Question
What this page helps answer
Choose a common appliance or enter your own wattage, then estimate weekly, monthly, and annual electricity use and cost.
Use it when you want to screen a property decision before speaking to a lender, surveyor, conveyancer, adviser, or agent.
- Open the live tool when you want the calculation or utility output.
- Review the notes and assumptions before relying on the answer.
- Use related links when this question leads to another calculation.
Inputs
Information to have ready
For this page, the most useful inputs to check are appliance, power rating override, hours per use, uses per week, electricity unit rate, standby power, and standby hours per day.
Check property value, location, area, tenure, tax year, rates year, fees, cost ranges, mortgage assumptions, and whether current rules apply.
- Check appliance before using the result.
- Check power rating override before using the result.
- Check hours per use before using the result.
- Check uses per week before using the result.
- Check electricity unit rate before using the result.
- Check standby power before using the result.
Result
How to interpret the answer
Use the estimate to compare scenarios and identify questions to confirm. Legal, mortgage, tax, and surveying advice can change the final answer.
The live tool is designed for quick comparison: change one assumption, rerun the estimate, and compare the movement before making a decision.
- Look for the headline result first.
- Use charts and detailed rows to understand what drives the answer.
- Save, share, or export the result where the linked tool supports it.