Your Home Unplugged
[Updated September 2022]
Our electricity bills can burn a significant hole in our pockets, and searching for ways to cut the costs can be challenging. This is particularly true if you’re not sure which devices are costing the most in your home.
We have analysed the average energy usage across a range of popular household appliances from each room of the house to reveal exactly how much each item contributes to our monthly electricity bill.
We then compiled the top 10 most expensive appliances in the home to find that from these 10 items alone, UK households face an average monthly cost of £227.15.
So, let’s break it down and look at which rooms are contributing the most to our electricity bill.
The top 10 most costly home appliances
Rounding up the top 10 most costly home appliances, the fridge freezer is named the most expensive appliance overall costing users £60.48 per month or £725.76 per year.
This is closely followed by the washing machine (£30.24 per month), and the dishwasher (£27.72 per month).
These three appliances alone now set households back £118.44 per month, and around £1,421.28 a year.
Using each of these costly appliances daily means that you could be facing a total monthly cost of up to £227.15, which equals a whopping £2,725.80 a year.
Kitchen – £138.17 per month
As the only appliance using energy all day every day, it may not come as a surprise to find that a fridge freezer is named the most expensive kitchen appliance, costing on average £60.48 per month. This is followed closely by a dishwasher at £27.72, meaning that these top two appliances together total a monthly cost of £88.20.
However, for coffee lovers, investing in an espresso machine could be the cheaper alternative to buying coffees as this appliance is named one of the cheapest in the kitchen at just £1.11 per month. The average price of a take away coffee is now £3.40.
Bedroom – £45.87 per month
As a result of colder winters and people avoiding using the heating to reduce energy bills, an electric blanket tops the list as the most expensive appliance found in the bedroom. With a monthly cost of £20.16, households are paying up to £241.92 a year just by using this appliance.
On the other hand, staying up late and reading your book in bed comes at a relatively cheap cost, as a bedside lamp comes in as the least expensive bedroom appliance at just £0.08 a month.
Utilities – £71.79 per month
Arguably the most used appliances in the household, white goods can take up a large chunk of our monthly electricity usage.
A washing machine tops the list as the most expensive utility appliance, contributing £30.24 to our monthly electricity bill. The monthly cost of a tumble dryer appears lower at £14 but running this alongside a washing machine means that on average, the UK is spending up to £44.24 per month solely on laundry.
Living room – £18.19 per month
With plenty to plug in, the living room is the entertainment hub for families across the UK.
The laptop is found to be the most expensive appliance of the living room at £6.30.
Next on the living room list is the TV, costing up to £5.88 a month in usage. However, for those looking to minimise costs, making the switch to a portable tablet would save £4.87 a month.
Bathroom – £6.75 per month
A heated towel rack is named the most expensive bathroom appliance, costing households £5.04, totaling £60.48 per year.
However, an extractor fan and an electric shaver are costing a combined total of less than £0.45, making these appliances the least expensive.
If you are looking to give your kitchen an upgrade this year and swap out the old for something new, check out our wide range of kitchen appliances. With popular, everyday electrical items such as lamps, tablets, coffee machines and blenders being the cheapest to run, there’s no harm in making sure your home is fully stocked with the latest gadgets. Be sure to shop our range of electricals and lighting to deck out your home for less.
Methodology:
Using various sources, we found the average wattage of common appliances in the home. We found average usage statistics of these appliances, and where this was not available, we inputted reasonable amounts of time each appliance is used a day. The wattage was divided by 1000 to give us KWH, then this was divided by 60 to get the by minute usage, and times by the average mins each appliance is used a day, then again by times used a week to get the weekly figure, and times by 52 for the annual figure. These figures were then times by the UK average electricity rates according to powercompare.co.uk, to discover the cost of usage.