electricity bill is massive

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Margaretk76 wrote: »

there is a tank in the upstairs neighbours loft I havent been up there yet to make sure that there is actually TWO !!

To have your HW tank in a neighbours loft, it sounds like your flats are converted from a house.


Such conversions are notorious for incorrect plumbing and wiring; i.e. you could be paying for some/all of neighbour's electricity. This could by sloppiness during the conversion, or malicious theft.


You need to switch off everything in your flat - even fridges - and check your meter is not moving.

john1

Margaretk76 wrote: »

using total of
13729 units on off peak rate tarrif and 14608 units on peak rate tarrif.

Obviously something wrong here as I'm on E10 (2x6kw immersion htrs and 8 night store room heaters)
My usage works out at 75% off peak heating 25% peak
Since last May my usage has been 11254 kWh off peak and
2219kWh peak


As your boiler is in neighbours loft I would take a competent electrician along to check physical wiring connections

Margaretk76

its a council 4 in a block.........................hpuse is always freezing cold we wear fleecy clothes and housecoats when in the house it really is cold and water only stays warm for like an hour or so in the morning.....................cant even run my mums portion of a bath without it being freezing cold

whole system is wet radiators NOT storage heaters

Richie-from-the-Boro

Comet sold own brand 14kW designed for wet electric and underfloor heating systems. Without evidence its a guess but I would say its set for 24 hour permanent running.

Margaretk76

tonight i will take readings before going to bed and keep timer for heating and water set to off..........
only thing running overnight internet, sky, fridge freezer and maybe charging a telephone

see what happens

john1

Margaretk76 wrote: »

I have no idea how to put pictures on here it is a wet electric boiler (type: fusion)
and wet radiators

From googling fusion it appears to be a wet system with a large storage tank see here

I personally don't have any knowledge of this system. However from the photos within link, I would suggest its designed to rely on bulk water storage heating during off peak electricity times with top up as and when required from normal tariff.

If the property is efficiently insulated I would assume that the council would originally have specified correct ratings for the equipment to give specific property conditions and over time changes have occurred to give the now situation.

Richie-from-the-Boro

The 14kW is a big, fast reboil 180 litre unit, airing cupboard compact type install with the controller built into the unit inside the door. Read the PDF - its all in there.

Best of luck.

Margaretk76

Richie sorry but you have lost me..........................

Richie-from-the-Boro

The techie including wiring and the consumer version is here. I'm assuming yours is the Fusion E10 [non-solar] Combination Unit.

Margaretk76

thanks my one is the fusion standard - the bigger of the two in the right hand picture on the last page