I think it’s almost false economy an hour in the morning an hour at night, I’ve been doing various “experiments “ to see what things cost, if you are trying to heat your house up for an hour it will probably never get to temperature before it stops, then again at night, I found for example it cost me £3 to do this, but only another £3 to heat the house for a further 10 hours, the reason is it hits temperature say 18/19 and then it stops but your boiler has used the most gas to get to this, then it drops half a degree before it kicks back in, then it takes very little to get back up to temperature using far less gas. Of course we are at home all day, if we weren’t then we would probably only do a few hours a day, but it all depends on your circumstances.Just checked our account for this month.
Averaging between £5-6 a day for gas and £1.38 for electricity. £7 for gas for over the weekend.
An hour in the morning and same again from 4.30pm.
Seems a lot still, no?
No idea mate but that’s what I’m getting off my reading, possibly if conditions were both exactly the same on each day then a truer reading would be better, but it seems to have knocked £1/2 off the bill, which is £30/60 a month!Turning down a degree saving 2 pounds is really interesting. I would expect the cost you save would be around 0.4 pounds (assuming outside temp is 1 degree celsius, and you keep your room at 18 degree celsius).
That was me saying £25 for the Day.Thats combination of gas and electric, We have a fully insulated garden Room that's pretty Big ,we were entertaining (watching the footy)& the only heating is the electric heater down there.I'm back to £18 a day now (combined), & that's with a coal fire Burning in the living room. Around the rest of the house it's set at16.5 degrees constant 24/7Don't get these figures, 5:50 a day, yet someone 2 pages ago was saying 25 quid a day.
Why so much discrepancies?
30/60£ a month is very nice saving..No idea mate but that’s what I’m getting off my reading, possibly if conditions were both exactly the same on each day then a truer reading would be better, but it seems to have knocked £1/2 off the bill, which is £30/60 a month!
I’m in a similar situation.We have a relatively large Victorian house. As it’s a listed building double glazing is a no
no. It’s currently -6 outside and the gas CH is going full blast and can only get us to around 18c irrespective of how high we set the thermostat. I am dreading checking the cost for this month.
cheaper than a leccy heater i'd sayGoing out to buy an electric heater for the living room, fuck paying those gas prices.
Gas is a lot cheaper at the moment , i have an electric radiator which is good for one room but that would cost a lot more apparantlyGoing out to buy an electric heater for the living room, fuck paying those gas prices.