What is the average electricity units per day?

royroy1

jack_pott wrote: »

Don't put one in the loo, or you'll end wiping your a r s e in the dark like I had to on Basildon railway station a week or two ago.

That gave me a chuckle. Warning taken.

lstar337

royroy1 wrote: »

Nice one. I'll get one of those and see how it goes. Only trouble with that though is that it wouldn't do for the kitchen as our kitchen is an L design and so we go through the door and we have to walk forward, up a small step and the switch is on the wall facing the window that wouldn't be seen when you first enter the kitchen (if that makes sense).

Yeah, you would need a remote PIR sensor for that room. The item I linked to was just a quick install solution that will let you see how you get on with that kind of system.

The system doesn't work out for everybody, so its best to give it a trial before investing any money in it.

shavy65

Out of curiousity, anyone know roughly what the base load (Not even sure if that`s the correct term, I mean the average power your house pulls throughtout a usual day, i.e. from Sky box, TV, lights, router etc) of their household is?
Thanks

saveallmymoney

shavy65 wrote: »

Out of curiousity, anyone know roughly what the base load (Not even sure if that`s the correct term, I mean the average power your house pulls throughtout a usual day, i.e. from Sky box, TV, lights, router etc) of their household is?
Thanks

180 watts continuously excluding refrigerators.

SKY HD alone is 30

shavy65

Wow, I thought it would have been higher. I reckon I`m more like 400, here`s what I can think of: -
TV, Sky, house phone, router, fridge, freezer, some lights. Also included couple of Tv`s on standby and maybe a mobile charging, but these were negligible.

strong8096

i came looking for answers to my consumption, its taken first utility 4 months to agree to actually look at a problem, i´m currently doing daily reading over a 7 day period for them, we were averaging about 50 units a month as we hardly ever in the property we are military stationed elsewhere, after a blow out in a storm our consumption was suddenly over 1000kw a month with no change to occupancy, we knew there was something wrong, how can you go from 50kw a month to a 1000kw, they said they will come change the meter once the daily reading finishes, i´ve told them we will only pay for what we believe is used as our usage has never changed.
we dont use lights, fridge is eco, tv only used a few hours, washing machine eco and used twice a week, heating is log burners in main rooms, water is solar,

reachforlux

According to meter my reading for 15 days is 787kwh except gas hobs. I know this is a huge amount . Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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reachforlux wrote: »

According to meter my reading for 15 days is 787kwh except gas hobs. I know this is a huge amount . Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi - welcome to the forum. You need to provide some further details if help is to be forthcoming.

a. How have you calculated your usage - ACTUAL readings?

b. What do you use electricity for? ( heating, tumble drying etc)

c. What is your projected annual consumption on your last bill?

Disgusted_Tunbridge_Wells

We are a couple in a 2-bed house, normally both out during the day, gas heating and hob, electric oven, direct replacement "warm white" LED bulbs throughout, one fridge, use the washing machine once or twice a week, dishwasher every other day and don't have a tumble drier.


We were using about 4.5kWh/day. Recently bought electric car and charge overnight so now using about 12kWh/day.


When I first moved in I switched off everything in the house and made sure the meter stopped- just as well because the light was on in the loft and the immersion heater was on!


Gas we use about 35kWh/day in the winter (heating set to 18 deg C and HW on timer). Remember a cooler house not only saves heating costs but means the fridge works less and your body burns more calories :-D

teddysmum

18 degrees C is too cold for many older people or those unable to be move about enough to keep their body temperature up.


I can't bear being cooler than 22 degrees in the evening and sometimes feel cold at that.