My Energy use Diary

Fill_7

just entered my 2nd weeks reading at imeasure.

we've used 83 kwh of electricity
and 3 cubic feet of gas.

how does that sound for a family of 4 living in a detached house? we're on edf online 3 tariff, yorkshire region if that means ote to anyone?

cheers

fill

mama67

Here is my latest readings.

I am a carbon rating E!!!!, and this is after we have switched off silly things like the micro clock, making sure the DVD player is not left on on, boys having master switches to turn off all their paraphenalia.

And my washer is returning today so that will be more usage.

and ranked 30/37 this week.


Your Results in Detail


You have been taking readings for 4 weeks
Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 515 kWh (Gas: 0kWh | Electricity: 515kWh)
Carbon emissions are 269 Kg CO2 (Gas: 0 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 269 Kg CO2)
Money Spent

How has my energy spend been calculated?
Last week you spent:

• £0.00 on gas
• £15.00 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (4 weeks ago):

• £0.00 on gas
• £61.80 on electricity

Carbon Emitted & Energy Used

The results in the tables for 'last month' and 'last quarter' are in terms of the weekly average. The tables give you information about your household (black numbers) in comparison to the average imeasure households you choose to be compared (red numbers).
You chose to compare your household with (Same number of occupants/All housetypes) - to change your comparison go into your user detail settings.
Your results are being compared with the averages of 30 households.
Carbon emissions Kg CO2
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer person16 (16)17 (14)0 (11)Per household65 (63)67 (55)0 (43)Electricity use as kWh
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer Person31 (22)32 (19)0 (13)Per Household125 (85)129 (74)0 (54)



During the last week I have used 103 daytime units and 22 nighttime units.

Magentasue

Fill_7 wrote: »

just entered my 2nd weeks reading at imeasure.

we've used 83 kwh of electricity
and 3 cubic feet of gas.

how does that sound for a family of 4 living in a detached house? we're on edf online 3 tariff, yorkshire region if that means ote to anyone?

cheers

fill

We're using about the same - family of six in mid-terrace 3 bed house.

SuiDreams

As expected Electric usage has gone up this week as has our gas usage due to other half putting the boiler on extra for more hot Sadly our Carbon rating is C, which doesn't give me much hope for the winter. will try hard to get the usage back doen this week, but not sure what I can do, or gas usage seems to be our down fall which is hot water and hob only at the moment.

trish06

Hi all
here are my results ,i only started last week

3 bed house,5 people
3 adults and 2 teangers

Club Rank
MoneySaving Carbon Club 10/40

Your Results in Detail

You have been taking readings for 1 week

Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 103 kWh (Gas: 11kWh | Electricity: 92kWh)
Carbon emissions are 50 Kg CO2 (Gas: 2 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 48 Kg CO2)
Money Spent

How has my energy spend been calculated?

Last week you spent:
£0.39 on gas
£11.04 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (1 weeks ago):
£0.39 on gas
£11.04 on electricity

Fill_7

im startin to wonder if theres something wrong with our hot water tank. the hot water was on for an hour at 6am, an hour at 12pm and an hour at 5pm. ive since thought that this is too often and i ditched the 12pm stint. however, since ive done this there has on occasion been a lack of hot water in the late afternoon when there hasnt been a great use of hot water during the day (a 5min shower in the morn). ive read on here that some heated hot water tanks last for quite a while, where we're lucky to get 2 showers out of a tank! i would of thought 2 1 hour stints would be enough to provide hot water for the day? the hot water tank is just over 2 years old.

anyone have any tips or advice?

thanks, fill

ps. were a family of 4. 2 kids aged 4 & 8 months.

Frugaldom

Hi Fill_7

Don't forget that as you run hot water out of the tank it is being automatically replaced by cold water, which isn't being heated at 12 if you are missing that hour out. Are you sure the shower water is coming from the hot water tank? Our's is an electric shower, so that also heats the water.

Fill_7

thanks for your reply nykmedia,

ours is a power shower which is fed from the HW tank.

instead of the HW being on for 2 1 hour stints, i was wondering about it being on for 3 or 4 30 min stints? would this be long enough to heat a tank and cure the lack of HW in afternoon, or is this a less economical situation?

thanks again,

fill

the_cat

Hi Fill 7

My hot water tank takes only 20/30 minutes to heat up max. If I have the timer set to any longer than that it will just keep the water ticking over at the temperature set. I have mine set to heat twice a day (am and pm) for 20 mins and occasionally blast it for another 20 mins manually if I know we have drained the tank of hot and someone will be wanting a bath/shower before the next timer session IUSWIM.

HTH

setmefree2

Hi Fil

I'm no expert but our tank which is 6 years old seems to keep piping hot for a very long time. Maybe you should try posting on the IN MY HOME & DIY board to see what people think?

Best Regards

SNF2