To ask how often you run these appliances after I’ve had a HUGE energy bill?

I live alone. My washing machine runs three, sometime four, loads a week. No tumble dryer or dishwasher.

Dishwasher every other day, 5 or 6 washes a week and probably the equivalent of 3 loads tumble dried a week. Last months electricity bill was £58.

Dishwasher: approx 5 or 6 times a week atm. Was more like 3 or 4 until recently but ds1 home from uni and ds2 off school.

Washing machine: approx 4 or 5 times a week, although ds1 seems to be wearing everything he has before he does a wash.

Tumble drier: almost never, maybe a handful of times a year.

The washing machine never goes above 40 c and is run 5 times a week. 95 c wash once a month to clean the machine. Ditche using fabric softener because the guy who services my machine says I’m paying a premium for a product that is negatively impacting my clothes and the washing machines efficacy.

Tumble dryer is run twice a week for towels, use three dryer balls with a few drops of favourite essential oil. The dryer balls cuts the drying time by at least a third.

Dishwasher goes on every day in the winter less so in the summer as we eat out more often and are frequently away. The dishwasher is loaded throughout the day and by delayed start it goes on Eco wash about 6 am.

The washer drier and dishwasher only go on if someone is home for the entire programme and are not operated between 22:00 and 06:00.

Thanks to hot flushes the fan is constantly on and as I’m writing this, I remembered we have mechanical ventilation (not air con) but I never turn it on because I forget we have it. The fan is attached to a smart plug which in turn is controlled by the Google assistant via voice commands.

I recommend the Tapo smart plugs which tells you the energy consumption of whatever is plugged into them.

Washer is never bloody off - between toddler clothes, leaking nappies meaning wet bed sheets, a football mad teen, a gym loving husband, towels and all the other bedding aside from the toddlers wet stuff..... can be on 3 times a day some days but always at least once.

Dishwasher on daily, occasionally twice especially through holidays when we're all at home for all the days' meals or I've done a roast or something similar.

No tumble.

2 adults and 2 children.

125 a month - G&E combined and in credit.

Do you still use your tumble drier in summer? They are very expensive to run, we don't have one for that reason.

Dishwasher once a day through the night on the eco cycle
Washing machine 4 times a week.
Tumble dryer probably 4 times a week in the Winter. If it’s drying weather the washing goes on the line.

have you given meter readings when moving in?

give readings monthly to get the most acurate bill.

Again, we barely use our tumble dryer once a week in the winter max.

it depends really. 2 adults in the house. I tend to fill the dishwasher until we’ve used everything up and then run it. So it can take 3-4 days easily before it needs running. Sometimes might only be once a week.

Washing machine probably averages once a week, sometimes more sometimes less. I don’t have a dryer.

So yea, that sounds excessive/expensive to me.

Dishwasher every day, washing machine 3-4 times a week. Haven't got a tumble dryer.

Family of 4, 2 primary school DC.

We have a heat pump dryer but use it very little at this time of year, we'll occasionally use it to get towels fluffy. This month its not been on at all.

Washing machine - 3-4 times a week.

Dishwasher- 4-5 times a week.

You use the dryer a lot.

Every day

I use a dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer. I’ve managed to get our energy bills down by using the air fryer instead of the oven, plus I downloaded all the manuals for my appliances to find which cycles actually use the least energy. It’s often not what you think.

Dishwasher everyday, 2 loads of washing most days, most of that ends up in the tumble dryer.

4 adults & 1 child living here.

Dishwasher at least once a day, sometimes twice. About 10/12 loads of washing a week. Tumbledrier on about 1/2 tikes a week in the summer & about 5 times a week in the between October & April.

All electric cooking too.

Electric bill right now is £60 a month & will go up to £130 a month over the winter.

@Heronwatcher

just to say, the shortest washes are more convenient sometimes, but not always the cheapest. Longer washes tend to use more 'soaking' time & less agitation. If you're wanting to save money you need to check YOUR machines usage, as they vary.

Dishwasher - never

Washing machine - 1 load every other day unless emergency (e.g. children are sick and need to wash lots of bedding) and once a month I do a wash every day for 4 or 5 days to get bedding, towels, kitchen towels etc washed and catch up on the normal clothes washing that gets a little behind during the month

Tumble dryer - once a month I do a tumble dry every day to dry bedding, towels, kitchen towels etc, the washing machine and tumble dryer are in the bathroom and I hang the non tumble dryable stuff in there so with the tumbler on it dries extra fast and I can pack it away the next day ready for the next load.

Family of 4 (2 young children).

I do 2 loads a day. I tend to hang adult clothes and tumble dry kids clothes. In the winter I dry adult clothes with the dehumidifier.

We don't even have a dish washer or tumble drier and we put the washing machine on twice or x3 p/w and our total bill is £120, which is double what we were paying before the energy hike. I think it must be the baths we have as we don't like showers..there's no other reason. We have a heat pump and it's not as great as people make out. It's always breaking and is expensive to service even though all they do is fiddle around with the programmer and check the filter.

Dishwasher probably every other day. Washing machine most days but only one load - maybe 5 loads a week. We have a 10kg one. Tumble drier never in the summer, maybe three times a week in the winter. Energy bill is about £160 a month for both gas and electric

I find the oven uses the most electricity.

what programmes do you run?

the eco ones take a long time but save considerably energy and water.

also, are you waiting until you have a full load? i.e. could you run the dishwasher every other night if you reuse cups/glasses throughout the day?

If it's a new house, check airing cupboard to make sure you don't have an immersion heater that has been left on. If you have a garage, shed or loft, make sure nothing on in there that shouldn't be.
Fridge or freezer will be working harder in this weather too.
Make sure vents and filters on tumble drier are clean as will help efficiency.
Anything with a heating or cooling element eats electric like leaving the iron or straighteners on for longer than necessary.
If you electricity is cheaper over night, do your battery charging then and unplug during the day.

Dishwasher every day, usually overnight on the eco cycles washing machine most days, sometimes more than once if it's a good drying day. Because I never use the tumble dryer, it's like just burning money it's so dear!