How much heating have YOU used in October?

silverwhistle

EssexHebridean said:

A small amount of electricity - probably 25-30kWh used on the extraordinarily "green" Agile day on Sunday

Ah yes, you've just reminded me. Add to my figure a bit of paid for direct acting space heating, and also a test of my car battery (V2L, vehicle to load) with a heater just before topping it up again at negative prices. It all helped to warm the fabric of the building but again wasn't strictly necessary.

EssexHebridean

silverwhistle said:

EssexHebridean said:

A small amount of electricity - probably 25-30kWh used on the extraordinarily "green" Agile day on Sunday

Ah yes, you've just reminded me. Add to my figure a bit of paid for direct acting space heating, and also a test of my car battery (V2L, vehicle to load) with a heater just before topping it up again at negative prices. It all helped to warm the fabric of the building but again wasn't strictly necessary.

Our kitchen-diner was FAR warmer than we needed it to be on Sunday and definitely overnight into Monday!  

NedS

We are on an ASHP, 115kWh of electricity used which has generated 537kWh of heat so far this month (which also includes heating the hot water). Average price paid for electricity is ~14p, so it's costing us around 3p per kWh of heat generated, or less than half the price of gas or oil (and much of that has been covered by solar)

We have had a couple free periods on Agile where we have hammered the heating where it otherwise would not have been on which has skewed our usage figures, but otherwise we've been using in the 15-30kWh per day range, depending how cold it was.

Bluefairie56

Apart from normal cooking lights etc my heating isn’t on yet. My house is blooming freezing lol. Average daytime is about 14 degrees at the mo. Only me so no one else to worry about. It’s actually warmer outside some days than in my house. I will have to put it on soon though as my bathroom door has swollen so much it can not be closed which happened last year too. 

mmmmikey

I've lit the log stove pretty much every day in October, I hate being cold, as does my cat.....

Other than that, just using the heat pump in the bedroom and IR heater in the bathroom so about 35kWh electricity used for heating.

Marvel1

Not turned it on, the mornings are still ok.

SAC2334

About 100 kwhs this month  of gas using the main room gas fire as the central heating is still not working as of yet . The 28 kwh Gloworm boiler gobbles gas kwhs so I m in no big hurry to mend the boiler . Cold detached bungalow because it is shaded by tall tree s and much colder than other properties.
 I now I have smart meters so  will do a comparison of how much the gas fire is costing per week against my old favourite the halogen heater with its 3 x 400 watt bars which got me through the energy crisis paying peanuts for heating rarely using 3 bars even on the coldest nights .
With the genorous Tory Government paying me extra plus cost of living help I had very cheap bills even though gas was over 12 p a kwh and electriocv was 42 p kwh .

greenbee

Not a clue - the heating has kicked in a few times, but the level in the oil tank hasn't dropped enough for the watchman to register it. Fire has been lit a few times, so a few armfuls of logs have been brought in. 

Archerychick

Mine has been on 4 times, 3 of those was to help some plaster dry. I’ve had the log burner on perhaps 3 times and that heats most of the house!

built 1940’s and have done a lot of work to insulate the property 

cannugec5

mmmmikey said:

I've lit the log stove pretty much every day in October, I hate being cold, as does my cat.....

Other than that, just using the heat pump in the bedroom and IR heater in the bathroom so about 35kWh electricity used for heating.

I’m confused. 

If you have a heat pump that heats the bedroom why not use that source to also heat the bathroom and the rest of the house? 

I thought using a heat pump for just one room ( radiator? Underfloor?) would be terribly uneconomical.