Excessive Or Normal Gas Usage? ~92664Kwh For Year

GraemeMiller

We have moved into a new house last year - and for various reasons have not really been on top of bills etc. just entered gas readings and discovered that in the year and week since I last supplied a reading we have used  3010 ft3 (4609 ft3-1599 ft3).In the last 5 days - we have used a further 31 ft3 - so the trend seems to be ongoing.
After converting I make that ~96400 kwh in about a 54 week period. 1782 kwh a week of gas seems a lot - but I have no way of comparing it to similar real properties.
The house is 

• Aberdeen
• Detached granite two-storey building from the 30's has high ceilings and is approximately 250 m2
• 4 bed, 2/3 public rooms with a conservatory
• Largely double glazed - apart from 2 stained glass windows, and one large window in the playroom.
• The heating is supplied via a Worcester Bosch FS 42 CDi. Radiators are controlled by Tado valves. The house is not super hot ~21. We lower upstairs during the day etc.
• We have all largely been in as wife was on maternity and I've been working from home. Also, there is some sort of virus going about.

So I guess - is the house just expensive to heat or is something wrong? I've seen an average 4 bed of being 29000kwh and we are almost 4 times that I keep seeing talk of average gas bills but I'm not sure how relative they are to house/size/geographic location etc.

ARH_2

Yes 92,000kWh a year is a ludicrous amount for any domestic property in any part of the country. How much are you paying?

Options include metering error, or leak. 

Is it feasible to turn your boiler and any gas appliances off for a while  - perhaps overnight - and see if the meter continues to move?
 

[Deleted User]

New house or old house new to you? If it is the former than the meter will show usage in M3s not Ft3. I live in a modern 4 bed house and my wife and I have the heating on from 7am until 9.30pm and we struggle to use more than 9000kWhs year.

GraemeMiller

I mean I thought it seemed high.
DD to Peoples Energy basically had me paying £276 a month. They haven't responded to my support ticket for 6 days about the gas usage.

Am I responsible for a leak? I can turn the gas off on a Thursday during the day or a Monday during the day. Wife will not let me otherwise as 1-year-old child would be cold. Kids in the nursery on those days

I will turn it off on Thursday. 

Robin9

Can we have a photo of the meter please ?

Are you including the last digits - often in red (and should be ignored). ie should your readings be 301 and 460 ?

GraemeMiller

[Deleted User] said:

New house or old house new to you? If it is the former than the meter will show usage in M3s not Ft3. I live in a modern 4 bed house and my wife and I have the heating on from 7am until 9.30pm and we struggle to use more than 9000kWhs year.

New to me - house from the 30s. The meter says Ft3 on it. I think it is from 1991 as far as I can tell. It says 1991 

GraemeMiller

Robin9 said:

Can we have a photo of the meter please ?

Are you including the last digits - often in red (and should be ignored). ie should your readings be 301 and 460 ?

As requested. 4640.30

ARH_2

GraemeMiller said:

Am I responsible for a leak?

The supplier will have the right to bill you if gas has leaked out of pipework your side of the meter. A metering error is more likely, but a leak potentially quicker to diagnose. 

As other are suggesting, mis-reading the meter is a possibility, but neither a decimal place (x10) error or ft3 vs m3 error (x35) seem to add up.  

Gerry1

Photo of meter, please.  If it's the dial type with contra-rotating pointers it's likely to be a misread, which is very easy to do.

As an example, what do you think this electricity meter reads? 

GraemeMiller

ARH_2 said:

GraemeMiller said:

Am I responsible for a leak?

The supplier will have the right to bill you if gas has leaked out of pipework your side of the meter. A metering error is more likely, but a leak potentially quicker to diagnose. 

As other are suggesting, mis-reading the meter is a possibility, but neither a decimal place (x10) error or ft3 vs m3 error (x35) seem to add up.  

I mean I don't know where the initial read of 1599 came from. I may have given it to them at switch time. However I have checked over 5 days and it does seem I have used a further 31 ft3,
Is it possible for these sorts of meters to start giving wrong readings? I included a picture.

GraemeMiller

Gerry1 said:

Photo of meter, please.  If it's the dial type with contra-rotating pointers it's likely to be a misread, which is very easy to do.

As an example, what do you think this electricity meter reads? 

Above - as per picture. I think I'm right 4640 in white and 30 in red