Worried about Electric bill EON

knitter

Hi swapped to Eon last September/October time on Price protection 17 electritity /gas direct debit plan plan

I am extrememely worried about my electric bill/gas bill sure I am going to be have a horrenous bill.
With Npower before the swap use to pay £63 electric just before i left this had been reduced to £45 pounds because i was £200 pound in credit I was paying £39 gas
Now paying EON £103 a month for Gas/Electric

Just went online and gave them my metor readings I had previously given a reading on the 10th of november
By my readings since the 10th of nov show that I used
82 units of gas.

Electric (I am on ecocomy 7 ).......night units 689 ...Day time units 1830


There is only the 2 of us in a 3 bedroom semi.We have no storage heaters ,water immersion set on 60.. 1 or 2 baths a week. Showers Daily. Washing machine timed to go through the night. Tumble drier possible 3 or 4 times in this period. Definately NO lights left on. Do not have central heating 2 gas fires in downstairs rooms only one used in this period. Spare freezer upstairs (had this for years) Do not even have oven just a table top halogen oven and electric hob.

The only changes in our electric compsion since swapping from npower to eon...Is buying American style fridge/freezer but without the icemaking so no plumbing facility instead of our old fridge freezer .
Also when our 18 month granddaughter comes to visit or stay we cannot have gas fire on so we use 1 bar of halogen heater to keep chill off...At the VERY VERY most about 6 to 8 hours a week
We were Also away for 17 days over the xmas period when everything was turned off.
Do you think this amount of use on electric is norm...Unless my maths is wrong(please someone tell me it is:j ) and this is only for a period of 2 and half month ( 2 weeks of which we weren't even here.) £103 pound for gas /electric a month is no were near enough.

spiro

Given you have no storeage heaters and that you use 75% of elec during the day I would work out the cost using Eon E7 prices and then do the same using Eon 24/7 tariff. You may well find you should not be on E7.

Magentasue

So you have used 2519 kwh electricity in about 10 weeks, say 70 days. 2519/70 = 36kwh a day.

This is very high, and if you are on Economy 7, you will be paying more than necessary for 75% of your electricity as explained by spiro.

We are a family of six - washing machine and dishwasher on every day, two TVs on evenings plus DVD, Sky, Xbox. Tumble drier a few hours a week. Large fridge, large freezer, someone home most of the time. We are careful but not frugal and have got our usage down to average 13kwh a day summer and 16kwh a day winter. The winter increase is because of the tumble drier, a dehumidifier and more lights.

We cook by gas and don't have an electric shower. So yours seems very high to me - has it always been this high?

Also, is your shower electric? Is it used for a few minutes a day or more like half an hour? If it is electric, do you only have your immersion heater on a couple of times a week for baths or is it on more often? If you have it on even though you're not using any hot water, is it well insulated? Are you sure it's working properly? Hopefully, you don't switch it on during the day?