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Meter clicking up though no gas used

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  • The_Fat_Controller
    The_Fat_Controller Posts: 2,006 Forumite
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    edited 29 May 2022 at 6:59PM
    All three should have a valve on their respective pipes although they may not be obvious.

    If your boiler has a pilot light make sure you know to relight it.

    If in doubt get a Gas Safe engineer to check your home.

    You say "clicking around", what type of meter do you have ?
  • theoretica
    theoretica Posts: 12,691 Forumite
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    Do you have the model name of the back boiler?  I would see if the internet has manuals - unless the sellers left them.
    But a banker, engaged at enormous expense,
    Had the whole of their cash in his care.
    Lewis Carroll
  • markin
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    Hot water on manual control usually means Timed if its not on Const or OFF, what are the times?
  • ripple34
    ripple34 Posts: 63 Forumite
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    Qriz -
    Thank you. 
    Yes, I had to chase for a gas safety check of the back-boiler - carried out two days before completion!
  • ripple34
    ripple34 Posts: 63 Forumite
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    Markin - the timer is on Off unless I switch it to Continuous which means it starts to heat up. If I don't do that there is no hot water

    Baxi Bermuda GF3 Super. I note there's a tap between the fire which fronts the boiler, and the meter. Presume that's the valve?
    Also being so close to the gas fire I could hear a sort of rushing sound inside it. Is that then the pilot light burning all the time? Seems a lot of gas for a pilot light!


  • ripple34
    ripple34 Posts: 63 Forumite
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    I really don't feel qualified to fiddle about with valves and am unable to see where the stove one could be - presumably located behind the integrated oven?
  • Benny2020
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    10 units? you mean 10 to the left of the decimal point as that is 112 kwh
  • The_Fat_Controller
    The_Fat_Controller Posts: 2,006 Forumite
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    edited 29 May 2022 at 7:54PM
    The units are in BLACK and that is the reading you send to your supplier.

    The red box is decimals as above.
  • ripple34
    ripple34 Posts: 63 Forumite
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    edited 29 May 2022 at 7:59PM
    The reading is now almost 33933.354. Am I misinterpreting ? Don't I then use the formula to calculate of :

    10 × 2.83 × 1.02264 × 39.2† ÷ 3.6

    Which I calculate as £12 + VAT for 2 tanks of water and a couple of boiled eggs

  • Benny2020
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    Multiply the units by 11.2 for kwh
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