Worried about high daily usage
We are on economy 7 only for storage heaters and are using 3.50 a day including standing charge we have a 2 bedroom retirement flat we only heat liveing room also there is a community laundry room with dryer I need to cut my bill should we go on single tariff and get rid of storage heaters
.any advice welcome
.any advice welcome
Comments
If you don't have a gas supply, or prefer to avoid gas for environmental reasons, then there are alternative forms of electric heating such as air-source heat-pumps that could work out cheaper than running storage heaters. However this depends highly on the nature of the property, the level of insulation you have, plus a bunch of other variables. Basically it's impossible for anyone to say from the information you have given, and even with more information would be difficult without a thorough property survey.
Then maybe consider having the storage heaters on for less time each day.
As it's likely unrealistic to either get gas installed, or stick a gas boiler and central heating somewhere, you're probably on the cheapest setup at present.
If your flat is not particularly warm, and you're also spending that much on energy, I'd recommend investigating where you're losing most of your heat to and whether there's anything you can do to improve that (draught strip on doors, sealing around windows/skirting, lined curtains etc.).