High usage or just bad rates (LL own meter)

ningai

I moved to a studio flat a few weeks ago and forgot to check usage for first week, then spend 9 days away but took meter readings before I left.

The only thing on was a fridge that I worked out used 15p a day because the 2 nights before I left I took meter readings plus a few times when I was away all day and didn't even turn light on and went straight to bed and checked night before and on morning it was exactly 15p down each time (and the 9 days away used £1.35 so its logical)

First real check of usage was last night, I took a meter reading as I got back, had energy saving bulb in living room for 2 hours, laptop on for a hour, then a hour of laptop in morning and a 15-20 minute shower.

In that time its used 90p electric which may not sound much but at my previous property which was 2 bedroom regular flat I used under £10 a week and had longer showers, theres no boiler here and I haven't done any cooking since I moved in.

The landlord though has his own meter and set rates at 20p a unit so would that explain it?

CashStrapped

We need to know your daily use in KWH.

So type the meter readings you took and the dates you took them.

Then we need to know your tariff in pence per KWH and any daily standing charge.

Only then can we work out what your costs/usage are/is andif it is high or low.

Giving the cost of appliances in pence that you have worked out tells us nothing.

Is it a normal credit meter or is it a pre-pay meter.

lstar337

Electric shower, thats where your money went.

ningai

Theres zero standing charge and its exactly 20p a unit.

As for the electric shower, that doesnt explain why at last property I was spending well under £10 a week in electric having showers of 30-40 minutes a day, using washing machine once or twice a week, running a widescreen old fashioned tv, a large desktop pc, old fashioned bulbs, and a microwave and sometimes a oven.

Yet I used 90p alone just having a shower seems high.

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ningai wrote: »

Theres zero standing charge and its exactly 20p a unit.

As for the electric shower, that doesnt explain why at last property I was spending well under £10 a week in electric having showers of 30-40 minutes a day, using washing machine once or twice a week, running a widescreen old fashioned tv, a large desktop pc, old fashioned bulbs, and a microwave and sometimes a oven.

Yet I used 90p alone just having a shower seems high.

Your electric shower can be as high as 8000 watts an hour to run.That is £1.60 an hour, that is where you spent nearly all your 90p. I did nt think landlords were able to set their own tariffs on the resale of electricity, 20 p/kwhr is extremely high..I pay 8p/kwhr .The only electric tariff I see as high as that is possibly the day rate on an eco 7 meter. If that is what you have make sure you shower in night rate.

ningai

No its an actual landlords own one, you have to buy their own cards and the meter itself says 20p a unit.

CashStrapped

That is a shocker if true. It sounds like one of these long term business contracts that large landlords sometimes enter in to. Is it a housing association?

[Deleted User]

Fridge: 15p
Lamp: <1p
Computer: ~2p
Shower, 10.8kW, 20mins: 72p

Total: 90p

Cardew

The landlord cannot sell gas or electricity at a profit - it is against the law.


As said above 20p/kWh(unit) is double a normal rate.

ningai

Private landlord, I did expect to pay a little higher if own meters but didnt expect it to be this.

The LL actually told me when I moved in it was a £2 standing charge plus 20p a unit but as the standing charge isn't showing I thought I would risk not telling him yet.

[Deleted User]

its simply bad rates..even Ebico are nowhere near that and they charge 16.7./kwhr with no standing charge.OP you are paying probably the dearest electric in the UK at 20 p a unit.Are you in Northern Ireland because I m sure LL are not supposed to sell on energy at a profit nowadays