What is your yearly heating cost?

[julianf]

Another straw poll by me...

Im interested in the cost of heating where ever you live.

To quantify, im looking for your approximate totals spent on kerosene / gas / electricity (if you have electrical heating / logs / coal etc. for the purpose of keeping your living environment warm.

(ie not your total electrical bill, but, if you use night storage heaters, the estimated cost of their use alone)

If you run a setup on used oil, then the cost would be the cost of the oil (if you have to pay for it).  If a boiler on bio, then it would be oil cost, plus conversion.  Im sure you get the idea!


To the nearest hundred or so is fine!

[1958steveflying]

£400 PA heating and hot water on gas, no way of knowing a split on that and I do like a warm house (it's my age and time spent out in a freezing garage)

[BANDIT2]

£400 PA heating and hot water on gas, no way of knowing a split on that and I do like a warm house (it's my age and time spent out in a freezing garage)

400 a year? shirley thats quarterly?
Me- DD duel fuel is £167 a month and its crippling me.
Old house but has DG and a gas condensing boiler with decent loft insulation. I've spent all of last year insulating the downstairs external walls and I'm still working on that though should be finished in a few weeks.
Got a remote boiler running on weo but its rather wank.
I'm expecting a drop in the DD payment this year though-the wall insulation and draft elimination quest has made the place much nicer.

[Rotary-Motion]

£520 electric (total all year) £10 a week

£520 gas (total all year) £10 a week

£131 LPG gas bottles x 5 for winter (1 a month x 5 months)

what part of gas/electric is heating no idea so put full year spend in

[julianf]

Paul,

How come you use both (mains?) gas, and LPG bottles?

[Rotary-Motion]

Paul,

How come you use both (mains?) gas, and LPG bottles?

I live on my own perhaps this should be a factor in your equation? when at work I don't heat house, and to use natural gas for full heating cost a hell of a lot for me, I leave the stat on low when in use to take the chill off only, and use a portable heater for front room when im home...

just me and the cat.

cant see the point in getting the house all toasty to wear a teashirt in winter

[julianf]

cant see the point in getting the house all toasty to wear a teashirt in winter

Gotta keep the whippet warm, and he likes to travel!



Well, that's a complete lie - he lurks where its warm, and pretends he cant move.

[greasemonkey]

For the last three years I collected wood, so that wasn't costing a lot, but it wasn't heating much either.
25 litres of heating oil costs me about £15, and that will last around a week, less if it's freezing, but it hasn't really frozen this year yet. If it did I would put the fire in anyway to save on oil.
Iuse about 4 or 5 19kg gas bottles every year, the last one I bought was £36.50. That's only used for cooking and heating water for the shower and tap. I guess a weeks worth of showers uses more gas than cooking does all year.

[Rotary-Motion]

For the last three years I collected wood, so that wasn't costing a lot, but it wasn't heating much either.
25 litres of heating oil costs me about £15, and that will last around a week, less if it's freezing, but it hasn't really frozen this year yet. If it did I would put the fire in anyway to save on oil.
Iuse about 4 or 5 19kg gas bottles every year, the last one I bought was £36.50. That's only used for cooking and heating water for the shower and tap. I guess a weeks worth of showers uses more gas than cooking does all year.

think my LPG bottles are 13kg and cost £26.30 (brand make flo-gas)

and if I used natural gas to heat house you can double that £520 at least so over £20 a week £1040 just on gas

[Rossey]

My dual fuel bill is £888 a year.

gas ch, is on 24/7 because of baby and electric is been used all day as wifes now a homemaker

I wish i could put a wood burner in here but there's no chimney and im terraced.

[julianf]

I wish i could put a wood burner in here but there's no chimney and im terraced.

You could look out for a load of 6" rigid flue, and bolt it up the side of the house.

This kind of idea, but obviously domestic / prettier -

[Dickjotec]

We heat the house with a rayburn on logs and a boost of taybright to keep it in over night if needed cost about £250 pa. Logs are free except for the chainsaw running cost and that often runs on miss fuel.

House water is solar heated in summer and rayburn in winter.

Cabin ( daughter, son in law and after Wednesday 1st grandson) is electric. Cost of all electric for cabin and house is about £400 I estimate that is the cabin heating.

Lister generates the electric for house and most of the cabin also does background heating for cabin and house. It runs on solid / grotty oil swapped for good oil most of which I buy but that is for the electric so the heat comes free.(?)

Dick

[photoman290]

about £200 a year on bottled gas for cooking washing and gas fridge. £150/£200 on kero till i sort out my wmo feed to the spike burner. about £30 a year on diesel for the genny. £4 a week on electicity assuming my batteries last the 8 years i am hoping thay will. total of £638 roughly. hoefully should be able to reduce that by 1/2 when i build the WMO  fired range this summer.  that is in a well insulated coach with just me and the cat. i could get a woman to keep me warm but going on previous experiance they tend to be rather on the expensive side.

[Rossey]

I wish i could put a wood burner in here but there's no chimney and im terraced.

You could look out for a load of 6" rigid flue, and bolt it up the side of the house.

This kind of idea, but obviously domestic / prettier -

Cant do that on this house as its shared ownership.

I'm looking for a house where i can go the whole hog.

wood burner, wmo boiler, genny.

[1958steveflying]

£400 PA heating and hot water on gas, no way of knowing a split on that and I do like a warm house (it's my age and time spent out in a freezing garage)

400 a year? shirley thats quarterly?
Me- DD duel fuel is £167 a month and its crippling me.
Old house but has DG and a gas condensing boiler with decent loft insulation. I've spent all of last year insulating the downstairs external walls and I'm still working on that though should be finished in a few weeks.
Got a remote boiler running on weo but its rather wank.
I'm expecting a drop in the DD payment this year though-the wall insulation and draft elimination quest has made the place much nicer.

No that's my Gas usage cost for the year, 1 yr old combi 2 bed semi, 2 of us here both shower daily. when cold I have the heating on constant, 19c overnight 21/22c in the eve and weekends. Only 2 rads in the system on full flow that is a towel rail in the bathroom and small rad in the hall, all the rest are on thermostatic rad valves, bedroom valves are right down and I have the bedroom window open every night !  Loft is over insulated and cavity wall insulation.