drsquirrel
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As others have said, if your house is already warm the heaters won't be on that often. But it's usually nice to calculate them at "full pelt" for a "worst case" estimate.
One thing I have been thinking about a lot recently... is the realistic cost of running the heaters... because the heat from the tank leeches into your room, it is in effect a heater for the room... thus (unless you need to cool the room) will reduce the load on any heaters in the room itself (and/or the heaters in the room reduce the load on the heaters in the tank).
There are items in the house that probably use more each day... kettle (2-3kw), iron (1-2kw), shower (6-10kw!), cooker(2-4kw), heaters(1-6k), water heater (2-8kw) etc.
If you are worried about the bill take very short showers on a lower temperature, drink less hot drinks (and boil the bear minimum), keep your fridge/freezer stocked low and don't put every single drink that you want cooled all at once, dust off the fridge/freezer radiator (generally these don't use much energy compared to others anyway), turn the heaters down and wear more layers
, set your water to smaller time periods and try and wash in a tighter regime. billion and one other things - shutting doors, confine yourself to various rooms for most the day, don't heat a bedroom if you have blankets pansy! - meh I could go on.
Around £30 you can get a remote meter for monitoring your entire house load, look up "owl" monitors. (you will need 2 sensors for economy7 because of the 2 inputs). You will also find it interesting to use a single 13amp monitor (that monitors just one socket) if you run your aquarium off of one socket. Then you can compare total house load minus aquarium load to monitor your other house load individually.
btw. There is the argument that the wasted energy from phone chargers (And other AD/DC adaptors) left on in the wall exchange to heat which can technically reduce heating requirement (obviously if you are needing to force cool this doesn't work out).
One thing I have been thinking about a lot recently... is the realistic cost of running the heaters... because the heat from the tank leeches into your room, it is in effect a heater for the room... thus (unless you need to cool the room) will reduce the load on any heaters in the room itself (and/or the heaters in the room reduce the load on the heaters in the tank).
There are items in the house that probably use more each day... kettle (2-3kw), iron (1-2kw), shower (6-10kw!), cooker(2-4kw), heaters(1-6k), water heater (2-8kw) etc.
If you are worried about the bill take very short showers on a lower temperature, drink less hot drinks (and boil the bear minimum), keep your fridge/freezer stocked low and don't put every single drink that you want cooled all at once, dust off the fridge/freezer radiator (generally these don't use much energy compared to others anyway), turn the heaters down and wear more layers
, set your water to smaller time periods and try and wash in a tighter regime. billion and one other things - shutting doors, confine yourself to various rooms for most the day, don't heat a bedroom if you have blankets pansy! - meh I could go on.Around £30 you can get a remote meter for monitoring your entire house load, look up "owl" monitors. (you will need 2 sensors for economy7 because of the 2 inputs). You will also find it interesting to use a single 13amp monitor (that monitors just one socket) if you run your aquarium off of one socket. Then you can compare total house load minus aquarium load to monitor your other house load individually.
btw. There is the argument that the wasted energy from phone chargers (And other AD/DC adaptors) left on in the wall exchange to heat which can technically reduce heating requirement
(obviously if you are needing to force cool this doesn't work out).
