Gas & Electricity

Have put.my heating on for an hour this evening and it cost me £1. Is that about what everyone else is paying? Seems expensive to me.
same as me, let's see how many hours I need it on over the months November will be cheap 1 hr a day average most likely December might be 3 hours and January/february 6 hours a day, I guess we'll see in a few weeks
 
Have put.my heating on for an hour this evening and it cost me £1. Is that about what everyone else is paying? Seems expensive to me.
Here we go and thought I had posted somewhere concerning central heating gas costings from cold.
Taken from post 1084 on the have you put your heating on yet thread
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Made it easier to monitor cost consumption without the kw equational calculi, so the bottom line is for every m3 unit on our meter it equates to £1.12 on Octopus's tarrif. Excluding vat at 5% and their daily incompetance charge.

A 15 minute burst of the heating with 6 rads produced 0.36p and the next continuous 15 minute burst calculated at 0.12p. Presumably as our system had to work itself up to temperature. Gas flow was set to 60c throughout.


So in answer to your question .. yes I do think that a pound an hour is way too high
 
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Ive moved the dryer out of the lean-to utility room into the kitchen. Its 10 degrees warmer as it works and the waste heat warms the house. Hoping thats an efficiency benefit. Heating is now on but gonna see if it can stay at a 'low light' of 12 or 14c. Going ok so far...
 
Going have to bite the bullet our boiler is 30 years old and not at all efficient had Warmzilla our to replace it last month but as always not straightforward went from £2050 to over £4000 as regs won't allow it to be fitted in current position due to lack of space for service so had to go in airing cupboard with vent out of roof. Told them do one but not going get any cheaper.
Had ours done about 5 years ago - we had a back boiler that was "inefficient" but never went wrong with regular servicing. Had a new combi fitted - only place we could have it so it could vent was in the loft - thats handy as I get older not. I am sure this is probably more efficient but tbh regular price rises since negate any efficiencies and make me doubt the wisdom of doing it.
 
Our Gas and Electricity usage according to our smart meter for the past three days had crept close to or just over £10-00 per day combined.Strangly the central heating hasn't been turned on ? Just using the coal fire downstairs to warm the room's we live in. Not sure what has caused the increase?
 
Fucking hell your house sounds like something out of a Dickens Novel, get a grip man !!!
Ha ha no I just wanted to see what it was costing, I’ve now binned the smart meter, EDF won’t fix the electric part so there’s no point, it is what it is. Always been careful with stuff anyway, not going to worry about it anymore I’m fed up with the whole thing if I’m honest.
 

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