The energy saving battle: Which household tasks use more?
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🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Does an electric heater cost less to heat a room?
Is the electric blanket cheaper than a kettle-filled hot water bottle?
On this week's podcast, Georgie Frost, Grace Gausden and Simon Lambert, tackle the burning questions of our time (well, the common energy saving ones people often debate at least).
The team reveal a cunning way to work out when you can use Avios points to book flights.
Plus, Simon explains why he's not a crypto investing genius, why you probably aren't too and what the point of regularly reminding yourself that you aren't an investment guru in crypto, shares, or anything else is.
And finally, a This is Money reader recently moved home and doesn't have a doorbell and their landlord won't provide one, do they have to... and exactly who is this reader?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money Podcast. I'm Georgie Frost and alongside me and editor Simon Lambert. Today is consumer expert Grace Gorsden. And as the days and nights turn colder and our energy bills rise even higher, is it better to leave the heating on low all day or high in short bursts? We answer some of your common winter energy usage questions. Plus, is this the future? A home |
| 0:21.8 | insulating robot called What Else? But Greta Tunberry could help you go green and save you money. |
| 0:29.3 | Also today, I'm not a crypto investing genius and you probably aren't too. Simon warns investors, |
| 0:35.1 | that was Simon talking, not me. Simon warns investors who've made |
| 0:38.4 | big returns and ploughed their own brilliance about the perils of doing so. Plus, have the team |
| 0:43.5 | found the best trick for maximising your avios points? And who builds a flat without a doorbell? |
| 0:49.5 | Or rather, what idiot rents a flat without a doorbell? But whose responsibility to install one is it anyway? |
| 0:55.3 | Don't forget me to step to date with all the latest breaking money news, |
| 0:57.7 | just go to this ismoney.com.uk or download the app. |
| 1:01.3 | But first, as we enter the colder months and with cheaper fixed deals, |
| 1:04.5 | having disappeared, millions face soaring energy bills. |
| 1:07.6 | So if you can't switch, but you still obviously need to heat your home, what is the |
| 1:11.7 | best way to do it without overspending? Grace, let's go through some of this. I know that these sort |
| 1:17.9 | of energy saving things go down really well with this in money audience, and unsurprisingly too. |
| 1:22.9 | So this is, you've got six here. If I put them to you, can we just rattle through and go for it? |
| 1:29.4 | Yes, let's go for it. Right. Okay, you ready, Grace. How much does it cost to use an electric |
| 1:34.2 | heater for an evening? How does this compare to two years ago? And why did you ask whether it |
| 1:39.1 | compares to two years ago? Is that when energy was sort of a reasonable price or is the electric |
| 1:43.2 | heat has changed a lot? |
| 1:45.7 | Yeah, no, basically two years ago is pre-pandemic and when energy levels were at their most |
| 1:51.2 | competitive. There was a lot more suppliers, excuse me, in the market. So a couple of these |
| 1:56.1 | we compared to 2019 for comparison. So an electric heater for five hours on one night as of last month on a |
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