High gas usage

Evan3020

December was 175 kwh per day average.

Evan3020

And using 25 kwh a day in the summer.

markin

Is the boiler in eco mode? As in Not heating a little tank on top of the boiler.

If 32kwh a day is just hot water use its 11,689 alone, 6 to 8k would be high use. Have a look at your EPC. 

https://find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk/find-a-certificate/search-by-postcode?lang=en&property_type=domestic

Alnat1

The meter readings look like those of someone who had quite a lot of heating on over winter.

See if you can work out a plan to turn the boiler off for 24 hours and check meter readings at start and finish.

mjdrae

Mstty said:

mjdrae said:

Mstty said:

mjdrae said:

victor2 said:

So it is an imperial meter. Quite old and I would have thought about due for replacement, but that's another issue, unless it's faulty of course.

The bill above looks a bit odd. It says 31 days standing charge, but there's only 26 days between the readings. Other than that, the calculation of the kWh looks OK. You have used 32kWh of gas per day in that period. Seems a bit high, but I assume that is mainly hot water for showers or baths.

You could check how much gas a shower or bath uses by taking meter readings before and after. Multiply the difference in the readings by 32 and you'll get a very close conversion to kWh.

It is impossible to comment on the supplier's estimate of your annual usage unless you have actual readings close to a year apart.

Edit: If you do take meter readings for something like a shower, you'll need to record the fractions (red digits and possibly even the dial) to get a more accurate result.

Does this help. Also worth noting I'm currently £410 in credit and expect that to be well over £500 by end of contract this month.

Wow is that 26000 kWh of gas a year.

So what have you look d at the reduce gas usage?

We had a log burner fitted 18mths ago. The heating is very rarely on these days and then it's just hot water. We have an electric range oven.
I'm hopeful that making changes will reduce it considerably but it just feels too high for what we use.

Have you taken any of the actions suggested in this post like reducing hot water temp?

Does the household take a lot of baths?

I presume the showers are not electric showers and are fed from the hot water cylinder?

Yes... turned the temp down tonight. I'd say only 1 bath a week. Mostly showers and direct from boiler.

mjdrae

Alnat1 said:

Any chance you could all manage not to shower one day and check how much the meter uses. Just in case next door are sharing your supply........

Could try that yes. Just noticed the last meter reading is 211. That photo showing 212 was taken tonight. 

Evan3020

That would mean your usage has dropped to less than 3 kwh a day since 19th July?

Alnat1

Have next door gone on holiday????

mjdrae

Alnat1 said:

Have next door gone on holiday????

Don't say that... lol.
No they haven't in all seriousness though....
We are actively trying to use less. Wife and kids have finally bought into whats happening. 
I will try some of the suggestions and maybe see how next 12 months go.
My next issue is finding a new supplier... 

victor2

Mstty said:

victor2 said:

Mstty said:

Not sure where you got 29000 kWh for 820 units. It's closer to 26000 kWh. The OP even posted their calorific value👍

It was 820 units over 333 days, I just multiplied it up to get 365 days usage.

Ah gotcha that explains your high figure 👍

But they were summer days that were missing so I think closer to 27000 kwh

It's a big difference 2000kwh

Good point, but we're in the right ballpark, 2000 kWh is only about 7% of such a high usage.

If the OP is using a log burner a lot, the CH must be set to quite an inefficient way of operating and/or the house is very poorly insulated. Still doesn't explain the rather high summer usage though. Further investigation is needed...