Crazy electricity bill.

Esther0712

I got billed £1100 for 3 months from EDF.
Me and my partner live in a 1 bedroom flat both working full time hardly ever home. How is it even possible?

Simby

Hot water on 24/7 heating on full blast 24 hours a day
Is the bill estimated or actual?

Benight

Esther0712 wrote: »

I got billed £1100 for 3 months from EDF.
Me and my partner live in a 1 bedroom flat both working full time hardly ever home. How is it even possible?

Sounds like you are not giving regular meter readings to your supplier ... or your supplier is not actually using them.

Stick with one of the big 6 suppliers, supply regular meter readings, and ensure they are being used ... and you won't go far wrong

[Deleted User]

Good advice there but we need more info especially with regards to long term estimates..A couple of other reasons for a crazy electric bill can be......
.Eco 7 meter ? 2 rate meter , they can get transposed and the supplier eventually catches up and issues a corrected bill..
Dial meter ? these are complicated ( but very accurate ) meters with 6 rotating dials..always getting misread by the customers and meter readers alike

matelodave

Have you checked that your bill is correctly reflecting your consumption by making sure that its using real meter readings rather than estimates.

If you dont send in readings fairly regularly - ideally once a month - then the supplier will guess how much you are using.

If you don't check the bills and get them corrected then several months or even years of these guesses can mount up into a ginormous bill when they do finally get a real reading.

It's unlikely that you've used all that energy in three months, but if you haven't been sending in readings then you'd better start doing it. How long have you been at your address, did you send in an opening reading if its fairly recent.

There's a lot to check rather than just having a panic

PennineAcute

So the big six are our saviours. May as well shut down this site.

Benight wrote: »

Sounds like you are not giving regular meter readings to your supplier ... or your supplier is not actually using them.

Stick with one of the big 6 suppliers, supply regular meter readings, and ensure they are being used ... and you won't go far wrong

Benight

PennineAcute wrote: »

So the big six are our saviours. May as well shut down this site.

Yes and Yes.

Maybe you should consider making a poll, particularly on the second of your points

Hasbeen

Esther0712 wrote: »

I got billed £1100 for 3 months from EDF.
Me and my partner live in a 1 bedroom flat both working full time hardly ever home. How is it even possible?

Post the readings that you have given them over the last 3 months.

Robin9

Esther - be honest now - have you ever given EDF a reading ?

PennineAcute

Would love to know how you come to the conclusion that the big 6 are our saviours.? Every utility company (on their bad day) are awful.

Benight wrote: »

Yes and Yes.

Maybe you should consider making a poll, particularly on the second of your points

Benight

PennineAcute wrote: »

Would love to know how you come to the conclusion that the big 6 are our saviours.? Every utility company (on their bad day) are awful.

Indeed, everyone makles mistakes. it's how those mistakes are then resolved.

You won't go far wrong if you stick with one of the Big 6 suppliers.

How you getting on with your mission to get this site closed down?