Background energy usage high

Jibber123

I've just got an energy bill for November, December and January and it's nearly £2000. I've read the meters and they had estimated them massively wrong, electricity over and gas under, but this only brought it down to £1500 which is very high for 3 months even in the winter and over Christmas. It's nearly £15 a day! I've got an npower energy monitor in the kitchen (connected to a transmitter on the cable by the meter) and with everything turned off, (Wife and kids are out) its still reading 20p an hour which is about 800w or nearly £2000 a year! All that was left on was the internet box (virgin media super hub 3), 3 cordless phones / base station chargers (siemens Gigaset), and a fridge freezer in the kitchen and a freezer in the garage both A+++ rated and are only 3 years old. I've watched the monitor for a while and gone back it it several times over a couple of hours and it's always on 20p an hour, so i don't think its the fridge/ freezer compressors clicking in and out. I've been round and checked everything plugged in and turned off and unplugged any phone chargers and even a couple of table lamps on timers, but it made no difference. I then turned off all the circuit breakers in the fuse board apart from the central heating and outside lights, which are both labelled with don't turn off, still made no difference. I also turned the thermostat right down to make sure the heating was off, which it was. What is left running that could be using 800w of electricity constantly?

Gerry1

Start with the Meter Sanity Test.

Coffeekup

Jibber123 said:

I've just got an energy bill for November, December and January and it's nearly £2000. I've read the meters and they had estimated them massively wrong, electricity over and gas under, but this only brought it down to £1500 which is very high for 3 months even in the winter and over Christmas.  

So the last bill wasn't based off an estimated reading?

Dont talk about your usage in money, we need kwh's and prices per unit for fuel's.

Outside light have our/motion sensors? Water tank? Something on in attic a heater lights? Chest freezer in garage ?