If you can, fit a timer to your water heater and only allow it on for an hour or so a day - you'll find that's probably quite enough. If you don't want to fiddle with the wiring, simply get yourself a kitchen timer or cheap alarm clock, then turn the water heater on and set the clock for an hour or so to remind you to turn it off. See how that goes.
Although it's over a very short time, your figures indicate that you're already on the way to cheaper bills. Good luck.
£100 a Mth is not that bad but if you adjust the heating thermostat to a lower temperature just to keep the chill off and adjust the thermostat on the water heater so it heats the water but not heating all the time and get some draft excluder round the main door to keep the heat in and not heating it up for everyone else that passes your flat should help or get a key meter put in so your not having a big bill coming in :0)
im a builder ..maintain two blocks of flats ..all electric ..they average £35 a week ...£100 a month all in would be considered cheap by many
I moved into my 2 bed flat last October. I'm on an all electric metre so thats electric heaters, cooker etc, water heater etc. I'm on a fixed rate. Since then I've had to pay about between £500-600. That's almost £100 a month? Is that about right? Heaters are on timers throughout the day but go off when it gets warm enough. I am now living on my own but for the first 4-5 months my (ex) girlfriend was living with me and she tend to have 1 heater on full blast most the day. Surely that won't make a big difference? Any other tips I can do to lower it?? By the way I took readings...
Last Thursday - 47966
Yesterday - 48026
Today - 48038
