Gas Price Issue - anyone help?

Gasmans

HappyMJ wrote: »

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.

There is a cover which is on all day except when it is used

sniggings

Gasmans wrote: »

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

there's your answer, the cost to heat that volume of water to 30 degrees will be :eek:

HappyMJ

Gasmans wrote: »

There is a cover which is on all day except when it is used

and night? Do you know the covers U value? What is the temperature of the water and the room with the pool? You may be heating the pool water and the pool water is heating the room and if it's in a cold uninsulated room a lot of gas will be used to keep the water warm.

Gasmans

sniggings wrote: »

there's your answer, the cost to heat that volume of water to 30 degrees will be :eek:

But why the sudden jump between paying 200 pounds, then the next period is 2000?

Gasmans

Just found out in 1 year, I used 168447 kwh according to bg

sniggings

Gasmans wrote: »

But why the sudden jump between paying 200 pounds, then the next period is 2000?

without knowing all the details, my guess is the £200 was a part period as even I in a 2 bed flat pay more than that for heating in a period, £2000 for heating 1,300 gallons of water everyday to 30 degrees sounds about right to me.

(guessed the width but have a feeling I have under estimated and it's more than 1,300 gallons)

Gasmans

Update:

Just had the gasman come around and he said that British gas charge me on a 5 digit reading when I have a 6 digit reader..

So the 500000 they have read is actually 50000

Does this make any difference? He seems to think thatif my bill was 10k, it would now be 1 k?

SwanJon

The meter reader won't have access to the systems, so won't be able to tell what difference that makes.

Best way to check is take a meter reading daily for a few days, inclulding all numbers.
Then call up and check how these readings fit with what they have been using.
It's entirely possible that it'll make no difference until the meter reaches 100000 m3, but then you'd have a huge anomaly.

Next step is regular readings and look at the insulation as suggested above. The pool is the killer, does it have to be at 30?

MK55

If you have a 6 dial gas meter, your serial number would normally begin M01, check this. IFIRC wouldn't a 6 dial make it more expensive?

SwanJon

I think the 6 dial meter is just to allow it to record a higher consumption - the unit is what will make the difference and it should say if it is cubic meters (m3) or hundreds of cubit feet (00ft3).