Electricity consumption at home, what is your consumption?

Great! How often do you fire up the stove?

Uih, that would be a loss of comfort for me. Cold floors. Do you manage to heat all the rooms?
I turned on the heating early precisely because of the floor. Because at some point the tiles became uncomfortably cold.

I estimate about one log every 1.5 hours, but only in the evening or when the sun isn’t shining; otherwise, the windows and the sun alone provide heating. Since everything is open, it works surprisingly well. I also don’t understand why my neighbors prefer to burn gas and electricity in winter while keeping the blinds and shutters down.

NHN? What is that?



I think it’s good that this is being considered. In some areas, we are already beyond 12 o’clock, not before.

But I also don’t believe that he will ever inherit. Considering offspring, everyone should keep an eye on climate change and the future of the Earth, but your retirement will consume quite a bit – whether the house is liquidated for care or the money needed for renovation is spent on care – the house will be squandered one way or another.

But 200€ every month – that’s no small matter for me. And when some people here talk about their servers, which also waste a lot of energy, that makes me a bit queasy in the stomach from the running costs. That should also be told to those who want to build a single-family house quickly and with heavy EL, but currently come from a warm rent of 700€.

NHN is Normalnull (standard sea level). We are currently only 3 meters above it. If we don’t stop wasting CO2 like candy at Carnival, the Frisian house will drown before a child OR grandchild could inherit it. ;) And yes, I know there are dikes. But walling us in 2 meters high and ignoring that humanity has a problem is not my thing. ;)

The 200€ per month we basically already had before. Electricity + gas together were about 260€ for rent recently, I believe. Therefore, with our current installment of 198€, we are even cheaper than before. However, I hope we can bring that down after the first year. I’m still not quite sure if some component of the heat pump is broken or damaged and that’s why it consumes so much electricity. The exhaust fan worked half-decently for a while, the unit used a ton of energy, and then at some point it was completely broken and got replaced.

Now, with the (hopefully) repaired heat pump, we currently consume about 25 kWh per day. Of that, roughly 12 kWh go to household electricity and the rest (12-13) to the heat pump. We don’t know exactly, but in the old house we had about 12 kWh average electricity per day recently.

As of today, we are €160 in the plus (heat pump, household electricity, photovoltaic), it will be tight but we will probably have to pay a few euros for electricity this year.

Just quickly back to the actual topic. I still haven’t turned on the underfloor heating because, as I mentioned, we got extra wood to fuel the fireplace. There is hardly any loss of comfort currently, sure the floor is cold but the house is still warm. On the ground floor it’s 22.8 degrees and upstairs in the bedrooms it’s 20.1 degrees. I think the wood will be used up by the end of January. Then we still have 2 months in which we will be heating. Since the beginning of May, we have received 230kWh from the supplier for photovoltaic and storage. If then 1200kWh comes on top for the heat pump in February & March, I would be satisfied. Let’s see!

Don’t you find 20 degrees upstairs too cold?

My wife + kids would also give me the bird.

20 degrees in the bedroom feels too warm to me! Ideal there is 18 degrees. Remaining rooms upstairs 22 degrees.

How does your stove work to get any heat upstairs at all? It actually has to be water-based, otherwise it won't work. Or do you have heat flaps installed upstairs? I imagine that to be very complicated.

Otherwise, the price of wood is of course cheap and you can definitely save money. But it would be too annoying for me to heat with wood every day. That would then be an obligation and it wouldn't be fun anymore :). But today I'll be stoking the fire again!

Otherwise, we've had only fog and no sun for weeks. Solar yield equals 0. Actually, it's like this every year. That's why I always consider photovoltaics not to be so economical....