187% increase in gas usage

geoffken

Do as you have been advised.
GET AN ELECTRICIAN TO CHECK THE ROGUE WIRING!!!!
ONLY THEN CAN YOU BE SURE.
This performance of spinning wheels or not etc. is merely a distraction.
Obviously if the other properties are not occupied then your "current" usage will be only what you use but you need to sort this out rather than ramble on on an internet forum where you have been given endless advice to
1: get an electrician
2: Pay £93 and get meter checked.

DO IT
DO IT
DO IT

molerat

When power is turned off the meter may over run slightly but will not continue to run continuously with no consumption. If it does continue to run either the meter is faulty or something is consuming power. You need to turn the switch off and leave it for an hour or 2 and see what the meter clocks up. Any discernible consumption needs to be investigated. As the installation is old I assume the majority of meter to consumer unit wiring will be exposed and it should be fairly obvious if a stray wire is going off somewhere.

lstar337

DAKOTA45 wrote: »

The 'anecdotal ramblings' were from an E.on representative and Malc seems to be backing this up.

Malc would not deliberately deceive you, but look at his post. He is only repeating what he has been told by some other person. Information gets lost in verbal communication, just like Chinese whispers.

I fail to see how a dial meter will turn for up to an additional hour after a draw has been removed. Everything I learned at college about electronics tells me that isn't right. The rotation of the wheel may continue for a fraction of a second, but it will soon stop with no additional rotational force being applied.

Also, for them to be correct, surely the wheel would have to take an equal amount of time to start turning? Otherwise they are just registering extra units every time the power is turned off. And that would be crazy!

You need to get an electrician in.

In addition, why don't you take a picture of it all and post it on here, we can probably tell you which wire should and shouldn't be there!

macman

DAKOTA45 wrote: »

macman wrote: »

The 'anecdotal ramblings' were from an E.on representative and Malc seems to be backing this up.

I agree with istar, the wheel cannot turn for more than a short period after the power is cut. If its turning, power is being drawn somewhere. We don't even know if the OP has turned everything off, since she has been so vague about the whole set up, and info has trickled out over the course of 100+ posts.
The bottom line here is that the OP either has to risk £93 on a meter test, or pay an electrician maybe £40-50 for a call out. If it was my £2K pa bill, I know which I'd do first.
Either way, no one on here can contribute any more that's going to assist-the OP has to decide whether to act, or prevaricate further.

DAKOTA45

Many thanks to all of you for your posts on here… I really appreciate it.

Istar337 I think you made a very valid point in saying that the wheel would have a delay before monitoring data if it were the case that it continue to collect data for up to an hour.

I find this very hard to believe, especially in an old fashioned meter.

I will contact an electrician as soon as I am able.

If I am able to work out how to take photos on this machine, I will try and get one… but there are two separate fuse boxes, so two mains switches, both of which I turned to off. The wheel slowed immediately but did not come to a stop and I was able to observe it moving for about 20 minutes until the marker disappeared from the viewing window…

geoffken

If you are able to post here then you are ABLE to contact an electrician.
DO IT !
DO IT !
JUST DO IT!!!!!!

DAKOTA45

r2015 wrote: »

I don't believe that, when my power is switched off my electricity meter stops instantly..

It takes a few minutes for my power monitor to go to zero but that is because the sending unit only transmits once every few minutes.

Hello… thanks for the post… your meter is probably more modern than mine… an old Eastern Electricity one & I believe they stopped being EE back in the early 1990's… It has a metal spinning disc which speeds up & slows down according to how much power you are using.

The fact that it doesn't stop spinning when everything is turned off is baffling… I have used these types of meter all my life and they always stop almost immediately when switched off at the mains fuse box.

I am going to get an electrician to have a look and will report back.

DAKOTA45

geoffken wrote: »

if you are able to post here then you are able to contact an electrician.
Do it !
Do it !
Just do it!!!!!!

i will!
I will!!
I will!!!;)

DAKOTA45

macman wrote: »

DAKOTA45 wrote: »

I agree with istar, the wheel cannot turn for more than a short period after the power is cut. If its turning, power is being drawn somewhere. We don't even know if the OP has turned everything off, since she has been so vague about the whole set up, and info has trickled out over the course of 100+ posts.
The bottom line here is that the OP either has to risk £93 on a meter test, or pay an electrician maybe £40-50 for a call out. If it was my £2K pa bill, I know which I'd do first.
Either way, no one on here can contribute any more that's going to assist-the OP has to decide whether to act, or prevaricate further.

Yes… EVERYTHING including the kitchen sink was switched off, unplugged AND turned off at the mains.

I will get an electrician to look and report back in due course.

(Sorry to have been so vague… I only came in here to find out what had happened to my Warm Home Discount… then it kind of evolved into a discussion about my high usage…)

macman

Well, if it saves you 1.5k pa, it's rather lucky that you did.