Can someone come Investigate what is making our bills so high ?

Angsharp123

Our gas and electric bills are enormous (500) total per month is there someone in Yorkshire that can come and assess what is causing this as we have everything on timed and watch what we use don’t know what to do next.

Robin9

Forget money - what is your consumption ? Look back over your bills and find one from 12 months or so ago where the readings have the letter A for actual against them. Read your meters today.

Post the readings here.

What is your heating and what are your tariffs ?

matelodave

As Robin says, look at your consumption in kwh. Do you read your meters regularly (at least once a month). Do you check your bills and statements to ensure that they are using actual and not estimated readings. You could be on an expensive tariff, so you need to have consumption info rather than just cost.

What sort of heating (gas, radiators, storage heaters, electric panel etc) , hot water, cooking and other stuff have you got.Do you take a bath every day, do you shower, what sort, how long and how often.

What sort of house (old, new, semi, detached, bungalow, how many rooms etc), has it got insulation.

Do you have a washing machine, dryer, dishwasher. What about TV's, playstations, video recorders, computers etc.

What lighting have you got. Is someone in all day or do you just heat the place in the mornings and evenings

You can do all this yourself, you dont need someone in to tell you how to read your meters or to turn stuff off. Record your consumption yourself and work out what uses all the energy and when.

Monitor it yourself - take readings daily if necessary so you can see where its all being used. You are coming out of the winter period when bills are naturally higher, so try and get your consumption under control and get into good habits before the heating season starts again. You'll then see how the heating affects your consumption and it will then be easier to understand how to control that a bit better.

You can then work out what to to turn off or turn down because you'll see whether your energy consumption goes down or not. Unless you understand it you cant do much about it.

Are you paying back any arrears, what tariff are you on. Try to sort it out during the summer, get onto a decent tariff but ensure that your payments will cover your annual consumption so that you have some credit when winter starts.

I could easily get on a tariff with Ebico that would cost me an extra £900 a year for exactly the same amount of energy. That's a bit extreme but many tariffs out there would cost me £400-£500 more - so it's worth checking the comparison sites to get yourself onto a better deal..

Give us a bit more info rather than just complaining about one or more high bills

[Deleted User]

As you say you have everything on timers, that may mean you have an eco 7 meter, then you should be looking at two things with your Eco 7 electric meter and timer switch.
To make sure you are not timing your appliances to come on in the high rate period, take a good look at the meter and establish exactly when the cheap 7 hours comes on and ends. The meters don t always use the official timings. They either go out of sequence or the digital clocks drift well out of time.
Also watch out that the supplier has nt transposed the day/ night reads.

molerat

OP's previous thread https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/75571931#Comment_75571931

dunstonh

Thank you molerat. I think we should stick to the other thread as it has more posts. Or maybe a board guide should merge the two threads if they see this.

In fact, this is the third time the OP has asked this (previous requests merged). And was apparently fixed back on 12th April with the installation of a new meter.

I suggest people do not waste their time responding as the OP does not appear to be listening to what people are saying and repeating the same things again.

Benight

Angsharp123 wrote: »

Our gas and electric bills are enormous (500) total per month is there someone in Yorkshire that can come and assess what is causing this as we have everything on timed and watch what we use don’t know what to do next.

Your thread from last month, where you posted an update 12 days ago
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5976199/500-a-month-energy-bills

Angsharp123 wrote: »

Update. We have had new a meter installed and it seems the meter was faulty old and over working !!! But get this. THEY HAVE LOST OUR OLD METER !! so they don’t know what to do at the moment ! How have they lost our meter that they took away in a locked box ! We have taken a reading for gas today and it looks like we have only used 150 pounds worth in the month so we have being massively overpaying for years has anyone had experience of claiming off energy companies?

:cool:

brianposter

Angsharp,
Is there some reason why you cannot read your own meters ?

SnowTiger

brianposter wrote: »

Angsharp,
Is there some reason why you cannot read your own meters ?

And replies to the messages you (OP) post?

OP seems to be stuck in write-only mode.