Daily Gas Usage?

CasualMFW

4 bed detached, trying to keep the heating off as much as possible. We've averaged 33kw per day on gas so far this week.

Waldorf_Statler

5 bedroom detached, 1950s with recent extension / renovation. New bit has underfloor and cavity wall insulation, loft is insulated, new doors and windows, new boiler.

Not much more I can do to improve efficiency.

Heating is set to 18 degrees for 5 hours, 15 degrees for 9 hours during the day and 13 degrees for 10 hours overnight. Hot water heats a tank for 1 hour a day.

Week ending 11th Dec £120 on dual fuel (£30 electricity,  £90 gas). £23 alone yesterday. Probably looking at £160 or so this week coming.

What an awful situation.

folacks

Waldorf_Statler said:

5 bedroom detached, 1950s with recent extension / renovation. New bit has underfloor and cavity wall insulation, loft is insulated, new doors and windows, new boiler.

Not much more I can do to improve efficiency.

Heating is set to 18 degrees for 5 hours, 15 degrees for 9 hours during the day and 13 degrees for 10 hours overnight. Hot water heats a tank for 1 hour a day.

Week ending 11th Dec £120 on dual fuel (£30 electricity,  £90 gas). £23 alone yesterday. Probably looking at £160 or so this week coming.

What an awful situation.

It really is. Trying so many variations off this but it's still diabolical. Finding that we use around 24kWh of energy by 8am on a weekday. That's probably mostly down to the heating coming on at 6am for a couple of hours. Simply horrendous

FreeBear

Waldorf_Statler said:

5 bedroom detached, 1950s with recent extension / renovation. New bit has underfloor and cavity wall insulation, loft is insulated, new doors and windows, new boiler.

Not much more I can do to improve efficiency.

Heating is set to 18 degrees for 5 hours, 15 degrees for 9 hours during the day and 13 degrees for 10 hours overnight.

Any draughts coming in around the windows/doors or up through the floor (skirting & floorboard junction is often the worst) ?

As for your temperatures, I'd be inclined to increase the day & night temps so that the boiler doesn't have to work so hard getting up to 18°C. Maybe 16-17°C overnight and during the day assuming the house is occupied 24/7.

qwerasdfzxcv

Just adopted a cat that was outside constantly in this weather.

Took it to a property with a prepaid meter and placed it in 1 room with 1 small radiator.

Credit had gone, so put it on emergency to £15.

Left radiator on for cat because the window vents aren't great.

Came back about 16 hours later and it was at £8.50 credit.

No idea how many kw.

But north of £10 per day for one small radiator.

If I was living there full time and trying to heat 3 or 4 rooms and maintain warmth then probably £50 a day. Glorious. 

I used to be here and blasting the gas led to £3.50 per day. And I thought that was bad.

The world has gone mad.

Waldorf_Statler

FreeBear said:

Waldorf_Statler said:

5 bedroom detached, 1950s with recent extension / renovation. New bit has underfloor and cavity wall insulation, loft is insulated, new doors and windows, new boiler.

Not much more I can do to improve efficiency.

Heating is set to 18 degrees for 5 hours, 15 degrees for 9 hours during the day and 13 degrees for 10 hours overnight.

Any draughts coming in around the windows/doors or up through the floor (skirting & floorboard junction is often the worst) ?

As for your temperatures, I'd be inclined to increase the day & night temps so that the boiler doesn't have to work so hard getting up to 18°C. Maybe 16-17°C overnight and during the day assuming the house is occupied 24/7.

I experimented with this advice. Usage / costs stayed about the same (£20 or so on gas per day, around 200 kWh). However the house felt generally more pleasant so I'm calling it a win. House is always occupied.

You're right on the drafts too. There are a couple of cupboards on external walls (understairs especially, it's like opening a freezer) that we couldn't get insulated so will need to think about that. Managed to do one cupboard with that polystyrene PIR stuff and that made a difference - but the understairs one is fiddly A.F. to work in, cutting around pipes and meters. And cutting that stuff isn't the most fun I've ever had.

Thankfully this very cold weather looks set to end at the weekend... for now at least.

Waldorf_Statler

qwerasdfzxcv said:

The world has gone mad.

It truly has. Whichever government we have, now or next, needs to implement an immediate short term solution to bring down prices now (even if that involves breaching CO2 emissions targets) and a viable long term solution to keep energy prices down in an ecologically sustainable way.

Sorry to get political but I'm really cross at how our "leaders" have led us into this mess - either deliberately (if you're a WEF conspiracy therorist) or accidentally (if you believe that our moronic governments just stumble from one disaster to the next and can't think further ahead than next week).

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Waldorf_Statler said:

qwerasdfzxcv said:

The world has gone mad.

It truly has. Whichever government we have, now or next, needs to implement an immediate short term solution to bring down prices now

You mean like giving you £400 cash and paying 50% of your fuel bill?

Waldorf_Statler

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Waldorf_Statler said:

qwerasdfzxcv said:

The world has gone mad.

It truly has. Whichever government we have, now or next, needs to implement an immediate short term solution to bring down prices now

You mean like giving you £400 cash and paying 50% of your fuel bill?

But that only brings down the final bill and it's clearly not sustainable. It doesn't fix the problem.

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Waldorf_Statler said:

[Deleted User] said:

Waldorf_Statler said:

qwerasdfzxcv said:

The world has gone mad.

It truly has. Whichever government we have, now or next, needs to implement an immediate short term solution to bring down prices now

You mean like giving you £400 cash and paying 50% of your fuel bill?

But that only brings down the final bill and it's clearly not sustainable. It doesn't fix the problem.

Is there any other "immediate short term solution" to bring down your prices?