Why do we use so much gas ?

notbritishgas

Do not forget you cannot take a weeks usage in November or even last week in October (the coldest October week for a long time here) and multiply it by 52 to get an annual usage. Your summer use will be much much lower and will bring the average down.

aceades

mggirl wrote: »

I've been using imeasure for 2 weeks now and taking daily gas and electricity readings.

I'm on a mission with the electricity; pulling out plugs, fitting energy lightbulbs, removed a 2nd fridge we weren't using much etc, but stumped about the gas.

Our kwh usage for the house is :
Gas : 466 (wk1) 502 (wk 2)
Elec : 67 (wk1), 96 (wk2)

Using the UK averages on the imeasure site, it should be only be about 164 kwh a week for Gas and 37 kwh for Electric. It that's the case we're using 3 times the average. Never mind that we'll struggle to pay the increased DD.

We're a 2 adult and one young child family in a 1940's 3 bed semi.
I've switched the hot water so it's only on for two 1/2 hour slots a day and the CH is on for 4 hours a day (same at weekends). Gas cooker is used for about 40 mins a day.

Any help at all will be gratefully received.
Thanks

Just wanted to say sorry i jacked your thread, i thought i would reply to this one as it was the exact same topic i was going to start,

Anyway i hope the discussion has helped you a a bit although if you are actually using your gas regularly it does seem ok, im hoping my mistake was having I-measure calculate using the wrong unit - i wont find out until later

If i have and my monthly fuel cost this month was £23.27 + £41.88 = £65.16 i will be 1st amazed and 2nd very happy !:T

aceades

notbritishgas wrote: »

Do not forget you cannot take a weeks usage in November or even last week in October (the coldest October week for a long time here) and multiply it by 52 to get an annual usage. Your summer use will be much much lower and will bring the average down.

Yes , of course i dont think of that at that point, how low do the average gas readings go in the summer then anyone got any data

Thanks

Phlik

aceades wrote: »

PHILK, if you use about 660 a week on gas (which i measure told me cost about £32 ) that means you are spending £128 a month on GAS x 12 = £1536 ! I think that is expensive do you not ?

It would cost about £32 a week solely on tier 1, works out about £25 ish. My usage varies, I average approx 9 units a day when its subzero outside, when its warmer its more like 5-6 units a day, then in the summer its about 1 unit a day. Over the whole year last year was 22000 Kwh.

i really hope i am on a metric meter, really wanted to try and keep my fuel costs under £100 a month

I'd be surprised if its not a metric meter, my house was built about 100 years ago and I've got a metric meter.

Phlik

notbritishgas

aceades wrote: »

Yes , of course i dont think of that at that point, how low do the average gas readings go in the summer then anyone got any data

Thanks

I have an imperial meter (house built 17 years ago PHILK). In the summer when I only heat the water (1.5 hours a day) and have a gas hob I use less than 2 units, say about 60 kwh.. a week that is.
Last week when it was very very cold I used 16 units, about 500kwh.
The most I used in a week last winter was 21 units.

Phlik

notbritishgas wrote: »

I have an imperial meter (house built 17 years ago PHILK)

Fairy nuff , not quite sure why I've got a metric meter then, it was here before we moved in 12 years ago

Phlik

debasur

my first week of imeasure results are:

GAS - 355kwh -( roughly £12.43 spent using their average of 3.5p per kwh used)

Elec - 74 kwh (roughly £8.88 using 12p per kwh used)

now thats not bad, but seeing as my gas bill from july to oct was over 300 pound it does`nt make sense.
We have had the heating on more this week due to the cold snap, than we did from july to oct. This week works out i use roughly 50kwh a day.

Magentasue

debasur - have any of your previous readings been estimated?

Magentasue

debasur - have any of your previous readings been estimated?

debasur

magentasue-

yes, i moved in april to new house,SouthElec said they sent me a bill from apr to july of only 70quid but i can not remember this at all.And this they say was estimated.
So july to oct (when i gave them actual reading) is £303.
I`m hoping part of this big bill is to catch up on underpaying before but without any real reading from back then i dont know.But going on my usage the last week it makes sense,

so now i can let my girlfriend put the heating back on hee hee :rotfl:

EDIT- so is 50kwh a day a reasonable amount ,as bar 1 or 2 others everyone else seems to be less.