Power ni direct debit

murphy306

Funny you say that our electric was £96 a month DD, I questioned it with them and they said they were right so I asked for a keypad meter to be put in. The meter uses roughly £10-£14 a week in summer and around £18-£20 in winter dependant on tumble dryer/extra heaters in the morning etc. We are both out working and only in the house after 8pm most nights. So they were getting extra from me each month with the DD (No arrears or anything) but yet with the keypad it was much less, when I queried this with them they said something must have changed which it hasnt!

blondeonblonde

Has anyone any experience of sse airtricity checking to see if your meter is faulty? I have emailed them to check ours as our last bill was £280 for 8 weeks! Two adults 3 kids in a 4 bed chalet bungalow

wotnoshoeseh

blondeonblonde wrote: »

Has anyone any experience of sse airtricity checking to see if your meter is faulty? I have emailed them to check ours as our last bill was £280 for 8 weeks! Two adults 3 kids in a 4 bed chalet bungalow

I'd like to know how you get on with this - my bill is consistently averaging ~£100 per month, with our latest bill for the last two months being £235!! :eek:
2 adults, 2 teenagers and a 4 bed detached house.

I'm also thinking on based upon the previous post to this regarding the keypad meter. If that was going to reduce my bill I'd think of installing one of those too!

Ticked

I find some of these bills horrendous, something must be amiss. Either the meter is faulty, there is something left switched on (heater in the loft?), or you are supplying a neighbours house or the streetlights. I'm discounting the possibility that some folk are overly wasteful, only sensible folk post here! I have a little usage meter that gives a constant readout of the electricity being used throughout the house, cost about £40 and a no brainier to install. Try switching everything off then see if the meter is clocking up.

JulieElizabeth

I got one of the electricity monitors free with a recent gas bolier service by Power NI. I don't use it though because my electric bill is only ever about £18 per month

I love alone and am fanatical about turning things off

Ticked

JulieElizabeth wrote: »

I got one of the electricity monitors free with a recent gas bolier service by Power NI. I don't use it though because my electric bill is only ever about £18 per month

I love alone and am fanatical about turning things off

£18 a month is pretty good, but are you cooking/tumble drying and water heating with gas? Makes a big difference to the electric bill! Turning things off is a good habit, as well as saving there's a safety benefit. However, to save 1 kilowatt, say 17p, a 20watt energy saving bulb has to be turned off for 50 hours, that's 50 hours when it would have been on but you consciously turned it off. Electric blow heaters, immersion heaters and tumble driers are, to my mind, where the biggest usage is, and consequently the biggest savings can be had.

JulieElizabeth

Ticked wrote: »

£18 a month is pretty good, but are you cooking/tumble drying and water heating with gas? Makes a big difference to the electric bill! Turning things off is a good habit, as well as saving there's a safety benefit. However, to save 1 kilowatt, say 17p, a 20watt energy saving bulb has to be turned off for 50 hours, that's 50 hours when it would have been on but you consciously turned it off. Electric blow heaters, immersion heaters and tumble driers are, to my mind, where the biggest usage is, and consequently the biggest savings can be had.

My cooker is bottled gas, heating and hot water is mains gas, yes

I would not have a tumble drier anywhere near me - even in the deepest, darkest wettest winter!

Ticked

JulieElizabeth wrote: »

My cooker is bottled gas, heating and hot water is mains gas, yes

I would not have a tumble drier anywhere near me - even in the deepest, darkest wettest winter!

We would not part without tumble drier, it and the fire are the only gas appliances we have. The gas tumble is, frankly, superb and very cheap to run!