Electric bills?

[phantomtek]

Hi guys,

Considering moving out into a new house, this will save a total of £800 in rent for myself moving here and it is perfect for what we need, except there is no central heating that I could see, just the electric heaters on the walls and a separate boiler for the shower. Are these expensive to run? How expensive would 3 or 4 be during winter time heating largish rooms?

Would it be over or anywhere near the £1600 saving we'd be making? I'm doubting it, but you never know! And does this mean there won't be any gas bills (Assuming we don't use the gas fire as the cooker was electric too) Pictures of both attached, you can see one stuck to the wall and a separate standalone one to the right of the bottom picture.

https://media.rightmove.co.uk/8k/7095/7095_6889_IMG_02_0000.jpg

https://media.rightmove.co.uk/8k/7095/7095_6889_IMG_01_0000.jpg

Cheers guys!

[Kickstart]

Hi

Electric heating will not be cheap, although I presume they are storage heaters and should only come on at night (ie, economy 7 cheap electric periods). If they are make certain that they are wired up right (my father has them in his workshop and they always had high electric bills, until they found out that they had been wrongly wired up and were on all the time).

For a rough idea a 3kW fan heater will cost you about 45p a hour to run.

All the best

Keith
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[Andy C]

One of my mates live in Bath centre and shes in a 2 bed flat and they have prepay electricity and have electricity heaters and she hates it. Costs a lot when runs out she has to go top up the card (not a problem you will have though)

Also, i could be wrong but is that not a gas hob on the oven?

You still a student? (just wondering)
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[Tonka]

I have a 3 bed bungalow heated with storage heaters and pay on average (monthly budget plan) £45 a month for my heating and £30 for the general electric that includes a dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer. Those were my calculations for the year to autumn 2008 and they will have increased in the past few months but you can get an idea from that, hopefully.

I don't find I need all of them on, all of the time. I leave the spare room one on very low as there is an outside wall that can get damp, my bedroom one is on low most of the winter, but turned off the rest of the year and the living room one is the busiest one, but I now have a wood burner so not so much this winter.

The alternative thing I have for when I get caught out is a halogen heater as these are supposed to be about the same cost as a light bulb and if you shut the doors they are quite efficient.

HTH
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[JonB]

Don't bank on not needing them during the summer.

We currently live in a 4 bedroom house. The problem being that it is an old victorian house. This house has proved to be absolutely awful at retaining heat. During the cold winter we have just had we had our central heating on about 18 hours a day, within one hour of turning them off the house was stone cold. Victorian insulation is awful, the rooms are massive and the radiators to be fair are wholly inadequate. Our quarterly bill for Dec to Feb was £550 on gas. To be honest gas is meant to be much cheaper than electric, so imagine the electricity bill?

Even now, it is a reasonable temperature outside, but quite often it is warmer outside than it is inside. I kid you not.

Victorian houses = AWFUL.
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[carvell]

That's a gas hob, by the way, so you need to factor in the cost of changing that to electric.

I would definately get gas central heating installed at the first oppurtunity, I lived in a house with storage heaters and they're nasty. Good for the time, because noone knew of the wonders of gas heating.

To get hot water you'll have to use an immersion heater. They also cost a bomb.

Looking at the pictures further, that night storage heater in the living room is tiny, hence why the current people have supplemented it with an electric heater. An electric heater is even worse than night storage heaters. Because you'll be on economy 7, your electricity during the day will cost more, so that standalone heater will also cost a fortune.

To answer your question, no, get central heating!
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