Is my electricity meter correct?

QrizB

I agree with chris_n on all counts.

Your usage is double what it should be. Switching to an electric boiler will make your bills higher, not lower.

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Hi,

something wrong with your 50/50 split, unless that is recent and over summer months.

Should be at best 30/70 day/night, but with careful usage 20/80 annually.

Need to check out where you are going wrong.

macman

Aargh! Don't do it! Your heating and DHW costs will probably triple with an electric boiler. It's insane. 
Either adjust the output on your NSH's to slow the release rate (the older ones are quite crude, but they all have a damper system), or fit modern NSH's such as Dimplex Quantum.
Who on earth advised you to go down the electric boiler route for a 3 b/r property?

markin

I read it as being a new meter and the total reads over 2 years, 5k day - 5k night.

I also hope you mean a Heat pump, Many people do seems to call them 'boilers'.

shinytop

We used about 20,000 kWh in a year in our 4 bed bungalow with 9 old storage heaters.  Plus coal and wood in the cold evenings when the heat ran out. 2 adults both at home.

We're now looking at 7,000 kWh or less with an ASHP for a much warmer house and less solid fuel.

If you are paying for central heating anyway you should consider an ASHP rather than an electric boiler (if that's what you mean).  It will pay for itself quite quickly.

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shinytop said:

We used about 20,000 kWh in a year in our 4 bed bungalow with 9 old storage heaters.  Plus coal and wood in the cold evenings when the heat ran out. 2 adults both at home.

We're now looking at 7,000 kWh or less with an ASHP for a much warmer house and less solid fuel.

If you are paying for central heating anyway you should consider an ASHP rather than an electric boiler (if that's what you mean).  It will pay for itself quite quickly.

It looks as if you have taken 20,000 and divided it by a COP of 3. Bear in mind that the electricity that you use to boil the kettle; watch TV; do the washing etc will not change.

I assume that your chosen installer has carried out a full heat loss calculation? If so, it would be helpful to me and others if you could post some of the calculations.