Just completed the change over where we can to LED lighting. We now have some 42 installed. We bought them on line at a very reasonable price, some *82.41 for 50 normal LED and four dimable ones which cost more.
The potential savings are so they say:
TP24 did its calculations based on a typical modern kitchen which would have 5 halogen lights. It compared the costs of these with the equivalent CFLs and LEDs. Its figures are based on the lights being on for 8 hours a day, 7 days a week for a year. I suspect that most of us don't have them on that much, but if you do the figures may prompt you to turn them off more!
The annual amount added to your electricity bill for running those five lamps would be £95.37 for halogen, £20.98 for CFL and £4.77 for LED. Add to that the fact that LEDs last for 20,000 hours, CFLs for 10,000 hours and halogens for just 1,000 hours and changing them rises speedily up the priority list.
The upfront costs for LEDs and CFLs are more: £9.95 for 5 halogen lamps; £24.96 for CFL and £34.92 for LED. But even at these prices, you're saving money six months after you've bought them. Click on the table above to enlarge it and see all the figures.
We hope to save some £10 a bulb a year.
We also insulated above two of our rooms as there was nothing at all up there and changed out the rads, the rooms are now like ovens and guests open windows and turn the rads down. We had a gas rebate of £1000.
It pays to insulate, as it cost us £201.
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