Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Housekeeping

Find cleaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Housekeeping forum.

Why are flats expensive on electricity???!

52 replies

purplebaubles · 07/03/2014 09:13

To be honest, I just want to move to a house!

2 bed flat (new build 'apartment') - 2 adults, one baby. Storage heaters. Only use one of them though, as aware they're expensive. Other than that, water is on for 2 hrs in the morning, and 2 hrs in the evening.

Microwave, washing machine (goes on overnight on economy 7, cheaper rate), tumble drier (used occasionally, again on economy 7) oven, fridge, tv, phone/laptop chargers, hairdryers, lights. That's all I can think of that uses electricity.

We are currently paying £170 a month Shock and according to my last bill (which I couldn't make head nor tail of, I'd inputted actual readings online, but when the bill came, it split it into 3 different lots of day rate, and 3 different lots of night rate!!) we only used £30 a month BUT for the same period (30 days) and same daily consumption (44units) the month before, they'd charged us £160.

Seriously. WTF is going on!

It's Scottish Power. Anyone else find their billing system ridiculous to understand?! And their bills high?

I also think it's madness that we use 44 units daily - HOW?! How does the TV being on and laptop use that much? (with the odd cup of coffee being boiled!) What do other people use daily?

Any help?! Suggestions?!

OP posts:
JaneyS79 · 03/06/2015 15:44

I'm looking to have my pulsacoil 2000 replaced as it has a small leak on it, can anyone recommend a replacement which isn't PulsaCoil?

Dunncharlie · 07/02/2019 19:45

Best replacement for a PulsaCoil is a ThermaCoil pulsacoil.com/thermacoil/ cheaper to run and less to go wrong. Also comes with a ten year manufacturers warranty.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page