Gas meter queries - hot water fault?

bootybounty12

Hi everyone, 

Any help would be really useful. We're still going back and forth with Octopus around really high gas bills for a one bedroom property, with just two occupants. The only option left to us is to send the meter off for an OFMAT test, where we will have to pay £192 if it's found to not be faulty. 

We've been recording readings for so many weeks and months now, and it's on average looking like £21 of gas usage every week. Again, this is for a small one bedroom flat, on the ground floor of a well insulated and recently renovated terraced house in London. Is there any world where this could be a normal gas cost for our property and two occupants? We have quite a few hot baths each week, but no other excessive costs or appliances which drain gas usage...

bootybounty12

Also, we know running a bath equates to 10kwh, which costs £0.39. And 20 mins of central heating is 2kwh, costing us £0.08. So neither of these feel huge enough to be equating to a total cost of £21 weekly.

QrizB

bootybounty12 said:

Any help would be really useful. We're still going back and forth with Octopus around really high gas bills for a one bedroom property, with just two occupants. The only option left to us is to send the meter off for an OFMAT test, where we will have to pay £192 if it's found to not be faulty.

If you're confident that the meter is reading high, send it for the test to confirm it and then you'll know for sure.

We've been recording readings for so many weeks and months now, and it's on average looking like £21 of gas usage every week.

How much gas were you using in the summer, when the heating was turned off?

Again, this is for a small one bedroom flat, on the ground floor of a well insulated and recently renovated terraced house in London.

How exactly do you know that it's well-insulated? Presumably it's fully double-glazed by what about the walls, are they insulated too? What temperature do you have your thermostat set to, I don't think you've mentioned? And how long each day does your heating run?