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No idea, how do I find this out?

To be honest I only have one bill on the old imperial meters. And this was with the hive heating system (which was just a single thermostat for the whole house and traditional TRVs). The gas usage was more or less the same with that system. The bill was for 5,000 kWh for a month. The hive was...

Not sure about controls on the hot water cylinder. I know the immersion heater is off at the switch. I did see a thermostat on the cylinder but it's in an awkward position and the hot water is only on for a total of 1 hour a day which is sufficient at the moment, so don't think hot water is the...

Hi, thanks for your insight. I have one previous bill as the meters were changed from imperial ones and I've only been in the property for a few months. I did have a look into the ebus... I have two problems, first is ebus seems to be good for combi boilers and not so much for open vented...

Thank you for your insight. I have tried to mitigate the cycling issue by not having standard TRVs on the towel rails in the bathrooms. So when any radiator with a Tado smart TRV calls for heat, it also heats up the towel rails. I have set the flow temp to 65 as suggested earlier, hope this is ok.

Most certainly will do. That one room was half the entire consumption for January so far! Absolutely mad! I know someone said to ignore the Tado consumption data, but in relative terms it is useful to see what each room's usage is.

Thanks so much. Now that I've turned off the heating in the offending room, and turned off early start across the board on my Tado system. I will use your screenshot as a reference in the next few days and see how I go.

It was on 74 when I checked today. I changed it down to 65 earlier today

Very true. The pipes do have insulation on them though which would help a little I guess.

I think early start may be a big culprit as for the room which I mentioned has an old fireplace with a draught, it seems the trv was going nuts and calling for heat pretty much all day. I am going to keep the heating off in that room and see how I go for the next few days (at least) and turn off...

That's right.

There are spikes when the hot water is heated (only for a half hour in the morning and evening). But the rest of the usage will be when the radiators are calling for heat based on the schedules. I also have "early start" turned on so that the radiators turn on prematurely to ensure the set...

It varies room by room. But essentially I only have my study heated during the day and then by evening the other rooms we use are heated ready for when everyone gets home. During the night only the bedrooms have a temp set to stop people freezing overnight.

Thank you for the insight, very useful. This means your usage is approximately 1,500 kWh per month. Still a LOT lower than my 5,000 kWh!!!

They are invaluable to me as I use them to turn off the heating on several rooms we do not use, or turn off heating in rooms at certain times of day on a schedule.

The boiler has a switch which I will turn off.

Here is a screenshot of the weather over the January period. Not sure how accurate this is though as the last two weekends have been sub zero temps.

I have Tado trvs on all radiators except the towel rails in the bathrooms (which have traditional trvs). Tomorrow, when there is noone at home I will turn off the boiler and measure the actual usage via meter reads when turned on from cold.

A very good question! After fiddling around in the app for a bit it looks like it's a combination of estimates based on how many times it has to call for heat/hot water and meter readings. See the attached screenshot from the app which explains this. I have added all the meter readings fir the...

Here is a screenshot from my Octopus app. I turned off the boiler at about 10am for a couple of hours so you can see zero usage until I turned it back on. The boiler is installed in the garage so was cold before I turned it back on. However the gas usage only peaked to about 10 kWh as you can...