Standby power consumption

MouldyOldDough

Ally_E. said:

MouldyOldDough said:

Sea_Shell said:

Having just returned from a few days away, so everything possible* turned off in the house, for 3 full 24 hour periods, we still used 1.37kwh of electricity a day (but no gas**), the cost of which (including both standing charges) was £1.17 per day.

House was 12c on our return.   4 nights / 3 days unheated.

So that's an annual cost of £427, or £35 a month, without even being here!!!!  (we're on Eon V12, not the cap)

*only Sky Box, Fridge/freezer plus hard wired items (alarm etc) left on, using an average draw of 57 watts.

** Good job, otherwise we've got a leak!!!

We have not used CH for a month now and the house has not dropped  below 17 degrees at all! 

Lucky, I use central heating every day and the temperature drops to 15 degrees most nights. Joys of living in solid brick walled house. 

Even in the summer ?

Your temperature drops below 15 degrees ??

I live in a brick cavity walled house - we have 10 inches of loft insulation and double glazing - we don't have cavity insulation.

This morning - the temperature in the living room is 19 degrees C and outside is 11 degrees - we have not had the heating running for some weeks !

Mstty

I suspect house positioning has some bearing on solar gain.

We have sun coming in windows all day as we have a house with windows on all sides so that definitely helps in early Spring and late Autumn.

Some will maybe be mostly in the shade in the morning and that can have a detrimental effect to the morning temperature inside.

MouldyOldDough

We do have a small (8 feet by 10 feet) conservatory that acts as a heat source - it is attached to the kitchen., on the east side of the house - so it gets early morning sun - we open the kitchen door into the conservatory in the morning and bask in the heat that flows INTO the house - It keeps our heating costs low !

Mstty

MouldyOldDough said:

We do have a small (8 feet by 10 feet) conservatory that acts as a heat source - it is attached to the kitchen., on the east side of the house - so it gets early morning sun - we open the kitchen door into the conservatory in the morning and bask in the heat that flows INTO the house - It keeps our heating costs low !

That will definitely help. Just goes to show internal temp will be affected by a number of factors