Discount for using electricity away from peak times?

Yes, on the radio the other day someone claiming a payment of around £20 from the previous hour long period. How much domestic electricity do some people normally use?

When this all stated I did post about the misinformation put out on a BBC early morning TV show where the journalist claimed that you had to switch off everything during the qualifying period. With reference to the extremes the media have been mentioning people throwing the switch in the consumer unit.

What matters is what other get netted.

Yeah, I was talking to a guy the other day who turned everything off including his radio!

There are people using candles instead of electric light. Must be a lot dearer.

Whatever happened to good old-fashioned iPads? ;-)

Tim

So much power/money saving bull s*it advice around! Even the one fits all advice of reducing your boiler flow temperature to 60C may not achieve a cost saving if your radiators are not oversized but your boiler is.

and, of course, the idea that you only heat your home to 60°F prevents Working from Home, since a Workplace needs to be heated to 65° as a minimum.

It may be that a "factory" needs to be heated to a certain temperature but a work place does not.

I think you are free to work at whatever temperature you like, but the recommended legal minimums are for your employees. In other words nobody else can force you to work at a too-cold temperature, but if you choose to work at that temperature in your own house with no other employees there, there is nothing to stop you.

If your employer has c "Regulation 7 Temperature in indoor workplaces (1) During working hours, the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings shall be reasonable. (1A) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) – (a) a workplace shall be adequately thermally insulated where it is necessary, having regard to the type of work carried out and the physical activity of the persons carrying out the work; and (b) excessive effects of sunlight on temperature shall be avoided"

Theo

Thats bullshit with cool stores, work outside and with the construction industry etc.

Yes they can, most obviously with cool stores.

Even if some other employee chooses to work at your place.

And it doesnt apply to those you employ in your home with cleaners, baby sitters, carers etc etc etc either.

And clearly doesnt apply to workmen on a building site like Adam etc.

There must be exceptions for refrigerated workplaces: meat or fruit storage places, frozen fish finger factories, ... ?

Thomas Prufer

Or basements full of computer kit. HOWEVER when I was able to show that the 8086 ICE stopped working at, and was only rated for, 27°C ...we finally got aircon...

That's my problem - the boiler won't modulate below 30% which even during the cold snap is too much. If I turn the boiler temp down the boiler just ends up short cycling.

I like the candles solution, very green. I suppose the rebate will enable the consumers to buy even more.

Watch the Youtube videos about heating your own home with a single candle and a flower pot. I think you may be able to get the house temperature up to 20C - in Summer. A faster rise in temperature can be achieved if you allow the candle to set fire to the furniture and curtains.

I know, the price of candles! (My missus kept buying them so i've taken to making them, i've saved us £100s over the last few years)

Water temperature 60°C, not 60°F for a room temperature of 18°C to 21°C, to allow radiators to have enough heat difference to provide the power needed without massive radiators.