My gas consumption seems crazy. Am I reading it wrong?

On-the-coast

I lived in a 1930 bungalow once.  

It had been “upgraded” with about an inch of insulation in the loft.  

Single glazed. Draughts everywhere. 

Moved out fairly quickly and current house has twice floor space and costs half as much to heat. 

victor2

@Stormbornsalih
Look at your heating controls. Do the radiators have thermostatic valves (TRVs) on them? If not, it's worth getting some installed so that you can control the temperature of individual rooms. Where is your thermostat located? It is the."master" control for the heating but can only react to the temperature where it is.
A good heating engineer should be able to advise on getting better controls, without spending a fortune, especially if he's going to service and flush the system at the same time.
Do you have a hot water tank? If so, look at the settings and insulation for that.
By the way, welcome to the forum!

daveyjp

If a property is poorly insulated keeping it warm by turning up the thermostat is the equivalent of trying to keep a bath hot by continually adding hot water whilst someone else is tipping ice cubes into it.

The heat is being lost as fast as it is being provided and you never get warm.

FreeBear

Dolor said:

Stormbornsalih said:

It’s set to 21.5 but i have to blast it at 24c to warm it up at times as i think it loses heat.  It’s not a massive house. It’s a bungalow. 

It doesn’t work like that. A home will only reach a set temperature when the heat input equals the heat output. Your home will not get up to 21.5C any faster by turning the thermostat up to 24C. Your problem might be one or a combination of four things:  1. poor insulation in the roof; walls; floor and windows, 2 drafts around doors; windows and chimneys, 3, inadequately sized or partially blocked radiators or, 4, a boiler that is too small.

Personally, I would address the cheapest fixes first; more insulation in the roof space followed by a chemical clean/flush of your heating system.

Unlikely that the boiler is too small for a typical 1950s house.

Another item to add to the list of possible faults - Poorly balanced system. If only a few of the radiators are getting hot, then the cold rooms will be sucking heat in. And if someone has been fiddling with the boiler settings and say turned down the flow temperature, the radiators may not even be getting hot.

Ideally, you do want to be running the boiler at a low flow temperature (typically, 50-60°C), but the radiators need to be appropriately sized.

nadsat

What is the exact model of your boiler - the kW rating in particular. Then you can do an estimate of the kWh usage according to the time the boiler is on and see if that tallies with the meter readings. 

Your usage is twice ours and we have a large Victorian semi that has solid walls but does have double glazing. We have a newish condensing boiler rated at 18kW which has cut bills compared with the old 24kW non-condensing unit.