5Kw electricity between midnight & 7am..!

cmc_2

How on earth is this possible I'm asking myself? Has anyone got any bright ideas that could help?

I'm struggling to understand how I'm spending about £15 each month while we're all in bed and the lights are off!

muckybutt

Water heater on timer ? or some other sort of heating device ?

Norman_Castle

Fridge/freezer.

victor2

Just look at your meter at night with everything switched off as it would be when you go to bad. See what sort of use it is recording, by leaving it 30 minutes or so and seeing what the change is. You'll need to look at the fractions of kWh to do that.
Immersion heater, possibly on a timer, is one possibility. What's your daytime usage like? If that is also high, it could be something on constantly, or even something like a faulty fridge/freezer.

cmc_2

Thanks for the responses...I seem to be using around 600W-800W per hour somewhere during the night. Definitely not immersion heater. The only things that are on are one small light in the bathroom for the kids, fridge, freezer and a sewage treatment plant pump in the garden...

A few modern appliances on standby but it still seems a lot to me. Generally using about £3 worth of electricity per day this Winter (at 11.5p per unit) so seems high to me.

I'm going to get all investigative with my meter tomorrow when everyone is out!

There will no doubt be an answer somewhere!

Andy_WSM

cmc wrote: »

and a sewage treatment plant pump in the garden...

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There will no doubt be an answer somewhere!

I'd be checking out how much power the pumps on the treatment plant are taking.

Fire_Fox

Night storage heaters? Immersion timer faulty? Neighbour growing cannabis?

sheffield_lad

underfloor heating in bathroom or kitchen? Heater in conservatory or garage?

cmc_2

Thanks for the last two ideas.... I don't use the immersion heater, no underfloor heating and no other heaters...

Cannabis - I wish!

I will be checking the treatment plant pump tomorrow...

[Deleted User]

have been finding faults on the new electric "smart meters " with Brit Gas, both under and over recording.

MK55

sacsquacco wrote: »

have been finding faults on the new electric "smart meters " with Brit Gas, both under and over recording.

how are you finding these faults?