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Gas Price Issue - anyone help?
I have a 5 bedroom house with an indoor swimming pool and underfloor heating (new build).
I recently recieved a bill for British Gas stating that in a 45 day period - I ve spent over £2000 for this period for gas.
My bill is now £ 11000 and its strange as some periods, my bill comes to around £ 250-300, and some periods it comes to over £2000 without doing anything different in each period - does this seem right?
I recently recieved a bill for British Gas stating that in a 45 day period - I ve spent over £2000 for this period for gas.
My bill is now £ 11000 and its strange as some periods, my bill comes to around £ 250-300, and some periods it comes to over £2000 without doing anything different in each period - does this seem right?
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Wow - £2,000 is roughly 50,000 kwh of Gas
No domestic Gas bill is consistant throughout the year as it's not used for house heating in the Summer, but the indoor pool ? ! !0 -
clearly not right if you use the same amount one month and it's a few hundred, yet another month it's thousands.
Remeber that you may think you are using the same, i.e heating to say 20 degrees but if it's colder outside, then you need more fuel to heat your pool and house to the same degree, so yes the same temp is achieved but it took more fuel to get the temp to the same level.
The best way to check it is, take a meter reading one month, then when the bill comes in you will be able to see what a unit costs, times the unit cost by how many units you used, should tell you if there is a problem.0 -
Wow - £2,000 is roughly 50,000 kwh of Gas
No domestic Gas bill is consistant throughout the year as it's not used for house heating in the Summer, but the indoor pool ? ! !
50000/(45*24) = 46kW.
This is comfortably above the ratings of most boilers.
What is the rating of your boiler and pool heater.
If it is not 46kW, it is impossible for you to use this amount.0 -
I m not too sure but it's a Quinta 65 boiler.
British gas are saying between October and December- I used 50000 kwh!
And I was on holiday from the 14th of December til January!0 -
Which uses nearly 70kW of gas per hour. A whopping great big boiler....but you have an indoor pool and underfloor heating so probably suitably sized. When you left for the 2/3 weeks did you turn eveything off and return to a freezing cold house and pool?I m not too sure but it's a Quinta 65 boiler.
British gas are saying between October and December- I used 50000 kwh!
And I was on holiday from the 14th of December til January!:footie:
Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. 0 -
So did you turn the pool heating off?
When you bought a property with a heated pool, presumably you had done estimates of what it would cost to run? What were they?No free lunch, and no free laptop
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I m not too sure but it's a Quinta 65 boiler.
British gas are saying between October and December- I used 50000 kwh!
And I was on holiday from the 14th of December til January!
what size is the pool, do you heat it 24/7 and to what temp, the house heating will not be the problem, but the pool could be, as keeping a lot of water warm for any length of time will cost a lot of money.0 -
rogerblack wrote: »50000/(45*24) = 46kW.
This is comfortably above the ratings of most boilers.
What is the rating of your boiler and pool heater.
If it is not 46kW, it is impossible for you to use this amount.
Boiler or boilers?
It is not unusual for larger premises to have more than one boiler.0 -
Which uses nearly 70kW of gas per hour. A whopping great big boiler....but you have an indoor pool and underfloor heating so probably suitably sized. When you left for the 2/3 weeks did you turn eveything off and return to a freezing cold house and pool?So did you turn the pool heating off?
When you bought a property with a heated pool, presumably you had done estimates of what it would cost to run? What were they?what size is the pool, do you heat it 24/7 and to what temp, the house heating will not be the problem, but the pool could be, as keeping a lot of water warm for any length of time will cost a lot of money.
The heating was lowered to very low and the pool heats itself in intervals (once a day).
It's a new build - so no estimates were done.
The pool is heated to 30 degrees once a day. The pool is a 4ft deep pool but is about 4 meters in length0 -
It's lowest setting is 14kW which isn't enough to keep your pool and house warm. Although that is a guess as I don't know how many cubic metres your house is and how well insulated it is. Do you have a cover for the pool? Installing an insulated cover will save a lot of gas.The heating was lowered to very low and the pool heats itself in intervals (once a day).
It's a new build - so no estimates were done.
The pool is heated to 30 degrees once a day. The pool is a 4ft deep pool but is about 4 meters in length:footie: Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. 0
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