Gas fires...

[ummmm]

How much does a gas cost to run? Say if it's on for most of the day full blast.

My OH tried to say it costs about £10 a day...but surely if it cost that much a good proportion of people wouldn't be able to afford having it on.

[deggers316]

take a reading from your meter on a 24 hour period when your running your heating full blast see how many therms you have used
go your your suppliers web site and try to find out the cost of a therm. its not easy to work this out but you can do it

[ummmm]

Thanks deggers. Thing is the central heating is broke so we only have a gas fire at the mo. That might actually make it easier.

Thanks again :-)

[Buenchico]

Let's assume that your gas fire has a heat output of around 4KW. (That's not just a wild guess. It's taken by looking at the specifications of the gas fires shown here:
http://www.manchester...product/Gas_Fires/17/ ).

Further, let's assume that you turn it on (at 'full blast') when you rise at 7am and turn it off when you go to bed at 11pm. That's 16 hours at 4KW, so that's 64KWh.

Tariffs vary, but British Gas (on their standard tariff) charge roughly 7.3p (inc VAT) for each of the first 223 KWh per month and roughly 3.4p per Kwh thereafter.

So, averaging out that onto a daily basis, there are about 7KWh charged at 7.3p ( = very roughly 50p) and 57KWh charged at 3.4p (which is getting close to £2).

So, as a VERY rough (but not entirely unscientific) estimate, a figure of £2.50 per day might suffice.

Chris

[ummmm]

Brilliant Chris....thank you so much. We're with BG as well :-)

As we have it on for less than that it'll be even cheaper.

I'm just off to nar nar nar in his face..!!!! :-)

[Mick-Talbot]

I bet he will enjoy that.

[ummmm]

He did :-)

[Whoever]

In the long run it will probably cost you a lot less if you invest in some good quality thermal underwear and wear it indoors. Doing so will enable you to run your thermostat at a lower temperature and save you quite a lot of money. But obviously this will depend on how well insulated your house is. Do you have adequate roof insulation & caivty wall insulation?

[ummmm]

I haven't got a clue. Central heatings broke anyway and has been for a long time so it's mainly the gas fire.