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Abnormal boiler consumption
Hello, guys! My story is a bit long but bare with me. 
I moved to a new-built 2 bed flat with a Pulsacoil A class boiler last December. From 18 Dec to 4 Jan the electricity has cost me £76. At first I thought this is too much but I think it was possibly fair. I was up all night, cooking, had to wash and dry a ton of clothes and deep clean the whole place.
Now I really think there is something wrong with the boiler because it basically wastes energy.
For the last 3 months we have used more than 2700kW which is a massive consumption! :eek: Most households have at most half of that consumption over the same time period! I checked the meter 2 times with an hour in between and calculated the consumption. We made an experiment by turning off the boiler for 2 hours and checking consumption before and after again. It is clear that the boiler is the issue. (No problems with the hot water supply whatsoever. I can confirm that we do not have Economy 7 too.)
Do you have any ideas on what may be causing the extreme electricity consumption and how to fix it?
Thank you! :beer:
I moved to a new-built 2 bed flat with a Pulsacoil A class boiler last December. From 18 Dec to 4 Jan the electricity has cost me £76. At first I thought this is too much but I think it was possibly fair. I was up all night, cooking, had to wash and dry a ton of clothes and deep clean the whole place.
Now I really think there is something wrong with the boiler because it basically wastes energy.
For the last 3 months we have used more than 2700kW which is a massive consumption! :eek: Most households have at most half of that consumption over the same time period! I checked the meter 2 times with an hour in between and calculated the consumption. We made an experiment by turning off the boiler for 2 hours and checking consumption before and after again. It is clear that the boiler is the issue. (No problems with the hot water supply whatsoever. I can confirm that we do not have Economy 7 too.)
Do you have any ideas on what may be causing the extreme electricity consumption and how to fix it?
Thank you! :beer:
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Is this video any help, it mentions that it should only heat water at night with just top up's during the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGoFIwaRdCE0
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