Been doing a bit of detective work on my gas heating following a near €300 bill arriving in for November/December 17 which weren't exactly the coldest months on record.
There is someone in the house during the day so I'd expect high heating costs but €300 totally caught me by surprise.
We don't have the heat on constantly - the only time its set for is 6.00-7.00am to heat the house up before everyone is awake. We usually hit the boost button for 1 to 2 hour slots whenever we feel it needs it (some occupants feel the need to do that more than others!).
So the house is rarely every really warm. It's just grand most of the time.
Over the weekend I worked out that 1 hour of heating only is using 1.6m3 or 17.6kWh (12 rads in total).
Surprisingly having the heat and water running together didn't increase the unit usage by much at all (about 10%).
Using the gas hob wasn't heavy on usage either.
17.6kWh works out at €0.84c incl VAT with the plan I'm on. So if the heating is on for say 5 hours a day (which it easily is I'd guess), that's over €4. Add in water and hob use and it quickly gets to that €300 over 2 months.
I'm only a couple of years in this house and was previously oil before that which wasn't costing much at all (much smaller house however). So the gas bills/cost per hour has proven to be a bit of a shock.
Anyone else work out the gas heating cost per hour and coming up with similar figures of nearly €1?
There is someone in the house during the day so I'd expect high heating costs but €300 totally caught me by surprise.
We don't have the heat on constantly - the only time its set for is 6.00-7.00am to heat the house up before everyone is awake. We usually hit the boost button for 1 to 2 hour slots whenever we feel it needs it (some occupants feel the need to do that more than others!).
So the house is rarely every really warm. It's just grand most of the time.
Over the weekend I worked out that 1 hour of heating only is using 1.6m3 or 17.6kWh (12 rads in total).
Surprisingly having the heat and water running together didn't increase the unit usage by much at all (about 10%).
Using the gas hob wasn't heavy on usage either.
17.6kWh works out at €0.84c incl VAT with the plan I'm on. So if the heating is on for say 5 hours a day (which it easily is I'd guess), that's over €4. Add in water and hob use and it quickly gets to that €300 over 2 months.
I'm only a couple of years in this house and was previously oil before that which wasn't costing much at all (much smaller house however). So the gas bills/cost per hour has proven to be a bit of a shock.
Anyone else work out the gas heating cost per hour and coming up with similar figures of nearly €1?