How many kWh do gas appliances use?

3313fred

Hi. I've just had an horrific npower gas bill. In 4 months we've burnt 21,000 kWh of gas (more than a year's average household consumption) costing £600 and we have no idea how!

We have a gas cooker, 4 gas rings, gas central heating and hot water. We cook on gas every night and have been sparing with the central heating.

I am just trying to get my head around what has actually eaten all this gas. There have been a couple of times where I think the central heating has been left on full blast for a 24hr period. Does anyone know roughly how manny kWh this would burn?

Planning to get on to my landlord and have him check our appliances.

KimYeovil

Check that you do not have a metric meter but are being charged on the bill for an imperial one.

Premier_2

A typical household gas boiler could be 80,000btu which is about 24kW
(but it could be as little as 30,000btu or more than 100,000btu)

Each ring on a gas hob is typically 1-2kW

This is all based on maximum output.

Cardew

3313fred wrote: »

In 4 months we've burnt 21,000 kWh of gas (more than a year's average household consumption) costing £600 and we have no idea how!

Welcome to the forum.

If you have used 21,000kWh in the period July to Nov, you will use far more in the next 4 months to March; so you are in line to use well over 60,000kWh. That is impossible unless you have a huge house with poor insulation.

The most likely explanation is from Kim above that you are wrongly being billed as having an Imperial meter(measures in cubic feet) when you have a metric meter.

You need to check that asap. Look at the face of the meter and if Imperial it will say cu ft or F3(feet cubed). Then check your bill - each gas unit will be approx 31kWh if Imperial and approx 11.2kWh if metric.

No gas lights in your street? or cannabis plants in the spare bedroom?

aelitaman

make sure your bill is not based on estimated readings.

Read you meter and then read it everyday for a week so you know your actual gas consumption.