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How much is your smart meeter showing today

35 replies

Carfeulyay · 01/12/2022 19:31

£15 at 19.30 so likely to hit a few more pounds by midnight. we had the hearing on 16deg for a few hours this morning & an hour this afternoon, hot water enough for 1 small child bath & cooked pasta on the hob & two working people on screens and one load of laundry.

I have had a fire on all day (thanks to logs we had in garden) and dried my washing in front of it.

I dread to think the cost when it gets any colder!

what’s your smart reading? Hubby thinks im
getting obsessed and should unplug it!

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Spectre8 · 01/12/2022 21:25

On the current standard variable rate. Was working in the office got home at 7pm and it was only £1.85 both gas and elec.

Since I've been home heating for one hour, air fryer use and watching TV and its now £3.50

Heating for an hour is about £1.20 ish.

I'm back in the office full time now saves me heating during the day so I cna spend the money in the evening instead

Wherearemymarbles · 01/12/2022 21:27

£3 electricity
£11 gas. Heating set 18.5 for 2 hours in the morning and 19 from 3.30 till 10

PurpleButterflyWings · 01/12/2022 21:29

Haven't got one. Wouldn't have one if you paid me. Worst invention ever, and the more my energy provider tries to BULLY me into having one, the more I am determined not to have one.

ginggung · 01/12/2022 21:43

I agree with your hubby, I've refused to have one installed, my hubby started getting manic and obsessed about switches and usage but not in a normal way. Like confiscating phone chargers left plugged in but not in use. I just send in regular readings or calculate my own usage week by week, I adjust DD accordingly and put the rebate straight back onto my account.

Mumlifedc · 01/12/2022 21:44

5:30 gas 3:50 electric, heating on 1hr morning and 4hrs evening ( via thermostat so on and off based on temp, just dropped temp to 15 for overnight) out of the house from 7.30 till 3:30. But on second washer load, having building work done and using a dry buddy to dry laundry. Not sat in the dark,messing around on my phone.

Paranoidandroidmarvin · 02/12/2022 08:17

I like my smart metre. I have set myself to not go over £5 a day as that’s what I can afford. So I can keep an eye on where I am money wise each day and if I can have the heating on or not. I wouldn’t be without one.

NewBootsAndRanty · 02/12/2022 10:28

Whacked the heating up to a super toasty 21 last night.
Overall use was £5.72 for gas (heating on 23 h) and £1.91 electric with the dehumidifier (everything went off for an hour at 5pm for a saving session with my supplier).

IncessantNameChanger · 02/12/2022 12:34

As my radiators are playing up, it's a toasty 9 degrees! Heating went on at 11am so hopefully it will warm up by the time it gets dark.

I don't know who but 9 degrees in the daytime is bearable. But after dark it's hideous. Maybe because I'm moving less after cooking dinner?

Time to find a heating engineer. But it's been eye opening to see how it can really get. Colder than I had imagined. I just hope it's fixable. And the smart metre doesn't go over £10 🥴

NewBootsAndRanty · 02/12/2022 13:03

Yikes @IncessantNameChanger
I did a winter with no central heating and two little fan heaters once and it was not fun.
Fingers crossed it's sorted quickly and cheaply!

IncessantNameChanger · 02/12/2022 13:45

Thanks, it so annoying as it was fine a few weeks back. It costs a fortune to seemingly do nothing, but I finally realised last weekend it is capable of still raising the temp a few degrees. I'm praying it will creep up slowly.

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