Arrgh !! £450 leccy bill ,how ?

skiTTish

Hi
Can this even be possible ?:eek:
We are with Npower and our heating /hot water are gas .
We have an electric fire which is rarely used ,maybe for an hour or two some evenings during the very cold snap.
We do have a condenser dryer ( I understand these are more expensive and less efficient to run that vented dryers ? ) and that is used maybe for an hour every 2nd or third day .

GetRealBabe

Hi

Have you read your meter and compared it to the bill?

GRB.

skiTTish

both readings are correct so in that respect 'apparently ' we have used that much electric ,i just dont see how ?
When i rang to check ,they made assumptions that i had under floor heating or storage heaters ,which we dont

CharlieBilly

Have you previously had estimated readings a now playing catchup
Fire an hour a day would costs much more than 30p an hour tops on full, and dryer about 20-30p a load

skiTTish

Nup ,its our first bill we were totally paid up before we moved too

mjm3346

Worst case with the dryer, 5 units per hour at an absurd 20p/unit and running 1hr a day every day is about £90 a quarter
More likely a dryer at an average 3.5 units/hour @ 10p/unit and on 3 times a week is about £14 a quarter.
Do you have several plasma screens and computers running 24/7?

Running costs for some dryers can be found here

http://www.sust-it.net/energy_saving.php?id=41&sd=0&tariff=5

skiTTish

nup ,no plasma screens no computers ,only a netbook .

molerat

skiTTish wrote: »

Nup ,its our first bill we were totally paid up before we moved too

What period does this cover ? Did you take the start reading yourself ?

skiTTish

molerat wrote: »

What period does this cover ? Did you take the start reading yourself ?

yup ,start reading was taken by me and i have checked the last reading too .
The period is strange ,Npower say its 6 months but on looking at the dates its less than 5 :$

JennyR68

How many units?

mazza111

Electric fires don't half burn the money away too.