sister has had an big gas bill in!

lukese

sister has just moved into a new flat and is with british gas and got a bill in for a quater, three months for 304 inculding vat, she is a single parent and can not really afford this, is this a big figure, it seems really dear and i know she is strugling with it, any advice, she lives in E14 london, i saw on another post that they requested teh post code, thats isle of dogs, london

thanks alot


lukese

espresso

Is it an estimate? If it is, supply a current reading ASAP. Work out how much it should be by using the reading taken when she moved in (she did take a reading I hope!) subtracted from the present reading. There is information on the reverse of the bill regarding calculating the cost.

lukese

its not an estimate, apprently she just informed me they came round and took the reading.

Wig

Did she take a reading when she moved in? Is this bill covering some of the time when she was not an occupier?

lukese

nah she gave a reading on moving in, im just guessing it is a very expensive option being with briitish gas so she is probably more than likely going to be looking for a change

vickyj

not being funny but £100 a month is a huge amount i have quite a big house with 5 of us living here and mine works out about £30 a month. even with boundry differences this is HUGE

lukese

well this is what i fought. it is bloody huge, untill i have a good look at the bill i wont know much but it definatly seems bloody high. its a two bedroom flat.

i will post more tommorow about the bill.

reguards luke

ladysparklexx

im not positive if its still the same but years ago i got stuck with the electric bill, it was to high i had just got married and was a student at uni, i phoned up explained i couldnt afford it, they asked how much i could pay and i paid that part by switch and the rest in instalments

lukese

i have the bill tryin got write all the info up now, ill re edit this post when i do it.

from the 18th of september 06 to the 19 december 06

Gas units used 812

gas units converted to kilowat hours

9066.80 over 93 days

pence per kilowatt hour

first 1165 @ 4.959 pence
next 7901.89 @ 2.801 pence


total charges for gas used £291

Wig

What does she use gas for? That's a rediculous amount of gas. Does she have the gas fire on constantly?

Also can we confirm - what was the reading she supplied when she moved in?
Did she move in on the 18th September?
What is the current reading on the meter (today)?
What are the 2 reading listed on the bill "present reading" & "previous reading"?

I'm being nosey here, but I worked that backwards to be 815 units (m^3) (corrected) which is 797 (m^3) before correction. So the only thing that can be wrong is the calorific value used...Did they use a calorific value of 39.3077 ?

Which would actually annoy me because my last calorific value used 21 Nov was 40.0125 which would give for 812 m^3 9229 kwh which is about £4 more :rotfl:But I digress.

I also work that out to be £293 not £291 so that's odd aswell.

But Anyhoo purely on price assuming the meter is working ok

9066kwh British Gas £291
9066kwh Ebico Equigas £231 A saving of £60 over those 3 months
http://www.ebico.co.uk

oldwiring

Yep it deos seem too high. In a 3 ded det I used 2600kWh in the ame qtr for basicallt CH, We cook ekectric with a gas hob. Have you doule checked the readings? A transposition of digits is not impossible.