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We pay £90 pcm on a duel fuel budget plan with EDF, i use their app to send my readigs in every month, this tells me my balance immediately.
I have done this since they wanted to increase our payments to £140.00 pcm, which i refused point blank.
I am currently £110.00 in credit after some of the coldest months, so will be backing down their regular payment, especially now they are reducing their charges by such a 'massive' ammount.
We have a 3/4 bed brick built bungalow, link detached. heat by gas, cook electric, we dumped the bath abd turned it into a utility room with a sink, as we tended to shower (electric).
I boarded out the loft for starage, this also acts to form air pockets of fibre glass insulation between the rafters and add's to the loft insulation.
Cavity wall filling is surorisingly effective, i worried it migh cause damp but no sign of it in 3 years, and had made the whole home more comfy.
Changing from a gas slot in cooker to a NEF induction hob, and Neff double oven with timers, is i'd say one if the best investment moves i made for economy. The speed the hob heats a pan of water is near microwave performance, nearly all the go's into heating the pan whichthen heats the food.
This mean far less heat is lost around the sides as is with gas, lift the oan iff the hob immidiaty stops drawing power and turns off after 45 seconds if not replaced back onto the hob.
How often do you move a frying pan off the heat to answere the front door or the phone? Think through how many times the ring us left burning away while the oot us washed out for another task, or swapping oans around.
It's things like this that save little bits of energy, that soon adds up to very big savings. With Gas (My Wife fought toothe abd nail to keep) you tend to turn it full up intill it bubbles then diwn again, not with induction, depending what your cooking obviously, take boiling eggs as an example, you get to know what setting is best, so you set to say 6 or 7, and time that ring for 6 minutes, knowing you won't boil over or for too long.
Food and iversills will nit cook ir burn onti the hob, which is nothing else a deal maker, you just need a quick wioe pver, not 2 hours with costic soda and Mr Muscle during the match!
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Author: ukprometheus
26-11-2019 04:02:54