High gas bill

HEV_3

My gas bill during the winter. Months is £700 per month. I live in an average bed semi detached house (2 bed with a loft conversion). The heating is on for 2 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening at a thermostat setting of 19 deg. Our combi boiler has been serviced, we have checked our meter is working correctly with our energy supplier but can’t get to the bottom of why it’s so expensive. Does anyone know of any energy inspectors or assessors who 
can find the problem. Any ideas gratefully accepted. 

Dazed_and_C0nfused

HEV_3 said:

My gas bill during the winter. Months is £700 per month. I live in an average bed semi detached house (2 bed with a loft conversion). The heating is on for 2 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening at a thermostat setting of 19 deg. Our combi boiler has been serviced, we have checked our meter is working correctly with our energy supplier but can’t get to the bottom of why it’s so expensive. Does anyone know of any energy inspectors or assessors who 
can find the problem. Any ideas gratefully accepted. 

Are you on a normal tariff similar to the price cap rates?

Farway

Just to help us, stating money is not very useful, far better to use units, like Kw, these are on your bill

How many Kilowatts did you use? How does this compare with last winter?

Are the meter readings correct, did you provide them to the supplier or are they estimates?

Veteransaver

Is £700 your actual bill (based on actual readings) or is it just your monthly DD, which maybe including previous underpayments or is simply setup wrong.
If it's your actual bill then it does seem very high for a 2/3bed house. Unless you take an inordinate amount of long showers.

QrizB

Meter readings will be a great help, plus a photo of your meter if you can.

Taking things at face value, £700 a month is £23 a day, which (on the current SVT of 7.5p/kWh) works out as something like 300kWh a day. Even if your boiler is burning 25kW continuously for those six hours of heat a day, it would only get through half that amount.

Possibilities include:

Do you have a hot water leak somewhere?

Do you have a gas leak somewhere?

Do you have a metric meter that's being billed in (hundreds of) cubic feet?

Do you have one of those faulty meters like @MeteredOut does?

A photo of your meter will help us help you.

Robin9

Further checks on your meter.

1) Look at the meter - note the serial number; then see if its the same on the bill

2) Also on the meter look for ft3 or m3; then see if its the same on your meter

3) What does your meter look like ?  Has it a series of dials going in different direction ?  or a cyclometer type -  how many dials? a modern digital - then look out for the decimal point

Remember when reading  a meter you should ignore  any figures in red  or after the decimal point.

Can we have a photo and please tell us what you think the reading is.