High Electricity Bill

nick.simpson19

I have recently swapped supplier from British Gas to npower which im regretting because its messed everything up with direct debits etc. Basically some guy knocked on my door and i got led down the garden path!

Anyway i have had a final bill from bgas and ive been charged

£101.32 for 40 days electricity, £2.50 a day!

is it just me or is that quite high bill?

Its an actual reading from my meter, things have gone up so much and im starting to wonder how long i can keep hold of my house for before i miss a mortgage payment. But big fat Gordon Brown has done jack to help the working class people that pay the taxes so he can dish out the money to people and yet what do the working class get? £3.80 tax credits i get a week! As you can see it doesnt even pay the elec bill!

Kind regards nick

notbritishgas

nick.simpson19 wrote: »

I have recently swapped supplier from British Gas to npower which im regretting because its messed everything up with direct debits etc. Basically some guy knocked on my door and i got led down the garden path!

Anyway i have had a final bill from bgas and ive been charged

£101.32 for 40 days electricity, £2.50 a day!

is it just me or is that quite high bill?

Its an actual reading from my meter, things have gone up so much and im starting to wonder how long i can keep hold of my house for before i miss a mortgage payment. But big fat Gordon Brown has done jack to help the working class people that pay the taxes so he can dish out the money to people and yet what do the working class get? £3.80 tax credits i get a week! As you can see it doesnt even pay the elec bill!

Kind regards nick

The end reading would be an actual one but was the start reading an actual or estimate. If an actual then £101 for 40 days is quite high!

nick.simpson19

On my bill-

00955
22 Jul 08
We read your meter

01058
29 Jul 08
Estimate

First 26kwh £5.82

Next 189kwh £19.83

01058
30 Jul 08
Estimate

01642
10 Sep 08
Final Meter Reading

First 59kwh £13.95

Next 525kwh £61.72


Total £101.32

Does that look right? Ill check my meter see what the reading is now! Some guy came round but he said he was from npower to check the reading to start the new supply so im assuming npower told bgas my final reading?

Magentasue

22 Jul - 10 Sep = 687kwh over 7 weeks

= 98 units a week; 14 a day

Seems reasonable to me.

nick.simpson19

thanks put they had my direct debit set up for £35 a month which would not cover that!

savemoney

This is why many people fall foul its only when they leave they sometimes find out they have in all that time paid for estimate readings and of course there DD haven't covered it.

This can easily be resolved if you read your meter regularly and inform the supplier rather than rely on estimate bills. Pay a realistic DD payment too, its no good joining any new company and paying a unrealsitic amount per month.

14 units a day isnt bad I use 16-17 for a semi with 4 people