HELP....crazy gas bill advice

tim_p

Those 50 m3 in a week is surely only around 550 kWh, at say, 3p /kWh is around (give or take, + VAT etc) £16.50  Doesn’t seem unreasonable at all. 

Do you have the meter readings from when you moved in??

Gerry1

The consumption is fine considering that it's winter and been been a bit cold.

However, the OP hasn't mentioned anything about the pence/kWh and standing charge rates.  Those are probably doing the damage, not the usage.

brewerdave

I used 8.7 cu m per day in Feb. on average !! It was a cold month !!

welshmoneylover

Your usage looks fine , not sure why you are concerned about the meter being faulty?

worrywart_3

Doesn’t seem an extraordinarily high usage in winter and you did have a very old boiler before that was uneconomical.

Shedman

You mentioned that you had the boiler replaced ...presumably the new one is a condensing boiler whereas the old one was probably a non-condensing one.  Are you sure it's been set up to run at it's most efficient?  Condensing boilers need the returning water temp to be much lower than non condensers otherwise they do not operate in the mode to recover heat.  A possibility is that the boiler temp is set too high..certainly worth a check and/or enquiry to your installer.

https://www.theheatinghub.co.uk/why-our-condensing-boilers-do-not-condense

edit: corrected to state "otherwise they do not operate in the mode". Thanks Gerry for pointing it out

Tallerdave

Consumption looks OK, you're probably just paying too much.  We've just come to the end of a 12 month fix with Gulf - annual consumption 42,000kWh, £90 a month and still a few quid in credit.  The year ahead (with Zog) is going to be £110 a month as prices have gone up.