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  • Leccy and Gas
  • lambchop
    Free Member

    What’s your average daily spend just now? Recently we seem to be getting close to a fiver a day territory and it’s not even cold yet.

    the-muffin-man
    Full Member

    Running at about £5 per day for both. 2 up 2 down

    Although my daughter is back home for the month so the washing machine has been getting a hammering!

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Some details are important.

    We’re at about £5 a day now, summer £2.50.

    4 bed 1970s semi of @130m2 in central Scotland, 3 people.

    chestercopperpot
    Free Member

    Get your spreadsheets out. Everyone needs a strategy now they have been turned into luxury products and an opportunity to flog green solutions. Got to keep the CEOs and shareholders in yachts, second homes on the continent and classic sports cars.

    woody2000
    Full Member

    ~£50 a week. 4 bed semi, 1914 built. Family of 5, someone at home all day.

    GlennQuagmire
    Free Member

    Gawd knows on the daily spend right now, but I do know I pay £165 every month of the year to keep warm and powered up.

    BoardinBob
    Full Member

    £2 a day for electricity, £1.40 a day for gas over the last week

    4 bed detached new build built in 2021 with 2 adults and a dog!

    andrewh
    Free Member

    About £40/month, £25ish consumption, £18 standing charges. Just electricity.

    Small 1880s house in southern Scotland

    irc
    Free Member

    No idea of current overall gas usage. Pay £139 per month and current balance over £400 so should cover higher winter bills.

    Electric is consistently around £2 a day all year. Try to limit tumble drier use otherwise use as required. Two adults house.

    Biggest reduction was cutting gas use by between a quarter and a third after replacing 40 yr old Baxi CH boiler.

    JollyGreenGiant
    Free Member

    £125 per month for both. Old 2 bed terrace. Just recently signed up for 1 year fixed with octopus .

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    w00dster
    Full Member

    2 adults and 2 adult size teens, 18 and 16 year olds. Electric car gets charged most evenings. 3 bedroom home, probably 12 year old house.

    So far this month total cost for gas and electricity is £9.66 electricity and £3.39 gas. All washing (dishes and clothes) happen overnight. Typically no one at home during the day. Heating is set to 21 degrees and to come on at 1630 until 2300hrs, and 0630 until 0830. (We are on Intelligent Octopus Go)

    We are not particularly being cheap on our usage. If I’m in early the heating goes on. I’m working from home tomorrow and will use the heating.

    johnners
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    I’m on about £2 a day for both at the moment. that’s for 1 adult in a 90s 2 bed terrace. The heating’s hardly been on so far though so it’ll soon ramp up if it gets actually cold.

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    bruneep
    Full Member

    Heating is set to 21 degrees

    Are you all going about in pants and vests?

    ours is set to 18.5c

    simondbarnes
    Full Member

    I can’t be arsed to work out a daily spend. Gas is ~£15 / month (hot water & heating), Leccy ~ £40 / month (cooker, tumble dryer, telly, lights etc)

    tthew
    Full Member

    A fiver a day? Bargain. About the same price as a pint of half decent lager.

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    BoardinBob
    Full Member

    ours is set to 18.5c

    18 in mine. My mate cries and whines when he comes over. His house is at 23 and I feel ill when I’m there. Horrible temperature

    mashr
    Full Member

    Are you all going about in pants and vests?

    ours is set to 18.5c

    Not all thermostats tell the truth. My house reckons upstairs should be 22C whilst downstairs is only ever 19-20C, one of these 2 is lying

    Currently ~£4 day here. Fairly new house (9 years old) with a fair amount of space and 4 of us in it

    retrorick
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    Electricity around 50p/day lowest price, £2.60 highest (but adding 50 miles off range to the car at £18p/kWh) all plus daily standing charge.

    Gas, not a lot. Not used the central heating yet and only use it otherwise for hot water/cooking and shower.

    Only me in house tho so easy for me to adjust my usage.

    julians
    Free Member

    October averaged:-

    gas : £4.10 per day (thermostat set to 21c)
    Elec : £3.87 per day (includign elec car charging)

    4 bed, 1930’s detached house, 3 people, 1 stays at home all day every day

    fazzini
    Full Member

    £2.30 – £3.30 leccy – depends on washing machine usage. We don’t use a tumble dryer except in emergency, but the dehumidifier is on most of the time for washing drying duties. Generally, the smart meter says £0.83 or £1.10 each morning when it wakes up at 6am.

    £1.15 – £2 gas – CH is rarely on at the moment, but if it is, it reaches £2.50- £3.

    1980s semi-detached (extended) 4 people (often 5), usually occupied day & night.

    We don’t have any thermostat controls, so CH is either switched on manually or via timer. I’ve often wondered if having a thermostat would be more or less expensive. I’ve never lived in a house with one!

    Jolsa
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    Just over £2 per day for electric and gas combined. 1950s semi detached, Bristol. Both of us wfh.

    Wiser kit throughout to manage zonal heating, use Ninja air fryer/Speedi machines instead of main oven.

    andybrad
    Full Member

    gas has gone from 30 quid a month to 90 this month and will likely double again next month 🙁

    rsl1
    Free Member

    Gas is £0.5-£1.5 a day for 20degC  all day on first floor, using ufh on ground floor – but that is in a house insulated and air tight way beyond current building regs.

    Looking at the spikes on the smart meter, 20-50p of that is baths and showers. Interested to see what it’s like once it’s actually cold outside.

    singletrackmind
    Full Member

    Gas , 40p a day

    Electric 95p a day

    No central heating on yet

    nixie
    Full Member

    £5 for gas already with a sweltering 18deg on the thermostat!

    richmars
    Full Member

    Solar, battery and heat pump, this month varies between £3.60 and £4.20 a day import, only a few pence export due to weather.
    4 bed 20 year house.

    natrix
    Free Member

    Gas & Leccy combined about £3 per day, 4 bed 1970s detached, family of 4, solar panels help keep it down.

    Flaperon
    Full Member

    Electricity £1/day (mostly standing charge), occasionally more if I need to charge the car. Oil boiler running for about 90 minutes a day to bring the house up to 19C morning and evening.

    Can’t stand a hot house, but also don’t see any point in suffering unnecessarily out of principle.

    siscott85
    Free Member

    About £5-£6 a day 3 of us in a 70s semi.

    I signed up to a 2yr fixed rate back in Spring when MSE suggested it was a good idea. We ‘lost’ a little through Summer, we’ll ‘win’ a little through Winter, and we might ‘win’ all next year, unless Trump does in fact end the War in Ukraine and allow Russia to flood the market with cheap Oil and Gas.

    Jolsa
    Full Member

    Just over £2 per day for electric and gas combined. 1950s semi detached, Bristol. Both of us wfh.

    Correction – my comment above doesn’t include standing charge (Octopus app usage graphs don’t include fixed charges). So instead, I’m at about 5kWh electric and 15kWh gas per day at the moment.

    theomen
    Full Member

    Some people seem to pay very little, which is great for them.  What prices are you paying per unit of electricity and gas?

    bruneep
    Full Member

    Those posting daily/monthly numbers are the prices with or without standing charges?

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    spyke85
    Free Member

    Roughly £2.50 a day

    julians
    Free Member

    Mine were with standing charges.

    In October I tended to be averaging 70kwh of gas per day, and about 20kwh of electric

    B.A.Nana
    Free Member

    Electric £1.40 a day (£1.82 incl daily standing charge). Small house and electric car doing 13k miles a year. Gas is about £1.50p/day but have other sources of heating

    Some people seem to pay very little, which is great for them.  What prices are you paying per unit of electricity and gas?

    I’ve just had a report for my electric,  9th March – 31 October I’ve averaged 10.26p/kWh (incl vat). massively helped by a big electric car battery, you can skew the figs quite significantly by always charging the car during plunge pricing events.

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    simondbarnes
    Full Member

    Those posting daily/monthly numbers are the prices with or without standing charges?

    With

    Some people seem to pay very little, which is great for them.  What prices are you paying per unit of electricity and gas?

    Gas 34.58 standing, 6.17p per kWh

    Leccy 51.18p and 21.81 per kWh (pre-pay meter)

    fossy
    Full Member

    Electric isn’t cheap in my house due to use. Dehumidifier on in garage this time of year to protect bikes and lots of tent stuff from damp. Two gaming PC’s of which one is on quite alot.

    Then there is the hot tub. We turn to circulation only, but if heating/maintaining, it will use about 12 KW a day easily (even with thermal cover – heater runs at 2kwh). Turn it down, then the use is negligible, 50w from pump, until minimum temp is met. Keeping it at minimum, in cold weather will still use say 5 KW a day, if the heat is above minimum, then it’s under 1Kw a day. They are expensive to run, but do ease a load of injury related aches and pains.  Leave it running all the time, then it’s ruinous !  I have it monitored on a Smart plug.

    Gas at worse was about £90pm in Winter last year, currently £45pm. Leccy about £200pm.

    fossy
    Full Member

    The last couple of years, once the prices went silly, I kept a spreadsheet of monthly readings, sometimes every two weeks, and it really showed when we used the hot tub or dryer, for example. The TV uses about 100w. The router/phone and PC etc on standby use 17w (separate smart plug). Dehumidifiers aren’t too bad but will use 500w to 1KW.   We’ve unplugged anything we don’t use much, so the old DVD and HD recorder are off – you’d be surprised what they use, especially older kit. My old JVC separates (40 years old) is a bit of a power monster, so that’s never left on standby.  Well worth investing in some smart plugs – we’ve four Tapo P110 plugs, all linked to the app, and we’ve got the unit rate synced, so pounds and energy is shown. Dead handy for keeping a spare one to see what certain appliances use over time.

    Fat-boy-fat
    Full Member

    £15 a week with my heat pump for quite a big 4 bed timbre frame house plus an EV. Way cheaper than gas for us so far.

    andrewh
    Free Member

    Some people seem to pay very little, which is great for them. What prices are you paying per unit of electricity and gas?

    £0.39 day/£0.14 night, standing £0.63. Electric only

    Works out at £40-45 per month on electricity, about £18ish of which is standing charge. No tumble drier, television or dishwasher. Cooker and oven are both electric. Lights are all LED. Fridge and freezer on all the time. Usual kettle/bread machine/microwave/big row of Exposure chargers. Radio and router on a lot. WFH usually three days a week so more lights this time of year and a computer. Consumption is higher in the summer as I use the immersion heater for water then. Van is diesel so no EV charging.

    Central heating is from the back boiler on the wood burner, which also does the hot water in the winter. Only had it on three times so far this winter, it’s been lovely and warm. House is 1880s and in Scotland but it’s only two beds and I live alone. It’s a flat so downstairs keep me toasty! My roof is very well insulated, all windows are either double or triple glazed. My firewood is free so not had it on on yet because I genuinely haven’t needed it much, nothing to do with cost.

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