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

monkey_alan_2

Whilst I'm happy for you guys to continue your e-bickering, all questions are answered so this thread is effectively retired now!

Thank you to the aforementioned people who gave me some excellent info.
Regards
Monkey

ariba10

Cardew wrote: »

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!

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to answer in layman terms.

I now understand how an imperial gas meter works.

Thanks again

espresso

ariba10 wrote: »

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to answer in layman terms.

I now understand how an imperial gas meter works.

Thanks again

To use your own words consider yourself corrected.

ariba10

espresso wrote: »

To use your own words consider yourself corrected.

I fail to see what I had to be corrected about?

espresso

ariba10 wrote: »

I fail to see what I had to be corrected about?

The fact that you were wrong!

:rolleyes:

ariba10

espresso wrote: »

The fact that you were wrong!

:rolleyes:

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DVardysShadow

monkey_alan wrote: »

Hi folks,

I might get bashed for asking a dumb question, I've lived in a new house (3 bed detached house) for around 6 weeks. In this time the gas meter reading has increased by 181 from 68xx to 70xx

Any estimates of how much actual ££ this roughly equates to? We have had the heating on a fair bit during this cold snap, kept it on for 'most' of the time, with temp set between 19 and 21 depending on what we're doing. Have put it down to 18 when we've been out, but that hasn't been that often.

Cheers
-monkey alan

Welcome to the site MA. It looks like your question has been answered. I just want to say that it is great that you are actually looking at the meter, the blddy meter first, because all to often people just start off by looking at their monthly payment and have not a clue about how the meter fits into what they pay.

JennyR68

Alan_Vickers wrote: »

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.

Can you not find them by going through the likes of uswitch they usually tell you unit rate of what they are comparing.

monkey_alan_2

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Welcome to the site MA. It looks like your question has been answered. I just want to say that it is great that you are actually looking at the meter, the blddy meter first, because all to often people just start off by looking at their monthly payment and have not a clue about how the meter fits into what they pay.

Cheers :beer:

Alan_Vickers

Thanks for that JennyR68. It worked and I now have the information that I need.

Alan Vickers.