Home electricity usage - why so high ?

[anonymous-user]

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[Butter Face]

Got a landlord with a pool?

[Murph7355]

anonymous said:

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Yes to the former. It's the only way you'll be able to start having a reasoned chat with the suppliers.

I'm also dubious about the "average house" things. I'm always chronically over "average" but when I went round with meters I couldn't find anything in particular causing the usage...it was just a lot of "stuff" contributing cumulatively.

[Busa mav]

anonymous said:

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Hey Tonker , I have watched your build and it is now a very large property.

Additional costs go with this.

We have just the 4000 ft2 and we use 13000 kwh / year. I do work from home though, and sometimes have the TV on in my office.

We had a bit of luck recently where our meter stopped reading , didn't notice it for 6 months , no honestly I didn't and they just charged us for daily standing charge , well happy with how EDF dealt with it.

Your idea that your charges are 4x the average are way out in my opinion. The average you quote is what poor people in small houses pay

[bearman68]

Butter Face said:

Got a landlord with a pool?

[eliot]

You need to get an energy monitor. I suspect its a culmination of many smallish loads running 24x7 that is racking the price up.
I'm doing somewhere around 15-20kw. My background draw is around 600-700w, which is cctv, couple of
pc's, 24hr recirc on a hot tub.

I also have a hot water circuit, but its triggered from internal movement via home automation. Mainly to avoid cooling the water, rather than the power consumption of the pump.

[stuart313]

As I always suspected, changing to LED lights saves piss all in the grand scheme of things.

It works out at an average of 200w cpnstantly. Save money by switching things off.

[worsy]

That's double mine in a 2500 sq ft house with a two teens. PC and 2 laptops on pretty much 24x7 plus switches and servers in the office. Usual stuff you have regarding washers/driers/alarm/sky boxes etc. We also have a LOT of downlighters but all LED. Outside lights etc.

Here is my moan

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Jasandjules]

You say there are three people in the house. IME one of them being non-male and mid 30s will result in high electric bills as all lights must be on in all rooms at all times, just in case at some stage that room might be used......

[p1esk]

stuart313 said:

As I always suspected, changing to LED lights saves piss all in the grand scheme of things.

It works out at an average of 200w cpnstantly. Save money by switching things off.

....and not having so much extraneous gadgetry.

Our electricity meter has clocked up 3300 units in the 10 months we've been here; but then we do have a fairly basic setup.

Tonker - I know you have plenty of high efficiency stuff, but there does seem to be rather a lot of it.

[furtive]

anonymous said:

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Does it need to? Have the computer go to sleep when it's not being used. That's probably at least 150W being taken up just there.

Is your cooker electric? Induction hob?

Easiest way to find out what is using all the juice is get a Current Cost energy monitor and switch things on and off

[furtive]

This might interest you also:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance...

[Amateurish]

Definitely get an energy monitor. You will quickly learn what the issue is. My elec consumption is less than yours and I have an immersion heater used daily, electric rads in winter and an EV.

[FlipFlopGriff]

Your Magna 1 and Quooker (whatever that is) account for around 750kWh.
FFG

[Gingerbread Man]

Unless you find your need for hot water a 24/7 thing, I'd put a timer on your hot water loop. The positive of minimal dead legs also has your hot water circuit acting as a large radiator gradually losing heat as the flip side of the coil. So a timer to turn it off at night or during periods of inactivity e.g. empty house during the day while occupiers are at work. Would save you money running a pump and your hot water having to be topped up more often.

It all adds up.

[btcc123]

Just moved energy supply from Scottish Power to Sainsbury as U Switch say it will save me £250 a year and have my last years consumption to hand.

Electricity 7.557 kwh £1052 and Gas 11.384 kmh £517 Total cost for the year £1569

15 year old 5 Bed detached house and detached double garage,Gas heating,cavity walls,wife and 4 kids aged from 8 to 23,washing machine on twice a day,lots of showers and baths,all bedrooms have a TV and games consoles left on standby,two sky boxes and 4 TV down stairs,lights often left on,extra freezer in the garage and lights often left on.Occupied in the day as I am 56 and retired.

I thought my electric is expensive but half the price of the OPs but all houses are different so perhaps not to bad and hopefully the coming year with the savings from moving supply and some other savings I have in mind should be a total cost of electric and gas about £1200

[BigBen]

Busa mav said:

We had a bit of luck recently where our meter stopped reading , didn't notice it for 6 months , no honestly I didn't and they just charged us for daily standing charge , well happy with how EDF dealt with it.

I had a similar result from my supplier. Wonder if I can work out how to break it again.

[V8A*ndy]

Fecking hell!!!!

My last quarter bill was £131 and I was miffed at that as it was £98 the same time last year

Guess the wife is right "tight bd".

[E36GUY]

anonymous said:

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They won't be using any power when off as you say. They will consume a couple of watts on top of your ZEPs when on but literally a couple. Not enough to affect your leccy bill adversely anyway.

[Snake the Sniper]

Don't forget that A rated appliances may be efficient, but that bears no relation to how much power they use. An A rated, but massive, fridge will use far more than a tiny one will for example. It's something people often overlook. This may not be part of your problem, but it is worth taking into account at least.