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Who is responsible for this electricity bill?
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Do you have night storage heaters?
Some old systems do have a seperate economy 7 meter for them.
Which brings me to my next point - if you have storage heaters - are they absolutely definitely attached to a correctly functioning economy 7 meter? If not you'll be getting hammered on the electric for them unless theres some other provision for their use with the electric company.0 -
candypanda wrote: »Does it even exceed other people who have 15 x 50 watt bulbs?? I do have 5 on for around 12 hours a day but I used an online energy calculator and it still only totalled around a quarter of what they're saying x
We live in a house where until recently ALL the lights were halogen 50W spotlights, and all our cooking was electric too. Our bill was no where near the OPs, so I'd suggest that there is something wrong with the meter or your supply has been tapped (esp. if the meter is going with everything turned off).Save £200 a month : [STRIKE]Oct[/STRIKE] Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr0 -
You haven't mentioned how much direct debit you were paying (not that I can see) which may be the crux of the matter. If it was £20 a month the cost would tally up with typical use. Doesn't explain the meter Or lights issue but how much exactly have you been paying per month?An opinion is just that..... An opinion0
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We've been paying £40 a month since we moved in.
Also, I am 100% not running a cannabis farm, if I was I probably wouldn't be too bothered about the £800!
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Oh and we don't have storage heaters or an immersion heater0
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Hmmmm.... suspicious...!candypanda wrote: »We've been paying £40 a month since we moved in.
Also, I am 100% not running a cannabis farm, if I was I probably wouldn't be too bothered about the £800!
These days most people who are certain about something say "I'm 110% not running.....",
So you are leaving a 10% possibility that you are running a cannabis farm which
a) is what a cannabis farmer would do and
b) would explain the electricity bill
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This all hinges on when the usage happened. £40 is not an unheard of amount for a small house but the way that you've described your usage (~12 hours per day in a 3 bedroom house) I cannot imagine that £40 is what you should have been paying.
Did NPower state that you have used 8000 KWH in the last 7 months, or have they sent you a bill that lists 8000 KWH as what you need to pay for? If it is the former then yes there must be a problem with the house, if it's the latter then I suspect it's possible that you have been undercharged for the last 18 months.
If 8000 KWH is £800 that means for £40 per month you've been getting 400 KWH. If we split that 8000 over 18 months and add it to what you were paying for we get a total of 800 KWH per month actual usage, which comes to £80. The average bill for a 3 bedroom house is apparently £80 per month... which adds up exactly with those assumed figures.
Can you clarify exactly what you have been told?0 -
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As you have a landlord are there parts of the property that you do not have access to?
Is their a garage or shed or other annex that is excluded from the rental?
Does the landlord live next door?
Have you checked that there is nothing electrical in the loft ? (a heater the landlord left on to dry out the roof space after the leak?)
What happens to the meter if you switch off the circuit breakers in the consumer unit?Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0
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