Phantom Gas Use

MuckChucker

Got a weird one that I hope is a once off but I'll keep an eye out.

On Monday 10th, we used double the gas we normally do. I noticed this on the Bright app yesterday and I was just waiting for the BG site to catch up to see if it matched and it does. This use might not seem strange as we're on the way into winter but. . .the heat didn't come on (the Hive app confirms this), not cold enough yet and the time period of this gas use does not match the schedule. The only gas we have been using is to heat the water for 30 mins, 5 days a week, Monday being one of those 5 days.

So I know the boiler kicked in as scheduled at 16:30, I heard it hum as I was in the adjacent room, amount used posted below. You'll also see, the second spurt of usage just a couple of rows below this. I cannot explain this. This is not scheduled. Nobody else in the house knows how to use the Hive controls and I'm not even sure the option is there to "boost" the hot water. What's raising my eyebrow is that it's the exact same usage figures duplicated, EXACT SAME - an already heated cylinder would not need the same level of energy to be heated again, what, an hour later. Let me know if that statement is incorrect. I have my doubts that this 2nd spurt of gas use occurred - had I walked by the boiler area at this time I would have noticed it was humming but I can't say for certain that I did. Anyway, this one instance is hardly going to break the bank and there's not much I can do but keep an eye out for re-occurrence.


Anybody ever had similar weirdness or am I just losing marbles (likely the latter)?

QrizB

What do your meter readings say? A glitch with the half-hourly XML file isn't impossible to imagine, but the actual total volume recorded as used shouldn't have changed.