Electric Heaters - runs for 2 hours in 2 rooms per day and possibly 30 mins in the morning - it's these radiators - DSM Electric Combination Radiators (brand new)
- Hot tank for showers - connected to electric pump shower takes 1 hour to heat per day, have to use "boost" to get a hot shower.
- Washer Dryer combo (new AAA energy rated) runs mostly at weekends but takes ages.
I spoke with work colleagues with large families (it's just two here) and they were about 180 in winter.
Are you comparing like for like? Are they using electric heating and what are the BER ratings of the two properties?
That alone could be adding 20 - 30 to each bill. They tend to be 2 - 3kw usage.I do have a blow heater in the bathroom which spends about 40 mins average running per day
aside from the electric heating (they seem to have gas) their bills are around 180 max.
True. But i know my electric bill for heating was approx 40 euro for December, the heaters energy usage is monitored.
and i often forgot the boiler
There is a screen grab of their usage in the first post.
The baddies he said were, the fan heater and towel heater in bathroom, the weekend dryer usage and the water boiler usage (unavoidable - but I can be more careful) He suggested heating the boiler at night time (leave it on all the time on auto basically) when rates are lower, but I take my showers at night so it would be cold by then. Does anyone do this, is it better than having in on for an hour on boost?
OK this is known as the immersion heater as oppose to boiler as they are totally different. One hour will use 3 units during the day is probably 60 cents and 30 cents at night. not a good idea to leave it on imo. If you change to showering at 6 am in the morning you will halve this cost for the hour you currently use it.He suggested heating the boiler at night time (leave it on all the time on auto basically) when rates are lower, but I take my showers at night so it would be cold by then. Does anyone do this, is it better than having in on for an hour on boost?
but I only put my immersion on for max 20mins or so to get a short shower out of it,
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