Wexfordman
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Hi Wexfordman.
My latest ESB bill also took a big jump. I asked a few of my friends who also noticed a jump in their ESB bills,eventhough the price per unit is meant to have dropped. Just to say be careful about getting them to look into it further because if you get them to come out to read your metre as far as I know you will be charged an extra E60 on your next bill.
Hi..just wondering what everyone thinks of an ESB bill for €320 (dec-feb) 2 bed apartment, one occupant!
I nearly dropped last night when i read how much it was,considering my last (and first bill..only living there 4 mths) was €192, which i thought was high but ok! I have been using the night rate storage heaters, which are a pain as the only come on at 11pm and all the heat is wasted by the time i come home the next day, but try not to use the convector as i know its more costlier! I bought an electric blanket instead of using the convector heater in my bedroom, was away for nearly a week over xmas and have been careful about the amount of lights left on etc so a jump of nearly 70% has amazed me! Its a brand new apartment by the way and heating,lights,water etc is all electricity driven!
Lights and TV are going to incur negligible costs compared to electric storage and water heating!and thats with lights and TV on nearly all the time.
I cut down on the convector heater use...and have them switched to the night storage, thats really all i did.First thing, is it estimated? Secondly, if not, what did you change in your behaviour regadring use of electricity since last bill?
Oh, and when you went away for that week at Xmas, did you leave any appliances on by mistake? Like the new electric blanket?
I don't understand your night storage heater use. I thought that storage heaters stored the at at the cheaper night rate to releease that heat during the day?
They do but they are leaking heat all day so if somebody is out all day and only back at 11PM they have missed out on most of the benefit. In fact when they return they will actually be coming in when the heaters are starting the new overnight charge! You don't have a lot of control over storage heaters. The input and, more so in my experience, output controls are a bit hit and miss. And then if the weather changes suddenly they are not great (e.g. they charge up during a cold night but then the next day is warm leaving you roasting or vice versa).I don't understand your night storage heater use. I thought that storage heaters stored the at at the cheaper night rate to releease that heat during the day?
Depending on your usage patterns with the convection heaters this could actually work out cheaper than storage heating! Especially if you would otherwise be using the convection heaters after 11PM (winter) since they would be using night rate units anyway. How long would you have been using the convection heater(s? - how many) previously? If it was just for an hour or two at night then it may well be more cost effective for you to do this.I cut down on the convector heater use...and have them switched to the night storage, thats really all i did.
When i went away absolutely everything was swithced off (except fridge of course)! It appears its the storage heating thats the problem by the looks of it, but the convector part is mad expensive during the day and the storage doesnt last enough till i get home so catch 22...
Yeh i think you may be right on that one!If it was just for an hour or two at night then it may well be more cost effective for you to do this.
Ok, will rethink the night water heating, possibly just heating it for an hour before bed and see if that makes a difference! Goin to be one lean week till pay day...Do you have the immersion on night rate every night too? Storage and water heating will usually be by far the highest costs in a night rate house.
There is "normal" bill in my experience with a home on night rate electricity for water and storage heating. Look at my graph linked from the thread mentioned above. The bills are cyclical (unfortunately with an upward trendI live in a one bed apartment and got the bill on Monday. Normally around E100 (bi-monthly) but was E197 this time around.
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