Silly site prices. Off season and peak season

That’s closer to £6.50 for a Calor user, so little incentive for them. I’m certainly glad I opted for a Gaslow system when we bought our MH.

Peedee, I filled my tank after 9 days at Weymouth and used 10 litres. So, I would say just over a litre a day. We used hot water, but have switched to 40 deg in summer which takes no time to get upto and still fine for showers. 
fridge on gas but is obviously pretty efficient.

Here’s a sobering statistic for anyone looking to use a Club Site, but do it with the option using a non EHU pitch. I have just checked through all thirteen of Yorkshire’s varied Club Sites, (large, small, coastal, moorland, town and city based. Old and New.)

There isn’t a single non EHU pitch on any of the Sites. So clearly the Club isn’t giving any visitors to Yorkshire, wanting to use a Club Site, any option whatsoever. Everyone books a pitch with a bollard, and you pay the price as though you are hooked up. 

(It was a quick check, so if someone else finds such a pitch, (other than a tent pitch) I stand corrected.)

The Club’s current mantra is “you can have a choice, but the choice is ours”

The going rate here in Cornwall on privately owned sites is something like £4 a day extra if you choose to use the hook up. It’s quite common to be offered the choice. Court Farm near St Austell with 30 pitches is an example.

You are probably nearer the mark YT, I had forgotten I had 6 days on hook up as well as 7 off after I refilled. The next refill I had last Friday was with 18.62lts. I cook and heat hot water with gas when on EHU (electric heating currently not working), therefore if I ignore the fridge being on electric for those 6 days it works out at 1.4 litres per day. So for me it is more likely closer to 2 litres per day in the summer but I still think it is about even in the winter based on 8 to 10 litres per day.

peedee

PS it is not recommended you heat hot water under 55 degrees due to the likelyhood of introducing legionella into the system.

I suppose there has to be a tipping point somewhere when the Club has to either accept that site prices will continue to spiral upwards because of the cost of energy and start to really put people off, or introducing metering, where members can decide for themselves how much they spend on energy. I think I would be surprised if they introduced non EHU as an option, where EHU already exists, because it would have to be policed? The Club were asked at the last AGM about metering and they sat on the fence a bit but clearly they have not ruled it out, might be interesting to know if their view has changed in the last 12 months?

David

They definitely didn’t rule metering out and I’m sure I’ve seen something since this Q&A that suggested they are moving towards metering.

DK, If Club members are so dishonest that they would use a hook up when they haven’t paid for it then the warden would have to open the bollard and take out the fuse or circuit breaker. No more policing needed. But elsewhere I was always asked whether I wanted to use the hook up beside the pitch - and trusted.

Our van pre-dates the standard fitting of solar panels,  but now thinking we should look at getting a decent one fitted, we have available payload.

Prices are rising all round, having gone from Club sites to CLs, now  even some of them are asking £25+  with EHU ,  and most at least £20, so time to consider off grid.

I hope they bring it in asap so at least the inclusive v metering threads can cease.