Not sure if I'm posting in the right place - Mods feel free to move it!
We live in the country and moved into our house 5years ago.
We bought the house off a farmer who at the time asked if he could temporarily leave his electric fencing for the farm plugged into our outside ESB supply.
We said no problem as money was not really an issue at the time.
Circumstances have changed a lot in recent months and when looking at our ourgoings to see where cutbacks can be made we started looking at the ESB situation as bills very high.
Does anyone have any idea how to value this usage, don't want to plug it out in case cattle get out! But can't really afford to keep paying someone elses bill!
Can anybody quantify it for me - Its approx 8-9 acres of electric fencing and is plugged in 24/7!
Up until this christmas he made no attempt/mention of this and he arrived with €60 in a Christmas Card!!!!!!!!! This really brought it to my attention and annoyed me! I felt insulted that he values what we do so little that €60 covers the last 5 years of ESB and would love to put a true monatary value on the usage as I attend to approach him and ask for a true contribution or I will have no option but to "pull the plug"!
Sorry the post is so long but I am really annoyed over this!
We live in the country and moved into our house 5years ago.
We bought the house off a farmer who at the time asked if he could temporarily leave his electric fencing for the farm plugged into our outside ESB supply.
We said no problem as money was not really an issue at the time.
Circumstances have changed a lot in recent months and when looking at our ourgoings to see where cutbacks can be made we started looking at the ESB situation as bills very high.
Does anyone have any idea how to value this usage, don't want to plug it out in case cattle get out! But can't really afford to keep paying someone elses bill!
Can anybody quantify it for me - Its approx 8-9 acres of electric fencing and is plugged in 24/7!
Up until this christmas he made no attempt/mention of this and he arrived with €60 in a Christmas Card!!!!!!!!! This really brought it to my attention and annoyed me! I felt insulted that he values what we do so little that €60 covers the last 5 years of ESB and would love to put a true monatary value on the usage as I attend to approach him and ask for a true contribution or I will have no option but to "pull the plug"!
Sorry the post is so long but I am really annoyed over this!