Arrgh !! £450 leccy bill ,how ?

bingobob777

newleaf wrote: »

Just check round to make sure you haven't got something switched on without realising.
A cautionary tale:
When we moved into this house 10 yrs ago, there was a switch in the garage which I assumed was someting to do with the electric garage door. It wasn't, it was the blimmin backup immersion heater, and we only discovered this after receiving a ginormous leccy bill after it had been left switched on permanently for a full quarter. :eek:

a quarter, lucky you. Just discovered mine has been on for 3 years:mad:

Fire_Fox

skiTTish wrote: »

So its possible there is nothing wrong then ?
EEk !
The fire is pretty powerful but it is thermostatically controlled and supposed to be very efficient.
Dont think we will be using it again
Total units used is nearly 3000 ,does that mean anything to you ?
The fire is Dimplex living flame thingy ,no idea od Kw's
Yep its Npower standard tarrif .
Cheers

Any standard tariff is the most expensive, take yourself off that immediately and also look to switch to a different supplier. I pay 5p per unit for night electricity and 10p for day rate, with NPower standard I'd pay 15p per unit all the time! :eek: Five months, 3000 units is 600 units (=KWH) per month, 20KWH per day which is not impossible.

You still haven't said if you have an electrically heated power shower, but these can use up to 10KW per hour! If two of you showered for ten minutes each day that is ten hours a month. An 8KW shower is common so that is another 80KWH or £12 again just from the one item, more if your showers are twice a day or longer than ten minutes. If you don't have a power shower then maybe you have an immersion that you have accidentally left on 24/7?

Looking online I'd guesstimate your fire to be 2KW so using up to 30p per hour which doesn't sound bad but if that's two hours every day for a month in the snow that would be 120KWH cost you £18 for that appliance alone. So two appliances could comfortably use 200 units or more, but you need to work out where the other 400 are going.

JasX

nifferwilko wrote: »

Could the OP not call Npower, and explain that the bill was a lot higher than they were expecting, and ask for them to check the meter. As it is possible a faulty meter is involved (bit odd that noone has mentioned this). There may be a charge for this if it is found the meter isn't faulty I think (or I might be confusing this with the water meters)

well given the unit useage seems 'about right' got the number of high powered electric things the OP has checking the meter seems a bit pointless

skiTTish

Nup no immersion heater ,no power shower ,no underfloor heating or anything else like that ,just fire and tumble drier
How the heck did we use so much ?

spiro

skiTTish wrote: »

Total units used is nearly 3000 ,does that mean anything to you ?

The OFGEM average is 3,300 PER YEAR, I live in a 4 bed terrace house with GSH and use about 4,000 per year but that includes working from home several days a week with PCs on etc.

markharding557

Electric fires=pig in a trough