It's good for the waistline too , reducing overnight fridge usage. I'm impressed you managed to calculate 30p of snack eating like
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You need to get the windows open every now and then and let some air circulate.
I would be 99-99.9% surprised if it wasn't just that his thermometer isn't in a colder room and potentially regulating it with TRV's. It sounds like yours will be fully on 100% of the time which is essentially going to cost you about a quid an hour
Fair enough. I did spend a fair amount of time yesterday wondering why ours was so big, as we broke the £20 mark last night (had the washer/dryer on loads though so that won't happen every day).Funny you should mention me, as I've just looked at the smart meter this morning and we're already on £7 and it's not even lunchtime
It's a fairly solid house, as you'd expect from it's age, and I think it's fairly well insulated (the roof is always one of the last on our road to thaw when it's snowed).
OK but its hard to compare without knowing size of house/age/number of rads etc, plus number of kids as no one (unless they genuinely can't afford it) is gonna let a young child go cold at night.
TRV's help but the main part is having thermostat in a habitable room. Hallways are naturally colder than bedrooms and lounges. Ideally you want it in the living room, a trv or a remote thermometer eve in there if you wanted to monitor the temp in her room
Have you checked the pre heating setting? Like I said £10-£15 a day is a lot on gas, we would have to have our boiler on most of the day AND firing constantly to hit those levels.
Will have a look at that defo, thanks. I think if there's only 2 of you though you are likely to spend less on both fuels than we are.TRV's help but the main part is having thermostat in a habitable room. Hallways are naturally colder than bedrooms and lounges. Ideally you want it in the living room, a trv or a remote thermometer eve in there if you wanted to monitor the temp in her room
A trv is just a radiator valve with controls on them. Lots of different looks to them but basically like this:
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You don't need them but they're useful for reducing the demand on your boiler. Eg my office is warm because of computer and me being in it all day so doesn't need heat so that can easily go on frost or 1, so when heating comes on it's got less radiators to fill or keep as hot so less gas burned to do it
Most rooms fine at 2 (15c) or 3 (20c) - it stops rooms getting too hot when the main room is still being heated eg a small bedroom at a 3 and a lounge at a 3 - the bedroom hits 3 quickly so you don't want it to keep going to 24c because the lounge is still at 19c. Hallways etc you tend to leave on 5 as they're usually opened to the elements and have stairway etc so harder to heat
Have you checked the pre heating setting? Like I said £10-£15 a day is a lot on gas, we would have to have our boiler on most of the day AND firing constantly to hit those levels.
Speaking to similar houses is interesting but majority of people aren't really up to speed on efficiently heating a house as most people just do what they've always done or tweak it without learning how their system works most efficiently
Our £5 a day on electricity is 2 of us in a 4 bed detached however we have every device going - 1000w subwoofer, 200w stereo power amp, 200w surround sound amp, smart lighting all round the house and garden, 9 Alexa devices, work laptop, desktop computer, ps5 console, NAS/Media server, dehumidifier, dishwasher etc I think our elec use is definitely above average although have scheduled run times for some things to bring them down when not in use.
How to turn OFF the pre-heat on your Vaillant combi boiler to save 5-10%
Bespoke instructions for turning off the pre-heat on any Vaillant combi boiler to save 5-10% on your gas bill.www.theheatinghub.co.uk
I've moved the thermostat from the hall into the living room and turned the TRV on the living room radiator to max so that it won't fight the thermostat. Seems to be working well.
. This works out at £20ish a day.
Similar to me I think, give or take 10% or so! I wonder if my fuel bill exceeds my mortgage at any point? Its very possible. If I throw in water it would have a great chance.I have a smart meter but not a display to tell me how much everything is costing. I do have a Nest thermostat though which tells me I had the heating on for 4 hours yesterday which is the longest I've had it on so far. Octopus are predicting that my bill for Dec will be £620 and £650 for January
Mid Oct to mid Nov the bill was just shy of £300 so £10ish a day.
I would challenge most people on this forum to have as many electric devices running as we do, however we are very efficient about how and when they are ran. My gaming room has over 50 controllable lights in it alone
Heating maybe an extra bedroom but otherwise probably not that much in it.Install Loop or Hugo and it will access the figures for youI have a smart meter but not a display to tell me how much everything is costing. I do have a Nest thermostat though which tells me I had the heating on for 4 hours yesterday which is the longest I've had it on so far. Octopus are predicting that my bill for Dec will be £620 and £650 for January
Mid Oct to mid Nov the bill was just shy of £300 so £10ish a day.
I think £11 is the worst we've had for gas.I would challenge most people on this forum to have as many electric devices running as we do, however we are very efficient about how and when they are ran. My gaming room has over 50 controllable lights in it alone
Have a mate with 2 kids in a 5 bed and they use a bit more than us but nowhere near £10/15 gas a day, like I said £10 gas a day is close to 10 hours of the boiler being in which a house definitely shouldn't need. It might be set to a temp for 10 hours but it shouldn't be providing heat for 10 hours but I suspect you either have comfort mode on or your rad / thermostat position is working against your wallet.
If you reach £15 a day in heating that's £450 a month on gas alone, the average usage figures are inaccurate but even allowing for that you're talking about £600 bills with elec factored in which is wild.
Either that or they forgot to build a wall on your house and it just has the wind blowing through
Smartmeter, fartmeter.