Smart Meters Good Or Bad?...

@HarryS I was only with them less than the quarter actually, they went bust and I didn't fancy being with the new company (had problems with previous company with my meter not showing a display for readings too so didn't really want to commit to a DD) but my new company has quoted me at £59 a month DD for leccy and just paid the first month and given a few reading so fingers crossed it should be all ok now.

 

I agree with Pete all it does is make you look closer at how you use it. Better to be a smart person than a smart meter :-)

As for previous bills nice to see what some pay but it really needs a level playing field ..detached, semi, terraced, insulated etc etc to be comparative.

For what its worth I use approx 16000 kWH of gas and 2500 kWh of elec and yearly bill approx £900 (OVO), that's a 4 bed detached in Central Scotland. That is probably down from around £1400 5 years ago. Over that period I have monitored usage and changed from elec shower to gas from combi boiler and the main lights from halogen to LED. House is occupied 24/7. but heating goes off at 10.30 most nights.

I monitor gas/elec monthly using a spreadsheet to calculate costs. Since I started to look at things more closely my house Ins, car Ins and TV package have all gone down in recent years.

 

^^ way too cold for my liking!

 

My heating is on from 5.30 am till 8 am then comes on again at 4pm till 10pm in the week, at weekends I use it depending on the weather and what I am doing at this time of the year.
Just had my monthly metered bill of £156 for gas and elec. for Jan.
Expect similar for Feb and Mar.

 

Interesting, I also use LEDs (spot lights) in the kitchen and low energy bulbs elsewhere, most things are knocked off at the switch too as this has been drummed in since small. I do have a big watt security light out the back that the cats like to walk past and knock on and an electric fire that gets switched on for half hour to help warm things up mind...
Those wall heaters sound good! I have a 9 year old combi central heating.. it's done me well so far, one leak and one lot of batteries for the thermostat.. but with upstairs getting heated first and with my poor walls (bisf house with external wall insulation) it doesn't help things.

Yep that's me currently sitting in 74f and still cold!

 

Mine is similar too, 6am - 8.30am then 4pm-10pm set 21.5c/70f but I'm always knocking it up to 23.5 Weekends it' 6.30-10am then 4-11pm

 

My temp around the house tends to be the same in most rooms, a bit cooler in the hall way and upstairs, downstairs its usually about 75F to be comfortable sitting around without loads of jumpers on, I get enough of that during the day.

I am running two 2 kw heaters in the greenhouses as well.

 

Should add two rads in the conservatory that hemorrhages heat.

 

I think a lot of my problem is, at this time of the year, I get completely frozen all day, some days.
Often I dont get warm until I wake up the next morning, and then get frozen again.

Wouldn't life be great if we never had winter.