Gas has jumped to £350 a month

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jerrypolecat

We have a similar, really worrying issue. For context we have a tiny 3 bid mid-terraced property. Our electricity usage is approximately £100 a month, but our gas has jumped to £350 per month….over the summer! We foolishly didn’t check our bills, and thought we were accruing a credit for the winter months, turns out we are a £1200 in debit and they have estimated our bill to be over £6000 next year.

Robin9

@jerrypolecat  I have asked MSE to create a new thread so the responses don't get confused.

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jerrypolecat said:

We have a similar, really worrying issue. For context we have a tiny 3 bid mid-terraced property. Our electricity usage is approximately £100 a month, but our gas has jumped to £350 per month….over the summer! We foolishly didn’t check our bills, and thought we were accruing a credit for the winter months, turns out we are a £1200 in debit and they have estimated our bill to be over £6000 next year.

Don’t tell us in ££, tell us in kWh or meter readings.

££ mean nothing when the unit prices change.

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I have never really understood the ‘blind spot’ that many consumers have regarding energy bills. Why are people happy to pay £00s a month to a supplier and then not bother to check their statements? I am sure that it would make an interesting topic of research for a future PhD student. 

PS: I don’t buy into the ‘we are all too busy’ defence.

Robin9

Agree with Sparky.

Those meter readings -  actual ones from 12 months ago (look for the letters A or C or our read after the readings on your bill -  ignore E )   please and todays readings.

jerrypolecat

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jerrypolecat said:

We have a similar, really worrying issue. For context we have a tiny 3 bid mid-terraced property. Our electricity usage is approximately £100 a month, but our gas has jumped to £350 per month….over the summer! We foolishly didn’t check our bills, and thought we were accruing a credit for the winter months, turns out we are a £1200 in debit and they have estimated our bill to be over £6000 next year.

Don’t tell us in ££, tell us in kWh or meter readings.

££ mean nothing when the unit prices change.

Just had a third party engineer out, who capped the the gas off, and the digital metre continued to climb! Now need to get EDF out to replace metre and tackle bills

QrizB

jerrypolecat said:

Just had a third party engineer out, who capped the the gas off, and the digital metre continued to climb! Now need to get EDF out to replace metre and tackle bills

I was just about to say "this could be a faulty meter"!

Glad to know you've found the problem so quickly. Good luck with EDF.