I'm not stupid but I've been caught out about rises in energy prices and the government's cap

Mstty

Our Tumbledryer costs us £1.68 a week on average for 5 loads. We have decided it's worth it.

Although we have gone down the brand's on the weekly shop. Less Heinz more shop own brand and so far we have offset all inflation costs.(so far)

Less of a lead foot on the car as well has increased mileage by 10 mpg which has offset the high fuel prices.

michaels

molerat said:

turnitround said:

Im with Utilita and my new rates are 

Electric     1st 2kw @ 55p then 33.5 for the rest.
Gas           1st 2kw 24.49 then the rest at 10.32

But there are no standing charges.

I pay by variable DD and my bill for last month (Aug) was £89.40 but of course we did not really have the heating on apart from one day for a couple of hours. I do a wash 2 or 3 times a week and have a gas hob and electric oven and dishwasher but dont have a tumble dryer. This month I have used the heating twice and at night tend to just put the gas fire on in the lounge rather than the heating as I hate a warm bedroom.

We are retired so home all day and have a 3 bed semi so up to now I'm not overly worried.   I have a smart meter and to date for this month it's showing my usage at £ 71.06 but still 5 days to go plus vat.

Of course there is, it is just hidden in the first 2 units. 55 - 33.5 x 2 = 43p per day, 24.49 - 10.32  x 2 = 28.34p per day.

Assuming this is per day (if it is per billing period then there really is effectively no SC), if you have no use days (perhaps working away and can risk all electric and heating off) then this tariff might be a winner.

Sea_Shell

Mstty said:

Our Tumbledryer costs us £1.68 a week on average for 5 loads. We have decided it's worth it.

Although we have gone down the brand's on the weekly shop. Less Heinz more shop own brand and so far we have offset all inflation costs.(so far)

Less of a lead foot on the car as well has increased mileage by 10 mpg which has offset the high fuel prices.

Exactly.   We'll all spend on our "worth it" stuff and cut back on our "not bothered" stuff.

It's when people don't want to compromise on anything, when they can no longer afford everything, that problems arise (and where heads need wobbling 😉)

diystarter7

Mstty said:

Our Tumbledryer costs us £1.68 a week on average for 5 loads. We have decided it's worth it.

Although we have gone down the brand's on the weekly shop. Less Heinz more shop own brand and so far we have offset all inflation costs.(so far)

Less of a lead foot on the car as well has increased mileage by 10 mpg which has offset the high fuel prices.

Really as cheap as that?

As per my previous posts we do not like to hand anything outside or inside other than the few bits in the integral garage that may shrink in drier. So 99.99% of all washing is dried via tumble drier. Speaking with my wife she said we use the drier on average 4.5 times a week. Three runs of 1 hour and two of 45 mins each. Its a B rated condenser drier. how much electric approx are we using?

Reading some of the info on Google link I thought we were paying about 1-80 per hour and now about 2300240p and hour

A bit more confused but it would be good id the drying for a 7/9kg load was about 170p an hour


NB/Edit -  Are you sure Mistty that it's not "1-68p) per load?

Qyburn

If your dryer plugs into a normal 13A power point, it can't be drawing more than around 3kW, so around £1 per hour at 1st October prices.

macman

Impossible to tell you what it costs without knowing the wattage rating of your tumble drier. But the EST estimates that a typical drier cycle uses 4.5kWh, so 4.5 times your kWh rate. From 1/10, 34p x 4.5=£1.53. If it's due for replacement, a heat pump drier will more than halve that.
Did you check your annual kWh usage?

Miser1964

When WFH, ensure all tax allowances are being claimed for heating, Internet etc..

Also getting a power monitoring plug will record actual consumption of tumble drier etc. 

Spoonie_Turtle

diystarter7 said:

Mstty said:

Our Tumbledryer costs us £1.68 a week on average for 5 loads. We have decided it's worth it.

Although we have gone down the brand's on the weekly shop. Less Heinz more shop own brand and so far we have offset all inflation costs.(so far)

Less of a lead foot on the car as well has increased mileage by 10 mpg which has offset the high fuel prices.

Really as cheap as that?

As per my previous posts we do not like to hand anything outside or inside other than the few bits in the integral garage that may shrink in drier. So 99.99% of all washing is dried via tumble drier. Speaking with my wife she said we use the drier on average 4.5 times a week. Three runs of 1 hour and two of 45 mins each. Its a B rated condenser drier. how much electric approx are we using?

If you can access the plug, put an energy monitor on it and find out.

I don't know how much energy the covered heated dryers use, if it's a lot less maybe that would be a way of not seeing the washing drying and reducing tumble dryer usage.  Cheaper to buy than a new dryer too.
*Just a suggestion though, no judgement if it's not for you. 

diystarter7

Thanks again to all.

Our bills have been a mixture of estimate and me doing them but the figures sort of tally as their estimates are a bit lower than what the meters show.

pochase

@Mstty will have a heat pump tumble drier, while you have a condensing one.

Condenser dryer

The average condenser tumble dryer uses about 5.2 kWh of electricity for a full load of laundry. Over the course of a year, the condenser dryer will use 617 kWh.

This works out at a running cost of £1.04 per cycle, and £123.40 per year.

Heat pump dryer

A heat pump dryer, on the other hand, uses about 2.16 kWh of electricity for a full load. This works out at approximately 259 kWh per year.

This gives an average cost per cycle of 43p, and an annual cost of £51.80.

The above is very vague, but it gives an idea about the difference in cost. Of course it does not take into account all the other variables like load size, what program etc, but as a one to one comparison it shows how much cheaper a heat pump drier is.