How much do you pay for electricity?

gibbyni

I live and work in a 2 bed appartment, we have a few computers and a large printer, we also have a 4 month old baby, our last bill just before christmas was £170 for the qtr but our heating was broken for 2 weeks of that so we had an electric heater on the go mostof the time.

I found some of the efergy monitors on ebay but your only saving a few quid so might just get on from the suppliers just incase it goes faulty.

System

Well then it looks as though our bills are reasonably normal.

I could save a bit more if I reduced my usage of the tumble dryer but other than that I can't see how we could reduce it further. We would have to change a lot of our light fittings since the majority don't take low energy bulbs and we tend not to leave anything on standby.

Oh hold on, just had a thought - we might save a bit more if DH and I didn't have a PC each. We seem to be on the net every day

wifeforlife

I live in a 3 bed terrace, oil heating on every evening for approx 4-5 hours, I only work 3 days so am home quite a bit. I use my tumble drier all the time and I have the tv/radio/laptop on alot of the time too

My electricity for Dec was £21.45
Nov £20.37
Oct £18.96

Cate

Contains_Mild_Peril

cathy2702 wrote: »

I live in a 3 bed terrace, oil heating on every evening for approx 4-5 hours, I only work 3 days so am home quite a bit. I use my tumble drier all the time and I have the tv/radio/laptop on alot of the time too

My electricity for Dec was £21.45
Nov £20.37
Oct £18.96

Cate

Crikey! Are you sure that's accurate (rahter than besed on estimates?)
I live in a 2-bedroom flat with hubby and son and have gas heating (but electric cooker) but out leccy bill is a fair bit more. We use the tumble drier a lot but have recently got a new more effciient one, and we have 2 PCs on a lot of the time, but apart from that I didn't think we were too bad

wifeforlife

Contains_Mild_Peril wrote: »

Crikey! Are you sure that's accurate (rahter than besed on estimates?)
I live in a 2-bedroom flat with hubby and son and have gas heating (but electric cooker) but out leccy bill is a fair bit more. We use the tumble drier a lot but have recently got a new more effciient one, and we have 2 PCs on a lot of the time, but apart from that I didn't think we were too bad

Yep I have a meter in the house (it's a rented property) and I can check my usage, I checked and got the figures just before I posted last night. I couldnt have estimated to the pence haha

Cate

mr._prude

About £33 a month, noticed it raise when little Miss P came along. Also before we had a tumble dryer & dishwasher it was around (£20)

rjh090384

i live in 3 bed house just the two of us. no electric shower or tumble drier. computers and xboxes on a lot!!! we pay £17 a month. when i lived on my own in 1 bed flat with electric shower i was paying £25 a month so shows the difference it makes!

marksimpson

Just me in the house. Electric cooker. No tumble drier. £28 per month.

gibbyni

Just got my Efergy monitor, i am using 4.5p per hour with my TV sky etc on a few lights and 2 laptops and my fridge and frezer. Turn the oven on it goes up to 29p, turn the kettle on it goes up to 30p, turn main room light on 4 holigan bulbs it goes up by 2p, turn an enegy saver bulb on it hardly even changes. All in all a good buy i think

desdemona

I am in a tiny 1 bedroom flat, all electric. 2 storage heaters, electric fire (3 bars). No washing machine or dishwasher. Immersion heater. Flat is at top of house and usually very warm and I'm a "hot" person. In winter have storage heater is living room on as it provides a lot of heat and means I only need 1 bar of the fire at night! Storage heater in bedroom only on at night. Immersion heater used once a week - on for 5 hours at night - just to get enough hot water to bath/wash (no shower in flat). Yet NPower decided my usage is £40 a month. Worse they have now sent me another bill, saying that my usage from mid October to mid December is ...wait for it...£172!!! That's £86 a month! They say it is based on accurate meter readings - but I haven't given them a reading for this period! (Had major probs with them in 2006 when they suddenly decided I was using £97 a month....took Energywatch to sort that one out). Comments, anyone?