help - freehold property coachhouse - 2 garages (neighbours under property) using electricity

AdrianC

wakkaday said:

i just spoke to my electricity company and they compared a reading within 7 days and says i used around 1000w which is more then then i used  since december 2019 (actual reading) its about a 3 months worth use in 1 week, i think he said

I think you need to clarify that...

"1000w" in this context would most likely mean 1000Wh, 1kWh - the amount of electricity used by leaving a 1kW heater on for one hour, or a 50w lightbulb for 20 hours. That's normally about 15p-worth. Yep, fifteen pence.

wakkaday

AdrianC said:

wakkaday said:

i just spoke to my electricity company and they compared a reading within 7 days and says i used around 1000w which is more then then i used  since december 2019 (actual reading) its about a 3 months worth use in 1 week, i think he said

I think you need to clarify that...

"1000w" in this context would most likely mean 1000Wh, 1kWh - the amount of electricity used by leaving a 1kW heater on for one hour, or a 50w lightbulb for 20 hours. That's normally about 15p-worth. Yep, fifteen pence.

lmao

thank you lets see - waiting for a call back

Alter_ego

You don't need a callback, you need to do as Greatcrested said earlier.

comeandgo

Next time you hear the washing machine on cut off all your power at the box and if you still hear the washing machine it's not being run on your electricity.

ComicGeek

Unlikely to be a washing machine as the garage is unlikely to have a fixed water supply. However could very well be a tumble dryer, most of my neighbours have their tumble dryers in their garages. Great for them, expensive for you!

If its a tumble dryer, and left unwatched, then I would be more worried about the fire risk then the electricity cost.

FreeBear

greatcrested said: 1) talk to the neighbour (bake him a nice cake in advance?) and agree either that he gets his own supply or that he contributes (somehow) to your bill

I have a little gadget that clips over one of the cables between the meter & consumer unit. This constantly monitors the power and provides me with some very useful graphs. From looking at the data, I can quickly see when any number of appliances were used. If indeed, the garage below is fed from the OP's consumer unit, it would be well worth fitting one of these power monitors or picking up an electricity meter from somewhere like ebay so that the garage owner can be billed for power used. If not, pull the plug and let them use batteries or solar.

ProDave

Just to be clear, this is NOT an issue for the electricity supplier.  They supply the electricity to YOU, It is not their concern if some of it is connected to someone elses property and used by someone else.

What you need is an electrician to look at your installation and see if he can work out how the electricity is connected to the other garage.  It is almost certainly possible for him to rewire things a little so that he can fit an electricity meter that meters what is being used by th neighbours garage.

You then read that meter and send your neighbour a quarterly bill.  Note you can only charge the same pence per unit as you pay, you are not allowed to sell it at a profit.

If he does not pay, turn off his supply.

blue_max_3

Ask him to split the bill. Simples.

Freecall

For goodness sake, this really isn't that difficult.

As ProDave says, forget the electricity supplier, they cannot help you.

Next time you hear whatever noise you hear, kill your power at your main switch.  If the noise carries on then no problem - it has nothing to do with you.  If it stops then come back on here and we can consider the next step.

princeofpounds

What freecall said.