Please help, we have a huge electricity bill and need to know how to bring it down

purplegirluk1

espresso wrote: »

Without knowing more specific details of your system, it's hard to comment however if you had it on for five and a half hours and still have cold water, you obviously have a fault. That should have used probably 10 - 12 night units, did it? Should be easy for you to check this.

I did not look at the meter before so I don't know how many units it has used. I am getting the feeling that the water is heating but is going cold as soon as it has finished. When I finished the timer for 9am there was some warm water an hour. This time I tried to use the hot water 2 hours later and it had gone cold.

purplegirluk1

After another nights experimant I think I have worked out the problem. I think the timer is not working. Last night I stayed up until 12.30 and put the immersion on then I got up at 7.30 and turned it off. We now have enough hot water for a few bowls of washing up and a shower so far and there is plenty left.

I guess the water that I had thought was being heated by the evening setting was probably just left over from the morning. Now I just need to get hold of the land lord and get him to put a new timer in. Fingers crossed.

whatatwit

As a thought....is the timer heating 12 hours later than it should be and as such on the expensive day rate. Timer on at 2pm instead of 2am.
Without going back to the start of the thread...are you on economy 7?

whatatwit

My post above sounds ever so confusing....sorry.
Ask your landlord for a copy of the instructions for the water heater, he should have kept the original and left a photocopy at the property. If you explain the huge bill, I'm sure he'll drop you a copy off. That won't actually cost him (other than time) And it might save him the expense of a new timer

purplegirluk1

Our landlord has been over this evening with a circuit tester, the timer is indeed broken. He is coming back tomorrow with a socket to put a plug in timer into, yay!