How many units of electricity do you use a day?

[SpeckledlyHen]

Does anyone know roughly how many units of electric they use a day? Reason for asking is my husband has calculated based on our current usage that our electricity bill is going to be about £1100 this month. I am gobsmacked. He said we are using approx 100 units a day - a unit is 34p, so that's £34.00 a day.

This CAN'T be right can it? He said so far today we have used 20 units. The only thing that is on is the heating (but not high) and the aga (although we set this to a low tick over heat during the day. The house is not by any means boiling, yesterday I did plug in an electric heater to top it up whilst I was working from home. We don't have pools/hot tubs or anything apparently obviously gobbling electricity that I can think of to switch off.

This is not a smart meter reading but just reading the numbers on the ordinary meter.

I just did a very quick google and an "average" household seems to use between 4-6 units a day.

I am going to phone the electricity company soon but this just seems totally and utterly ludicrous and I can't get over what we "appear" to be using.

We only moved into the house in August and I am wondering if the meter needs replacing.

Average of 6.8 according to my bill. I don't use gas for much aside from hot water and the cook top. (1 person household).

I checked our bills, our current daily usage is between 9 and 15 units of electric a day (gas central heating and hob but electric oven) with the highest levels in recent days with the cold snap. We’re in a 10 year old 4 bed detached house so larger than yours so if those numbers are accurate you’ve either got a fault somewhere or are being very inefficient with your usage.

Our highest is around 22Kw a day for electric, 3 bed detached house around 22 years old! Currently on Mat leave so home alot during the day. Our rates were fixed before the crazy too, so not looking forward to next September!

I have gas central heating and gas boiler for hot water.

everything else is electric.

we use 9-13kwh a day of electric usually, that's with my washer and dryer being used every day and theres usually at least one person at home. It can be higher on the days I wash bedding erc as it takes a while to dry in the dryer. Yesterday I used 23kwh but I was on a manic cleaning spree all day.

for gas use anything from 20-40kwh per day. That's with bath and showers daily and we put the heating on for a bit and the morning and again late afternoon until early evening before getting in so bed with electric blankets and hot water bottles.

Oh my, an electric Aga. They can use an insane number of kwh, especially older models, I think.

High use family - three of us WFH with laptops, desktops, , monitors etc plus gaming on PS5s in the evenings. Washing machine and dishwasher used 4-6 times a week each. Half hour of ironing a week and dehumidifier on for about four hours a week. Average 15kwh a day.

@SpeckledlyHen

I did read your original message again.

Bear in mind a 1kW "small" electric heater left on for an entire day would consume 24 units on its own. If you add your aga to this, plus your other domestic usage it could come out to 100 units per day. Ouch.

156kwh for the whole of November.

Thanks all, yes it definitely seems like the aga is the biggest guzzler. I did another meter reading the same time the following day and we were about 50 units in 24 hours. Add in weekdays with laptops on etc I can see why it’s so high.. we need to rethink the aga (it came with the house) because we had to turn it off in the summer and had no other means of cooking. It’s not worth it.

That’s good you’ve found the source. We installed another cooker in our kitchen to use when the aga is off (also have an airfryer too). At some point we will get rid of our aga when we redo our kitchen but will be another couple of years.

Quite a few people I know have gas cookers connected to bottles as an alternative to electric (May work out cheaper I’m not sure now through!). We are all on oil and it means they aren’t dependant on the electricity which can go off a lot in the winter.

It’s the aga. We have an everhot and when it’s fully on we are using 30 units a day. When it’s off in the summer we use about 13 units.

We are also using 100 units per day in a tiny house. We have storage heaters and no oil or gas. I was never expecting an amount like this!!
I'm not sure if the meter is correct, but I've been taking photos of it each morning and it seems to be true!

Have you got energy saving light bulbs, although it doesn't seem a lot, if you have the old style 100w or 150w bulbs on a lot of the day it mounts up.

Computers and things don't use much power, tumble dryers are pretty bad then washing machines and dishwashers. We have cheaper night time rates, so now run the washing machine and dishwasher overnight (when I remember). It's not recommended to run tumble dryers at night because of the problems with them catching fire.

Wow. That's over £1000 per month at the current 35p kWh price cap.

Did you manage to fix your prices before the increases?

We use about 11/12 ish units per day. 2 fridge freezers, 1 upright freezer, dishwasher, washing machine, tumble drier but that's only used in extreme circs. Heat lamp and heat mat for the tortoise 24 hours per day. We've just turned on our oil filled radiators in the hall and utility room for 1/2 an hour twice a day, before that it was averaging about 8 units a day. Gas cooker, gas central heating, gas hot water but that's about £3.20 ish per day.
We are religiously unplugging everything that's not being used, like tv's and chargers etc, turning lights off and we've reduced our consumption by quite a bit.

storage heaters should come on during the off peak cheaper times and use energy units at the lower rate. However 100 units is astronomical amount per day.

They say our economy 7 meter hasn't been registered properly, but even if it had we would actually owe them more!!
We have asked them to investigate, because this cannot be correct.
We only moved in a few months ago and they haven't managed to sort out our account properly. Apparently this is my fault (which it isn't as I did everything correctly at the time).
What a joke these companies are.
I feel a complaint to the ombudsman coming on!

I don't know the units, but we are on the normal capped rates and yesterday - we only had the heating set to 15C in the day, and off overnight (4-bed house but some rooms closed off) - we racked up almost £22 (£8 electricity, £14 gas) 😩😩😩

We use an average of 3. In summer obviously less, but this time of year perhaps 5-6 on a bad day. (Oil heating)

I phoned the energy supplier and registered my interest in a smart meter. They reckon that once that is installed they will take an average over a few days/weeks and see if the old meter is faulty in anyway and refund the difference of the average daily use. I do think the bloody Aga has a lot to answer for though with the amount we are using on a daily basis.

I have done another meter reading today. It has risen by 100 units in 48 hours so that is 50 units a day. Still shockingly high but not quite as stomach churning as 100 per day. Tonight we are going to turn the Aga off and see what difference that makes to everything. If that is the culprit it is going to have to go, we will buy a normal electric range instead. Also we will have to find a way of better heating the kitchen longer term.

I am really missing my lovely old kitchen with underfloor heating (water based) because even with the Aga on and costing all that money the kitchen is freezing! Huge high ceilings and I guess any heat the Aga is generating is going straight upwards. What a total and utter waste of space it is to cook one hot meal a day.

Surely you must be on an E7 tariff.

Also historically you must have always had very high bills unless you have just moved in ?

IIRC the electricity price has just doubled, so even on the old tariffs you would have been shelling out about £500 a month unless I am missing something ?

100 units isn't that much if you have electric heating. It's equivalent to 4.2kWh per hour, which for example is two large oil filled radiators (2 kW) on permanently. I used the equivalent about 2.5 kWh (one radiator) per hour to heat my place pretty frugally yesterday, so 100 kWh per day to keep a house going is not outrageous.

I think a lot of people who love agas use them as a kitchen centrepiece, so not only cooking 3 meals a day, but family gathered round them in the evenings, drying clothes with them etc which probably gets more value.

Although a lot of the aga fans have suddenly gone quite. Or maybe they can't afford to keep both the aga and the internet.

Mine isn’t even an aga, it’s an everhot so much more cost effective. It’s still costing me about £7 a day to run it (and that’s using the eco settings)

Any more daily electricity usage since the show hit?

mine (electricity) coming in at 13 a day for last few days

not sure about gas as not been set up yet on smart meter