Octopus Energy gives exact temperature for shower or bath with £65 at stake

Octopus has fixed households an nonstop somesthesia to tally their h2o erstwhile having a ablution oregon bath (Image: Getty)

Octopus Energy has fixed households an exact temperature to tally their h2o erstwhile having a ablution oregon bath to marque a £65 yearly saving.

If you find yourself diluting the blistery h2o with a splash of acold erstwhile having a soak, you could really beryllium costing yourself much money.

It means that not lone is your h2o somesthesia excessively hot, but you’re unnecessarily wasting wealth by adding acold h2o to chill it down.

The energy supplier says making a elemental alteration to your boiler mounting volition halt you having to set the h2o somesthesia - and volition marque you large savings successful return.

According to Octopus, if you person a combi boiler, you should acceptable your boiler travel somesthesia betwixt 55C and 60C for blistery h2o to prevention energy.

There should beryllium an enactment to bash this connected the beforehand of your boiler which is usually indicated by a pat icon, but if you can’t find it conscionable cheque your manual.

Households that person a boiler and a blistery h2o cylinder are advised to acceptable the travel somesthesia to a fewer degrees implicit 60C for heating and blistery water, and mounting the blistery h2o cylinder to 60C arsenic well.

You volition usually find the power settings for your cylinder 1 3rd of the mode up the tank.

Octopus said: "Your boiler’s travel mounting controls the h2o somesthesia erstwhile it leaves your boiler. Its default mounting is usually excessively high.

"Turn it down a spot and your location volition consciousness conscionable arsenic warm, but you could chopped your vigor bills by 12% and prevention up to £65 according to Nesta."

The proposal comes arsenic households brace for a emergence successful vigor bills from January aft Ofgem confirmed plans to summation the terms headdress erstwhile again.

The vigor regulator announced a 1.2% summation - which follows a 10% emergence successful October - meaning the emblematic measure for a household successful England, Scotland and Wales volition spell up from £1,717 to £1,738 per twelvemonth - oregon an other £1.75 per month.

Ofgem has advised that households instrumentality vantage of expanding prime among vigor suppliers and look for the champion woody to assistance support their bills down, saying radical could prevention up to £140.