Your energy bills

Maggiemaybe

Hi, Tina. As long as you have a smart meter, sign in to your account, choose My Energy from the menu top right (this is on my phone). Then choose Usage Graphs, and you can see your monthly usage for gas or electricity in £ or kWh. If you double click on any of the monthly plus signs (+) it splits the usage up into daily amounts. You can use the < and << to move back to previous months/years.

Apparently you can dig down further to get hourly usage if your smart meter is set up for it. Ours isn’t, which is probably just as well. A person could get obsessed!

Ah, no smart meter!

win

I cannot believe that anyone can live with the heating on a couple of hour twice a day between 16 - 18. I have my heating on 24/7 summer and winter, summer at 21 winter at 23 and I am still cold. I have a thyroid deficiency & Raynaud's so suffer the cold terribly, but still, it sounds pretty inhuman to me. I would rather economise on my food bill than on my heating, I am really alone here?

No, I think the same, to have the heating on for just a few hours a day at 18 degrees yet wear several layers, gloves, hat etc indoors is not healthy and not good for the fabric of your house. But, and it’s a big but, not everyone can afford to pay increased bills if on a fixed income so sometimes people have no choice. It’s wrong that this is the case nowadays.

However, sometimes I have a private smile when I read some of the posts, they appear like those jokey comments you hear sometimes “ You grew up in a house with an outside toilet? You were lucky, we had to walk five miles to use a leaky bucket in the middle of a field” Like it’s a competition to see who heats their house the least or wears the most layers! I know it’s not, just me being silly.

I know what you mean Teacheranne - no-one in this day and age should be having to wear outdoor clothes inside to keep warm. If it’s cold enough to need to wear a hat or coat indoors, then surely that can’t be healthy. Though if one simply can’t afford the bills…….

Yes I do agree.

It is clear that some folk on here cannot afford to heat their house as it should be heated, given their age and health etc, which given the price rise ahead will make life very difficult and perhaps almost impossible for some.

DH and I were talking this morning saying that we could turn the thermostat down to say 18 or 19 and wear extra layers, but the last time we lived like that was in the late 50s-60s.
That would be so regressive and given DHs heart condition not terrible sensible.

We are lucky that we can afford the price rise, and I hope that situation continues, but this isn’t the case for everyone and to withdraw the triple lock at such a time is cruel.

The state pension in the U.K. is not over generous, and I think that it really needs to be reappraised at such a difficult period.

Teacheranne

win

I cannot believe that anyone can live with the heating on a couple of hour twice a day between 16 - 18. I have my heating on 24/7 summer and winter, summer at 21 winter at 23 and I am still cold. I have a thyroid deficiency & Raynaud's so suffer the cold terribly, but still, it sounds pretty inhuman to me. I would rather economise on my food bill than on my heating, I am really alone here?

No, I think the same, to have the heating on for just a few hours a day at 18 degrees yet wear several layers, gloves, hat etc indoors is not healthy and not good for the fabric of your house. But, and it’s a big but, not everyone can afford to pay increased bills if on a fixed income so sometimes people have no choice. It’s wrong that this is the case nowadays.

However, sometimes I have a private smile when I read some of the posts, they appear like those jokey comments you hear sometimes “ You grew up in a house with an outside toilet? You were lucky, we had to walk five miles to use a leaky bucket in the middle of a field” Like it’s a competition to see who heats their house the least or wears the most layers! I know it’s not, just me being silly.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE