How much per day is your gas/electricity costing?

[WombatChocolate]

Hi. I’ve become too interested in watching the smart meter to see what my daily spend is. Just wondered what others are spending.

For context, 3 bed house with gas CH and gas cooker. We have heating on for an hour in morning and about 5 hours in evening with thermostat set to 18.

• electricity is fairly constant for us as not impacted by weather…around £1.50 per day - including probably one run of either dishwasher or washing machine.
• gas - in the cold spell over weekend cost £10.50. (It was on an extra couple of hours as so cold) Most of Nov was costing about £7.50

Am on the standard tariff. Do these seem high/low/normal compared to what you guys are spending

You can log into your app/account with eon next and should be able to see what you've spent per day, it can take a few days to update but they are working on making it faster to show daily soonner

I don’t know where we’re going wrong when I read on here about people having their heating on for hours and hours at a time and gas bills of £3-4 per day. I’ve just checked and our gas is at £3.50 already. Heating has been on for 1 hour and hot water for 1 hour! I dread to think how much it would be if we had the heating on all day.

Single glazed Victorian 4 bed here with Gas CH and a gas oven.

Electricity is £2.85 - £3.85 a day depending on how much I've used the tumble drier.

Highest gas over the last couple of weeks with the cold snap was £11.50 a day - it is now £5-6.50 a day.

So, yesterday was £1.70 in electric and £4.55 in gas, although we were up to about £8.00 during the cold spell.

We actually use quite a lot of electric, high use household and an electric car mean we use about 20kwh/per day but we have a day/night tariff and charge the car and store the cheap electricity @ 9p/kwh in our home batteries.

I have my heating on all day but that doesn't mean it's actively heating all day, it kicks in any time it goes below 20.5c. So yesterday looks like this.

We’re an all electric 3 bed, 3 reception terrace house. We’re currently using about £10 a day which includes dishwasher/washing/tumble dryer most days. If we switch off all heat during the day we can get it down to about £5/6 a day.

During the summer when we’re running a hot tub it’s about a fiver a day, without the hot tub it’s £3.87.

You can see from that image that all the heavy lifting is done with the initial bust on the morning to get it up to temperature, then it only needs to balance the heat loss through the day.

3 of us in a 5 bed detached. We spent £160 in total last month, roughly £80 gas and £60 in electricity. Heating is on at 18/19C from about 6am to 10pm and overnight at 15 when it's really cold. We have a few rooms we don't use much and have the heating turned down very low in them, so that helps keep the cost down a bit. 60s house but we've insulated it to the hilt.

1 adult, 2 teens, 3 bed house gas CH and hob. Heating on regularly, controlled by Hive so adjusted as I felt cold but stays between 16.5 and 18.5 when the heating is on. I fixed at a low rate just before it was crazy, which I'm very thankful for.
November Gas usage - 130 units over 32 days (I read the meter 2 days late) therefore 4.07 units and cost of £2.04 per day £65.28 total.
November Electric usage - 232 units 32 days (I read the meter 2 days late) therefore 7.25 units and cost of £1.67 a day £53.46 total.

No idea about separated but I get twitchy if it goes over £5 a day (live alone)
I know I use around 5kwh electric a day

It sounds like a lot.

The problem is the devil is in the detail. So unless you provide much more information it is difficult to analyse.

I would guess my house would cost less than £1.50 for a similar amount of heating/hot water. I have a 24kW boiler 90% efficient which is obviously outputting around 10 kWh per hour for an hour of heating/hot water.

Your boiler could be really old. Your house could be really huge. Your hot water tank could be really big. Without additional details its difficult to tell whether your £3.50 is what it really costs, or whether there is something strange going on.

4 bedroom detached house 2 occupants, one always at home. Gas and electric is about £20 a week at the mo. We are well insulated and cuddle under the electric cuddling blanket to watch tv

New build 5 bed, three teens DH and I. About £3.50 a day but less when the sun shines as we have solar panels.

Big old house with new oil boiler uses about 70 litres per week this time of year costing about £50 per week. Electricity stays constant throughout year at £3.50 per week at 30p a unit.
We are not on mainland so have no competition for pricing - it is what it is.
We don’t heat house during the day, if DH is working from home then he has oil filled rad in his office.

Very interesting.
I’m in a small 3 bed mid terrace modern townhouse with all electric heating. Stupid ceiling heating! If I kept the heating on during the day even at 16 degrees it’s £15 a day.
With 2 hrs in the morning and the evening I can keep it to £10. We are freezing though.
£300 a month is too much! Balances out over the year to about £200/ month though.

Sorry you said per day!
£7 on oil and £3.50 on electricity.

@Doughnuting Wow! How much energy do you use for £3.50? That’s crazy good.

Since December 1st (so, in the previous 10 days) we've spent £21 on electricity and, coincidentally, £21 on gas.

The daily amount of electricity used varies depending on whether we use the oven, dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer or not.

The daily amount of gas used varies depending on whether we use the central heating or not. In general, we only have it on for a couple of hours in the morning if the weather is very cold (by that I mean below about 5 degrees). On milder days we only use our log burner for heating and the CH is switched off. Our hot water tank is heated by the gas boiler, twice a day for 40 minutes.

Three-bed semi, just me here and I have solar panels but I also have an electric car which I mostly charge at home.

Gas CH is on 1 hr morning, 1.5 hrs evening - I try not to turn it on outside these times, and use a heated throw in the evenings under an electric blanket on the bed. However, if it’s very cold, I will bump it for a couple of hours. Daily without any additions it’s £1.65, and reasonably comfortable, no mould problems.

Electric varies of course, as charging the car is about £7 a time. Without the car, about £3/day depending on whether it’s sunny or not. I have a diverter which heats the immersion heater before anything else, and so far, I have not needed to use the gas to heat water. Obviously, that would be different if I had a house full of teenagers. My plan is to get cavity wall insulation before next winter.

Not on a smart meter, but just looked at our last monthly bill - £1.92 pd for electric and £2.32 pd for gas. Three of us living here. During a cold spell, I'd expect our gas to be £4.50-6.00 pd. Like you, OP, our heating is set to 18c and is set for five hours a day, although, right now it's warmer, so probably doesn't run for more than a couple of hours a day.

I think in general heating is expensive for most people, so the people who can maintain a warm home for e.g. £2 per day are more the exception.

Glad if the warmer week we have had. It’s been wet and miserable but definitely warmer than last weekend and resulted in a lower daily spend on gas of around £6 instead of the £10+ it was reaching.

If it can be kept to averaging £7 per day over worst winter, that’s £49 per week and about £200 or just over per month. The there is about £50-£60 for electric on top.

My monthly DD is about £200. I started the winter with a credit of about £400, so hoping that by April when heating goes off, I won’t have run into deficit and the summer mo this will allow another credit building ready for next year. We will see. All depends how many very cold days there are. Should be able to significantly reduce use over the 5 days over Christmas when we are away and there will just be a couple of hours of low heating happening.

No smart meter, but my bill from 6th Oct to 6th Nov was £164, so £5.46 a day.

Edited to add, gas central heating, electric everything else, 3 bed mid terrace.

£5.60 a day on average currently. That's 4 adults, 2 of which don't understand the concept of turning off lights!!!

If you have led lights the amount you spend on lighting is pretty small.

If some people won't turn off the lights you can reduce the power in the bulbs, although you may find it takes forever to recover the cost of electricity used in terms of the cost of the new lighting.