Help with my bill

Gerry1

MARKMAKAVELI said:

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

Not quite, there's still the day use and the standing charge, but every little helps.

QrizB

MARKMAKAVELI said:

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

More or less, yes. I don't know how accurate the controls on those heaters are but that's the general idea.

You can turn your input down, read the "night" meter in the evening and the following morning, then work out the overnight use. Almost all of it will be due to the storage heaters (there will be a handful of kWh for the immersion heater, and maybe 1kWh for everything else).

Your living room heater has a built-in 2kW thermostatically-controlled convector heater which you can use at daytime rates if you run out of stored heat but you probably don't want to do that too often!

Edit 1: Gerry1 is correct, of course; the standing charge won't change and you'll only be reducing your night use like this, not your day use. But your night use is 80% of your bill.

Edit 2: And on the bright side, you'll only have another 2-3 months like this before the weather warms up and you're back to £40 bills.

[Deleted User]

MARKMAKAVELI said:

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

Hi,

do you have output turned down to minimum, especially when going to bed?

MARKMAKAVELI

[Deleted User] said:

MARKMAKAVELI said:

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

Hi,

do you have output turned down to minimum, especially when going to bed?

Yes I have output on both heaters set to minimum all the time. Living room is perfect but bedroom can be a little cold end of the day but increasing the output doesn't help as it's ran out of heat by that point.

BikingBud

If you only need to take the chill off the bedroom before you go to bed is it worth considering an oil filled radiator? You may get enough from that to make it bearable.

MARKMAKAVELI

BikingBud said:

If you only need to take the chill off the bedroom before you go to bed is it worth considering an oil filled radiator? You may get enough from that to make it bearable.

Yeah think I might to that way to be honest.im going to try the half input thing first and then the smaller rad in bedroom 👍

Robin9

Hot water bottle?

Petriix

Robin9 said:

Hot water bottle?

Friction? 

chris1973

Turn the Bedroom Heater off altogether, and buy an Electric Blanket. You are paying a fortune to 'charge' the heater up every night for what?. 3 minutes a day whilst you hop in and out of Bed?.

The Electric Blanket will pre-warm up the bed, and then keep you warm during the night. Plus you can adjust the temperature to suit.

Running a 100w Electric Blanket will cost less than 1 unit of Cheap rate Electricity a night based on running 8 hours - a Fraction of the price of running a storage heater.

Perhaps run the Bedroom Heater once every 7 - 10 days, just to prevent damp issues.

Electricity is going to increase again next year. Better to start changing your 'heating' habits now, before the shock kicks in.

Ideally also use every bit of free time next Summer to find a Flat with GCH!.

markin

Look at you EPC for your heat demand. But if your average for 8 months is around £40 would 2 month at 80 and 2 at 140 break your bank? Around 720, But using the estimated numbers on the bill 1500 day 1000 night is around £500

Its at this point you wish you were on a 2 year Fix and when you find out it will be double in April start crying.