Electric bill

Mattyb636

Hi I'm just wondering if anyone else has had problems with their electric bill saying I've used loads.I moved from a 3 bedroom house 2 years ago where my gas and electric was £90 a month and moved into a 2 bedroom bungalow and almost straight away that went up almost double a month.Nothing is owed from people that used to own bungalow.The gas usage is ok pretty much the same as the house moved from but the electric has shot up.Could there be something wrong with the electric meter reading to fast or something?

wittynamegoeshere

There are a million variables here.  Do you know the tariffs that you were on previously and are now on?

Heating type for both?  Do you use an immersion heater or any other high-power electricals?

Insulation?

Generally, everyone's heating bills have risen very recently.  Mine has gone up 50% as a result of my supplier going bust.  You may have been on a good deal but are now on the standard tariff along with me and more and more others.

Aylesbury_Duck

Mattyb636 said:

Hi I'm just wondering if anyone else has had problems with their electric bill saying I've used loads.I moved from a 3 bedroom house 2 years ago where my gas and electric was £90 a month and moved into a 2 bedroom bungalow and almost straight away that went up almost double a month.Nothing is owed from people that used to own bungalow.The gas usage is ok pretty much the same as the house moved from but the electric has shot up.Could there be something wrong with the electric meter reading to fast or something?

It is almost certainly nothing to do with the meter and will be a result of the amount of electricity you're using and the tariff you're on.  Is the increase only in money, or have you actually compared the unit consumption from the two houses?

jimjames

How much electricity are you using now compared to previous house? Not in pounds but in kWh.

Have you submitted meter reads or are they using estimated readings to calculate the bills?

Mattyb636

I'm on pretty much the same tariff as I was on in old house.On a 2 year fix which runs out in December so back then its was a good cheap deal.
On a combi boiler and the electrical we use are same as the old house because everything moved from there to here.
The units kwh has gone up high but can't understand why when using the same things.
I always do meter readings every 3 months so they are never estimated.
The payments went up almost double after being here for 2 months so November 2019

QrizB

Mattyb636 said:

I'm on pretty much the same tariff as I was on in old house.On a 2 year fix which runs out in December so back then its was a good cheap deal.
On a combi boiler and the electrical we use are same as the old house because everything moved from there to here.
The units kwh has gone up high but can't understand why when using the same things.
I always do meter readings every 3 months so they are never estimated.
The payments went up almost double after being here for 2 months so November 2019

Does your new house have eg. electric underfloor heating?

Do you still have records of your quarterly meter readings, and can you share them here?

Gerry1

Mattyb636 said:

I moved from a 3 bedroom house 2 years ago where my gas and electric was £90 a month and moved into a 2 bedroom bungalow

Apart from two years' inflation, moving to a bungalow will probably account for a significant proportion of the higher bills.  The lack of upstairs rooms means that much more of the heat will escape through the roof.

Streaky_Bacon

Mattyb636 said:

Hi I'm just wondering if anyone else has had problems with their electric bill saying I've used loads.

No, my electricity supplier usually just bills me for my usage. Very rarely do they even mention how much you have used.

The best thing to do, is quite simply to figure out whether the meter is accurate and then switch things on, one at a time, to figure out what is using the energy.

Sometimes, I could honestly swear that my meter is over-reading by at least double, but each time I turn everything off, and switch on a 3kW kettle, that little disc spins around exactly ten times per minute, which is bang on 3kW.

BikingBud

Gerry1 said:

Mattyb636 said:

I moved from a 3 bedroom house 2 years ago where my gas and electric was £90 a month and moved into a 2 bedroom bungalow

Apart from two years' inflation, moving to a bungalow will probably account for a significant proportion of the higher bills.  The lack of upstairs rooms means that much more of the heat will escape through the roof.

Based upon what assumptions that you have neither stated nor verified?

Streaky_Bacon

BikingBud said:

Gerry1 said:

Mattyb636 said:

I moved from a 3 bedroom house 2 years ago where my gas and electric was £90 a month and moved into a 2 bedroom bungalow

Apart from two years' inflation, moving to a bungalow will probably account for a significant proportion of the higher bills.  The lack of upstairs rooms means that much more of the heat will escape through the roof.

Based upon what assumptions that you have neither stated nor verified?

It would make sense that a bungalow, of the same footprint, would lose heat proportionally faster, due to a much greater surface area to volume ratio. So the total energy use should be more for a detached vs bungalow, but more per volume for a bungalow, which seems to match your chart. Also bungalows often have a much larger footprint than detached houses.

Murphybear

Gerry1 said:

Mattyb636 said:

I moved from a 3 bedroom house 2 years ago where my gas and electric was £90 a month and moved into a 2 bedroom bungalow

Apart from two years' inflation, moving to a bungalow will probably account for a significant proportion of the higher bills.  The lack of upstairs rooms means that much more of the heat will escape through the roof.

We moved from a 3 storey terraced house to a 3 bedroomed detached bungalow and our bills were a bit higher but not significantly so.  This was a few years ago though.