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[Ivo]

Haven't got a smart meter, but really worried how much it's costing to keep the heating on at the moment during these cold temperatures. Like really worried. Seen figures around saying £3 an hour of gas, we've had ours on most of the day as we've got young children. £30 a day? That can't be right can it? Plus electricity, that's over £1000 a month...?

 

[AsiaAsia82]

Anyone with Christmas lights outside their house should be made to give the government money back.
There’s better causes to spend that money on.
We need a Christmas light detector van

 

[Rita_Poon]

Anyone with Christmas lights outside their house should be made to give the government money back.
There’s better causes to spend that money on.
We need a Christmas light detector van

Or some geezer on a pushbike in a frenzy....

 

[Eiffel 65]

Haven't got a smart meter, but really worried how much it's costing to keep the heating on at the moment during these cold temperatures. Like really worried. Seen figures around saying £3 an hour of gas, we've had ours on most of the day as we've got young children. £30 a day? That can't be right can it? Plus electricity, that's over £1000 a month...?

It's a complicated equation. Depends entirely on the configuration of your central heating system and how you operate it.

A bigger house has more radiators so has a higher power boiler which uses more gas per hour than a smaller one.
You may chose to heat the whole house rather than just one room, which uses more gas.
Setting the thermostat to say 15 deg will cause the system to knock itself off sooner than setting it to 25 deg which would use more gas.
A well insulated house may not need the heating on permanently to maintain a sensible room temperature even in the current cold conditions, but a poorly insulated house may need to have the heating stay on to maintain a particular room temperature with a particular outside air temperature, which uses more gas.

 

[Ivo]

It's a complicated equation. Depends entirely on the configuration of your central heating system and how you operate it.

A bigger house has more radiators so has a higher power boiler which uses more gas per hour than a smaller one.
You may chose to heat the whole house rather than just one room, which uses more gas.
Setting the thermostat to say 15 deg will cause the system to knock itself off sooner than setting it to 25 deg which would use more gas.
A well insulated house may not need the heating on permanently to maintain a sensible room temperature even in the current cold conditions, but a poorly insulated house may need to have the heating stay on to maintain a particular room temperature with a particular outside air temperature, which uses more gas.

We're very poorly insulated. Been trying to sort that for a while, with very little success. Turn our heating off and it goes down to like 12 degrees in a few hours.

 

[Eiffel 65]

We're very poorly insulated. Been trying to sort that for a while, with very little success. Turn our heating off and it goes down to like 12 degrees in a few hours.

Yeah, there's only so much you can do.

Change window seals
Install thermal blinds
Use expanding foam to fill any wall gaps
Use those floor panel seal strips to fill any gaps in wood floor
Draught excluders on your warm room doors

 

[Tramps_mate]

There knock off nice and spicy Nik naks are better than the real thing.
Even there version of lilt is just as good, if not better.

The tango copy is fantastic!

 

[ForeverBlue92]

We're very poorly insulated. Been trying to sort that for a while, with very little success. Turn our heating off and it goes down to like 12 degrees in a few hours.

Sorry to hear that mate

 

[bernie inn]

the problem with buying electric cars now, is they will be replaced by hydrogen fuel cell powered cars in the relatively near future, battery powered cars have and always will be the interim solution between the ICE and the hydrogen fuel cell.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

the problem with buying electric cars now, is they will be replaced by hydrogen fuel cell powered cars in the relatively near future, battery powered cars have and always will be the interim solution between the ICE and the hydrogen fuel cell.

There is talk that hydrogen fuel cells will be used to power the electric cars. Takes out the risk of having cars fitted with compressed hydrogen tanks and the reliance on fossil fuels.

 

[bernie inn]

Hydrogen fuel cells will basically remove the need for batteries, see the new Toyota Mirai, Honda are also investing heavily.

 

[PhilM]

Hydrogen fuel cells will basically remove the need for batteries, see the new Toyota Mirai, Honda are also investing heavily.

I know it's a fair few years off, but nuclear fusion is hoped to be the answer to the production of hydrogen. Once that barrier is overcome, it'll become standard.

 

[Brennan]

the problem with buying electric cars now, is they will be replaced by hydrogen fuel cell powered cars in the relatively near future, battery powered cars have and always will be the interim solution between the ICE and the hydrogen fuel cell.

No they won’t.

 

[Baines' left foot]

So In other words you have had to remove all joy from your life. Just so you can give the bank's more money.
What a time to be alive

The Tories simply see the general public as units for production. The cost of living crisis has been deliberately made worse by the Tories, in my opinion.

If we’re all poor, freezing cold and desperate then we’ll fall in line more easily.

 

[navidson]

Haven't got a smart meter, but really worried how much it's costing to keep the heating on at the moment during these cold temperatures. Like really worried. Seen figures around saying £3 an hour of gas, we've had ours on most of the day as we've got young children. £30 a day? That can't be right can it? Plus electricity, that's over £1000 a month...?

I have a smart meter - and live in a poorly insulated Victorian terrace. It seems to cost me about a quid an hour to have the heating on