Gas & Electricity

Have to laugh at some posts on here and posters who claim their bills are £80 a month for both.

Where do they live? A fucking shoe box??
I’m one of those mate :-), in fact only 18 months ago my combined energy bills for gas and electric were less than £30 a month, on the flip side though, I look at what some people are paying on here and I’ll be honest, it scares the shit out of me.
 
Have to laugh at some posts on here and posters who claim their bills are £80 a month for both.

Where do they live? A fucking shoe box??
3 bed detached house. Paid £13 last month once the £66 rebate was taken into account. I'm on the price cap as my supplier went bust when this started last year. Its been a really mild October
 
Our tumble dryer costs 40p to totally dry our weekly wash. Much cheaper than having the heat on.

We won’t use it when we have the heat on, obviously, bur condenser dryers are pretty efficient these days.

Saves on ironing too.
When the washer has finished, bang it back on a 1600rpm spin cycle. Amazing how dry the clothes feel when they come out. Takes very little time in the dryer after that.
 
Eon have just sent me my renewal for my SEG tariff (tariff for electricity generated by my solar panels). It has gone from them paying me 3p per kWh to....... 3p per kWh!?

So they buy my generated electricity at 3p per kWh, and now they're selling it back to people at the pre-energy guarantee rate which is what, 50p per kWh??? And the government is paying what around 12-15p per kWh of taxpayers money to satisfy that rate?

That's them binned off! Utter twats.
 
You do use a lot more water in a dish washer. And here it’s metered.
An average dish wash uses 2 litres.
An average sink wash uses 9 litres.
Three sink washes a day will use 27 litres.
The same amount of crockery and pans can be done in one dishwasher cycle.
Every expert body agrees dishwashers are cheaper than washing by hand.

Metered water costs £3.08 per cubic metre, that’s 1000 litres for 308p or 0.308p per litre.
£3.08 buys you the water for about 28 average showers - so if you shower every day then that’s about a months worth of showering.
The cost of the water is so insignificant compared to the cost of heating the water that it really isn’t useful to include it in the calculations.
 
In a dishwasher you are heating far less water once than washing by hand three times a day.
 
Eon have just sent me my renewal for my SEG tariff (tariff for electricity generated by my solar panels). It has gone from them paying me 3p per kWh to....... 3p per kWh!?

So they buy my generated electricity at 3p per kWh, and now they're selling it back to people at the pre-energy guarantee rate which is what, 50p per kWh??? And the government is paying what around 12-15p per kWh of taxpayers money to satisfy that rate?

That's them binned off! Utter twats.
Get a battery to attach to the panels. The solar panels charge the battery and you use the power when you need it (i.e. the evening) rather than when it is generated, avoiding the import electricity rate (mine is about 35p/kWh) so >10 times better than the SEG tariff. Quite high initial costs but with the current power prices the payback time isn'ta s bad as it was.
 
Got my yearly review and a bill on the 27th , even though i am on a fix till dec i am careful now as the dd is set by how much you use over the year , £34 is my current dd , i am braced for a shock in dec !
 
Get a battery to attach to the panels. The solar panels charge the battery and you use the power when you need it (i.e. the evening) rather than when it is generated, avoiding the import electricity rate (mine is about 35p/kWh) so >10 times better than the SEG tariff. Quite high initial costs but with the current power prices the payback time isn'ta s bad as it was.
Thinking about doing this myself. Gonna size the battery according to winter solar generation levels so that it will mean I’m pretty much off the grid as regards electricity. Might just need a touch in Dec and Jan but can probably offset it with the export during the summer.

The website below is spot on for doing the calcs and understanding how much you will generate/store at different times of the year.

https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/
 
Got my yearly review and a bill on the 27th , even though i am on a fix till dec i am careful now as the dd is set by how much you use over the year , £34 is my current dd , i am braced for a shock in dec !
£34 a month??? Good God, I'm a year in to a 3 year fixed deal and paying £128 a month and grateful for it. Mind you, we're home all day and the wife can't manage on a cold house.
 
We had white ceramic tiles all over the ground floor it was freezing soon as we moved in carpet and extra thick underlay.
Everyone wants to know why we covered up the lovely tiles but it’s not the Costa’s and it helps.
We even put a thermal curtain over the front door and one of those roll draught excluders straight away could tell the difference
We've got floor tiles in every room downstairs and bifold doors all along the back. Great in the warmer months but you feel the chill more in winter. Keep telling the wife we need to put Curtains up and maybe think of carpets but she's having none of it.
 
We've got floor tiles in every room downstairs and bifold doors all along the back. Great in the warmer months but you feel the chill more in winter. Keep telling the wife we need to put Curtains up and maybe think of carpets but she's having none of it.
Just do it without consulting. What’s the worst that could happen?

Say you did it as the sale wouldn't last forever.

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We had white ceramic tiles all over the ground floor it was freezing soon as we moved in carpet and extra thick underlay.
Everyone wants to know why we covered up the lovely tiles but it’s not the Costa’s and it helps.
We even put a thermal curtain over the front door and one of those roll draught excluders straight away could tell the difference
Funnily enough we are just about to get a curtain for the front door as even the polar bears in the hallway are saying it’s getting cold!
 

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