£16/Day on Gas CH!!
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Are you sure your calculations are correct? If your meter is measuring in cubic metres, that looks like about £4/day of gas usage to me. I wonder if you're somehow confusing kWh and m3 units as per the meter readout.
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Also, the house I'm on about (6 beds, 4reception) costed about £150 pcm direct debit gas, with tenants, so on quite a lot, before we insulated. So £320 pcm sounds way off the mark.
I'm not sure the calculations are correct, they are that of my fathers. I have simply taken his word for it.
What calculations would you follow? Your workings.
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Your usage looks fairly ordinary to me.
My average daily usage in cubic metres was:
June+July usage 0/6m/day
Aug usage 0.52m/day
Sept usage 0.55m/d
October usage 2.25 m/d
November usage 3.2 m/day
December usage 7.6 m/day
It costs me about 50p per cu metre.
Conversion 1 unit on meter = 11.05kWh (roughly 50p)
the Jan to date will work out higher as I've been on 24-hour heating because it's so cold.
My average daily usage in cubic metres was:
June+July usage 0/6m/day
Aug usage 0.52m/day
Sept usage 0.55m/d
October usage 2.25 m/d
November usage 3.2 m/day
December usage 7.6 m/day
It costs me about 50p per cu metre.
Conversion 1 unit on meter = 11.05kWh (roughly 50p)
the Jan to date will work out higher as I've been on 24-hour heating because it's so cold.
As per John above, about 50p per m3 of gas is a fairly standard amount.
Last time I checked my old mum's gas bill, it was £1.24 per hundred cu ft (this is one unit on the gas meter) and about 4p per kWh, so your father's figure of £1.18 per unit sounds about right. My figures are including VAT
In that case your usage is more than double mine, but I have a more modern and modest home.
However it is certainly not £16 per day, except perhaps on the coldest days when the heating is working very hard, maybe for 24 hours continuously. On a quarterly gas bill of about 90 days it will certainly not be that much as it is made up of cold days and warm days. I also see your Sunday usage is particularly high (shown on the Monday Morning readings)
In that case your usage is more than double mine, but I have a more modern and modest home.
However it is certainly not £16 per day, except perhaps on the coldest days when the heating is working very hard, maybe for 24 hours continuously. On a quarterly gas bill of about 90 days it will certainly not be that much as it is made up of cold days and warm days. I also see your Sunday usage is particularly high (shown on the Monday Morning readings)
£16 a day sounds correct if its hammering away 24/7, based on size & location. Suggest turn it down/off when not required, turn it down when required, get out the christmas jumpers/cardi's. Draught proof as much of the house and your self as possible, spend more time with the neighbours friends, eat out, go on holiday somewhere hot.
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