How much does your central heating cost per hour?

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Feck I’m cold. Just put an oil filled heater on in my living room, soon switched it off when the electric rose 10p in four minutes on the smart meter.

We reckon the central heating for the whole house costs just over £1 per hour. Is that a lot? How much is yours?

And is there a cheaper heating device that I could buy to heat just one room during the day, when I am the only one at home?

Any suggestions warmly welcomed!

Mines about a £1 an hour

Maybe £1.30/£1.50 ish an hour looking online at the bill breakdown ( ovo) only having it on for hour or so bursts. Have done hour and a half max. Seems to average out at the above.

Ours seems so high! It's been on for 2hrs and 21min and costs £5.40 according to the display on the IHD. We've also used the gas hob to cook this evening but not for long.
Racked up £12 on utilities today.

£2.34 an hour. I don’t put it on. Cheaper to buy a lot of cashmere roll necks and jump up and down. I do have a log burner.

Gas central heating fir the whole house is about 1.20 an hour, but if I’m just heating my office area I use a small camping halogen (I think) heater that costs about 25p an hour

i’d count that as an hour too. It will depend on the thermostat and outside temp for how long it was actually fired up in that hour

Do you open and close radiators during the day to achieve this? I have a Nest but I can’t control the heat by room - is it possible to do that?

I think you need smart radiator valve things?

I've been monitoring mine and set at eighteen degrees it's about a pound an hour. I'm not quite on the current rates, I have a cap to the April rates that runs to the end of March.

Have a look at this for heating a room, runs pretty cheap:

Electric Fan Heater for Home,500W... www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BG9XYLLF?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Have a look at this for heating a room, runs pretty cheap

Thats because it puts out less heat than a hairdryer.

I'd agree with this. We've twice lived in properties without central heating. In the first one we had a calor gas heater and oil filled radiators and the second a single gas fire in the living room and electric panel heaters in the bedrooms. We were really careful because of the cost, but it still cost more than running the combi boiler powered central heating that we installed and heated the whole house properly.

With anything heating, you have to remember that it won't be on all the time unless you're trying to heat a poorly insulated house in the depths of winter or don't have a working thermostat. It will click on and off so won't cost quite as much as rating x hours switched on.

But I disagree with a PP who says dishwashers cost £1 an hour to run. Ours uses between 0.7 and 1.3 kW per cycle, so about 25 to 45 p. The cheapest cycle is the eco cycle, which takes nearly 5 hours, so 4 p an hour or only about 25 p in total.

My boiler is 36yrs old I was really considering changing it this ur worried itll be costing me more but didn't quite have the money.

For an hour its £1.20 to hea tup to 20 degeees so seeing everyone else's figures makes me think well my boiler might be very old but doesn't seem that inefficient

Whole house is £3.60 an hour
Rooms we use,excluding, kitchen is £1.20 an hour.
(Sons left home and house now too big)

About £2 an hour, but that isn't heating it to a particularly warm temp! We have a large 4 bed house with 14 radiators all individually controlled using Hive but all on.

I need to experiment with it to see if we are using it efficiently but the numbers are so high I panic and turn it off 😳 We spent £6.46 on gas alone yesterday and only had the heating on for just over 3 hours. Total bill was £10.24. Not quite sure what the plan is going to be when it gets colder as whilst the electricity should stay about the same we'll need the heating on for more than 3 hours. My house is Baltic and we would probably need the heating on throughout the summer if we wanted it above 18⁹ as it just doesn't tend to get warmed by the sun.

i have no idea
how would i know?

@Willmafrockfit do you have a smart meter and an online account? You should be able to see your gas usage per day on the meter and your online account will also break it down for you.

We have oil fired central heating. No idea what is costs per hour to use. Does anyone else know? I appreciate it will depend on boiler size and make and oil prices, but I'd like to have a rough idea.

Eeeek. We must be similar. We have hive too and it's shows c 3 hours usage in a 24 hour period since it turned cold last few days. We have smart meters but EDF say can't connect to the gas one (?!) so we can't see gas on in home display. But if so, our total gas and electricity right now will be £10 a day easily.

I'm trying to work out what I was doing in June to be using less gas now! My house is 20oc

I put the heating on in the afternoon for the first time on Sunday between about 4pm and 7.30pm. Turned the thermostat up to 19C and switched the heating on. Also used two gas rings for about 20 minutes in that time. The gas part of the smart meter went from £2.25 to £5. Fucking ridiculous.

lh thank you @CaveMum
they have a problem giving us a smart meter, i am unable to book an appointment.

We have the heating on for 2 hours in the morning and about 3 in the evening and it costs us about £5 a day from what I can work out from the smart meter. We’ve tried having it on less but our house seems to get damp and mouldy really quickly. (1950s semi with very thick walls). It all seems ridiculous really as we have the heating on for 2 hours, then open the windows all day, and then shut them again and then put the heating back on. Feels like we might as well be throwing money out of the windows! (If we don’t open the windows we get black mould).

@Thankyouforthemusic each radiator has a wireless thermostatic valve and the home hub sends a message telling them when to open and close. The main timer for the boiler is set for morning and evening, the home hub controls the individual radiators.

Typo £2.60 not £3.60 🔥

Thank you all, relieved to see our hourly gas cost (just over a quid) is about normal. We’ve paid £200 a month for ages, and recently upped it to £300 but might need to add a bit extra to the account. Roll on spring!

The house is already feeling damp (old, stone, thick walls) so we’ve got a dehumidifier and are wiping down the windows every morning. Anyone tried the “cat litter in old tights” trick for the window sills?