Checking gas usage

nigelpm

WOW! I'd get them to change the meter.

Nada666

12 kW twenty-four hours a day. Are you sitting there in a bikini? How many rooms are you heating? Something is not right.

2013yearofthehouse

4063kwh in 16 days is crazy!

AmanteDItalia

I have worked out my kWh figures according to meter readings. Thank you Nada for telling me how to do this.

The average kWh per year is 95, 325 for my metric meter and about 5300 for my old meter, so the BG figures seem reasonable. I don't think it's a calculation error between metric and imperial. I have no idea whether my meter is working correctly.

I just don't know how I can cut back any further without massive outlay on double glazing/solar panels ...or maybe more blankets.

I did receive some legal letters for the previous owners, from British Gas, long after they moved to America. They were to do with some sort of dispute and were fairly hardcore. I wonder whether I have been caught up in that?

2013yearofthehouse

I think you should definitely ask BG for a meter check for starters.

Even my friends with a drafty 5 bed detached house with old single glazed timber windows use no more than 25,000kwh a year.

Keep monitoring the meter readings regularly yourself. Presumably if the only usage measured by your old meter is CH for the annex on the frost setting, then this meter shouldn't be registering anything in the summer. Unless of course, the thermostat's broken, but if it were being heated to a much higher temperature, you'd be able to tell by just going in there.

wakeupalarm

Your consumption is higher then then maximum deemed for a residential user. You are using enough energy to heat 7-8 average homes, are you in Buckingham Palace or something? Either you have the heating on 24/7, Your meter is recording the whole streets usage or you have a faulty meter or a gas leak.

May I suggest you take a reading now turn off you boiler and take another reading in an hours time to see how much usage there has been. Then do the same in the evening when your neighbours are at home to check that you're not paying for somebody elses usage.

Nada666

How many rooms are you heating? How many rooms are being kept warm and how many are bubbling along on defrost?

It is difficult to see how you can use 10 kW continually every hour twenty-four hours per day without knowing you are using it. Even more so this winter.

Is the decimal point in the right place? Has the bill got it right? £400 is easier to believe than £4000, particularly as you say you are not all that warm.

Or the meter is faulty.

Have you checked what the meter increments by over a couple of hours when everything is off?

AmanteDItalia

BG say they will check the meter, but if they find nothing wrong, I'll have to pay. I guess I am being pig-headed about that!

Nada666

If you are paying four hundred pounds per month and have no idea where the heat is going a one-off gamble of £90 is neither here nor there (they'll just add it on to your account.) (What's the worst that will happen? Instead of paying £395 per month you'll be paying £402 per month for one year. The best is you'll receive several thousand pounds back.)

Have you not had your boiler serviced by a heating engineer, yet? Did they say anything?

2013yearofthehouse

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Edit: had written a reply making the same points as the above post, but Nada beat me to it and said it better!