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- Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:01 pm
- Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
- Topic: Is folding causing my electricity bills?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3722
Re: Is folding causing my electricity bills?
Are you on an "Economy 7" meter which gives you cheap power overnight ? If you are then put thing like your washing mashine on a time switch so it will run on cheap power. Mines setup like that. I'm probably paying the same rates as you, but I'm setup to make as much use of the cheaper ni...
- Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:28 am
- Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
- Topic: Is folding causing my electricity bills?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3722
Re: Is folding causing my electricity bills?
So about £94 a quarter which is a quarter of the bill. Something seems really wrong somewhere.
- Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:00 am
- Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
- Topic: Is folding causing my electricity bills?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3722
Re: Is folding causing my electricity bills?
Wow, how do you get such a cheap rate? :O I wish I could get it down to that, would probably help. Anyways, here's the bill; http://www.dmb.me.uk/stuff/bg.jpg All of the kitchen appliances are energy-rated as A also. The only things left on are the desktop for folding, Sky boxes and the fridge-freez...
- Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:41 pm
- Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
- Topic: Is folding causing my electricity bills?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3722
Re: Is folding causing my electricity bills?
I'll point out it's a gas heated 3-bedroom bungalow, we cook with gas also and everyone is usually out in the day on weekdays. I checked other prices and tried services like uSwitch and British Gas came in cheapest. I have one of those and I've tried round the house nothing seems abnormally high. It...
- Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:56 pm
- Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
- Topic: Is folding causing my electricity bills?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3722
Is folding causing my electricity bills?
I decided to help out with F@H in recent months and used to shut down my PC when I wasn't using it mostly. However now I leave it on 24/7 folding with the GPU client and I just got an electric bill of £412.53. I've never had a bill that high, it was bad enough when it hit the £300 mark earlier in th...