How much for bloody heat?

[cazzer]

I have just run my heatin for two hours.
Checked the gas before and the gas after.

Hells bells my heatin is currently costing £3.73 an hour to run.

Does this seem crazy expensive to anyone else?

[OnTheOverrun]

How long would either of your cars run on £3.73 of petrol?

[cazzer]

Thats the point though. It would be much better spent on petrol

[Tuna]

We've just built a new house - it's still not quite finished, but it's costing under 8 quid a day to heat with electricity - which is about 3 times as expensive as gas.

That's 8 quid for heating on 24 hours continuous, with no incidental heating from people or cooking.

Edit to add... so as a rough estimate, your gas usage for 2 hours would heat our house for three days.

Edited by Tuna on Wednesday 3rd February 17:06

[TubbyRutter]

[hornetrider]

OP - are you sure you've got your calculations right?

[V8mate]

hornetrider said:

OP - are you sure you've got your calculations right?

37.3p per hour, perhaps?

Edited by V8mate on Wednesday 3rd February 17:31

[hornetrider]

V8mate said:

hornetrider said:

OP - are you sure you've got your calculations right?

37.3p per hour, perhaps?

Indeed. I suspect the OP forgot to carry the '1'

[Merlot]

cazzer said:

I have just run my heatin for two hours.
Checked the gas before and the gas after.

Hells bells my heatin is currently costing £3.73 an hour to run.

Does this seem crazy expensive to anyone else?

How did you calculate this? Make sure you don't get metric/imperial meters mixed up!

[Scraggles]

check out equipower - everyone charged the same rate from key card users to direct debit

[cazzer]

Nope calculations done like this...

number of cubic meters *2.83*1.02264*39.3/3.6 to get the KWH

• 7.145 pence

All as per British Gas' instructions on the phone.

2.5 cubic meters used in 1.5 hours.

Edited by cazzer on Wednesday 3rd February 20:08

[V8mate]

cazzer said:

Nope calculations done like this...

number of cubic meters *2.83*1.02264*39.3/3.6 to get the KWH

• 7.145 pence

All as per British Gas' instructions on the phone.

2.5 cubic meters used in 1.5 hours.

Edited by cazzer on Wednesday 3rd February 20:08

That's 78.98 kWh in 1.5 hours!

You've misread something.

I just looked back through my billing history for the last 5 years online - 4 bed detached house, the highest ever DAILY gas usage was 91 kWh.

Edited by V8mate on Wednesday 3rd February 20:29

[FourWheelDrift]

British Gas is going to announce price cuts tomorrow, so you will need to re-calculate.

[randlemarcus]

Scraggles said:

check out equipower - everyone charged the same rate from key card users to direct debit

that - let the pikeys pay more, and I'll take a discount. Cheers

[cazzer]

V8mate said:

cazzer said:

Nope calculations done like this...

number of cubic meters *2.83*1.02264*39.3/3.6 to get the KWH

• 7.145 pence

All as per British Gas' instructions on the phone.

2.5 cubic meters used in 1.5 hours.

Edited by cazzer on Wednesday 3rd February 20:08

That's 78.98 kWh in 1.5 hours!

You've misread something.

I just looked back through my billing history for the last 5 years online - 4 bed detached house, the highest ever DAILY gas usage was 91 kWh.

Edited by V8mate on Wednesday 3rd February 20:29

Numbers were definitely right off the meter. And the calculation figures are direct from BG on the phone.

Something isnt right with my system though

[V8mate]

cazzer said:

V8mate said:

cazzer said:

Nope calculations done like this...

number of cubic meters *2.83*1.02264*39.3/3.6 to get the KWH

• 7.145 pence

All as per British Gas' instructions on the phone.

2.5 cubic meters used in 1.5 hours.

Edited by cazzer on Wednesday 3rd February 20:08

That's 78.98 kWh in 1.5 hours!

You've misread something.

I just looked back through my billing history for the last 5 years online - 4 bed detached house, the highest ever DAILY gas usage was 91 kWh.

Edited by V8mate on Wednesday 3rd February 20:29

Numbers were definitely right off the meter. And the calculation figures are direct from BG on the phone.

Something isnt right with my system though

Pop outside and have a look at the boiler vent.
Does it look like this?

[cazzer]

V8mate said:

cazzer said:

V8mate said:

cazzer said:

Nope calculations done like this...

number of cubic meters *2.83*1.02264*39.3/3.6 to get the KWH

• 7.145 pence

All as per British Gas' instructions on the phone.

2.5 cubic meters used in 1.5 hours.

Edited by cazzer on Wednesday 3rd February 20:08

That's 78.98 kWh in 1.5 hours!

You've misread something.

I just looked back through my billing history for the last 5 years online - 4 bed detached house, the highest ever DAILY gas usage was 91 kWh.

Edited by V8mate on Wednesday 3rd February 20:29

Numbers were definitely right off the meter. And the calculation figures are direct from BG on the phone.

Something isnt right with my system though

Pop outside and have a look at the boiler vent.
Does it look like this?

Hehheh....I'm beginning to wonder

[Scraggles]

randlemarcus said:

Scraggles said:

check out equipower - everyone charged the same rate from key card users to direct debit

that - let the pikeys pay more, and I'll take a discount. Cheers

EquiGas costs 3.5p per kWh excluding VAT (3.675p per kWh including VAT) effective from 30th March 2009

Equipower 12.14p per KWh exc VAT (12.75p per KWh inc VAT)

a quick look up the page suggest BG charging double the price I pay for gas

www.ebico.co.uk

everyone knows pikeys use those long calor gas cyclinders as they have caravans

[Tuna]

cazzer said:

Numbers were definitely right off the meter. And the calculation figures are direct from BG on the phone.

Something isnt right with my system though

Are you sure your meter is metric? I seem to recall that some meters are still imperial - and BG can have their records wrong. It results in bills that are not at all right.

[cazzer]

Definitely metric it says M3 at the end of the number.