Bills not going down despite using less

michael079

Hi there I'm a carer for my mother who has Parkinsons and dementia and I switched her Scottish power from direct debit to providing actual usage readings each month. For the last few months the combined electric and gas has been coming to about £650 per month.

This month it has been warmer and I made sure that the gas was used much less, turning it down with every opportunity and I fully expected to have cut out about 40% of usage compared to last month when it was on all the time.

Yet I've just seen the bill and the gas has not got less at all. There were 28 days in February in which the bill was £286 / 28 = £10.20 per day. This month's bill for gas was £319 / 31 = £10.20!

How can this possibly be? I've been making a conscious effort to reduce it because she simply cannot afford these high bills and it's emptying her bank every month.

Is there something I'm missing here? How can it be the exact same usage when we've been using less? 

molerat

Are they using the supplied readings ?

March has been a pretty cold month in many places.

masonic

What are the start and end readings for each bill?

Astria

We need more info - are the bills estimates or actual readings? What were the readings?

Depending on how often you visit, you could take a reading each time and see if she is actually using less.

michael079

molerat said:

Are they using the supplied readings ?

March has been a pretty cold month in many places.

Well she's on actual usage and I submit the readings each month so I'm assuming so...we're in Edinburgh, I've felt it a bit warmer the last month so kept turning heating down when I could

michael079

masonic said:

What are the start and end readings for each bill?

masonic said:

What are the start and end readings for each bill?

End of February the gas was 32460 and today when I submitted the reading it was 32716

michael079

Astria said:

We need more info - are the bills estimates or actual readings? What were the readings?

Depending on how often you visit, you could take a reading each time and see if she is actually using less.

Actual readings. End of February gas was 32460 and today it was 32716.

I don't visit, I live with her as i look after her and I'm sure I've been making a huge extra effort to turn it down as much as possible during march, but now I'm beginning to doubt myself because it just doesn't make any sense 

Krakkkers

I make that £74 plus SC or £209 for a metric meter.

Robin9

and the Electric readings /?

BUFF

Imperial or metric gas meter?

michael079

Robin9 said:

and the Electric readings /?

End of February electric was 48522 and 71538 and today was 49054 and 71601 and the bill was £294