My Energy use Diary

chivers1977

Well done Fiend for Life. That is an amazing reduction!!

chivers1977

:mad: Extra 17 kwh of electricity this week. No lawnmowing... Only thing that I can think of is washing nearly everything I own as it was sunny:rotfl::rotfl: Gas down by 3 kwh to 27 though :j

2 Bs for last week

setmefree2

chivers1977 wrote: »

Well done Fiend for Life. That is an amazing reduction!!

well done

setmefree2

chivers1977 wrote: »

:mad: Extra 17 kwh of electricity this week. No lawnmowing... Only thing that I can think of is washing nearly everything I own as it was sunny:rotfl::rotfl: Gas down by 3 kwh to 27 though :j

2 Bs for last week

Me too Sofa covers in the washing machine as I type:D

cw18

Just remembered that today is meter reading day - so a couple of hours later than last week !!

Gas is waaaaaay down :T Last week (lowest since October) was 80kWh. This week - despite batch cooking soup several times which meant a hob burner was on for about 4 hours, and also a mince based meal - it's down to a miserly 45 kWh :T Looking back through my records (from 2nd Jan '04) is a new all time low :T :T Previous lowest daily average was 6.6kWh (reading on 1/10/08, 15/10/08 and 22/10/08), and this week was a daily average of 6.4 kWh.



Unfortunately my electricity has shot back up :mad: 2 weeks ago was 60 kWh, last week was down to an all time low of 53 kWh, but this week is back up to 61 kWh :eek: And (apart from DS managing to leave the landing light on overnight a couple of times - which is an energy efficient one) I've absolutley no idea why!! Didn't even have my GDs here demanding the TV as it was the school holiday Only thing I can think of is that DS was off college - so his PC was on somewhat more..... but does it really account for that much ?!?!?!? I've not done any extra washing, so it's not that for me. I did mow the lawns on Saturday evening, but I'd done them the previous week as well - and the previous week took longer as the grass wasn't as short to start with.....

Decola

I wonder if the extra electricity people are using (me included) is being sucked up by fridges and freezers working harder in the warmer weather.

Have ordered a monitor to check how much my supposedly A rated fridge freezer is using - it seems to be running nearly constantly, which can't be economical.

moneymouth77

Most fridges, even As, need to run more in the hot weather, I think that's unavoidable. Try things like gas stoves and boiling the kettle only once or twice a day for an easier saving.

belfastgirl23

Ok I can't resist a little extra post because I looked at my gas meter today and have used just under 3 units since I last read it at lunchtime on Sunday. That's 33kwh:j:j:j and just shows that virtually all of our gas usage is on heating, since we've had it switched off since then. Between us we've had at least 3 showers a day too although I guess it was at a low temp.

Electric is probably just about normal at 48kwh although I too have been doing a lot of washing but probably a lot less TV watching.

Had to post now cos the weather is forecast to get worse and it might not be so good on sunday! But I still think it's likely to be my lowest week since records began

setmefree2

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

Ok I can't resist a little extra post because I looked at my gas meter today and have used just under 3 units since I last read it at lunchtime on Sunday. That's 33kwh:j:j:j and just shows that virtually all of our gas usage is on heating, since we've had it switched off since then. Between us we've had at least 3 showers a day too although I guess it was at a low temp.

Electric is probably just about normal at 48kwh although I too have been doing a lot of washing but probably a lot less TV watching.

Had to post now cos the weather is forecast to get worse and it might not be so good on sunday! But I still think it's likely to be my lowest week since records began

well done :T:T

Frugaldom

Well done, Belfastgirl! I have stopped doing daily readings and settled for the Monday mornings only plus keeping a record of how much gets loaded onto the meter-key-thingy. I reckon I must have reached my average as I can't exactly give up cooking or washing but I'm saving on coal & logs at the moment, as I haven't had the fire lit at all. Weather has held here, other than the hail storm we had 2 nights ago, so the washing is bang up to date and always line dried.