Do you have a machine that tells you how much gas and electric you spend per day? Please post here what you spend!

[DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou]

We are a family of 5, 2 adults 3 kids.

We have never had one of these little boxes that tells you how much you spend per day on gas and electric.

Until 1 week ago, we lived in a 2 bedroom flat with storage heaters and no gas running to the flats at all. We would pay £75 a month for electric and everyone was happy.

We have now moved into a new house which has 5 bedrooms, and it has one of these boxes.

We haven't changed over to our own supplier yet, but the quotes on compare the market etc arent that much more than the flat (around £94 a month for gas and electric combined, fixed rate).

However, this box tells us that we are spending £5-6 a day when we are home all day and £4-5 a day when we are out from 7am- 5pm.
This does indeed seem extortionate.

Of course the heating is off during the day when we aren't home and all the lights are off. I come home to a freezing cold dark house. Yet we still seem to be spending a lot!

DH is blaming my Lakeland heated airer but they aren't on every day and supposedly very cheap to run.

How many people do you have, how many rooms and what do you spend?!

4 bed detached, winter quarter, we spend about £3.20 a day.

3 bed semi, built 1927. Good windows and insulation. 1 adult and 2 kids. About £3-4 a day this time of year.

4 bed, 1 adult, 3 children, in and out during day so heating and electric on regularly, anywhere between £2.80 and £3.50.

We have a 5 bed semi in winter our GAS usage is at least £2 per day more than usual, electric goes up probably £1 a day for more lights and pumping the heating around.

Your light bulbs and how efficient your boiler system is makes a huge difference.

Summer bills are massively lower than the cold months.

If you were in a flat before, you would have been insulated on the sides where there were other flats. And if you are heating twice the space, it is likely to cost more.

Have you checked your loft? You should have 20cm of insulation. Are your windows double glazed? Thick curtains with thermal linings?

Yes we also massively benefited from the people below us. The winter before last the flat was empty and we were ice cubes the whole summer. I even fired up a rad that we hadn't used before.

The windows here are shot to bits.
I'm not sure about the loft.

The lightbulbs are mental I don't even know what the fuck they are they could be bad. I will take a pic.

Living room (times two) and kitchen.

What even are they?!

(We were ice cubes the whole winter, not summer).

I dont have one of these boxes but I pay £120 a month for a 3 bedroom house. I build up credit in the summer which is used in winter

We are currently on £2.50 for a terraced 2up2down. It does seem like a lot to pay, especially when you’re all out of the house all day. Those lights look like LEDs.

Windows will Be a big issue, thick heavy curtains with thermal linings will be worth the investment

Three bed, three storey detached here and we spend around £3.50 a day at the moment but it'll go up to about £4/4.50 if the snow comes and we have minus temperatures, I'm not a lover of the cold.

Oh no we are up to £7 some days

Victorian terrace house in London. Winter = £4-5.50 per weekend day. £3.50 on weekdays when we're mostly out.
Summer = £1.50-2 maximum.

Is the box set uo to calculate at the price you be paying per unit? If it's what the previous owners did you might need to make sure it's set correctly

Well, if you don't have one of those just look at your bill and your meter readings and divide by the number of days.

Can I butt in and ask those of you who have boxes that tell you how much you spend daily...are these the smart meters that are provided by your energy suppliers or an independent box thingymejingy?
If they are independent boxes would you mind sharing which you have? Can't help thinking one would be useful for us. Thanks, and sorry for the hijack OP.

3 bed flat (own entrance) bathroom, kitchen, living room, hallway and entrance hall/stairs. Radiator in each room. GCH and water, electric cooker and the usual appliances. 2 people, I average on electric £10 a week in summer, but this winter it's £15-£18 a week. Hard to say day by day, but on days I am nights and DD not here it's about £2 a day, I leave 2 lights on (energy saving bulbs) and a radio on overnight, have electric blanket on and TV for 1-2 hours and use microwave and kettle, toaster, dry my hair, charge phone etc. Days we're both here it's about £3-£3.50 a day depending on how much washing and oven cooking I do.
Gas is £5 a week in summer and £15 this winter, heating on 2 hours a day when I'm at work, 6 when I'm not, 10 baths (no shower) a week on average.
Last year both were £10 a week each in winter, don't think I'm using any more, just prices gone up. I'm on prepay so it's more expensive anyway.

Smart meter - see attached, taken photograph just now for gas plus electricity combined. Large and old (1700) converted two bedroomed flat. We rarely have the heating on. I know how much it costs to boil a kettle, have a bath, shower, do a load of washing and just "run" the standing items, because I'm a bit sad .... and an accountant. Standing charges are added at midnight, 26p a day for gas and 18p a day for electricity (might be the other way round). We average £1.50 - £2.00 a day at weekends.

4 bed semi. About 4£ a day

We have a smart meter that tells us around £5 per day but actually spend around £3.50 per day as the smart meter display won't update properly to our correct tarrif.
We have mostly led light bulbs, heating off during day when we're at work and a relatively energy efficient boiler in a 4bed detached newish build house.

4 bedroom detached bungalow here. We have a smart meter that tells me I use around 70p per day electric and 35p per day gas.
I rarely have the heating on as there is no one home for a lot of the time.
I don't have a fridge or freezer. I have a stone pantry that keeps stuff cool, and I never use the dishwasher.
The usage mostly comes from the kettle, microwave and shower. ( Shower runs off the mains, so uses gas to heat up)

Three bed terraced with a very very poorly insulated extension kitchen, spend about £3.70 if we're home all day, about £2.50 if we're out (most of which is the heating in the morning and the evening).

Goes down to under £2 a day in winter when the heating isn't trying to fight a loosing battle.

We switch everything except the fridge and the Internet off at the wall though, rarely use the dryer,don't have a dishwasher, don't have electric heaters etc and only have a shower not a bath.

The little display thing goes nuts if someone is in the shower and the kettle goes on which I find strangely amusing.

4 bed semi, cottage built early 19th century, about £4 a day this time of year.

£5 a day: solid wall detached house, teenager taking long electric showers, several electric heaters. I cannot wait to get smart meters.