horrendous elec bill

eddieace

4.38kwh per day from lumpy
5-7 kwh per day frpm danny

and i'm using 15kwh per day on average, what the hell am i doing wrong?

Fire_Fox

eddieace wrote: »

4.38kwh per day from lumpy
5-7 kwh per day frpm danny

and i'm using 15kwh per day on average, what the hell am i doing wrong?

We are an all electric flat, two bedrooms and two persons using 10.5kwh per day in summer and, I suspect, about 12.5kwh per day in winter. We do not use a tumble dryer and are very sparing with our heat and hot water. When it was just me I used 7.5kwh per day pretty much all year, but I didn't have the TV on much then (on a lot now).

What is your house/ flat like? Insulation, windows, walls? List for yourself every single appliance, from phone charger to fridge freezer plus heating and hot water, and work out how much time per day each is on and what temp if applicable. You will soon see where your energy is going.

ladybirdintheuk

In December we used 248 units at night and 885 during the day. So that works out at

8 units over night and 28 during the day! We are all electric here too (economy 7 storage heaters) and I've been on maternity leave since 4th December, so I've been at home with lights/computer/stereo on, where as nothing would normally be switched on till 6:30 or so in the evening, but still... oops!

dumbbrunette77

How long did you wait after switching everything off before taking the initial meter read? It's recommended that you wait at least an hour to make sure that the meter isn't stull recording units used.

Also, if there is a supply fault, the local electricity distributor does not change the meter. Meter changes are done by the metering agency for the area on behalf of the supplier.

Wesker

I've also just had a very large electric bill from British Gas. We are 2 adults in a one bedroom flat. Heating/hot water is gas, everything else electric. To be honest i've never taken much notice of our usage before as bills have always been reasonable but we have been with BG for 1 year and they reckon we have used approx £800 electric in 1 year :eek:

I phoned them up a couple of weeks ago and they said it was because we were on Economy 7 which i didnt realise we were on. They have now changed us to the standard rate.
I took a reading yesterday morning and again this morning and we have used 45 units, 41 day and 4 night. That was including using the TD twice but other than that just the usual things, fridge freezer, tv, pc etc. We do have a wall heater in the bathroom which we usually keep on one bar most of the day as its a very cold room.
The thing is they are all the same electrical items that we have been using for years, cant see that we have used anything more than what we normally use. Energy saving bulbs in all rooms too.
Going to take another reading tomorrow without using the TD.

espresso

dumbbrunette77 wrote: »

How long did you wait after switching everything off before taking the initial meter read? It's recommended that you wait at least an hour to make sure that the meter isn't stull recording units used.

Where did you get this rubbish from?

espresso

Wesker wrote: »

We do have a wall heater in the bathroom which we usually keep on one bar most of the day as its a very cold room.

So how many hours is this bathroom heater on each day and what wattage is it?

KimYeovil

richardc1983 wrote: »

Either way even if your fridge freezer was on all night it would not be using 10kw at night! Your using the equivalent of 10 x 1kw fan heaters left on for 10hours! Seriously not possible with what you are running.

A boiler also does not use that much, even a commercial boiler for a building doesnt use that much. IF you dont have an immersion and your kids are not using electric heaters to keep warm in their rooms on the sly then your meter is faulty. Guaranteed i used to work for British Gas too!

It's the equivalent of one heater being left on for ten hours or ten heaters being left on for one hour! Not ten for ten.

There are three fridges/freezers. Two or three hundred watts is not out of whack for a dodgy compressor, is it? And table-top freezers are notoriously inefficient.

Solution: spend a tenner on a plug-in meter to test things. If that doesn't help, spend £40 getting the meter tested. It always confuses me that people are prepared to spend hundreds of pounds each and every quarter convinced their meters are faulty but cry and protest when asked to stake a one-off £40 gamble against this conviction.

Wesker

espresso wrote: »

So how many hours is this bathroom heater on each day and what wattage is it?

It is on most of the day when someone is at home so approx 12-14 hours, 5 days a week. Dont know about the wattage as it doesnt say on it and i cant find the paperwork for it but it is only about 2 years old.
The only similar one i can find is item number 052/2375 on Argos website.
Obviously its not on in the summer

espresso

Wesker wrote: »

It is on most of the day when someone is at home so approx 12-14 hours, 5 days a week. Dont know about the wattage as it doesnt say on it and i cant find the paperwork for it but it is only about 2 years old.
The only similar one i can find is item number 052/2375 on Argos website.
Obviously its not on in the summer

Well that one is rated at 1.8kW although it does state that it has three heat settings. Say these are 600W, 1200W and 1800W, even having it on the lowest setting for 14 hours it would consume 8.4kWh per day. On the 1200W setting it would obviously consume 16.8kWh per day.

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