Help...MASSIVE, unexplained high summer gas bill

T_Wilson

That's our model. Thanks for that

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T_Wilson wrote: »

That's our model. Thanks for that

As a meter reader for many years I ve seen a few of these digital LCD displays to be faulty including one which was weirdly showing back to front. I would nt be able to see one of these rogue meters increasing the index because only the occupant would notice it if they keep a close record or it was an active smart meter
. A digital LCD display meter is cheaper to make than an analogue display but they are not as reliable IMO as I ve never seen an analogue index develop faults (unless they had a human intervention ).
.They are so unreliable they have a built in test display where they show five 88888 s as a check that they are not missing sections of the LCD display.

T_Wilson

So the KWh is actually increasing. Yesterday despite no one being in the house during the day and not using the heating; and using the shower rather than bath for the kids the kWh was 152

04/10/2019 3.797
05/10/2019 20.889
06/10/2019 37.720
07/10/2019 23.757
08/10/2019 152.548

Is this even possible?

Did someone say the speeding up of the reading is due to meter failing?

there is a letter 'b' next to the reading does that have any significance?

Talldave

In terms of trying to diagnose suspicious meter readings it's probably best to stick to m3 readings as per post #1.

3 Oct - 4 Oct you used approx 0.3m3
4 Oct - 5 Oct you used approx 1.9m3

Nothing significantly wrong with that, if heating was used between 4/5th.

T_Wilson

Hi, no heating was used between those specific dates

Talldave

T_Wilson wrote: »

Hi, no heating was used between those specific dates

Ok, then it might be worth doing hourly reads whilst nothing is on at all.

Hopefully the engineer can at least confirm there is no leak and that you're safe.

If there's no leak and the meter's incrementing with no consumption then it sounds like an ideal candidate for swapping out for testing.

T_Wilson

That's what i'm currently doing, Gas is turned off at the mains and no appliances currently being used. I'm not comfortable entirely turning off the boiler so hoping the pilot won't impact it too much

Gerry1

T_Wilson wrote: »

So the KWh is actually increasing. Yesterday despite no one being in the house during the day and not using the heating; and using the shower rather than bath for the kids the kWh was 152

04/10/2019 3.797
05/10/2019 20.889
06/10/2019 37.720
07/10/2019 23.757
08/10/2019 152.548

Is this even possible?

Did someone say the speeding up of the reading is due to meter failing?

there is a letter 'b' next to the reading does that have any significance?

You need to take the actual meter reading each day. Unless the display is faulty, you seem to be getting some sort of 'processed' figure. The true meter reading would not start from close to zero unless the meter has just been installed, nor would it would go backwards from the 6th to the 7th.

Have you read the instruction booklet?

T_Wilson

They are the KWH readings that I have calculated for each day on excel

The meter reads M3 are recorded as well as below

03/10/2019 9:06 AM 13194.356 M3

04/10/2019 8:07 AM 13194.691 M3

05/10/2019 7:48 AM 13196.534 M3

06/10/2019 7:58 AM 13199.862 M3

07/10/2019 5:46 AM 13201.958 M3

08/10/2019 6:02 AM 13215.417 M3

JohnB47

T_Wilson wrote: »

They are the KWH readings that I have calculated for each day on excel

The meter reads M3 are recorded as well as below

03/10/2019 9:06 AM 13194.356 M3

04/10/2019 8:07 AM 13194.691 M3

05/10/2019 7:48 AM 13196.534 M3

06/10/2019 7:58 AM 13199.862 M3

07/10/2019 5:46 AM 13201.958 M3

08/10/2019 6:02 AM 13215.417 M3

Just a thought. You could create a column of cells that calculate/show the amount of m3 (and maybe Kwh) used for each period. Then you and people helping here don't have to do calculations and any wild variances show up easily.