Gas & Electricity

[mayo31]

Think the Mrs has hit the peri menopause. Going to save me a fortune at night as she's currently radiating like a little Fukushima disaster. A 5 foot 2 hot water bottle. Winner for me, not so much for her.

Might be ok now but wait until he puts her own mood swing in the garden

 

[hampshireblue]

The results are in: After a month of leaving the heating on rather than it going off at night, it has used about 80p per day more than it going off at night. I have it set at 21c. The whole place is far more comfortable, especially in the morning, as it's been ticking over all night.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

 

[gandalfthebrave]

We’ve set ours at 19 24/7 it’s costing us £3-£3.50 a day, I can live with that and the house is lovely and warm.

Read your post a few weeks ago and it stuck in my mind.

We moved house a few weeks before Putin did his thing in Ukraine and energy bills went properly nuts. We have no kind of baseline to work from and the first Christmas in our house cost over a grand in gas and electric. We have been incredibly ginger with our electricity and central heating usage ever since as a result (and as a result of all other bills going through the roof too.)

Last winter and this winter so far, we have had the heating on for two scheduled hours a day, which hasn’t touched the sides as our new house is quite big.

Been properly fucking miserable for the last few winters, so have the mrs and kids. Carpets and surfaces so cold they feel wet to touch (they aren’t wet, just freezing.) Absolutely minging living in a cold house.

I had enough on the weekend, whacked the thermostat up to 19 degrees and spent the rest of the day thawing out with the family. The mrs went nuts because it cost nearly £20 to get up to temperature on Saturday. But ever since, we’ve been at £4-5/day to maintain the 19 degrees. Which isn’t too bad.

Glad I read your post and some other posts on this thread. Going to spend the summer looking for draughts and areas to improve like loft insulation. But for the rest of this winter we should be good at 19 degrees and £4-5/day.

 

[Scottyboi]

Switched to Tomato Energy Agile today, cheap as fuck will post in a months time how I get on. They only bill you for what you have used that month, left my Gas with Octopus on the tracker.

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Had my first bill from these from 18th of November to 31st of December has worked out at 683kwh used average cost 0.086p no one coming close to that I'm chuffed.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Im fairly pleased, my monthly DD has been reduced by Ovo. May make me the only person ever to have had their energy bills reduced since covid. The cunts still owe me almost £400 mind. Looks like they are more concerned about their liability to me than me to them. Minor victories in life (insert thumbs up emoji here)

 

[kaz7]

Im fairly pleased, my monthly DD has been reduced by Ovo. May make me the only person ever to have had their energy bills reduced since covid. The cunts still owe me almost £400 mind. Looks like they are more concerned about their liability to me than me to them. Minor victories in life (insert thumbs up emoji here)

I switched to ovo a couple of months ago, on a one year fix and they just dropped my direct , just a fiver but still, edf never did that . If my boiler wasnt bust my bills would be higher but just electric being used works out as just over a pound a day

 

[jrb]

Winter has won. :-( Heating on. :-)

 

[Blue Maverick]

Read your post a few weeks ago and it stuck in my mind.

We moved house a few weeks before Putin did his thing in Ukraine and energy bills went properly nuts. We have no kind of baseline to work from and the first Christmas in our house cost over a grand in gas and electric. We have been incredibly ginger with our electricity and central heating usage ever since as a result (and as a result of all other bills going through the roof too.)

Last winter and this winter so far, we have had the heating on for two scheduled hours a day, which hasn’t touched the sides as our new house is quite big.

Been properly fucking miserable for the last few winters, so have the mrs and kids. Carpets and surfaces so cold they feel wet to touch (they aren’t wet, just freezing.) Absolutely minging living in a cold house.

I had enough on the weekend, whacked the thermostat up to 19 degrees and spent the rest of the day thawing out with the family. The mrs went nuts because it cost nearly £20 to get up to temperature on Saturday. But ever since, we’ve been at £4-5/day to maintain the 19 degrees. Which isn’t too bad.

Glad I read your post and some other posts on this thread. Going to spend the summer looking for draughts and areas to improve like loft insulation. But for the rest of this winter we should be good at 19 degrees and £4-5/day.

December cost me £110, that’s with the heating on 24/7, yes it was a bit milder towards the end but it’s a no brainer to us, the heating just keeps topping itself up, the last couple of nights quite a bit due to it been Baltic outside and cost us £10! A small price to pay for been toasty. Loft insulation is easy pal and very cheap to yourself, we have a big insulated curtain for the front door, I’ve put draught excluders on doors with gaps on the bottoms, you can get a sticky foam for around doors as well to seal properly, check around windows for gaps in the seals and reseal it’s a piece of piss.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Im fairly pleased, my monthly DD has been reduced by Ovo. May make me the only person ever to have had their energy bills reduced since covid. The cunts still owe me almost £400 mind. Looks like they are more concerned about their liability to me than me to them. Minor victories in life (insert thumbs up emoji here)

They reduce your dd instead of refunding you the money they owe you . Ours was 130 per month and they wanted to reduce it to £70 as we are £350 in credit