Large electricity bill for 1 bed flat on moving out - does this seem right?

NearlyMrsMac · 16 September 2010 at 3:53PM

Hi All,

I've been looking around here for some clues after getting a large electricty bill today as I'm a bit confused, but I can't work out if this is right or not really!

I live in a 1 bedroom flat for a year from Sept 09 - Sept 10. I was the only person living in the property, which was on the 2nd/top floor. No gas in the flat, all electricity. The heaters were electric heaters which you basically switched on & off at the wall, and I think the water was an immersion heater (sorry, not good on what these things are called) that gave hot water immediately basically. No dishwasher or tumble dryer in the house, and a small fridge/freezer.

My electricity usage for Sept - Nov 09 was approx 400kw for 2 months. I had a direct debit for £50 set up each month based on advice from the electricity company.

I then stupidly made the mistake of not providing more electricity readings until I moved out this month. The readings basically came out that between Nov 09 - Sept 10 I had used 7000+kws in the 10 months.

Obviously my direct debits based on estimates are wildly out, and a final bill arrived today for over £400. A slight shock as I have just gone back to uni full time.

This is my own fault for not providing readings to them, but with this in mind, the amounts still seem very high to me. Is 700kw a month realistic for a one bedroomed flat? Nothing drastic in there, normal tv, laptop, printer set up but apart from that it was hot water, lights and heating that were the main consumers of electricity. I didn't cook a lot in the flat either on the electric cooker.

Any help would be much appreciated!

davies67 · 16 September 2010 at 4:26PM

Depending on how often you had the electric heaters on it definatley could be right. Those heaters are cheap to buy but cost a fortune to run. i would say that it wouldnt hurt to call them and check figures etc though
fingers crossed they have a typo!