Still Saving

Amazingly, despite the polar weather last week, our meter readings show that we managed to keep our savings for the third week consistent with the first two weeks. So we have cut our gas use by 30% and electricity use by 35% and are on track to save £440 per year!!!

Even though the weather has warmed-up significantly we are still trying to do more to cut our energy use. Last year we put radiator foil behind our radiators on outside walls. This is meant to stop some of the heat going straight out the wall and reflect it back into the room.

So the only thing left to do to our radiators was to stop the heat going straight up and heating the ceiling rather than the room (surprisingly, the Romans had the right idea 2000+ years ago with underfloor heating that meant the heat went up through the room space and the floor stayed nice and toasty for your toes!). We'd seen radiator fans that sit on the top of each radiator and blow the warm air into the room. However, as they are a fan they make a noise a bit like a computer and have to be plugged-in. We are not big fans of using energy to save energy (although they do say that what you save in heating can be over £100 more than what you pay in electricity for them to be plugged-in - that's if one is in every room at £30-£40 each!). So we chose to put-up simple radiator shelves (from FREE old shelves stored in our loft) to bounce some of the heat down and back into the room.

Sorry about today's boring photos, hope to have something more exciting later in the week.

ESTIMATED ANNUAL SAVINGS
Radiator shelves                            £10
Free water saving stuff                    £5
H2O alarm clocks x 4                    £30
Door draught seal                            £5
Lined front door curtains               £10
Bathroom energy saving light       £30
No power games & activities        £10
Less charging (car inverter)          £15
No power lawn mowing                £10
Reduced ironing                            £15
Hall energy saving light                £30
Front door solar light                    £30
Lined bedroom curtains                  £5
Cooking Co-operative                   £25
Dishwasher used only when full   £20
Bed half an hour earlier                 £25
Washing Machine at 30 deg C      £15
Reduced Heating & Hot Water     £50
Ditch the Tumble Dryer                £50
Still Less TV & Xbox                   £10
Total Annual Savings                  £400

ACTUAL SPEND (will add items in as we install them and estimate their savings)
H2O alarm clocks x 4                    £26
Door draught seal                            £5
Pulley bathroom airer                    £43
Lined front door curtains               £21
Bathroom energy saving light       £20
Invertor                                          £20
Hall energy saving light                £27
Front door solar light                     £25
Lined bedroom curtains                 £10
Total spend                                   £197
TTFN