cheapest electricity setting for one bed-room apartment

mrbook

Hello everyone,

I moved to a new one bed-room apartment and all utilities are electric. everything is just fine, except the electricity bill and usage! I have paid more than 140 pounds just for electricity in less than a month! the usage was around 400 KW for 23 days! I really have no idea why it's too much. 
Could it be because of the water heater? It is PulsaCoil A class. I have turned the boosting completely off and it's just working off-peak hours. I was wondering if anyone knows the cheapest setting for that. 
Also, could it be because of the stove? 
I want to add the meter is a normal one. 
Does anyone have any idea what should I do, I am really struggling with this. 

MultiFuelBurner

The simple answer is as low as possible for heating and hot water that is comfortable for you and your budgetm

Do you have storage heaters or panel heaters? Are you on economy 7 or single rate tariff?

Robin9

I assume that when you moved in you rang the existing supplier to set up the account and DD in your name and gave them the meter reads. I also assume the bill you have is based on the actual reading you gave at the end  of the month - is there a letter on the bill after the meter reading  - A , E or C.  It's highly unlikely you will see a meter reader - so if you don't read your meter no-one else will.

What was the reading at that time ?  What is it today ?  Sounds like you are on E7 - look at you meter , is there a pointer showing day, R1 or similar.

Bendo

The PulsaCoil is a thermal store, basically the same as a boilermate but heated by an immersion rather than gas boiler.

A lot of people dislike the thermal store concept but it does what it does well if you understand it, not sure I'd like to run one on elec though.

The basic concept of a thermal store is to keep a tank of hot water (that is used for the radiators) constantly hot, DHW passes through a heat exchanger to get hot. That's pretty much it.

Keeping that tank hot though can be costly as you are finding out...

I've found the boilermate a class To be most efficient (for hot water at least) by setting it's timer for an hour each morning. It tends to produce enough water for the day and uses less gas. Would expect the pulsacoil to be similar. If you are on an E7 type tariff, heat it when it's cheap.

Obviously when you want heating though, you have to heat it constantly or you won't get much heat.

Edit - looks like the pulsacoil skips the heating so is just for hot water and should be on an E7 supply. Leave the peak boost off and it should hopefully save a fair bit.

What are you using for heating?

RedFraggle

I also have a pulsacoil for DHW only and had an external timer fitted to it. I run it just 2 hours a night and it's plenty of hot water. 

markin

17 a day, is that before the boost was turned off, What is the current daily use and day/night split?

What is the heating?

mrbook

MultiFuelBurner said:

The simple answer is as low as possible for heating and hot water that is comfortable for you and your budgetm

Do you have storage heaters or panel heaters? Are you on economy 7 or single rate tariff?

Thank you for your reply, 
The meter is normal so it must be a single rate tariff. Also, Its pulsacoil A class, electric. I don't have gas in my apartment at all.

mrbook

Bendo said:

The PulsaCoil is a thermal store, basically the same as a boilermate but heated by an immersion rather than gas boiler.

A lot of people dislike the thermal store concept but it does what it does well if you understand it, not sure I'd like to run one on elec though.

The basic concept of a thermal store is to keep a tank of hot water (that is used for the radiators) constantly hot, DHW passes through a heat exchanger to get hot. That's pretty much it.

Keeping that tank hot though can be costly as you are finding out...

I've found the boilermate a class To be most efficient (for hot water at least) by setting it's timer for an hour each morning. It tends to produce enough water for the day and uses less gas. Would expect the pulsacoil to be similar. If you are on an E7 type tariff, heat it when it's cheap.

Obviously when you want heating though, you have to heat it constantly or you won't get much heat.

Edit - looks like the pulsacoil skips the heating so is just for hot water and should be on an E7 supply. Leave the peak boost off and it should hopefully save a fair bit.

What are you using for heating?

Thank you for the information. 
Actually, I don't use any heater now and that's why I am so shocked about the bill! Also, the heaters are electric wall heater. 

mrbook

Bendo said:

The PulsaCoil is a thermal store, basically the same as a boilermate but heated by an immersion rather than gas boiler.

A lot of people dislike the thermal store concept but it does what it does well if you understand it, not sure I'd like to run one on elec though.

The basic concept of a thermal store is to keep a tank of hot water (that is used for the radiators) constantly hot, DHW passes through a heat exchanger to get hot. That's pretty much it.

Keeping that tank hot though can be costly as you are finding out...

I've found the boilermate a class To be most efficient (for hot water at least) by setting it's timer for an hour each morning. It tends to produce enough water for the day and uses less gas. Would expect the pulsacoil to be similar. If you are on an E7 type tariff, heat it when it's cheap.

Obviously when you want heating though, you have to heat it constantly or you won't get much heat.

Edit - looks like the pulsacoil skips the heating so is just for hot water and should be on an E7 supply. Leave the peak boost off and it should hopefully save a fair bit.

What are you using for heating?

What if I dont use the boosting system? I mean just leave the water heater on, and not set any boost time. I believe there would be enough hot water for a shower. 

markin

Is it a new build or just new to you?

The cheapest electric heating is storage heaters on E7, do you own or rent? It may be best to just move if you rent and its got a poor EPC.

RedFraggle

Your pulsacoil needs to run on E7 so it heats the thermal store overnight.