What's your daily smart meter spend since the price rises?

GingerTim

Electricity
Worked at home on Monday: 4.2kwh / £1.13
Worked in the office on Tuesday: 2.7kwh / £0.83

Chrysalis

rcoo80 said:

Thanks for all your answers - an average of £7.00 daily spend by 7pm each evening does seem steep then considering there are only two of us! We have the thermostat at 19 degrees and the heating timed to come on 4 times a day which I don't think is too excessive. I don't know whether to contact British Gas to have them check the accuracy of our smart meter - we can literally see it ticking up when we boil a kettle! Costs us about 5p! 

The figure I provided was for no heating, I very rarely use it as my home has horrific levels of draft so pointless for me to use energy on heat that just escapes.

I would say 19C is set a bit high and 4 times a day is a lot as well.  You need to breakdown your usage into units, to figure out where its been spent, I expect a fair chunk might be on your heating though.

Chrysalis

rcoo80 said:

[Deleted User] said:

There is only one way that a supplier can check a meter - smart or not. They would need to fit a check meter which most suppliers are reluctant to do AND if they do agree, you will have to pay them if your meter is found to be accurate. I ask again because it is important, how much gas and electricity does the £7 represent in term of kWh?

Forget about the IHD and the cost that it is showing. A simple way of checking an electricity meter is via a load test. A cold HW cylinder is ideal as most immersion heaters are 3kW. Check the actual meter reading, and turn the immersion heater on for 30 minutes. The meter reading should increase by 1.5kWh. Gas is more tricky to check.

 The attached image is what kw our smart meter is showing today. This was at 4pm with a total cost of £3.84. 

24 KwH of gas? Thats a lot of usage.

rcoo80

markin said:

4 times a day seems over the top if your at work all day, And are the rooms you don't use turned down?

Yes, radiators are turned right down in some rooms and thermostat set to 19 degrees. We have a elderly house cat so we have the timed to come on for about an hour in the day when we’re at work - don’t want the cat getting cold!

rcoo80

Chrysalis said:

rcoo80 said:

[Deleted User] said:

There is only one way that a supplier can check a meter - smart or not. They would need to fit a check meter which most suppliers are reluctant to do AND if they do agree, you will have to pay them if your meter is found to be accurate. I ask again because it is important, how much gas and electricity does the £7 represent in term of kWh?

Forget about the IHD and the cost that it is showing. A simple way of checking an electricity meter is via a load test. A cold HW cylinder is ideal as most immersion heaters are 3kW. Check the actual meter reading, and turn the immersion heater on for 30 minutes. The meter reading should increase by 1.5kWh. Gas is more tricky to check.

 The attached image is what kw our smart meter is showing today. This was at 4pm with a total cost of £3.84. 

24 KwH of gas? Thats a lot of usage.

That was just 2 x hot showers and about 3 hours of heating. 

MovingForwards

rcoo80 said:

markin said:

4 times a day seems over the top if your at work all day, And are the rooms you don't use turned down?

Yes, radiators are turned right down in some rooms and thermostat set to 19 degrees. We have a elderly house cat so we have the timed to come on for about an hour in the day when we’re at work - don’t want the cat getting cold!

Put a blanket, towel, old duvet or old pillow on the sofa, if it's a short / long haired cat they don't need the heating on while you're out; assuming it's not a fur less cat.

Zandoni

I'd say stop looking at your meters so much, read them once a week at the same time.

[Deleted User]

I checked my energy graph on edf website and the graph was up and down last month like a yoyo, I dont understand why as last months my usage has been much the same over the past 2 years on a fixed rate. On checking Aprils I can see the usage has gone down as Ive cut down on usage. The graph isnt up to date, on 1st April night was £3-03 (night storage and immersion) day 96p. On the 6th April night was £2-22 ( night storage down a notch and immersion only on for 1 hour on econ7) day 91p.

Will be interesting to see when April 8th is on the graph as thats when I did a wash and used the dryer, being on my own I do a wash and dry weekly.

Spies

Yesterday was somewhat expensive! £4.33 of gas used 

wild666

Friday's was 2.647 kWh of electric and 1 kWh of gas, estimated, a daily total of £1.55. This compare with  £1.09 before the increase, I won't get Saturday's until later today of maybe tomorrow as my IHD went FUBAR in  Dec. 2015.