VERY high energy usage but why??

karenann76

Usage from 10/08/2012 - 29/07/2013
Electricity: 8954 kwh
Gas: 8777 kwh

It would appear that when I added up my annual usage I added up for about 3 years ....my bills still seem a lot though at £200 a month (based on actual readings).

I know that the red ones dont count for metre readings, I just used them to see how fast the metre turned for 1 min hot water.

Metre says one click is 10dm3

I know we have wasted money not mending the boiler but we didn't have the cash for the layout.

karenann76

Nada666 wrote: »

Look on your bills to see how many kWhs a meter unit is being converted to. Divide the kWhs by number of meter units. The result will be either about 11.2 or about 32 or 33.

What you want is for your meter to be in cubic metres and the result from your bill to be 33. In such cases you will receive back two-thirds of your previous bills.

It is 11.07 so its right.....:(

karenann76

Peggybabcot wrote: »

Just to throw a spanner in the works and don't ask me how it's possible but our bills (so we found out eventually) didn't match our metre number and somehow we were being billed for the wrong metre. Worth looking at as a potential reason for the high usage. Your neighbour may be having the heating on full blast, taking long luxurious baths every day and thinking wow our bills are cheap, all at your expense! x

My friends mum was paying the gas for the community centre next door to her house for about 10 years!

karenann76

karenann76 wrote: »

Hi guys,

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated. We didn't get the boiler fixed because we couldn't afford it at the time. We will be getting it looked at this month though. Its a combi boiler by the way.

There has been no gas on this morning so far (lazy day!) and the metre hasn't moved. I just ran the hot water for 1 minute and the red numbers went from 73.5 - 77.1 that doesn't seem much does it?

The whole numbers are the red ones and the decimal is the number that spins quickly.
So I suppose it would be XXXX.735 - XXXX.771

greyteam1959

It is actually a METER not a Metre !!

daz378

for electricity you can buy sockets that measure the electricity that passes through , so eventually you can assess what each appliance costs you ....http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-Energy-Saving-Insight-Monitor/dp/B003WK62WK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1376828222&sr=8-2&keywords=electricity+monitor in electricity i use about 9kwh a day and in the summer about a pound a week gas and 9pound a week gas in winter

karenann76

mervyn11 wrote: »

It is actually a METER not a Metre !!

I do apologise for being so offensive with my poor spelling!

BitterAndTwisted

If the boiler is faulty I would hazard a guess that that's where the extraordinary consumption is coming from whether you've got the heating on or not. I don't have a combi boiler but my usage to heat up the water-tank works out at about 50 pence a day in summer.

macman

karenann76 wrote: »

Usage from 10/08/2012 - 29/07/2013
Electricity: 8954 kwh
Gas: 8777 kwh

It would appear that when I added up my annual usage I added up for about 3 years ....my bills still seem a lot though at £200 a month (based on actual readings).

I know that the red ones dont count for metre readings, I just used them to see how fast the metre turned for 1 min hot water.

Metre says one click is 10dm3

I know we have wasted money not mending the boiler but we didn't have the cash for the layout.

OK. Your gas usage is a bit over half the average (16,500kWh) . Given that you've only been using this for hot water for 9 months out of 12, it's still quite high though.
Your electricity usage is about 2.5 times the average (3,300 kWh). If this overuse is mainly down to electric heating due to the boiler fault (impossible to know unless you go back and compare with your annual usage when the boiler was operational) then you've wasted about £650 extra on electricity bills in the last year (minus say £220 less on gas)-or say an overall extra £36.50 pm on your DD. It's not logical to say you' haven't had the cash for the boiler,' since you've been shelling out all that extra every month for electricity as a consequence. However, once the heating goes back on in October or whenever, that wastage will soar. So get the boiler fixed before than as a priority.
I can see no evidence from your billing (as opposed to meter monitoring) that there is any kind of meter fault.
In case you missed it the first time, electricity is 300% more expensive than gas per kWh. So if you deduct the electricity 'excess' from your billing of around £2,400pa, you are back at £2000pa. Higher than the average dual fuel bill of £1,300, but not impossible.
If you maintain that level of annual consumption, then your cheapest bill would be £1,827pa-a DD of about £152pm.

closed

put those figures into a switching site, see what you get, shouldn't be £2400/pa, probably nearer £1600

what's wrong with the boiler, what type of boiler (seperate hot water tank?), how old.