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How much per day is your gas/electricity costing?

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WombatChocolate · 04/12/2023 10:34

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

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Knackeredhamster · 14/01/2024 17:20

WombatChocolate · 10/01/2024 17:55

It’s cold again. My daily spend on gas has been around £10. That has involved it being on for an hour and a half in the morning (getting up to 17 degrees in that time) followed by being on all day at 15 degrees as people have been at home. At about 5pm I turn it up to 17 degrees for the evening until it goes off at 9.30.

Is this a good way to spend my £10? It seems to use a lot of energy to heat up from cold. However, I don’t leave it on all night as that seems to costs several pounds more. We are never toasty warm. When it’s 17degrees in the evening we are comfortable as we are used to it and wear warm clothes. In the day, at 15 degrees we are just about okay if still wearing warm clothes.

I’ve opted for more hours at lower heat than fewer at hotter heat because at least were never freezing (it would drop to about 12 degrees if off) and heating it up to 18 or 19 from cold seems to use such a vast amount of energy.

Sorry- it’s all very tedious. But I’m feeling it’s costing a lot and we’re still not really warm, just not freezing.

Any thought on how to better use the £10. I really don’t want to spend above that on gas. Electricity stays pretty constant at around £1.50 a day.

thansk.

I'm doing pretty much the same routine as you, I used to do the two blasts a day but getting up to heat was pricey with a gap during the day.
It is tedious indeed lol but I feel like at least we're not really chilly in that waiting time. So I've been keeping it on at 15.5 from 10am till 4pm just ticking over. Turning it off about 9pm

Knackeredhamster · 14/01/2024 17:22

Posted too soon.
In conclusion no I can't think of any better way to be comfortable!

Cyberpixie · 14/01/2024 17:51

All electric, 2 bed bungalow, all rooms except bathroom and separate toilet has outside walls. Temp gets to 11-13c overnight and first thing in this cold weather. Starts dropping like a stone within an hour of turning any heat off.

Spending anywhere from £9-11.50 a day in this cold.
Only 2 adults and 2 tiny dogs. The latter has an oil filled radiator on 19c overnight while it's so cold otherwise they suffer. Approx 80p a night. My hot water tank costs £1.50-£2 every night to heat.

I don't use the 'smart' storage heaters as what comes out of them is lukewarm air and costs another £300 a month by themselves if they're all on 6hrs a day. I just heat the rooms we're in with an oil filled radiator and 1 a/c unit that heats as well as cools (cheapest way, I get 4kw worth of heat for 1kw in cost).

I miss cental heating. No chance of getting it where I am.
I'm on a fixed rate of 27p per kw and 48p standing charge. In summer I'm at around £6.60 a day which includes a/c.

Poppins17 · 14/01/2024 20:45

3 bed semi here, we have a living room then open plan dining room, kitchen and lounge area which we mainly live in.

Typically we have the heating on from 4pm to 9pm and 5am to 8am, and we’re using around £10.50 per day.

Over the cold snap we will leave the heating on longer, maybe all day.

TheDefiant · 14/01/2024 20:56

Our December bill for 30 days (8 Dec - 7 Jan) was just under £200. Daily use for gas and electricity total was £6.64

TheDefiant · 14/01/2024 20:58

Should add there are 4 of us in a 3 bed semi-detached house. Well insulated but in a cold and windy location.

Mumaway · 14/01/2024 20:59

We are quite heavy users as charge 2 cars. Heating on about 6hrs per day at 19. Overall costs £10 per day gas and electric in winter, maybe £4 in summer

mondaycando1 · 18/01/2024 11:36

In a 2 bed 60s purpose built flat with kids with me 50% of the time, admittedly end of the run so 3 external walls. I have crappy ancient E7 storage heaters that I can't afford to replace yet and am spending £6-10 a day on electricity (all electric with no option for gas) which makes it tolerably warm for a couple of hours in the morning then oil radiators in the evening for a few hours in lounge and kids bedroom. The kitchen / diner is basically unusable as it's too cold, full of condensation and black mould. Roll on spring and a couple of more paydays when I can start addressing some of the issues.

SamProfessional · 18/01/2024 13:29

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