Could I have some help to settle an argument between dh and I, please?

[MrAndMrsTwit]

Dh is obsessive about turning lights off, unplugging things, turning the heating down etc......

This drives me totally up the wall and is causing so many arguments lately, it's just unreal.

I am pretty good about turning things off when they are are genuinely not being used for a reasonable length of time, but he turns things off if you leave the room for 1 minute.

Surely it is better for a light bulb or an appliance to be left on for an hour than to be tured on and off 10 times in an hour????

Please somebody tell me there is some kind of article or report that I can show him which will prove this.....

You could be saving my marriage

I have been told it is better to have the heating on all the time at a lower setting than set to come on and go off twice a day.

okay I am persuaded!

It is better for the life of the lightbulb not to be switched on and off too frequently but that has to be offset against the cost of leaving it on.

If you have fluorscent tubelighting, that costs far less and in fact costs more money to switch them off and on all the time than leaving them on, because the most electricity is used for firing the starter.

i regularly come home to blackpool illuminations. I try to turn off lights etc when I have left a room but not if I am in and out of them frequently.Try and compromise, and unplug everything at night, why not look at your meter as your dh turns off lights in unused rooms and other appliances that you are not really using but are on, you'll be suprised what a difference it makes.Switch to energy saving bulbs, that way you will be doing your bit and maybe dh will not be so ocd about it.we all have a resposibility if not to our pockets then to the environment.

Hecate - They used to advise you to keep your heating on low at all times. This has now changed to put heating on timer, i found this out a few days ago when i phoned my gas supply to ask about £700 gas bill! Apparently this is due to me leaving my heating on low at times.

I wish they would make their bloody minds up!

My DH is exactly the same and used to drive me up the wall until we got an energy monitor - it's absolutely gobsmacking how much energy/money you save by not leaving things on standby etc. I'm still not quite as uptight about turning things off myself bu make more of an effort than I did and it doesn't drive me up the wall that he does it anymore.