Winter quarterly electric bill

So is it like mine was when the fire is on it heats the back boiler? We didnt have hot water in summer coz the fire was off. That all had to change when we had the baby. One posh new boiler installed with radiators put in rooms que big bills toboot :(

 

Thats about the same as mine when I dont use the coal fire. My windows are shot so very draughty. I am working towards modifying my house like our neighbour. He has double glazing and is looking into tripple. Insulation in walls inbetween floors and attic and some solar panels. Theve only had the heating on a few times this winter. I am very jelous

 

Yep, a back boiler with 2 pumps, one to the hot water tank other to the radiators.

Hot water tank is tripple insulated, with 2 coils in it, the other is linked to a 30 evacuated tube system.

The floor, walls and roof are all insulated in excess of building regs requirements and all the windows are low e double glazing with argon gas filling.

 

Our house Has upto date double glazing ( only 2 years old throughout!) but is a 30's semi which leaks energy like a sieve. The house will be 21 deg with the heating on when its freezing outside, but within an hour after it going off it could be 16 degrees. No cavities to speak of so no cavity wall insulation. The loft is insulated to current regs and specs too. It's a bigger than ave semi, but hey ho, I'll look forward to summer when their is no heating needed.

 

Oh Dear, There is a lot to be said for a little Wimpy terraced house . this little house is always warm, the council checked the insulation and passed it 1st class, we do turn off lights, standby lights on TV etc but do leave the central heating ticking over very low at night,as very old people do get up quite a lot in the night if you don't . But the next generation are not so frugal they will leave telly and lights on in an empty room their kids are even worse so it all comes as a bit of a shock when they leave home and have to pay for this themselves.

 

Nipping out yesterday evening we left the living room light on. My son (just turned 4) told my missus urgently that she'd done so. Wife said 'I know'. The lad asked why. Wife told him it was so that people think we're in. The lad thought about this for a moment, and then proclaimed, 'but it will run out of batteries'. He's obviously already thinking about energy consumption

 

just paid ours, $378.00. Husband fault, he took out our wood stove in the basement, said it was too hard on him to find the wood in the summer, stack the wood . But it was me that carried it in, and fed the stove in the winter. Really would just love to have it for a few weeks in the winter to decrease the bill, the wood was free. And he likes the house warmer than I do.

 

He took it out completely?

 

yes, he took it out completely. I said, just leave it there in case we want to use it couple weeks. NOPE, it is totally gone. We do have a fireplace, but have not used it either, no wood. The wood stove was in the basement, and the heat from it went all up stairs through the whole house, it was great.

 

Nightmare. The price of fuel is only going to go up as the oil and gas runs out. Before coal the whole of Britain was powered by wood, wind & water.

 

We pay £88 for gas and electricity per month which we feel is cheap. Most people we know pay £150 a month and they don't have their heating on all day like us. What makes bills expensive in my opinion is showers, kettle, flood lights and pond pumps.

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We had the woodstove for about 20 years, our electric bill was about $80 in the dead of winter. He could have just left it there, it worked very well. If he wanted to not use it so much, then fine, only in January and February. We uses to start it in December and go to March. My friends also think that was a crazy move. NUTS.

 

Geeez, our hydro bill is about $200-220 per month and it pretty much stays that way all year round, because of the AC in the summer, and that includes our water and sewer charge.
Our gas bill (heat and hot water, dryer, bbq) is about $180.00 per month

 

I pay £11.59 a month for Water.

 

I pay £11.89/month for our unmetered water supply/mains drainage.