Since moving into our new house just over a year ago, our electricity bill has rocketed. Compared with our old house the only differences are more lightbulbs (all energy saving and we've fitted LED lighting in three rooms), an American style fridge freezer which is 14 years old and an electric towel rail in the attic bathroom. Our tumble drying habits haven't changed and we don't have every light on all the time.
The FF is likely to cost more to run than our old FF and under counter fridge cost in our last house, I realise. The towel rail doesn't have an on/off switch - definitely electric, you can see the cable and it is on constantly. Are these expensive to run?
The attic bathroom is part of a particularly economical set up whereby the only way to get hot water in there is to put an immersion heater on (separate cylinder from the hot water in the rest of the house). Needless to say, we only use the attic for guests. The immersion heater is switched off. There is also a Saniflo up there, but we hardly use the loo attached to it.
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Heated towel rail making bills higher?
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wowfudge · 18/05/2017 11:34
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