Gas & Electricity

Kompany Car said:
Your house has to be well insulated and to get the best of it, wet underfloor heating. You can do it with normal rads but you need to upsize them or so I’m told.
We have decided the only way we are leaving the current house is in a box so are biting the bullet and getting solar fitted to one side of the house. The installers believe we can get 10kW of panels on the south facing roof and we have now asked them to price for a mixture of a solar battery and thermal store. The idea being it charges the battery first, then any further excess energy it heats a water tank and finally anything left it sticks back in the grid.
Click to expand...
Got to be the way to go tbh self sufficient is peace of mind.
 
Kompany Car said:
Your house has to be well insulated and to get the best of it, wet underfloor heating. You can do it with normal rads but you need to upsize them or so I’m told.
We have decided the only way we are leaving the current house is in a box so are biting the bullet and getting solar fitted to one side of the house. The installers believe we can get 10kW of panels on the south facing roof and we have now asked them to price for a mixture of a solar battery and thermal store. The idea being it charges the battery first, then any further excess energy it heats a water tank and finally anything left it sticks back in the grid.
Click to expand...
Hope you can ventilate in the summer!
 
Got my bill, between july and yesterday i am using about £35 a month , dual fuel, i am such a low user and in credit , my end of fix , end of dec, will bring £90 something a month , relieved it isnt worse than that
 
£53.12 after 12 days. A couple of spikes in gas usage during 2 cold evenings. But not bad.

Screenshot_20221122-155122~2.png
 
Blue Maverick said:
Little experiment tonight as house is getting cold now, once the house is upto temperature every half hour the heating kicks in to get back to 20 degrees after dropping to around 19.6. We had the heating on an extra 2 and half hours and it cost us about £1. So today we had the heating on for 1 hour this morning it cost, £1.20, a bath cost us about 80p and the heating on tonight for 3 1/4 hours cost £2.34, add in standing charge of 28p.
Total cost today £4.62, with no cooking (chippy tea) you could add 50p for that normally. So I reckoned on £5 a day budget if needed, but we have a lot of credit so on those really cold days it could be on longer if needed.
Trouble is my wife works from home and she as we all know women gets cold unless is 40 degrees! I feel like fucking Scrooge can I put another coal on the fire, it seems though it would be more economical in the colder days to have the heating on for longer periods than intermittent bursts as the house will never get warm before it cuts out.
Click to expand...

How much did you spend on the chippy tea out of interest?
 
nw42 said:
I reckon they shared a haddock & large chips and warmed a tin of peas in the microwave, more expense!
Click to expand...
Ha ha not far wrong, it was £11 for the three of us as my daughter had done well at her cheerleading, don’t often have them these days .
 
Blue Maverick said:
Ha ha not far wrong, it was £11 for the three of us as my daughter had done well at her cheerleading, don’t often have them these days .
Click to expand...
Same here, having a lot less takeaways recently, as for dining out, becoming a rarity now, needs must.

On a brighter note, just had the monthly bill from Octopus, spent only £12 more than the monthly amount they are charging, as we are over £700 in credit I think we can relax a bit on trying to be so frugal with the heating, gas was around £150 for the month, electric about £60. So glad we took the plunge and replaced the boiler back in the Spring, already reaping the benefits.
 
Our heating seems to be about a £1 an hour to tbf, new boiler aswell. Turn things down on it too I think.
 
nw42 said:
Same here, having a lot less takeaways recently, as for dining out, becoming a rarity now, needs must.

On a brighter note, just had the monthly bill from Octopus, spent only £12 more than the monthly amount they are charging, as we are over £700 in credit I think we can relax a bit on trying to be so frugal with the heating, gas was around £150 for the month, electric about £60. So glad we took the plunge and replaced the boiler back in the Spring, already reaping the benefits.
Click to expand...
Exactly the same mate, pub food has gone up about 50% I fear from them after Xmas. We had a new boiler installed in summer and it’s 100% better, house warms up quicker and hot water is almost instant. Like you I think we are in quite a bit of credit, although with EDF you can’t tell, probably the worst company I’ve ever used, unfortunately we can’t move suppliers! I binned the smart display the other day not good to keep watching it, if we are freezing the heatings going on, fuck it.
 
Don’t care how much it costs I am staying warm.

Before Covid my wife and I would do 3 cruises per year, only did one this year and the same next year. Big saving on holiday expense will go towards the household bills.
 
Gray said:
Don’t care how much it costs I am staying warm.

Before Covid my wife and I would do 3 cruises per year, only did one this year and the same next year. Big saving on holiday expense will go towards the household bills.
Click to expand...
Hospitality and travel will take the brunt, that's for sure.
 
Thing about turning your boiler down, surely it all works out the same.

Higher temp, rooms heat up quicker, turn off heating earlier

or

Lower temp, rooms heat up slower, heating on for longer

No? What am I missing?...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top