh, which is consistent with your E7 electricity use.

Robin9

Add in your immersion heater and whatever else is on at night - fridge, freezer .

MARKMAKAVELI

Is it simple enough that if I halved the overnight input my bill would half?

Robin9

I would turn the bedroom heater down - do you not find the bedroom very warm ?

MARKMAKAVELI

Robin9 said:

I would turn the bedroom heater down - do you not find the bedroom very warm ?

If I don't have heating on at all it's freezing. Having it on full input makes it bearable for getting to sleep but not ideal, still a little nippy. It also gets really hot early hours of the morning/middle of the night but I find that it's better that than to be cold.