Is a 343 pound bill normal?

greenbee

I pay £10/month for electricity (and submit regular meter readings to make sure that my payments are being worked out correctly) and £20/month for gas (I was submitting regular meter readings, but I've lost the key to the meter box ).

It's for just me in a 3-bed semi, but I work from home a couple of days a week, so have all the homeworking kit to run too! An energy monitor sounds like a good idea if you're using significantly more per person than this. I switch things off when they aren't being used, and don't have a TV, but I still haven't got round to replacing all my lightbulbs with efficient ones (I'm waiting for the old bulbs to go!), so I'm probably using more than I need to.

Incisor

fuming wrote: »

Hi thanks for the replies
The type of heating we have is only electric, no gas at all. Also I have no access to the electricity metre as I am in a block of flats, and the metres are in a parking area that is locked and have no access to it since it is locked and only people who have a car in there have access to it. The first reading when I moved in was done by the letting agency (or they got it from npower) will have to see if they took a metre number down.

Dig your heels in with the LA. You need to see this meter and verify that it is yours. And while you are at it use a mobile phone to instruct your OH to turn everything off and then back on with a heavy load such as the cooker, to see the meter spin down and up, to prove it is yours.

SwanJon

Is the reading an estimate? How did the meter reader read it?
You should have access to your own meter, so get yourself a key. Ask the other tenants if they have a problem with it - chances are they'll be OK with it.