Cost of running a washing machine?

[ericmark]

'Taking a mid-range washing machine with a 1400W power draw, run for two hours per day (a typical washing cycle), would cost 69p per day or £252.13 for the year from April under the new price cap.' really? This comes from a report saying 'Currently, electricity costs an average of 27.69p per kWh, and it will go down to 24.67p per kWh from April 1' my washing machine runs for around 1.5 hours, and the water heating is only for a few minutes, so most of the time drawing around 300 watt.

Alex Evans from the Daily Express it seems needs to go back to school. Today it is so easy to monitor what a plug in item uses. I use two washing machines, one for clothes and one for dishes, and also a tumble drier, the dishwasher has a drying cycle so uses a fair bit, and the drier also uses a fair bit, the heat pump can cycle off-on near the end, and very little between what a heat pump drier uses, to a vented drier, if the latter switched to 1 kW option so it takes 90 minutes, where heat pump at 650 watts, takes 2.5 hours, but either way less than 2 kWh so 50p to dry clothes, and in the main solar dried anyway. Which is why the IHD from the Smart meter is useless, it always shows zero or export.

 

[mattylad]

OK so whoever thought of asking that question is clearly a single man.
The cost of NOT having a washing machine or dishwasher is not being able to sleep in your bed at night, instead being on the sofa, OR that you no longer get fed, never mind no nookie.

 

[ericmark]

You are of course correct, I think my whole electric bill for the year is under £200, i.e. less than what he thinks is needed just for the washing machine.

I do note, my feed in tariff, dropped from 15p to 12p on first of March, will my import also drop, at moment 31.94p/kWh and 69.03p/day standing charge. Drops to 8.5p/kWh for 5 hours 00:30 to 05:30 so since May 2025 to date £194.39 for electric including the standing charge. But they still take £77.80 a month, and I have to claim it back.