Electricity Help

QrizB

Nikki19912022 said:

They have advised my consumption (which is 11 months to date) has been 7135kwh. They said the average for a 3 bed home is 3000kwh so there is an issue.

That's the average for a dual-fuel home, where heating is by gas, oil or LPG. However back at the start you said:

My property is run my electric only

For an electric-only property, even a flat like yours, 7000kWh/yr is not unusual.

stewie_griffin

Unfortunately the person you spoke to at E.ON Next hasn’t helped the situation as the average they refer is with properties without electrical heating. Until recently I had electrical heating and used around 7-8000 kWh a year in my one bed home. I’d expect you to use a bit less since my home is 50 years old so the insulation isn’t great.

stewie_griffin

When you use the hot water first thing in the morning i.e. after the immersion heater is on is it really hot? Is there a thermostat that you could turn down.

Nikki19912022

Oh ok thank you @QrizB. I dont know any of these things as this is my first time moving out, and was advised it was unusal, but thank you for confirming. I just need to realise that even if I use nothing in my property the minimum kwh I will use a day will be 5.5kwh. 

Nikki19912022

hi  @stewie_griffin thanks for your reply. No they didnt help did they. I thought I was on to something then  I just think it is one of those things. I have nothing more that I can switch off now, so it will have to stay as is. I just didnt realise daily without anything I would be starting at 5.5kwh regardless. I may try and heat it for an hour tomorrow to see if 1) it lasts and 2) its cheaper. Then go to 45 mins and 30. That will bring it down a little too. But other than that, nothing more I can do. Thank you all so much. 

markin

The Immersion would be around the 7 kwh mark, So anything under that in summer is good, Not that you cant get it lower than that by reducing the time. 

When you do use the heaters how many hrs is it for? If its a 2kwh heater you will use a lot for the first hour but then once its warmed up it will be a lot less to keep it up to temp, Just something you will have to monitor.

middlewife

Our biggest consumption of electric is my husbands and sons PCs, electric oven, tumble dryer, electric shower and kettle.
I no longer use the oven and purchased a remoska from lakeland which uses half the electric of the oven. For 3 of us we heat the water for 1 hour in the morning and 45 minutes in the evening, using an ancient gas boiler. Running 2 electric fans also bumped up the cost rapidly. I think you should find you don't need the water on very long at all, as long as your showers are 5 minutes or less. I also boil the kettle once in the morning and fill a good quality flask rather than boiling repeatedly.  Hope the builders and Eon sort it quickly for you.

Mstty

middlewife said:

Our biggest consumption of electric is my husbands and sons PCs, electric oven, tumble dryer, electric shower and kettle.
I no longer use the oven and purchased a remoska from lakeland which uses half the electric of the oven. For 3 of us we heat the water for 1 hour in the morning and 45 minutes in the evening, using an ancient gas boiler. Running 2 electric fans also bumped up the cost rapidly. I think you should find you don't need the water on very long at all, as long as your showers are 5 minutes or less. I also boil the kettle once in the morning and fill a good quality flask rather than boiling repeatedly.  Hope the builders and Eon sort it quickly for you.

DC fans run at about 35w flat out. Normally they are the ones with 1-12(sometimes 15 speeds) are your 2 electric fans  AC

markin

Reading again, if it was only 1 heater for 2hrs every other day it would only be 60kwh a month and only 300 for the 5 months you heated for? And water 7kwh x 335 = 2,345 kwh

Are they actually off, Or are they are smart device maintaining a min level?

Robin9

@Nikki19912022  Following on from @markin above - could you give us make and model of the heaters please .  There are some very sophisticated pieces of kit out there.