Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.
Should we keep our hot water on constant, or on the timer? We have a factory-insulated hot water cylinder, and a friend insists it costs hardly anything extra to leave it on all the time (which we’d like) rather than putting it on for two hours twice a day, as we do now. Can this be true?
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