Increased Electricity price for the power tools uses?

[big-all]

Yes, but a leaf blower is an exception, rather than the norm - most DIY power tools are a lot less than 3,000W and are more likely to be used for a few seconds at a time, not 20 mins.

Kind Regards, John

yes agreeing with you 100% in my own clumsy way

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Just wondring if the recent increase in electricity price will impact on the use of the domestic power tools such as using shop vacs, power hose, electric drills and saws ...etc.
It is now 4 times the price of electricity compared to the last month, and they say it will keep going up.
Do we have to watch what power tools we use and for how long to monitor how much it will all add up to the electricity bills?

The simple answer is that the same usage, of the same appliances, whether they are domestic appliances or DIY tools - if your cost per unit has increased by 4x the cost of running them all will increase by 4x.

If you don't know what an appliance consumes, or it's the type of appliance which switches itself on and off during use - you can buy a plug in adaptor which gives a fairly precise evaluation of what the item has used, whilst it has been in use, in either Kwh, or an actual costing worked out for you. They can be had for as little a £10 on Ebay.

 

[oldbutnotdead]

As someone pointed out, most power tools are used for seconds at a time so operating cost is pretty minimal.
Exceptions- cement mixer running all day, compressor in use for paint spraying or similar, wallpaper stripper on for a couple of hours. Still not worth worrying about the cost- I'll happily pay £2 rather than handmix 10 loads of mortar.

 

[JohnW2]

The simple answer is that the same usage, of the same appliances, whether they are domestic appliances or DIY tools - if your cost per unit has increased by 4x the cost of running them all will increase by 4x.

True, but one always has to be careful about differences/changes expressed as percentages or proportions since in many cases (as this one) it's absolute differences/changes which actually matter - i.e. a 4x increase in the cost of energy used by a DIYers tools is likely to be a trivial amount of money, but 4x the cost of (much more) 'commercial' usage of the same tools could be an enormous amount of money.

Kind Regards, John