Empty house - meter reading discrepancy

davidmcn

bhughes1986 wrote: »

All I can think of is that the immersion heater may have been left on by the tenants and it hasn't been picked up by the letting agent on move out.

Like I said above, we're talking about 80 Watts or so. An immersion heater would be significantly higher. It'll be a light bulb or something like that.

bhughes1986

Thanks for all the responses.

I can prove that the letting agent hasn't fulfilled their obligations, as the meter reading has continued to increase since the tenants vacated. The letting agent is also acting as our selling agent as we sold the property upon the end of the property being rented out. It is the letting/estate agent that has been providing us with the updated readings.

Either way it works out as £25. Small fry compared to the money we have made over the last couple of years so we will be sucking it up, moving on and looking forward to our new home.

lisyloo

I don’t think the meter going up is proof.
You might have a faulty meter.

Did you actually instruct the agent to switch everything off.

I deal with empty houses and I usually leave the heating on (at a low setting) so it’s not an obvious assumption that everything should be off.

Davesnave

bhughes1986 wrote: »

I can prove that the letting agent hasn't fulfilled their obligations, as the meter reading has continued to increase since the tenants vacated..

You can prove only that 'something' has consumed power. I'm no expert, but could this not be a latent fault within the wiring which would only be halted by switching off at the consumer unit? My car used to discharge its battery via a faulty ignition switch; luckily a well-known glitch with that model.



lisyloo's question, 'Did you instruct the agent to switch everything off?' is therefore the key point...and I'd add, "at the consumer unit."

gingercordial

Do you have anything like a wired-in smoke alarm? I may be wrong but believe these are required in some locations, so it could be that.

markin

If you don't set an alarm insurance tend not to pay out, i would think an alarm would be 30W, but a thread on here says armed this brand is 58W, And then some watts from the smoke alarm.

G_M

Sigh! We are all just guessing!


Pointless!


And no, you cannot " prove that the letting agent hasn't fulfilled their obligations," since you do not know why th readings are increasing, nor is it clear what your instructions to the agent were, nor what action they took.

brianposter

How much does an induction hob use ?

markin

brianposter wrote: »

How much does an induction hob use ?

300w each from memory, but once up to temp 150w on/off to maintain a boil.

brianposter

OK, I will revise the question. How much does an induction hob use with everything switched off ?