Cost of living crisis/kWh Measuring Contest

I've been thinking about this on my morning walk. I, like many people I'm sure, never really paid much attention to the cost of all of this. With my example of the heating on for 3 hours costing nearly a £1 an hour, would this more likely be the cost of firing up from stone cold and getting everything up to temp? Would it then even out and more likely cost a couple of pence per hour regulating?

£3.40 by 9am again. Lovely. I like seeing my money almost literally burn.

Yeah perhaps "regulate" was the wrong choice of word. What I meant was that the initial £2-3 to get things to temperature wouldn't be indicative of the cost over, say, a whole afternoon/evening. It likely costs the most to get up to temperature then it's not so bad for the next few hours.

I'm sure we'll find out once it gets properly cold.

I'm not sure tbh, but my gut feeling is that you won't see any savings doing that, but I could well be wrong! I'd have thought the energy used to heat the house up from cold will simply be used over the extend hours you have the boiler switched on. But I guess it really depends on how well your house is insulated and how quickly it cools down. Certainly the energy savings trust & money saving expert think it's better to only heat when you need it.

I guess we'll all be finding out one way or the other this winter...

As the original poster stated, it will be very dependant on the level of insulation in your house. A fair bit of energy will at first go in to heating the fabric of the building - the cold brick walls, the concrete floor etc before the temp increases in the air.

That will then act as a little heat sink if its well insulated - the heat will remain in the house and you'll heat the air more. If there is no insulation it will seep out as soon as the heating goes off to begin the cycle again.

There is a time involved in making the air change temp and this is where the cost is in my opinion.

My house - I got the insulation taken out so now we wear jumpers, have a hot water bottle for the kiddies at night if needs be, and have the middle class stove on in the living room.

Although its baltic just now and I'm sitting with shorts on!

Arses. Seems my washing machine has died. Came downstairs Monday morning and found the sockets had tripped...and now getting nothing from the machine (which is a French model, plugged in with a travel adapter). I suspect the motherboard has blown - power is getting to the board but nothing is turning on. I could replace the board for £76....

I was being very lazy! It's been fine for over a year but clearly fucked it somehow. Ah well.

We're moving to octopus, who we wanted to switch to a year ago but they kept telling us we couldn't. I think they were trying to tell us that bulb customers were being moved to octopus without telling us that, which was infuriating.

However, this move does make Starmer's plan for a nationally owned energy company more difficult.

Looked to be v straightforward - risk is replacing it and it still doesn't work and I'm down £80. Wasn't intending to spend £700+ on a new machine though....£300 if lucky!  Edit: If it was £30-40, it would be a no-brainer.

Might move to Octopus on sheer principle as Eon are so fucking dreadful. Trying to sort my SEG and they're just shite at getting back

She's rougher than a T Rex's aleolas

Anyone on a tracker mortgage better be braced for a bumming today.
:/

I'm looking forward to my fixed rate ending in February.

Remind me again how making everyone who has mortgage struggle to pay their bills stops inflation when it's mainly caused by large corporations fleecing everyone?

Hey, at least, if it's going to go on for a while, at the end, you will have back your national industry, because your salaries will be so low that companies will move production from China back to the UK.