Power readings

PLEASE BE REMINDED THAT POWER READINGS PRIOR TO THE NEW TARIFFS NEED TO BE IN TONIGHT. DO NOT LET THEM HAVE MORE MONEY THAN THEY DESERVE.

 

There are reports that the systems are crashing as they cannot handle the traffic. Glad I have a Smart meter.

 

Don't know about yours but our gas reading is racing away today. Despite The C.H set at a low 16° and hardly coming on, the cost is looking horrendous. At this rate there's likely to be pensioners dying at home next winter if not this Spring

 

For anyone with Octopus energy - their prices are going up at midnight tonight. They have asked people to submit their readings tomorrow - and the figures you give will be assumed to have been taken at 11.59 pm tonight.

You have a week to submit the Saturday reading - as you can adjust the date of the reading in your internet account.

Just saw someone on tele. saying that they pay £300 per month for energy. Even with this latest increase we are paying £100 per month. How can someone pay 3 times that? It's mind boggling.

 

That sounds very low if you really mean the new price from Today ?

"The regulator Ofgem has increased the price cap on standard and default tariffs today by 54%, from £1,277/year to £1,971/year on typical use"

So as from today the typical average bill will be £165 per month from the pre April £106 per month.

Expect some families in poor cold housing and with kids etc will have a much higher demand and those in larger properties probably have the money anyways.

Though in a well insulated house we still seem to be around that typical use figure, suppose we could turn off the greenhouse propagators etc .... ?

 

Usually depends on how many kids you've got in the house.

 

I was paying that in my flat we stayed in before moving here last summer. It was draughty (no double glazing), very poorly insulated, and with 50-year-old storage radiators that were cold by tea time. Easy to spend £300 on electricity under these circumstances.

 

Yes that's true, this house has solid stone walls so can't be insulated, but the loft is insulated and the new extension is also insulated, even under the floor.

When my late partner Beryl was alive she suffered from hypothermia for the last few years of her life so we had the central heating and gas fire on all the time even in the summer if the weather wasn't hot, and the c. heating was on all night sometimes.
(I often felt I was roasting !)
The bill for gas was always between £150 - £200 per month, but I'm paying less than half that now for gas and electricity together.

I don't think the increases will push my bill up to what we paid then, but the thing was we paid it between us, but now it's only me to pay it all myself, and if I get cold my arthritis gets worse.

 

I paid £130 in January of gas and electric, March was just over£100, in the summer months I can get that down to £50 or £60 a month, or at least I did last year.

In winter I tend to just live in three rooms and just turn the heating on upstairs for a few hours in the evening. I've got cavity wall insulation and the loft is insulated, but probably not up to modern standards.
In the summer I open all the internal doors and even the external ones when possible, I dont like being confined but you cant do much else really.

 

Big upheaval that lots of people wouldn't want.
I know, how about cladding.

 

We had looked at getting cavity wall insulation for our flat (the landlord was happy to pay for that) but when they did a survey they found the walls were a single layer with a half-inch of insulation sprayed on the outside then harled. So no cavity wall insulation. The flats originally had a flat roof then a pitched roof was added. Despite being on the top floor there was no access into the roof space so no insulation other than anything the council had installed when the pitched roof was added.

 

You'd have to have every room redecorated though and that's a lot of work and expense

Also a lot of work, and in my opinion from what I've seen it spoils the look of the house