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[TheBoy]

Yes, that electric Arc Furnace I must be running somewhere in the house. How else could my electric bill be £100 per month  

     

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Turn the lights off, Put beer in fish pond and get rid of Freezer, No tv but leave the server on..

[CaptainZok]

Don't suppose having the odd server running 24/7 has anything to do with it?

[Danny]

see, if you'd just done what i did and ran a wire to the nearest lamp post, your bill wouldnt be as high!!

[TheBoy]

Don't suppose having the odd server running 24/7 has anything to do with it?

I've had servers running in my house 24/7 for last 15yrs, but never had a £100 per month effing tizzy effing bill  

[CaptainZok]

Tunnie running a cannabis farm on your lekky? You know what these student types are like.

[Martin_1962]

You can get thingies which go between plug and socket - test every appliance.

Do you have low energy lightbulbs? Grade A appliances?

[Taxi_Driver]

Yes, that electric Arc Furnace I must be running somewhere in the house. How else could my electric bill be £100 per month  

     

I thought my last leccy bill of £160 (for 3 months) was bad enuf  

I put it down to the pond pump......that i have a bad habit of running for days and not turning it off.....you wouldnt think a pond pump would use much leccy......but it does the filtration and the waterfall....it filters 500 gallons/hour and puts about 300 gallons down the waterfall/hr......and wait for it........uses 800w   .......mind you the pond is always nice and clear and you can see the fish  

[Taxi_Driver]

Mind you.....an electrician once showed me a way of cutting down your leccy bill......buts its totally illegal and therefore carnt tell you! And no you dont run a wire from the nearest lamppost  

[holey head]

no you by-pass the meter but as you say it is illiegal there fore not to be done, it's easy though if you know how, hence my name sparks, i'm a sparky!!!!lol

[TheBoy]

You can get thingies which go between plug and socket - test every appliance.

Do you have low energy lightbulbs? Grade A appliances?

Many lights are low energy, living room not, nor spots in kitchen.  Most appliances AA or A, though just before Christmas swapped out AAA dishwasher to a AAB one.  TV is LCD, presumably equal or lower than the Sony PoS CRT before, had that since October.  A/C unit hasn't been on this year, neither has leccy fire in front room.

 :-/

[Kevin Wood]

You can get thingies which go between plug and socket - test every appliance.

Yep. From Maplins. They have them on special offer quite frequently for 12-14 quid. Very handy devices and quite an eye opener at times.

They will measure instantaneous volts, amps, watts and VA, power factor and frequency and will also tot up consumption over a long period so intermittent loads such as a fridge can be measured.

Kevin

[Taxi_Driver]

Ive been to my bros today....to see his new house.....old farm house.....with a working farm next door  :-/ Very nice and big house.....loads of land and tennis court....but farm right nextdoor  :-/
Altho it was nice peeking thro one of the stable doors on the farm and seeing mother piggy with 9 piglets   Tho im wandering off topic......so to get it back on topic....

Noticed in his kitchen he has an american style wardrobe size fridge freezer.....with lcd displays showing the temp's.......fridge 1C freezer -21C......now that must be using a lot of leccy to get it that cold  

Tho wont be costing him as much as the oil fired arga in the kitchen  .....you have to run em 24/7.....theres no gas supply.....so its just leccy and oil  

One of his outbuildings (it has serveral) has been converted to a garage.....with running water....leccy....and even a loo....would make a great place to put a project car......but at 60 miles away a bit far  

[TheBoy]

Noticed in his kitchen he has an american style wardrobe size fridge freezer.....with lcd displays showing the temp's.......fridge 1C freezer -21C......now that must be using a lot of leccy to get it that cold  

My freezer's display shows +4C for fridge and -18C for freezer

[Kevin Wood]

My parents have an oil fired AGA. Makes the kitchen a bit stuffy this time of year but I can vouch for the quality of puddings and cakes it produces. Was staying there at Christmas and one of their neighbours had a crisis - their Aga broke and I went to see if I could bodge it repair it in time to cook Christmas dinner.

That one was electric! Can you imagine how much it costs to keep a hunk of cast iron that size at 200 deg. C day and night using electric power!

Kevin