Green Building Forum - imeasure Damon-envy Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:53:28 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=136835#Comment_136835 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=136835#Comment_136835 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:09:03 +0000 RobL Gas has really come down year on year due to house mods - was 18000KWh when we moved in (10 years ago).
Elec improvements too - first year in the house was 6000KWh - mainly dropped due to light bulb changes, lowering standby item use, and not leaving a PC on all the time :shamed:]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=137178#Comment_137178 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=137178#Comment_137178 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:10:26 +0000 RobinB
Four of us (actually 3 full time and 2 half-timers) . About 190m2. No gas but we do have solar thermal too.

*at this rate only about 160 years to break even on PV! (but I know it will improve drastically in summer).

RobinB]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=137302#Comment_137302 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=137302#Comment_137302 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:01:34 +0000 docmartin imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180948#Comment_180948 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180948#Comment_180948 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:11:48 +0100 cromar imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180950#Comment_180950 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180950#Comment_180950 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:19:15 +0100 SteamyTea http://imeasure.org.uk/communities/134

They sent an email about changing things, does not seem to have changed anything I need to do though.]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180961#Comment_180961 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180961#Comment_180961 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:48:54 +0100 RobinB Posted By: cromarHmm. I'm a member of the Zero community on imeasure but can't see others' readings. It depends (or should) whether the other members have chosen to share. I'm a member of both GBF and Zero and have chosen to share so would be interested to know if you can "see" our house.
Robinb Household]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180975#Comment_180975 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180975#Comment_180975 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:14:15 +0100 SteamyTea imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180981#Comment_180981 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180981#Comment_180981 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:31:44 +0100 RobinB imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180983#Comment_180983 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180983#Comment_180983 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:56:51 +0100 jms452
They were tweeting asking for suggestions a few days ago.]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180986#Comment_180986 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180986#Comment_180986 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:23:02 +0100 DamonHD
Rgds

Damon

PS. We just moved from gas to electricity (induction hob + fan oven) for cooking and I'm working on a gadget or two to better align consumption with microgeneration without using bulk storage: http://www.earth.org.uk/domestic-dynamic-demand-ideas.html]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180996#Comment_180996 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=180996#Comment_180996 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:20:25 +0100 jms452 Posted By: DamonHDI am happy to try to help members of 'Zero' rank themselves

I'd be interested to know! The question then becomes how do you deal with export?]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181007#Comment_181007 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181007#Comment_181007 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:44:41 +0100 cromar And another thing...Under Buldings>Report>Annualised I have my Rating. In that rating box it says "100 would be typical" 100 whats? Where can I find out my rating value to see how far off I am to getting to C or B?

Waiting for the promised changes to iMeasure to see if the site becomes more useful and friendly.

Dave]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181013#Comment_181013 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181013#Comment_181013 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 07:10:39 +0100 SteamyTea you could always join in on the one on here.
http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/forum114/comments.php?DiscussionID=8966&page=26#Item_19]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181185#Comment_181185 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181185#Comment_181185 Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:32:14 +0100 cromar imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181193#Comment_181193 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181193#Comment_181193 Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:12:44 +0100 arnyj
I have energy from OVO and they normally (i think) have the following data on my electronic bill, in the year just gone I used 2401kw of Elec And 2891kw of Gas.

I have a mid terrace in Chester. which is a Superhome because of the internal insulation I have fitted myself.

Can U tell me why I should join it]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181194#Comment_181194 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181194#Comment_181194 Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:29:25 +0100 DamonHD
As it happens I'm having a chat with another iMeasure-like company that I know tomorrow, specifically with an eye to doing something for Superhome owners. Maybe involving iMeasure data or not.

Whatever you do, taking weekly readings enables all sorts of diagnostics that yearly does not.

Rgds

Damon]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181220#Comment_181220 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181220#Comment_181220 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 09:18:19 +0100 Seret Posted By: arnyjI have a friend who has sudjested I join imeasure, but after seeing some of the comment here what is the point.


It has built in climate data, is somewhere off-site to keep your data, and produces pretty (and useful) graphs. If your house is relatively stable (ie: you're not doing lots of improvements) then it provides very useful visualisation of the data. If you're making improvements you might find it better to do a similar analysis yourself. I'd still collect weekly data and do a scatter plot of kWh against HDDs as a minimum, broken down into smaller periods (eg: a year).

I'm fairly underwhelmed by the idea of comparing my house to someone else's, as there are so many variables (house size and geometry, construction, age, weather, occupancy, etc, etc) that render the comparison a bit meaningless. I'm more interested in comparing my house to itself as the performance improves over time. That's where I get my motivation to keep making improvements.]]> imeasure Damon-envy https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181221#Comment_181221 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7670&Focus=181221#Comment_181221 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:30:29 +0100 jms452 Posted By: DamonHDtaking weekly readings enables all sorts of diagnostics that yearly does not.



Posted By: DamonHDnoticing if anything is going wrong via the numbers



I couldn't agree more.

The more frequent the feedback the more useful it is too act upon.
An imeasure type analysis also lets you work out your hot water/heating split fairly well too.
HDD analysis as above comments is good.
Its also a convenient way of entering the data from anywhere that will remind you (if you want it too).
Export is possible although a slight hassle.
Psychologically I find it helpful to split energy and bills too (as the conversion rate keeps changing).]]>