Owning your own home

hm, if we dont have eco on at all it drops to 9-11 degrees fairly easily.

Dam detatched flat exposed on almost all sides

I harness the free heat from the OAPs on both sides :)

King size bed?

Your mum keeps me good and warm :)

On the phone to eon, using 6 months (9 days off 6 months since moving in) average monthly total is £82.62 - which i still think is high

it drops to 9-11 degrees

What is this? An igloo?

average monthly total is £82.62 - which i still think is high

It is, yes. Our DD is £68 and in summer that creates a massive balance.

And we run a dehumidifier which I worked out costs us about 60p a day!

https://imgur.com/a/G6WDGCM

Flat on the end, unheated garages below, exposed to a main road at the front, stairwell on the other side, not a lot of insulation

Is that for both gas and leccy?

Yup. Top floor 3bed flat, fourth floor, quad aspect, 50s, double glazed. Hits about 16deg in winter if we don't heat it. Modern combination boiler, central heating.

Wow, that's very impressive!
I think we were previously at about 100pm for both pre January Nest installation.

Up until about 2016 we paid £45 a month which I thought was spendy!

I've been guilty of having the house far too warm. Using the heating sparingly now. As long as there's no frost on the inside of the windows, then I'm OK with that!

Anyone recommend a South based architect to help with designing an above garage extension and single storey rear extension? Nothing too experimental in what we're after?

Is that boiler on time? In a normal weekday my boiler would be on for 2-2.5 hours to get the flat up to 20 (or 22 if my girlfriend's cold) between about six and midnight.

Saying that, I was out all day Saturday with the heating off and it just dropped below 17 by about midnight. It looks like the issue is the lack of insulation.

Ok got even more info out of eon - over the 6 months, using no estimates and just opening and yesterday readings, electricity usage is a very normal £24 a month.

Gas is 58 a month, and if you look just from the november reading its more like 100 a month.

So it looks like heating usage is the killer here.

Aggi that is boiler on time yeah. On a weekend to keep it at 18 7am-10pm it can be on for 10-11 hours.

This is going to be an interesting problem to solve

For comparison, the tariff on Bulb (this includes VAT as well)

Electricity
Payment Method
Direct Debit
Electricity Unit Rate
13.59p per kWh
Electricity Standing Charge
20.44p per day
Gas
Payment Method
Direct Debit
Gas Unit Rate
3.60p per kWh
Gas Standing Charge
20.44p per day

thanks, will take a look on uswitch too

This is going to be an interesting problem to solve

Sell your flat, buy ours!

never!

I know I'm like a fucking stuck record on this, but a desiccant dehumidifier will both heat your place (from leccy) and make it feel warmer at any given temp.

we run the dehumifier now, its worked great, it runs only ~hour a day now and humidity is down to 50-53% :)

thanks for the nudge

If you do switch consider OVO and get a smart meter.
Looking at your bill examples takes me back to the messy sort of thing I used to get about 10 years ago.

Took 40% off our bill by switching to Ovo, now pay £62 a month though prompted by this thread I've checked and we can take it down to £53.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/50412088?search_identifier=7c500e5c85dc7c087ac3d6b5561c6967

I quite like the look of this place - it's well over priced (so please ignore) but my question would be:

1)Ideas on how you would make the ground floor layout work? Would like to have a wrap around extension and no use for the garage (other than storage but maybe will have kids/car in future - is off street parking great?).
2) Others have put in permanent buildings at ends of garden, is that likely to mean we would be able to?

Off street parking is great.