British Gas - gas meter 181 "Units" - how much is this in real money>?

Cardew

On BG click 5 you pay 5.962p for the first 670kWh per quarter.

Then 2.82p per kWh

So as you used 5,740kWh in 6 weeks:

320kWh @ 5.962p = £19.08

5,420 @ 2.82p = £152.84

Total £171.92.

However that is on BG click 5. Assuming you were on a more expensive BG tariff before you moved to Click 5, £200 was about right. However no way should it be £270.

2010

My house is double glazed and I have 11 inches of loft insulation.
Would having cavity wall insulation really make much difference to my heating bills?

monkey_alan_2

Cardew wrote: »

On BG click 5 you pay 5.962p for the first 670kWh per quarter.

Then 2.82p per kWh

So as you used 5,740kWh in 6 weeks:

320kWh @ 5.962p = £19.08

5,420 @ 2.82p = £152.84

Total £171.92.

However that is on BG click 5. Assuming you were on a more expensive BG tariff before you moved to Click 5, £200 was about right. However no way should it be £270.

i might check that they have our "moving in" meter reading correct, we were on the standard tariff until this morning, when i switched it over via the BG website.

cheers

Alan_Vickers

I am trying to find out if it is worth my while changing from Websaver1 to Websaver5 but I have been unable to find out what the rates are for my area - Northern area.

The Websaver1 rates quoted on my last bill, two weeks ago, are:

Tier 1 - 6.140p per kWh for 646 kWh Tier 2 - 2.926p per kWh for 5077.93 kWh.

Can anyone help me with the Websaver5 rates please?

Alan Vickers.

Lizzybop

Hi Monkey Alan

We too have a 3 bed detached with a 5 yr old combi boiler. We use next to no gas in the summer. If we're just heating a bit of water and a bit of cooking it seems really efficient.

I find it's the central heating which EATS gas with our boiler.

We put in some thick loft insulation last year and I think we're feeling the benefit - but it's still flippin cold (don't forget it's not normally this cold for this long)

I think everyone will be using extra gas (well obviously not if they don't have gas to the house!!!!! :rolleyes:)

A woolly hat keeps your head warm - try that. Also hot water bottles are good.

Best of luck

monkey_alan_2

Hi Lizzybop,

Thanks for the info - I'm pretty sure with only light cooking in the evenings that the summer will cost me very little.

You're right though, the heating does eat the gas - so to that end it's been off since 830 this morning - Ill see if I can do without it until dark and then turn it down to 17c overnight (at the moment i don't want to turn it off at night as it's so cold) - once the weather stays above freezing overnight ill start to switch it off at night.

with a bit of luck, 6-8 hours off during the day and a slightly lower nighttime temp will stop my bill spiralling quite so much!

monkey_alan_2

Cardew wrote: »

On BG click 5 you pay 5.962p for the first 670kWh per quarter.

Then 2.82p per kWh

So as you used 5,740kWh in 6 weeks:

320kWh @ 5.962p = £19.08

5,420 @ 2.82p = £152.84

Total £171.92.

However that is on BG click 5. Assuming you were on a more expensive BG tariff before you moved to Click 5, £200 was about right. However no way should it be £270.

Well whaddya know - online, the first meter reading is an estimated one, and is just under 70 units less than what it should be - so I guess i'm being billed for 70 units of use prior to when I moved in. I best ring up and complain about that then....

This appears to work out at:

You have used 7,698kwh costing you £273.78
Your total CO2 footprint is 1585.7 kg

On average you used 187.7kwh a day costing you £6.68 Your average CO2 footprint is 38.7 kg a day

ariba10

Car_dew wrote: »

An Imperial gas unit is 100 cubic feet - is that what is confusing you?

Take a deep breath, sit down and take your blinkers off.

The OP in his first post said his meter reading had increased by 181 "units".

In his second post he said he had an imperial meter recording in cu ft. as apposed to a metric meter measuring in cu metres.

Now when I was in school (Admittedly a very long time ago) a cu ft was a lot less than a cu metre.

He made no mention of Imperial gas units.

espresso

ariba10 wrote: »

Take a deep breath, sit down and take your blinkers off.

The OP in his first post said his meter reading had increased by 181 "units".

In his second post he said he had an imperial meter recording in cu ft. as apposed to a metric meter measuring in cu metres.

Now when I was in school (Admittedly a very long time ago) a cu ft was a lot less than a cu metre.

He made no mention of Imperial gas units.

Oh dear keep digging!

Did you not understand post #4?

:rolleyes:

Cardew

ariba10 wrote: »

Take a deep breath, sit down and take your blinkers off.

The OP in his first post said his meter reading had increased by 181 "units".

In his second post he said he had an imperial meter recording in cu ft. as apposed to a metric meter measuring in cu metres.

Now when I was in school (Admittedly a very long time ago) a cu ft was a lot less than a cu metre.

He made no mention of Imperial gas units.

Blinkers?

If he had used 181 units and had an Imperial gas meter, what sort of 'units' do you think they might be?

Can you seriously not understand that a 'unit' on an Imperial gas meter is 100 cubic feet?(repeat: a gas unit on an Imperial gas meter is one hundred cubic feet) and is 2.83 times bigger than a metric gas unit, which is 1 cubic metre.

Whilst we are in pedant mode, he initially said that he had used 181 units.

He was advised that the cost would depend on having a metric meter or an Imperial meter, and further advised that an Imperial meter could be identified by having Ft3 on the face.

He confirmed that it the meter did indeed have Ft3 on the face.

I really don't understand the point you are trying to make!