Daily Gas Usage?

Green_Eye

Interested to see what people are spending daily for heating. I'm anxious over my bills, and as a family of four my gas has sky rocketed. I only have my heating on from 5pm to 7pm, and I shower every other day (kids and wife daily). I don't see my use as excessive but it's over £5 a day which is far far more than I ever spent previously.

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Green_Eye said:

Interested to see what people are spending daily for heating. I'm anxious over my bills, and as a family of four my gas has sky rocketed. I only have my heating on from 5pm to 7pm, and I shower every other day (kids and wife daily). I don't see my use as excessive but it's over £5 a day which is far far more than I ever spent previously.

Is that not perhaps because the price has tripled?

MikeJXE

I don't think thats bad, I'm a family of one and mine is at least half that, Does that include standing charge ? Be better idea if you quoted kWh rather than cost. 

matelodave

We are used £15.71 yesterday for our leccy and it would have been significantly more if it hadn't been for the energy grant. As Mike above says, consumption in kwh is much more meaningful and comparable as it doesn't take into account the vagaries of pricing.

This time last year I would only have spent less than £5 for the same amount of leccy and I would have though that it was expensive then.

Green_Eye

I'm aware that obviously the price is 3 times more or so, just wanted to see what other families usage was.i have friends who are telling me it costs like £3-4 a day to hear their house, mine is over £1 for under an hour's usage, so I just wanted to see what I was doing so wrong.

I have a big 1930s house with no cavity insulation and a tall rooms, so I can have it on for 2-3 hours and it won't reach much higher than 17 degrees if I'm lucky

Magnitio

Green_Eye said:

I'm aware that obviously the price is 3 times more or so, just wanted to see what other families usage was.i have friends who are telling me it costs like £3-4 a day to hear their house, mine is over £1 for under an hour's usage, so I just wanted to see what I was doing so wrong.

I have a big 1930s house with no cavity insulation and a tall rooms, so I can have it on for 2-3 hours and it won't reach much higher than 17 degrees if I'm lucky

Unfortunately you have a very inefficient house. I've seen comments from people with similar houses spending £10-15 per day in the current cold weather. A similar sized modern, well insulated house is likely to cost less than £5 per day. The colder it is, the more noticeable the difference.

superstylin

We've got a 3 bed semi built in the 90's, the gas usage for 1-30th Nov was 906.6kwh, with the standing charge and minus VAT it works out at £3.20 a day. Gas used for central heating and hot water. 2 adults and a toddler, 1 shower and 2 shallow baths a day. I'm off work recovering from an operation so the heating is on more than it would be during the day, but the thermostat doesn't go above 19 degrees. 

Alnat1

The boiler will always use the most energy in the first hour or so as it will be working on full power to get the house up to heat. Once the thermostat temperature has been reached it will cycle on and off, using less power, to maintain the set temperature.

Having the heating on for a few hours more won't cost double, maybe £1-£2 more.

matelodave

Its a bit like comparing the fuel consumption of a Fiat 500 with a Toyota Land cruiser . You just cannot equate the cost of heating with a fairly modern reasonably well insulated property with a 1930's house. Even less so if you dont know what sort of heating system, boiler or controls you are comparing.

A 20 year old boiler with a pilot light with an efficiency of say 60% just cant compare or compete with a modern condensing boiler which could have an efficiency of better than 90% with modern controls and TRV's.

You also have to bear in mind that the first couple of hours the boiler is flogging its heart out to get the house up to temperature so just checking what it uses in an hour won't be representative of its overall running cost especially if you've let the place get cold and it has to keep going for several hours to recover.

macman

The £66/67 rebate means that the £5 per day spend actually comes down to less than £3.

Aylesbury_Duck

Green_Eye said:

I'm aware that obviously the price is 3 times more or so, just wanted to see what other families usage was.i have friends who are telling me it costs like £3-4 a day to hear their house, mine is over £1 for under an hour's usage, so I just wanted to see what I was doing so wrong.

I have a big 1930s house with no cavity insulation and a tall rooms, so I can have it on for 2-3 hours and it won't reach much higher than 17 degrees if I'm lucky

You've answered your own question.

Unless all those friends live in similar properties to yours?