Can you look at my bill ? (Pics)

[Winternights22]

Hi when did the 2nd rise in gas/electric go up ? I have been really careful with my gas /electric. I'm doing nothing different to what I was doing a few months back. Even with the rises my cost seems to have had a massive leap . I have shown 2 pics just to get peoples opinion of the leap. Does the leap seem a bit much ?

You can see by this that your usage increased over the colder months and then reduced over the warmer months. October was colder than September. So it's either the immersion heater like we've said, or you are benefiting from solar energy during the sunnier months. You'll know next month probably now that you've turned the immersion off.

Im not the OP, I was showing how my bill have shown a similar pattern. That using more electric in October than September is quite normal. Then add in the 1st Oct price hike, it goes up a lot.

Oops sorry. I didnt even notice! And yeah I agree, it's normal for usage to increase.

Don’t suppose it used to run from the 9th of the month to the 8th? Because if it did, but they ended September early on 30th rather than run to 9th October in order to start fresh with the new prices it’d add up (so 31 days August and October but with more lights on in October, 22 days of September)

When the gas engineer Came. He mentioned the panels and I said I don't get anything from. Them . Council get it via grid. And he had a look and agreed I don't He said you can tell by the 2 low pipes . If they was towards the top then I would get savings from it. But their not.

It hardly makes a difference, I've done one week leaving it on, one week turning it off and it literally makes hardly any difference. They do not use electricity until the water temperature drops below a certain level, they do not eat electricity constantly. I fact it costs loads more to reheat the water from cold then it does to keep it at the same heat.

If the immersion heater is properly insulated that it won't cost any money being left on until it drops below the set temperature. An emersion heater is NOTHING like a kettle left on boil. An immersion heater only uses electricity when it drops below its set temperature so it will not use anything at all most of the time. A kettle left on boil will burn the plug out, overflow, burn out the coil. To heat water in the immersion from cold costs a lot money. Keeping it on and ticking over doesn't cost that much. Where did you get the 70p per hour rate from? How can that be true if it only uses electricity when it is heating up cold water. I think you mean 70p per hour heating up from cold.

No im wondering if I should turn the emersion heater back on and boiler off 🤣

No. Heating water with electric is more expensive than gas. The electric switch is there a back-up if your gas boiler fails.

We had to use ours for a few weeks a few years ago when our boiler conked out and the difference in our bills was noticeable.

I only have my hot water on for 1 hour per day and that's sufficient for our needs (gas boiler). We have cold fed appliances and electric showers.

If the hot water cylinder is insulated then it should keep the water hot while it sits there waiting to be used.

I dont see how it can be cheaper to have the immersion clicking in and out than just heating for a set time and then switching off.

It's not cheaper, but it's not 100s more either. For me the cost of turning it on when I needed it didn't put weigh the cost of keeping it on constantly. It doesn't use electricity until the water goes below a certain temperature. People bang on about them being the same as a kettle constantly on boil but that is absolutely not true. If its insulated well then the water will stay hot, therefore no electricity will be used until it dips below the set temperature. It doesn't use constant electricity. There's so much nonsense about them eating electricity and it's rubbish. I tested mine as I'm on a paid meter. The difference per month to on vs off and on was literally a couple of pounds. Not enough difference to me to have the inconvenience of constantly switching it on and off.