My Energy use Diary

SuiDreams

Magentasue wrote: »

We used 100kwh a day for a lot of heating last week - half term. Your 48kwh a day for not much makes me feel a bit better, suidreams, even if it's not good for you! We were using 56kwh a day for not much heating. We do cook by gas too, though. Our lowest daily average this year has been 16 for cooking and hot water only.

Just rather concerned that our gas usage was 38KWH, for the highest useage period of last year and this will have been heating for 2-3 hours on a morning and about 6 hours on an evening and probably only had it on for 1-2 hours a day max over the las week (actually about 6 days) and we've used 48KWH. Could there be something wrong with the boiler?

Magentasue

suidreams From what you say, it would seem something is wrong but are you sure about the 38kwh a day last year? Sounds really low to me - whereas 48kwh for not much heating sounds reasonable. There are several threads about gas use running on the Gas and Elec board - may be worth checking out as lots of people are posting their usage.

SuiDreams

I've got a spreadsheet with all previous years useage and 38 is correct from that. We were using 9 - 13 per day for gas hob and hot water, its a very small 3 bed semi.

Little_Mama

Argh :eek:! OH put our heating on on Friday......didn't he know I was trying to get to the 1St Nov?!? Well we went from using 8 kwh per day last week to 83kwh in that one....the shock was so much, especially when I costed the daily amount that he's been shamed into only having the CH on to take the chill out the house (ok we were verging on seeing our own breath) and we've bought a wonderful pile of logs which will see us for a good couple of months, if not more and cost a good deal less than a week's worth of gas.

Never used to even think about the CH, if it was cold I'd put it on but actually looking at the figures it's horrific and there is no way my DD would cover that amount based on their new prices. Have put our figures onto EONs energy tracker and in Oct we used less gas & electric than we did in May.

Keep up the good work everyone.:T

LM

Frugaldom

We are now an 'E' rating, number 35/60 in the dodgey carbon club and here's the rest of the bad news - we used a total of 440 kWh of electricity

Last week you spent:

• £0.00 on gas
• £52.80 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (15 weeks ago):

• £0.00 on gas
• £254.28 on electricity

BUT... the house is now quite warm since the rest of the heaters have been switched on and at least two thirds of the units we are using are on white meter costing 5.226p per kWh.

New house, once we move, is on a tariff called ComfortPlus Control, which means we have 3 different rates and pay a standing charge of 21.88p per day for prepayment meter: the electric heating and hot water will be charged at 4.93p per kWh, night-time units will be 5.56p per kWu and day-time units 12.266p per kWh. We'll also have the added benefit of being able to use logs instead of plugging in extra heaters or if the power goes out during storms.

covenanter

SuiDreams wrote: »

I have put meter readings in and I'm down to a C rating gas was 48KWH per day for very little heating I'm very worried as the highest we used last year was 38KWH using more heating. Our boiler was fixed in June this year and I'm sure that we have been using more gas ever since then, any idea's what the problem could be? Also electric up to 8KWH per day this week really need to do something about it.

You might like to check the temperature that your hot water is set to on your boiler. We had a service engineer who turned the water temperature right up to maximum when he was servicing the boiler last year.

We couldn't work out what was causing the extra gas usage; all we noticed was that we had to move the shower tap right over to cold to be able to bear to have a shower. Like idiots , we thought that it was because the engineer had made the boiler work more efficiently .

Once we noticed and turned the water temperature back down we used considerably less gas. After all, there's no point in heating a full tank of water to near boiling, just to have to cool it down by adding cold water.

A_fiend_for_life

14 weeks; rating = D; rank = 27/60

That was a cold week my gas use jumped from average weekly gas use has been 3.5 units over 13 weeks. Total 45 units. This weeks gas jumped to 17 units. I hope this isn't the first taste of another cold winter.
Last week it was around £5 this week it is around £10:eek:.

Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 1,027 kWh (Gas: 687kWh | Electricity: 340kWh)
Carbon emissions are 319 Kg CO2 (Gas: 141 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 178 Kg CO2)
Money Spent

How has my energy spend been calculated?

Last week you spent:

* £6.58 on gas
* £3.36 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (14 weeks ago):

* £24.04 on gas
* £40.80 on electricity

Carbon Emitted & Energy Used

All users/All housetypes

185 households.

Carbon emissions Kg CO2
................Last week..Last Month..Last Quarter
Per person......53 (40)....33 (31).....24 (24)
Per Household...53 (107)...33 (81).....24 (62)

Gas use as kWh
................Last week..Last Month..Last Quarter
Per person......188 (126)..94 (85).....53 (56)
Per Household...188 (335)..94 (219)....53 (140)

Electricity use as kWh
................Last week..Last Month..Last Quarter
Per person......28 (27)....27 (25).....24 (24)
Per Household...28 (75)....27 (69).....24 (64)

A_fiend_for_life

covenanter wrote: »

You might like to check the temperature that your hot water is set to on your boiler. We had a service engineer who turned the water temperature right up to maximum when he was servicing the boiler last year.

We couldn't work out what was causing the extra gas usage; all we noticed was that we had to move the shower tap right over to cold to be able to bear to have a shower. Like idiots , we thought that it was because the engineer had made the boiler work more efficiently .

Once we noticed and turned the water temperature back down we used considerably less gas. After all, there's no point in heating a full tank of water to near boiling, just to have to cool it down by adding cold water.

I had a similar problem when the thermostat for an immersion heater was replaced. The corgi / niceic engineer replaced a 17'' thermostat with an 11'' thermostat and turned the temperature on the thermostat from 60C to 90C to compensate. Result half a tank of hot water plus cold water knock (creaking of the pipes when the water is heating up - not good apparently). Tried to fob the replaced thermostat off as a heating element too.

It meant when you ran the bath you got scolding hot water that quickly resulted in a cold bath by the time you'd filled it to a reasonable level. Don't know how wide spread this practice is but very nasty if you have kids. I'd recommend checking the water temperature if you have this kind of job done.

If you have this job done the thermostat has a plastic top about the size of a conker and a length of soft metal that is easily bent. The heating element is much larger and folded back on itself.

lingojingo

Little_Mama wrote: »

Have put our figures onto EONs energy tracker and in Oct we used less gas & electric than we did in May.LM

So did we, and also less in Oct than June!!! Wonder what we were doing It certainly wasn't heating!

matty2767

we used 388kwh gas and 46kwh elec. this week. going on the imeasure estimate my monthly spend on gas is £60 and £20 above my DD.