Eon Next am I paying way too much?

GingerTim

The tv standby is small fry compared to the tumble dryer - concentrate on that and reducing usage.

Brewer21

We ditched our tumble drier years ago, they are expensive to use. Don't know on your circumstances for drying clothes washing, my OH swears by hanging them outside, so if you can much cheaper to do.

We too were moved from Igloo to Eon.Next last year, we are on there variable tariff (Next flex) rather than pick a fixed 1 year/ 2 year fix.

Can't really compare we are retired (no children living with us) 3 bed semi-detached our usage is way below yours but I guess one child shouldn't make that much difference unless of course unmonitored is using an enormous amount of energy somewhere.

Same here really we haven't had our heating on since March, electric shower (only used in summer) gas for heating the house and water. Nothing really left on standby only run a fridge/freezer and internet on 24/7. 
The higher usage appliances we find are washing machines, irons and of course tumble dryers. We ditched our electric kettle 2 months ago, use a gas hob one now. That was mainly because we are fed up of them breaking, it doesn't cost more (would you believe) to boil a kettle on the gas hob.
I also have no idea how much dish washers consume, never had one but it seems everyone loves theirs and most folk I know have one.

My neighbours all seem to consume more gas/electric than us, they have the appliances mentioned above we haven't plus they seem to have lights on inside the house during the daytime and exterior lights on all the time during the dark hours, the latter yes wired to the mains. Ours outside lights are solar so charge by day, stay on all night.

So a few things to check what uses what and now's a good time to keep a log of your usage (weekly) been doing it for years and we know exactly when those bill come in I can more or less predict what the cost will be. BTW we don't have any smart meters to tell us what we are using.

Gerry1

You shouldn't be using an electric shower when you have gas - just compare the costs per kWh !

Would you choose fill up with petrol at £6.80 per litre if there was another station opposite charging £1.70?

Scrap the electric shower.  If you have a hot tank, use that (if necessary installing a power shower to increase the flow rate).

MWT

jmb1 said:

My suspicion is the tumble dryer which the missus likes to use for fun, and, it has a stupid ant-crumple setting that spins the drum every 15 minutes when its finished. Do tv's use a lot on standby? I also work from home so pc's are on almost constantly.

The PC's are likely to be using the most, the shower can be a high consumption item but as long as people are keeping the showers short it shouldn't be too bad, it would take a while to recover the costs of replacing it with a 'power shower.

The tumble dryer is often cited as a big consumer of electricity, and it does depend on how often it is use and what type it is, but as an example our old vented dryer is in frequent use, but averages at 1kw a day over the course of a month. So not nothing, but also not exactly a huge problem either...

Benny2020

That is £8.50p a month though.

jmb1

Benny2020 said:

That is £8.50p a month though.

Sorry, what is?

Benny2020

Above post. 1kwh per day for a month is £8.50p a month.

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jmb1 said:

Benny2020 said:

That is £8.50p a month though.

Sorry, what is?

The approximate cost of using a tumble dryer using 31kWh over a month

Gerry1

MWT said:

jmb1 said:

My suspicion is the tumble dryer which the missus likes to use for fun, and, it has a stupid ant-crumple setting that spins the drum every 15 minutes when its finished. Do tv's use a lot on standby? I also work from home so pc's are on almost constantly.

The PC's are likely to be using the most, the shower can be a high consumption item but as long as people are keeping the showers short it shouldn't be too bad, it would take a while to recover the costs of replacing it with a 'power shower.

If each person takes a 10-minute 9kW electric shower once per day, that's £460 annually at the price cap of 28p/kWh !

jmb1

Gerry1 said:

MWT said:

jmb1 said:

My suspicion is the tumble dryer which the missus likes to use for fun, and, it has a stupid ant-crumple setting that spins the drum every 15 minutes when its finished. Do tv's use a lot on standby? I also work from home so pc's are on almost constantly.

The PC's are likely to be using the most, the shower can be a high consumption item but as long as people are keeping the showers short it shouldn't be too bad, it would take a while to recover the costs of replacing it with a 'power shower.

If each person takes a 10-minute 9kW electric shower once per day, that's £460 annually at the price cap of 28p/kWh !

Wow. Not that we do, but wow that's an eye opener. I shall be doling out flannels imminently.