how low is your leccy consumption now, this very week..... asking for a friend

maxmycardagain

GAS  18th May 2022 - 9th Aug.  £74.13 

maxmycardagain

YORKSHIRELASS said:

This always baffles me.  Two of us here in a standard 3 bed semi-detached house.  Everything is electric as we have no mains gas and the oil boiler uses electric for the pump, so a double whammy there.

We only put the washing machine on a couple of times a week, hardly ever use the drier.  Both of us out of the house at work most days during the week, one shower each a day maximum.  We never use the main oven, we use the slow cooker or mini oven instead.  The oil boiler is hardly ever on during summer.

And we still have used an average of a little over 10 units a day in August!  Our average across the year is 12.6 units.  The only consolation is that our usage has gone down 23% since our two sons left home.

Without a smart meter (or clamp type monitor - £30) its a little difficult but the prime suspects are (in order) :-

Cooker/hob/oven
Tumble drier
cold fill washing machine
Dishwasher
Electric shower
Hot tub heater?

some surprising sneaky ones
soup maker 1000w
bread maker 600w
kettle 3000w

NeverendingDMP

maxmycardagain said:

YORKSHIRELASS said:

This always baffles me.  Two of us here in a standard 3 bed semi-detached house.  Everything is electric as we have no mains gas and the oil boiler uses electric for the pump, so a double whammy there.

We only put the washing machine on a couple of times a week, hardly ever use the drier.  Both of us out of the house at work most days during the week, one shower each a day maximum.  We never use the main oven, we use the slow cooker or mini oven instead.  The oil boiler is hardly ever on during summer.

And we still have used an average of a little over 10 units a day in August!  Our average across the year is 12.6 units.  The only consolation is that our usage has gone down 23% since our two sons left home.

Without a smart meter (or clamp type monitor - £30) its a little difficult but the prime suspects are (in order) :-

Cooker/hob/oven
Tumble drier
cold fill washing machine
Dishwasher
Hot tub heater?

soup maker 1000w
bread maker 600w
kettle 3000w

Washing machines in general or cold fill in particular. I ask because I suspect this may be a culprit at our house as we wash a lot.  Had our machine three years, decent rating at the time but not the top end. Can see it breaking in next year or so. We have a hot and cold tap so to speak hence my query.
Ta very much

Robgmun

We were using 18-20khw per day. After making multiple changes we got it down to 8khw per day. We can't cut it down anymore unless we switch off the CCTV, Fridges and the Wifi Router. And my wife isn't keen on doing any of those 3 things

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maxmycardagain said:

some surprising sneaky ones
soup maker 1000w
bread maker 600w
kettle 3000w

Doesn't matter if your kettle is 1000w, 2000w or 3000w, still costs the same to boil a cup of water.

The issue isn't the power consumption of the kettle, it is whether you waste any water when you boil it.

And don't forget that every single watt of energy that goes into that kettle (or any elec device) is kept inside your house and contributes to heating the house anyway, so if your heating is on then it will offset the energy consumption of the heating (if thermostatically controlled)

MuckChucker

Just to add the Friday tally to my previous post, we pawned the kids off on a friend around lunch time so the telly was on much less than it has been so Friday was a nice surprise of 5.5kwh

Readings from my Bright app

maxmycardagain

Deleted_User said:

maxmycardagain said:

some surprising sneaky ones
soup maker 1000w
bread maker 600w
kettle 3000w

Doesn't matter if your kettle is 1000w, 2000w or 3000w, still costs the same to boil a cup of water.

The issue isn't the power consumption of the kettle, it is whether you waste any water when you boil it.

And don't forget that every single watt of energy that goes into that kettle (or any elec device) is kept inside your house and contributes to heating the house anyway, so if your heating is on then it will offset the energy consumption of the heating (if thermostatically controlled)

our old kettle was a flip lid, if it got left up, the kettle would switch of when it boiled, which got me thinking....

is the amount of empty space above the water a factor in the time they switch off?

i boil-tested 2 3kw kettles with 2 cups of water in each,  the new "fast boil" was 10 seconds faster...

jazzuz im drag racing kettles now

maxmycardagain

MuckChucker said:

Just to add the Friday tally to my previous post, we pawned the kids off on a friend around lunch time so the telly was on much less than it has been so Friday was a nice surprise of 5.5kwh

Readings from my Bright app

looks like theres another formulae to check...

Child Benefit vs Electric consumption

maxmycardagain

Robgmun said:

We were using 18-20khw per day. After making multiple changes we got it down to 8khw per day. We can't cut it down anymore unless we switch off the CCTV, Fridges and the Wifi Router. And my wife isn't keen on doing any of those 3 things

Those 3 cant be heavy users surely?

The FF is on a thermostat so is on/off at will, the wifi isnt needed when your asleep (unless your CCTV needs it?)

our fridge/freezer and wifi are left on (wifi off from now on) whats the kw rating on the CCTV cos im looking at a system to fit now

maxmycardagain

NeverendingDMP said:

maxmycardagain said:

YORKSHIRELASS said:

This always baffles me.  Two of us here in a standard 3 bed semi-detached house.  Everything is electric as we have no mains gas and the oil boiler uses electric for the pump, so a double whammy there.

We only put the washing machine on a couple of times a week, hardly ever use the drier.  Both of us out of the house at work most days during the week, one shower each a day maximum.  We never use the main oven, we use the slow cooker or mini oven instead.  The oil boiler is hardly ever on during summer.

And we still have used an average of a little over 10 units a day in August!  Our average across the year is 12.6 units.  The only consolation is that our usage has gone down 23% since our two sons left home.

Without a smart meter (or clamp type monitor - £30) its a little difficult but the prime suspects are (in order) :-

Cooker/hob/oven
Tumble drier
cold fill washing machine
Dishwasher
Hot tub heater?

soup maker 1000w
bread maker 600w
kettle 3000w

Washing machines in general or cold fill in particular. I ask because I suspect this may be a culprit at our house as we wash a lot.  Had our machine three years, decent rating at the time but not the top end. Can see it breaking in next year or so. We have a hot and cold tap so to speak hence my query.
Ta very much

well a 100% cold fill will HEAT up the water, ecen a hot fill supply isnt hot straight from starting if you have a combi boiler, we wash on a low temperature , the cost of replacing a cold fill is too high to justify till ours dies