BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
Yeah ends in October which is beautiful timing. The new rate is their cheapest fixed deal. MSE agreed it was to high when I ran it through their calculator, but I'm going to double check it.
My electricity bill has just tripled: how about yours? Alternative suppliers?
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Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Question for anyone who has both a battery and an iboost immersion diverter. Normally we set the iboost to come on for an hour boost at 7am. After that we just let it top up with any excess power it can grab. That works out fine, in the summer at least. But what should we do if we go away for a while? We had a three week holiday back in June, turned the iboost off and turned it back on on our return. No point in heating a hot water cylinder for three weeks. What if it was only one week, or a long weekend? At what point is it better to leave the iboost on rather than turning it off? Any ideas welcome.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Well, I thought the new DD amount of 196 was going to start in July. But now both July's and August's payments have been taken, on the 25th of the month, and they've only taken 120 (can't find the pound sign on this wifi keyboard).
Have they forgotten?!?
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
i'd say if in doubt, claim
alternatively, have a play with the turn2us benefits calculator
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it's anonymous, but you will need real numbers for income / savings
for some things, getting AA will bump up other benefits (i'm too long out of the game now to be sure)
also worth seeing if they qualify for council tax benefit. again, if in doubt, claim
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
Thanks we'll do this
Be realistic. You can’t talk yourself out of this, so:
My electricity bill has just tripled: how about yours? Alternative suppliers?
My electricity bill has just tripled: how about yours? Alternative suppliers?
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Phew! Germany is going to be OK then..
www.cityam.com
Gas prices plunge as Germany closes in on storage targets - CityAM
Gas prices have fallen sharply today amid reports Germany is on course to meet its gas storage targets for October.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
With my old boiler it was costing about 50p a day to heat the hot water tank for a shower, washing-up & hand washing during the course of the day, the new combi boiler was installed on Monday, and yesterday it only used 8p in gas. So that should save around £150 a year at current prices and well north of £250 when the Oct. price hike comes in, this pleases me no end!
It's just a question of keeping heating costs under control now, which should be easy enough now that I have my newspace suit sleeping bag onesie.
It's just a question of keeping heating costs under control now, which should be easy enough now that I have my new
The thing which is fucked about this is that the ROI in this is probably 5 to 8 years.
The energy companies should have been finding people in smallish houses without combi boilers and giving them installed combi boilers.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
It will save you money when you're running the CH as well, it's the condensing bit not the combi bit that is the real money saver. A second heat exchanger recovers waste heat from the exhaust gas and uses it to heat the CH water before the burner chamber gets it. If it's the same as mine (Worcester Bosch Greenstar) it should have a button labelled ECO on it. If you press this and the word ECO appears on the display it has disabled the pre-heat for hot water. You will have to wait a bit longer for hot water when you run the tap but it means it won't kick in during the day to keep it hot so you don't have to wait.
Cool suit by the way and cool glasses you got them from Boots didn't you, I used to have exactly the same style.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Just looked at our seasonal gas usage. In the summer we use around 1 kWh/day for cooking and hot water, rising to 6 kWh/day if there's lots of showers/baths etc going on.
In winter it's around 85 kWh/day with the heating on. So over 90% of our gas usage is heating. Last winter it was £2.10/day, next winter it will be £12.80/day.
Underlines for us at least that piddling about with hot tap use or whatever is pretty meaningless. It's all about the radiator temperature. Also doesn't really matter what gas tarrif we're on outside of the winter months.
In winter it's around 85 kWh/day with the heating on. So over 90% of our gas usage is heating. Last winter it was £2.10/day, next winter it will be £12.80/day.
Underlines for us at least that piddling about with hot tap use or whatever is pretty meaningless. It's all about the radiator temperature. Also doesn't really matter what gas tarrif we're on outside of the winter months.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
It is a Greenstar, and the engineer set it to ECO for that very reason, explaining it will increase water use a bit, but as that's a lot cheaper than gas it's worth it.
However, as it's next to the kitchen sink there's no waste in filling the sink as it starts running hot fairly quickly, so what cold water runs out first means using less from the cold water tap to get the right temperature for washing up. Takes somewhat longer to get to the shower, but I am catching the cold water in a bucket to use for flushing the loo.
Not sure about that TBH.
Glasses came from Tesco, they were cheaper than Boots or Specsavers before they sold off their opticians.
I just figured out our energy usage (with a slight hiccup before realising that gas units on the meter do not equal kwh...).
A bit shocked to find that our 3 person household used more in 2021 than is quoted as average for a 4-5 person household.
While this equated in my flatshare to £35 per person per month, I didn't really feel the need to consider our energy use much, but now it's obviously different.
I do hope that we can make some fairly easy savings. For the last two years with this usage, one person was either on furlough or permanently wfh during the winter months; and while I was on furlough during that long harsh winter lockdown, having a nice toasty home was one of the few pleasures in life, so the heating was on pretty much round the clock.
From this autumn, we'll all be working outside the home most of the time; my flatmate who is wfh is moving out. She also has a penchant for really long showers and baths (think 1-2 hours of running hot water, per day). And while, as platinumsage says, this amounts to a much smaller fraction compared to heating use than I thought, it should still make a difference.
Also need to have a think about how to keep the heat in. The flat is very poorly insulated, with large single-glazed, rickety-at-the-edges sash windows. A thermal curtain for the especially gappy living room window might be a start.
A bit shocked to find that our 3 person household used more in 2021 than is quoted as average for a 4-5 person household.
While this equated in my flatshare to £35 per person per month, I didn't really feel the need to consider our energy use much, but now it's obviously different.
I do hope that we can make some fairly easy savings. For the last two years with this usage, one person was either on furlough or permanently wfh during the winter months; and while I was on furlough during that long harsh winter lockdown, having a nice toasty home was one of the few pleasures in life, so the heating was on pretty much round the clock.
From this autumn, we'll all be working outside the home most of the time; my flatmate who is wfh is moving out. She also has a penchant for really long showers and baths (think 1-2 hours of running hot water, per day). And while, as platinumsage says, this amounts to a much smaller fraction compared to heating use than I thought, it should still make a difference.
Also need to have a think about how to keep the heat in. The flat is very poorly insulated, with large single-glazed, rickety-at-the-edges sash windows. A thermal curtain for the especially gappy living room window might be a start.
That is a good tip, will look into it.
prunus
Tick tock.
Acrylic (well PET) sheets seconded. I have used these people several times, would recommend: Magnetic Secondary Double Glazing | Magneglaze®
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Just feeling a little tickle of anxiety....am on a fixed rate till April, pay quarterly bills which i have no trouble in splitting if it's a bit big (they have a message service for this)..my last bill (a few weeks ago) had actually gone down by £130, so i feel like i'm in a weird bubble at the moment
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Any benefit of getting it from single supplier? Worth checking prices though, I've been ordering from a local company that seemed to do really good prices, and get magnetic strips off ebay.
Ah they supply the mag strips ready attached? That would indeed be handy although generally easy enough to fit.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
We’re fine too. Bought a new kettle recently.
I’ve used these guys before they can cut sizes to the mm and provide edging
Secondary Glazing for the best value heat and noise insulation
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two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Ah edging looks really good, ta, tempted to try it. I'm having to replace/reglue adhesive strip for a couple of windows anyway.
Now with link !
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Thermal imager would be fun, cheapest is about £60 though and very low res so not sure how useful that would be. Renting would seem sensible cos you'd only really need to use it once during a cold snap, but that looks like £80 for four days.I’ve used these guys before they can cut sizes to the mm and provide edging
Secondary Glazing for the best value heat and noise insulation
Affordable window and door insulation, cut to size Polycarbonate sheet, draught excluders. Instructions and videos. Wide choice, buy online
lazythursday
Well-Known Member
Quite a lot of councils / community organisations are buying and renting out thermal imaging cameras now, worth checking locally.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Use an old quilt should work quite well.
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