My Energy use Diary

mama67

I'm still down as a "B" rating!!

Your Results in Detail


You have been taking readings for 15 weeks
Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 2,067 kWh (Gas: 0kWh | Electricity: 2,067kWh)
Carbon emissions are 1,081 Kg CO2 (Gas: 0 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 1,081 Kg CO2)
Money Spent

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

• £0.00 on gas
• £17.52 on electricity

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

• £0.00 on gas
• £248.04 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 (All users/All housetypes) - to change your comparison go into your user detail settings.
Your results are being compared with the averages of 205 households.
Carbon emissions Kg CO2
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer person19 (42)18 (41)18 (30)Per household76 (111)74 (110)73 (77)Electricity use as kWh
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer Person37 (29)35 (28)35 (25)Per Household146 (77)141 (76)139 (68)



Annual UK Averages

Household
Gas use - 20,582 kWh, 3,930 Kg CO2
Electricity use - 4640 kWh, 2,300 Kg CO2
Person
Gas use - 8,575 kWh, 1,638 Kg CO2
Electricity use - 1,933 kWh, 958 Kg CO2

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Penny2myName

You have been taking readings for 10 weeks

Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 5,343 kWh (Gas: 4,664kWh | Electricity: 679kWh)
Carbon emissions are 1,316 Kg CO2 (Gas: 961 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 355 Kg CO2)

Last week you spent:

* £24.05 on gas
* £9.36 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (10 weeks ago):

* £163.24 on gas
* £81.48 on electricity

And finally have a C RATING...YIPEEE

mama67

setmefree2 wrote: »

hello all:hello:

I'm still trying to line dry - put a load of washing out this morning. Had to use my TD yesterday.:o

Anyone else still trying to line dry?

All the Best

SMF2

Still doing it here SMF, had a load out today again and only have to air off on radiators, which come on for approx 1 hour ready for boys going to bed.
I don't have a Tumble Dryer

We do have oil CH/water although it is only on 30 minutes in morning to take chill off for geting up and then the 1 hour in the evening, and have a coal/log fire in front room,the boys have fan heaters in their rooms which they can turn on if cold during the day and they are using the PS2 etc.

The water is on for 30 minutes each morning and night, both the water and the radiators seem to hold their heat for a very long time and the thermostat is not set high.

The washer is cold fill and I do most washes at 30°, this is used daily and sometimes twice, the dishwasher is hot fill and is used at least once daily, we cook electric(no mains gas), and all bulbs including the 3 spots in the kitchen are energy saving of some description or another. Most of the other appliances are switched off at the wall after use except for obviously fridge and freezers. I also run washer and dishwasher on Economy 7 overnight for one load each a day.

I also have a clothes horse type airer which is in the leanto conservatory, this will take a load of washing and providinthe weather isn't too damp will nearly dry it in 24hrs to just air off on radiators.

belfastgirl23

I'm still trying to line dry too - at least to get the worst of the wet out of things. They don't ever come in dry but they do take a lot less time to dry indoors and add a lot less moisture to the air. And smell better...

greenbee

I've had no WM for the past fortnight, which I'm sure is keeping my bills down . I'm getting a bit of a backlog of laundry, but so far I've taken a load to my parents, a load to their holiday cottage when my brother and I went to pack it up, and a load to my brother, so it should be fairly manageable when the machine is finally plumbed in again.

I'm sure that the builder (sorting out the utility room... so responsible for the lack of WM/TD/DW/MW) is using lots of power (lights, tools etc, as well as numerous cups of tea & coffee ), so this may balance out a bit. I've also had to do lots of washing up by hand, so used more hot water, plus the doors & windows are open more during the day so the house gets colder. Hopefully once its done, the plasterboarded and insulated walls, double-glazed window and whatever we end up doing to insulate the inside of the flat roof, will help keep the house much warmer.

Still line drying when I can, but plan to get an electric airer for the utility room. It'll stop me having condensation problems in the rest of the house, and keep the chill off the room as well (there's no heating out there, just the boiler, WM/TD/DW/freezer), so after some deliberation I think its the right decision.

However, although the imeasure results aren't great (because I'm one person in a 3-bed semi), they're improving - I think the biggest saver is not having the heating come on automatically in the evening, so if I get in late, it hasn't been working on an empty house with open curtains... and if I get in very late it doesn't go on at all. Having said that, I do occasionally offset this by sitting up working late with the heating on... the thermostat's at all of 16 degrees ... and as it gets late it tends to mostly be on.

So clearly, the answer is to spend more time in the gym in the morning (use their hot water for showers...) and with friends in the evenings (use their heating) and just keep my house warm enough for it not to get damp and for me not to freeze and night!

Although imeasure doesn't look great, I'm nearly £200 in credit on my gas & elec, which is pretty good given that I pay £10 for elec & £9 for gas each month! So hopefully I won't run up any debt over the winter this year.

cw - I'm sorry for your loss. It sounds as if you have plenty to keep your busy at the moment, and I'm sure your family and friends will be there for you.

setmefree2

cw18 wrote: »

not doing too badly -- plenty to keep me busy. Army got elder son home late Wednesday, so regular "brotherly love" sessions going on in the house again :rolleyes2

plus I'm back to helping out with pre-school/school runs today, which means I have younger GD from 7:20am-5pm (except 9-11:30 Mon, and 9-2 Tues & Wed) and elder GD from 7:20-9am Mon, Tue, Wed and 8:30-9am Thur and Fri.

And that's on top of all the official paperwork etc :eek:

It's good to have family round you at a sad time. It's tough - Good Luck

setmefree2

I have to admit that I have been using my TD since it got cold at the weekend. But if it warms up I'll be putting on my wellies and hanging those clothes out;)

SuiDreams

I'm stuck with washing all over the house too wet to put the washing out and no tumble dryer. So we've been trying to do the least amount of washing possible, firdt nice day there is the wm will be working overtime.

Little_Mama

Hi CW18, just a wee note to say that I'm thinking of you. :grouphug:

LM

cw18

My electricity is back down to the useage as of two weeks ago, but I expected that to come down as we had 50 hours of an oxygen machine on it last week.

However, I now have elder DS home with a laptop plugged in pretty much 24/7 (the battery doesn't hold charge anymore) and an X-Box (and the main TV) on for several hours a day (in fact he was up on it last night) -- so I think it's going to stay "artificially high" for 2 of us until the New Year.

But I could weep as our gas is even higher than last week (205kWh, up from 182kWh) :eek: I've turned the heating down a couple of degrees, but I guess I must be running it for longer -- and this combination must be using much more gas than I'd expected

On the plus side, the one thing i-measure seem to have working is a change in headcount on the system. After entering my figures last week (where it divided household by 3), I changed my user details to just 2 people -- and this week the household figures have been divided by 2 :T But it does mess up the 'last month' and 'last quarter' figures, as it's doing a straight divide by 2 on those as well

Last week you spent:

• £6.97 on gas (s/sheet figure = £7.53)
• £9.12 on electricity (s/sheet figure = £8.41)

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (9 weeks ago):

• £33.73 on gas (s/sheet figure = £39.83)
• £85.20 on electricity (s/sheet figure = £77.95)

Against all gas/electric households our results are......

Carbon emissions Kg CO2
........................Last week......Last Month
Per Person...........40 (44)...........39 (42)
Per Household......81 (113)..........78 (112)

Gas use as kWh
........................Last week......Last Month
Per Person...........100 (139).........89 (134)
Per Household.....199 (335).........177 (346)

Electricity use as kWh
........................Last week......Last Month
Per Person...........38 (29)..........40 (28)
Per Household......76 (77)..........79 (78)



We're now down to a 'D' rating :eek: It looks like (even with the rise in gas use) the electricity is our major culprit -- and I'm really, really struggling to find anywhere else I can save on that, short of all meals have to be cooked on the gas hob !!! I can only hope that once elder DS is back at work after New Year it comes down a bit and pulls us back up the scales The fact younger DS hasn't been in to college since the Friday before last probably hasn't helped either, as that's an extra 4 days of computer use by him between my last readings. (The only other possible option to improve our rating -- and once I'm not prepared to even contemplate -- is a move to a smaller property in the hope less space to heat will mean the gas comes down more and offsets our high electricity figures :rolleyes: )

We show as 43/58 in the Carbon Club