neil_merseyside
Guru
- Location
- Wirral
Windows running with water probably better than ice I suppose but I doubt DG common in council houses sixties.
Energy bill increases
- Thread starter GuyBoden
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Windows running with water probably better than ice I suppose but I doubt DG common in council houses sixties.
wiggydiggy
Guru
You are right, it's just food costs are easier and cheaper for me to reduce!
The house seems to retain heat very well, theres at least a foot of insulation in the loft and I'm sat here in shorts only at a balmy 23.5c. I'll have to wait until winter for the cold months, but ATM I'm hopeful itll be a lot better thanmy old one which retained no heat easily at all.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Single glazed and metal framed windows in the council house I grew up in - no strager to ice on the inside of the windows.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Even if I don't use any gas or electricity, I'm still paying £21.09 per month on the standing charges. For the electricity element (£12.28) this adds approximately 40% to my bill as a low energy user, while from about May to October the gas element (£8.81) is 100% of the bill as I only use gas for heating.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
I may have missed any references to Economy 7 in previous posts but I can't recollect any.
We have Economy 7 from Scottish Power (not all suppliers provide overnight rates) and our laundry, dishwasher and hot water tank (immersion heater) for showers are all heated very cheaply overnight.
Although these days many people have had their 'old fashioned' immersion tanks removed for direct water heating which is blooming expensive.
We have Economy 7 from Scottish Power (not all suppliers provide overnight rates) and our laundry, dishwasher and hot water tank (immersion heater) for showers are all heated very cheaply overnight.
Although these days many people have had their 'old fashioned' immersion tanks removed for direct water heating which is blooming expensive.
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Deleted member 26715
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The problem with Economy 7 & I don't know if it still is, that although the night rate was good, the day rate was more expensive than normal, which meant unless you were careful it could & did in our case work out more expensive.
But some of the more modern suppliers are again offering cheap overnight to charge EV's, I'm hoping once we have the smart meter installed we can get onto it to charge our battery up, at the same time we'll do the washing & the dishwasher
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Current rates 14.9p night and 32.5p daytime.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
I’ve still got storage heaters and water on Economy 7 too. Honestly don’t mind it, although I might try and only put the hall heater on this winter and leave all internal doors open to let the heat get to the rest of the house the way things are going!
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Yup, we think Economy 7 is really good.
Electricity is our second biggest fuel bill.
Usage for decent sized detached bungalow in Cumbria, current billing:
Electricity £750
Heating oil £1100
Coal (smokeless substitute) £550
Logs £200
Total £2600pa
chris-suffolk
Über Member
Some suppliers will buy back the electricity you've stored in the EV batteries, at a premium, rate during peak rates. You can the use the car as an income source - assuming you can leave it on the drive.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
I tried that for a while last winter but it did not work too well and heat did not get into the rest of my house so had to put on the living room one as well. When it got really cold I have a solid fuel stove which I used in addition and is good but a bit of a faff getting fuel into the house and it had to get cleared of ash every day. No idea what fuel for that will cost this year but it will certainly be up on last year.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
I wouldn't. I was away in my camper van this weekend, which is limited to 65mph (speed limiter fitted when it was School minibus and not removed since conversion). At that speed, I was still being overtaken by far more vehicles than I was overtaking.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Induction hobs are WAY more efficient than other electric hobs, to the point where there isn't much in it between an induction hob and a gas hob for cost. And they are also just as controllable in terms of immediate heat up and col down.
