Anybody else having problems with the clowns over at Eon?

MWT

E.ON are more than happy to swap out old meters for smart meters as it helps them hit their targets.

There is absolutely nothing that they can do 'on their end' that will alter what you see on your old meter in the home...

welshmoneylover

Not reading the numbers in red are you in the meter?

JC1440

Talldave said:

Your boiler may be modulating its output which means it doesn't use a constant amount of gas, so looking at consumption over 20 minutes tells you very little.  The water in the system will be cooler in December when you switch the boiler on than it was in September, so it will take more energy to get the water in the system up to temperature and it will also take longer to get the room up to temperature.

In September, our average weekly gas consumption was 278kWh.  In December the average so far is 1412kWh.  The thermostats are still configured the same - nothing's changed apart from the ambient temperature outside.  The meter's not faulty,

No, because the other two radiators are showing up using the exact same amount of gas as before, no change.

JC1440

When I say ticks, I mean numbers, sorry. A hundred ''ticks'' would mean a hundred units or whatever. So reading the gas for the radiator in question, it's showing as using a 150 odd (I think, can't remember) units more than it was several months back, when used for the exact same amount of time. Whereas the other radiators in the house give off the same readings they always have done.

Talldave

JC1440 said:

Talldave said:

Your boiler may be modulating its output which means it doesn't use a constant amount of gas, so looking at consumption over 20 minutes tells you very little.  The water in the system will be cooler in December when you switch the boiler on than it was in September, so it will take more energy to get the water in the system up to temperature and it will also take longer to get the room up to temperature.

In September, our average weekly gas consumption was 278kWh.  In December the average so far is 1412kWh.  The thermostats are still configured the same - nothing's changed apart from the ambient temperature outside.  The meter's not faulty,

No, because the other two radiators are showing up using the exact same amount of gas as before, no change.

So you use the same amount of gas to heat your home regardless of the month of the year/outside temperature?

tim_p

JC1440 said

No, because the other two radiators are showing up using the exact same amount of gas as before, no change.

I’m probably missing something here but are you saying the meter is only faulty when you’re only running one specific rad?

milgo

@JC1440 - Could the radiator in question be faulty seeing that the other radiators are reading the same as previously?

Neil_Jones

I fail to see what the issue is here.

The OP seems to be insinuating that gas runs through the radiators - it doesn't.  Gas goes into the boiler.  I don't see how one specific radiator can affect the amount of gas the meter registers or how often it "ticks".

tim_p

Neil_Jones said:

I fail to see what the issue is here.

The OP seems to be insinuating that gas runs through the radiators - it doesn't.  Gas goes into the boiler.  I don't see how one specific radiator can affect the amount of gas the meter registers or how often it "ticks".

Don’t worry, it’s not just you. 

JC1440

Talldave said:

JC1440 said:

Talldave said:

Your boiler may be modulating its output which means it doesn't use a constant amount of gas, so looking at consumption over 20 minutes tells you very little.  The water in the system will be cooler in December when you switch the boiler on than it was in September, so it will take more energy to get the water in the system up to temperature and it will also take longer to get the room up to temperature.

In September, our average weekly gas consumption was 278kWh.  In December the average so far is 1412kWh.  The thermostats are still configured the same - nothing's changed apart from the ambient temperature outside.  The meter's not faulty,

No, because the other two radiators are showing up using the exact same amount of gas as before, no change.

So you use the same amount of gas to heat your home regardless of the month of the year/outside temperature?

Not sure what you mean. I never run my radiators over ''3'' (there are five temperature settings). I manually put the boiler on whenever it's cold.