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[ninjapirate]

i pay about £30 a month and in a lot of time, dont have gas here so its oil, which goes up and down a lot, only use it for hot water at summer so if i was settled and not looking at selling i might get some solar water heater thingys and biomass boiler.

[TheBoy]

Easy, every time I get home in the winter it looks like Blackpool F-ing prom!

As I said to you a couple of weeks ago, take the tumble dryer down the tip...  ...and fill the space with a nice tool chest

[TheBoy]

£110 per month here 

 

I know a certain other Admin who's leccy bill is that high, but he's running servers.

How it can be £110 a month!?!  :-/ 

About 5 years ago, I fit £100 a month.  That was the final straw, so out went all the nice light bulbs, replaced with those stupid bent energy ones. Out went all my P4 PCs, replaced with Core based ones. Religiously turn everything off when not in use now. Replaced the old power hungry server that ran OOF at the time to a lower powered one.

Even though energy has gone up, I've managed to keep below £100

[TheBoy]

£110 per month here 

IIRC, you have E-7?

I suspect for you, thats probably costing you dearly, even if you do set the appliances for nighttime (though every time I see you, the dryer is on during the day ).

E-7 only realy works out if you heat electric.

[TheBoy]

£110 per month here 

 

I know a certain other Admin who's leccy bill is that high, but he's running servers.

How it can be £110 a month!?!  :-/ 

About 5 years ago, I fit £100 a month.  That was the final straw, so out went all the nice light bulbs, replaced with those stupid bent energy ones. Out went all my P4 PCs, replaced with Core based ones. Religiously turn everything off when not in use now. Replaced the old power hungry server that ran OOF at the time to a lower powered one.

Even though energy has gone up, I've managed to keep below £100

To show the progress of technology, the new server going in soon (hopefully before the Lakes) is the first replacement (this will be the 4th its run on long term) since OOF has been running here that actually has a larger power requirement for the CPU, going from a dual core Xeon to a quad core Xeon.  Although I'm secretly hoping, with newer components, it will actually overall use less power (as everything won't be pinned at 100% all the time ), but impossible to say until its all loaded up.

[Allenm]

£110 per month here 

IIRC, you have E-7?

I suspect for you, thats probably costing you dearly, even if you do set the appliances for nighttime (though every time I see you, the dryer is on during the day ).

E-7 only realy works out if you heat electric.

I would second that!  I just rang my supplier to switch to the latest tarriff and was asked what my heating was, when I said Gas CH - I was told i was wasting money having E-7 and promptly got a date booked for the meter to be changed.

I should have twigged before when I was comparing tarrifs and the E-7 usage ratio was suggested to be 55% national average, I looked at my bills and my average was around 8% 

Hopefully mine will come down from its current £162 pm!  but i doubt it, my house generally acts as a bloody lighthouse and it's like Bermuda all year round! 

[wakeyomega]

£2,160 a year, mind you I do have an old victorian house and an expensive wife to run (or is it the other way round)

[ninjapirate]

according to the n-power box thing i use 8kwh's per day. dont know how good they are tho.
tend to only have lights on in room im using, outside lights are energy saver jobbehs (cant see hand infront face otherwise)
washing machine uses a lot, halogen oven is pretty good at saving electric, and most the inside lights are downlighters or leds. havnt worked out if its cheaper to use the electric water heater or the oil boiler to heat water, only need it on a hour a day.
when i move,i really want a project, either a renovation of a old cottage with some land or a new build, i want to try be a little more eco and self sufficent. make up for my very own hole in the ozone layer lol

[TheBoy]

according to the n-power box thing i use 8kwh's per day. dont know how good they are tho.
tend to only have lights on in room im using, outside lights are energy saver jobbehs (cant see hand infront face otherwise)
washing machine uses a lot, halogen oven is pretty good at saving electric, and most the inside lights are downlighters or leds. havnt worked out if its cheaper to use the electric water heater or the oil boiler to heat water, only need it on a hour a day.
when i move,i really want a project, either a renovation of a old cottage with some land or a new build, i want to try be a little more eco and self sufficent. make up for my very own hole in the ozone layer lol

Mine current reads 19, and nothing has been switched on in the last day, as we were out last night, and I've been out most of the morning....

[ninjapirate]

have you noticed any extension cables leading out of your house to other homes? 

[Taxi_Driver]

I keep thinking about changing my 25+yr old fridge and 25+year old freezer to an A rated combined fridge freezer.....i wonder how much that would save on the leccy bill......which isnt much really.....£55 month combined (recently changed from Southern Electric to Coop Energy.....saving an instant £35/year on gas standing charge + the unit price was slightly lower as well)

[STMO123]

I'm on E7 and, as has been said, I was wasting money. So I bought a timer and put it on the immersion heater. 2hrs in the middle of the night and we have hot water all day.

[STMO123]

£2,160 a year, mind you I do have an old victorian house and an expensive wife to run (or is it the other way round)

A mahoosive old victorian house

[bootie]

*sniggers* I'm not saying anything!

[Debs.]

since OOF has been running here

  Please tell us we`re not all huddled on a shelf in your downstairs loo! :-/