Its been a pretty cold one all day ming……not gone above zero here
Energy bill increases
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Its been a pretty cold one all day ming……not gone above zero here
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Hasn’t been above zero all week here. Due to start warming on Sat.
Yup and could be in double figures sunday/monday
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
And wet, cue flooding …
If i flood up here….then the whole of wales is in trouble, but yes, there are risks off flooding in the flatlands of south wales
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
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- North Wales
Can't wait. Will be able to cut back on the heating then, may be turn it off altogether.
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Just had our bill from Octopus for the last 2 weeks, £28.33 for the electric which I can live with but £99.39 for gas is unreal, the only thing is hot water & heating, which is set at 14 degrees, around 2pm, 18 degrees at 6pm & off at 10pm, wouldn't have thought bad insulation as it's still 13 degrees at 7am.
Getting from 14* to 18* in the cold evening temps would be the issue……
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Also think that one of the issues is the boiler position, the 2 taps that are mainly used kitchen & utility I suspect are over 30 feet away from it, which means it heats a lot of water up which never actually gets used, or at least in it's hot state.
Chislenko
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We have the same problem, takes an age for hot water to arrive at the tap.
Yeh mines at least that far away too…..but i aint paying 100 bucks a fortnight. Its the heating in cold temps it takes a lot to get houses upto temp and a 4 degree rise is quite a bit in cold evening temperatures. Maybe set another temp at afternoon of around 16….that way its doing a 2 deg rise in slightly better temps and then not working as hard to heat in the evenings.
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Not sure that would work as the house seems currently to sits at 12-13 without heating, so to get to 18 degrees it still has to get from 12 - 18 so I'm unsure if going from 12 to 16 to 18 would be any different from 12 to 14 to 18 other than it would have to maintain 16 for a longer period, not saying you're wrong, just can't see the logic at the moment.
Because your trying to get from 14 to 18 in the coldest part of the day……..so what im trying to say, if you get it to 16 earlier in the day and maintain that, then when you need to get to 18 later in the evening the gap is only 2 degs at what is the coldest part of the day, so would take less gas to get there.
I have my thermo set at 18.5 all day, it switches on when it drops to 18 and goes off at 19…..its a lot cheaper to maintain a temperature, than to attain one…..i also have the timer set for 6:15am to 8:30pm and comes on when the temp drops below the 18.5. It works here and doesnt cost anywhere near 100 bucks a fortnight.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Next Thursday, I shall go to Lidle very early to buy 2 of those plug in 600 W heaters that cost 21p an hour to run. They will be in on Thursday at 12.99 each I think. What's to lose ?
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