Gas & Electricity

[Hayley Croppers chopper]

We bought a couple of patio heaters 6 month ago, never used them yet but my mrs mentioned last night that we should get them out; I told her not a fkn chance at the moment.

 

[kaz7]

A couple of weeks ago or so i decided to see if i can get through without putting any lights on , i have torch and batteries and i am up a lot in the night and finding it easy , might try and get through to nov time when it gets dark early and then just use one low energy lightbulb in the one room i am camped out in during the evening and the torch in the rest of the rooms and in the night as if i am up for hours the tv is on so that is light

I was bored when i thought about this but lets see if it makes any difference to my bills , i am in a tiny bungalow so the torch light is fine

 

[Blue Maverick]

I’ve noticed in the media quite a few gas explosions at houses. I’m wondering if people are trying to bypass stuff, I’ve seen some dodgy electric bypasses I think there could be a rise in electrical fires in the coming months as dodgy electricians ply their trade.

 

[manclad]

Well gas and electric is something I never took for granted. My dad drummed it into me growing up to switch lights off etc.
Tried teaching the kids but they don’t get it, they think I am being a tight arse. I want them to see for themselves as the meter is whizzing round.

I used to be like that with my 3 daughters when they were teenagers, lights on all over the house, tumble dryer on for 1 item of clothing etc.
They soon change their tune when they have their own places and they have to pay the bills.

 

[citizen_maine]

A couple of weeks ago or so i decided to see if i can get through without putting any lights on , i have torch and batteries and i am up a lot in the night and finding it easy , might try and get through to nov time when it gets dark early and then just use one low energy lightbulb in the one room i am camped out in during the evening and the torch in the rest of the rooms and in the night as if i am up for hours the tv is on so that is light

I was bored when i thought about this but lets see if it makes any difference to my bills , i am in a tiny bungalow so the torch light is fine

Wait until you get your battery bill

 

[remember arthur mann]

I used to be like that with my 3 daughters when they were teenagers, lights on all over the house, tumble dryer on for 1 item of clothing etc.
They soon change their tune when they have their own places and they have to pay the bills.

Yeah but then they come to you for a sub.

 

[manclad]

Yeah but then they come to you for a sub.

Me and the wife have subbed a new roof on our youngest daughter's house in Ashton, to the tune of about 50% of the cost.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Wait until you get your battery bill

Wonder how many hours it’d take to power your home by using a dynamo on a bike.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Wait until you get your battery bill

Get yourself over to amazon and buy yourself a Trevor Baylis wind up torch, which also charges your phone and a wind up radio, which he developed for poverty stricken countries like Africa. Says a lot about the state we are in.

 

[yeseye]

We bought a couple of patio heaters 6 month ago, never used them yet but my mrs mentioned last night that we should get them out; I told her not a fkn chance at the moment.

Has she not checked the forecast!

 

[Hayley Croppers chopper]

Has she not checked the forecast!

Our garden is quite shaded; it was a bit chilly sat in the back last night.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Wait until you get your battery bill

She’s used to high battery costs

 

[manimanc]

We've just had smart meters fitted through Eon. Got the little gadget that shows how much you use when you boil a kettle, flick a light on etc. Spent the first couple of hours watching it fluctuate as I went about my chores.
That was a week ago, it ran out of battery so it's in the draw now.

The only thing that is a plus point is I don't have to send a meter reading every month, which I didn't mind doing if I'm honest, as these meters do it.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Without doubt "standing charges" are a licence to print money.
This time last year we was paying 31.5P a day combined whereas now we are paying 55.4p combined, and that's been discounted by 14.5p a day as a loyalty bonus.
So basically paying £201.65 for not using a thing.

£200 from a £2000 annual bill is next to nothing though. you're aiming at the wring thing

 

[jimharri]

A couple of weeks ago or so i decided to see if i can get through without putting any lights on , i have torch and batteries and i am up a lot in the night and finding it easy , might try and get through to nov time when it gets dark early and then just use one low energy lightbulb in the one room i am camped out in during the evening and the torch in the rest of the rooms and in the night as if i am up for hours the tv is on so that is light

I was bored when i thought about this but lets see if it makes any difference to my bills , i am in a tiny bungalow so the torch light is fine

My understanding is that domestic lighting is (pardon the pun) relatively light on electricity usage. Anything that has a heating element (microwave, shower, toaster, cooker, washing machine, immersion heater etc etc); those are the items that you want/need to try to limit your use of.

 

[tommybooth]

Running the aircon unit at the moment. Hour and half should cool the bedroom down. Still 23.3 outside.

 

[Nellies left peg]

My understanding is that domestic lighting is (pardon the pun) relatively light on electricity usage. Anything that has a heating element (microwave, shower, toaster, cooker, washing machine, immersion heater etc etc); those are the items that you want/need to try to limit your use of.

Especially if you change to led lighting, our meter turns red when the oven, kettle or microwave goes on. All our lighting is led now and I haven't had to change a bulb in 2 years

 

[Blue Maverick]

We've just had smart meters fitted through Eon. Got the little gadget that shows how much you use when you boil a kettle, flick a light on etc. Spent the first couple of hours watching it fluctuate as I went about my chores.
That was a week ago, it ran out of battery so it's in the draw now.

The only thing that is a plus point is I don't have to send a meter reading every month, which I didn't mind doing if I'm honest, as these meters do it.

Ours was fitted by EDF a month ago still only shows the gas :(, do they onky bill you according to your reading each month because really that’s how it should work, because ours was zeroed a month ago, I can actually work out want we’ve spent, £21 in standard charges, gas has been £7 so, electric £85. Wife is working from home and I’m at home all day so TVs on and Xbox! Thing is that usage will only really go up in winter with obviously heating and a few more lights on, but most of them will be led by then. Our DD is £250 so at the moment building up £100-120 a month for winter, however with those big price increases it won’t last long.

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

Spoke to my brother today who is expecting his bill to go up to around £500/month. In the last 2 years it's gone from £150 to £500 a month!! I got lucky and an admin error meant I fixed last year for 2 years on £150 a month. Another mates bills are predicted to go up to £480 a month and he's in a fairly average house. At the time I was pretty annoyed with myself, but I feel 'lucky' now but I can imagine my bills will drift towards £300 a month - that's from £100 a month a few years ago.

We were talking about this and if bills just keep going up, you're going to get people telling their boss they HAVE to have a, say, 20% pay rise just to pay bills. That's going to push inflation up and up. If these kinds of bills come through in October - just before Christmas - it's going to be carnage.

What worries me though is that this is going to obliterate people. I've spoken to people who I know aren't on great incomes but have fixed deals and they simply don't believe that their bills will more than double. This isn't a case of switching lights off etc to save a few quid, no matter what you do in your home - short of not heating it - your bills are going to become phenomenally expensive and likely to drive the country into a recession. The war in Ukraine shows no sign of stopping and we're likely to have to get used to higher prices anyway. However, I don't see any sign of the government doing anything about this at all.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Spoke to my brother today who is expecting his bill to go up to around £500/month. In the last 2 years it's gone from £150 to £500 a month!! I got lucky and an admin error meant I fixed last year for 2 years on £150 a month. Another mates bills are predicted to go up to £480 a month and he's in a fairly average house. At the time I was pretty annoyed with myself, but I feel 'lucky' now but I can imagine my bills will drift towards £300 a month - that's from £100 a month a few years ago.

We were talking about this and if bills just keep going up, you're going to get people telling their boss they HAVE to have a, say, 20% pay rise just to pay bills. That's going to push inflation up and up. If these kinds of bills come through in October - just before Christmas - it's going to be carnage.

What worries me though is that this is going to obliterate people. I've spoken to people who I know aren't on great incomes but have fixed deals and they simply don't believe that their bills will more than double. This isn't a case of switching lights off etc to save a few quid, no matter what you do in your home - short of not heating it - your bills are going to become phenomenally expensive and likely to drive the country into a recession. The war in Ukraine shows no sign of stopping and we're likely to have to get used to higher prices anyway. However, I don't see any sign of the government doing anything about this at all.

This is the scary thing, I see people defaulting getting gas and electric cut off, I think it’s in the utilities own interests now to maybe subsidies it’s customers, they can put prices down by nit taking as much profit. Like I said standing charges should not be allowed to be increased, I agree totally about pay rises however I would say prices are going up without it anyway. I think you will see old people literally freezing to death this winter it’s fucking scandalous.
They say the prices are high because companies by in bulk a year in advance, so what are prices like now, if they are low, will this see a huge drop next year? No way short term people can afford this never mind long term.