Gas usage seems flat all year?

burty_budget

I have gas central heating and gas hobs on the oven. I had the gas heating off all summer but the usage has remained around 1000 kWh all year. Should I be worried something may be wrong with the meter?

I was living alone nearly all of the year in an 3 bed end terrace built circa 1970. Didn't really use the oven. Is this usage low/high?

[Deleted User]

Check that you re being billed for the right sort of meter. If you have a 4 dial Imperial meter and they bill you for a 5 dial Metric meter , that would mean you are being billed 2.8 times less. I find a few of these every year.

burty_budget

sacsquacco wrote: »

Check that you re being billed for the right sort of meter. If you have a 4 dial Imperial meter and they bill you for a 5 dial Metric meter , that would mean you are being billed 2.8 times less. I find a few of these every year.

I give 5 digit meter readings for gas and it looks like the metric meter on the gov.uk gov.uk/gas-meter-readings-and-bill-calculation page. I'm paying £113/month DD but my bill works out more like £75/m. Which seems right for the house size, just wondering why the gas readings are so high in the summer in relation to winter when I have the heating on...

burty_budget

Hmm, on further investigation it appears to have flattened in July, jumping from sub 500 kWh to 1000 kWh. The pump has just needed to be replaced in the boiler and I am having trouble with the hot water. Perhaps a sign the boiler is on the way out?

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burty_budget wrote: »

Hmm, on further investigation it appears to have flattened in July, jumping from sub 500 kWh to 1000 kWh. The pump has just needed to be replaced in the boiler and I am having trouble with the hot water. Perhaps a sign the boiler is on the way out?

Ok, so it says M 3 on the meter ? there was a meter I saw once which looked very much like a metric but was an Imperial

burty_budget

sacsquacco wrote: »

Ok, so it says M 3 on the meter ? there was a meter I saw once which looked very much like a metric but was an Imperial

Yeah it definitely does.

brewerdave

Q1. 1000KWH - per month ??
Q2. Are you reading the meter each month and calculating your usage ? Or depending on estimates from your supplier???

I use 5 times as much (or more) gas in the Winter months compared with Summer eg Last month used 2500kwh of gas - last July only 350kwh

burty_budget

I have not provided meter readings all year but last Jan it was around 1591 June was about 274 then July to Jan it has been 1000.

I have provided meter readings for Jan/Feb this year.

03 Feb 2015 48019
30 Jan 2015 47983
14 Jul 2014 46033
24 Dec 2013 44378

Mine and estimated for the last year are (monthly Jan-Jan):
1591
1341
1127
749
488
274
992
1026
993
1026
993
1026
1087

macman

Your readings are not flat, they drop off in April when the heating goes off and rise in Sept/October when it goes on again. The only puzzle is why it is so high in August-but then you say these are estimated. Your 12m total is below the UK average.
What you need to calculate is your actual annual kWh total-that is the only figure that counts.