Excessive Gas Meter Readings?

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Hello all, hopefully someone can shed some light on either what im doing wrong or whatever is happening.

I moved into a new flat 16/09 and the reading was xx06404, now just 13 days later my gas meter says the reading is xx11252.
The meter is m^3 so it would seem absurd that I could manage to consume this much gas, it just doesn't make sense. I had a contractor out to check for boiler leaks and it seemed fine (the day after i moved in). The gas meter doesn't move much when the boiler is on its "auto" mode, but when i change the boiler off from auto to ON, the meter readings go up quite excessively. 
I dont really know what to think, the only other thing to note is that the control panel for the heating/hot water has a non-functioning LCD display (and had a contractor out to check that the heating and hot water DO work).

Any ideas?

Talldave

Where's the decimal point in those readings?

Robin9

You ignore the readings after the decimal point when reading your meter.

Have you also readings from the electric ?

daveyjp

If a dial meter the last three will probably be decimals and in red, or bounded by a red box i.e
https://meters.co.uk/products/smart-gas-meter/ and are ignored.
If so use is just shy of 5 cubic metres, 50-60 kWh, not excesssive for a couple of weeks.

stewie_griffin

Are you sure it's not gone from 00064 to 00112. That's about 4 units a day which is about normal. It's physically impossible to have used nearly 5000 units as (most) gas meters can only use 6 units an hour max.

Robin9

Have you been in contact with the present supplier yet ?  If so what readings did you give them ?  

Edit - Just done my end of month reading - its obvious on my meter - a definite decimal point followed by 3 digits in a much smaller font.

Gerry1

Some meters have a comma instead of a decimal point, which is a bit daft when used in the UK.

This would be read as 12757 m3.

Hasbeen

newtest321 said:

Hello all, hopefully someone can shed some light on either what im doing wrong or whatever is happening.

I moved into a new flat 16/09 and the reading was xx06404, now just 13 days later my gas meter says the reading is xx11252.
The meter is m^3 so it would seem absurd that I could manage to consume this much gas, it just doesn't make sense. I had a contractor out to check for boiler leaks and it seemed fine (the day after i moved in). The gas meter doesn't move much when the boiler is on its "auto" mode, but when i change the boiler off from auto to ON, the meter readings go up quite excessively. 
I dont really know what to think, the only other thing to note is that the control panel for the heating/hot water has a non-functioning LCD display (and had a contractor out to check that the heating and hot water DO work).

Any ideas?

So your readings appear to have risen in 13 days from xx064 to xx112? average use of 3.7 units per day. So not excessive.

What is your electric readings? Read the same way.

welshmoneylover

Looks like another schoolboy error in not reading meters correctly; hope you realise now OP the correct way to read a meter.