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Help understanding gas bill!
Hi folks,
Got the gas bill in yesterday, and i cant help feel its a tad excessive! we moved into our new home just over a month ago, 5th April. Scottish power supplied the gas to our new house so we are forced to be with them in the interim. 6 weeks or so until we can get back with Scottish hydro electric.
Anyway, we have been charged £91 for the months gas. We are normally very careful about watching our energy. which is why i feel im being robbed! i could be wrong tho!
I therefore ask for help from you guys to check my bill and see if you think its all adding up ok, or if im getting ripped off. they have used Estimated initial readings, the real reading when we moved in was 01127079. im especially interested about the price(Kwh@p) being very different for the two periods.
Thank you
Got the gas bill in yesterday, and i cant help feel its a tad excessive! we moved into our new home just over a month ago, 5th April. Scottish power supplied the gas to our new house so we are forced to be with them in the interim. 6 weeks or so until we can get back with Scottish hydro electric.
Anyway, we have been charged £91 for the months gas. We are normally very careful about watching our energy. which is why i feel im being robbed! i could be wrong tho!
I therefore ask for help from you guys to check my bill and see if you think its all adding up ok, or if im getting ripped off. they have used Estimated initial readings, the real reading when we moved in was 01127079. im especially interested about the price(Kwh@p) being very different for the two periods.
Thank you
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They have used estimated start and end readings, so why don't you simply provide the actual readings and ask for the bill to be re-calculated?:doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:0
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The p/kWh you highlight in green is the same, there is no difference.
As above the start reading is an estimate, is that the correct actual reading (customer reading) you took down and kept somewhere safe when you moved in and gave them?It's PAC not PAC Code, it's MAC not MAC Code, it's PIN not PIN Number, it's ATM not ATM Machine, it's LCD not LCD Display, it's DVD not DVD disc... It's no one not noone, It's a lot not alot, It's got not gotten... Panini is the plural of panino - there is no S!!(OK my English isn't great, the sciences, maths & IT are my strong points!)0 -
they have used Estimated initial readings, the real reading when we moved in was 01127079.
The estimated read is 1696 - this is a potential problem.
Does your meter have m3 or ft3 on it? Your reading looks like it is metric (i.e. 01127.079m3), but the readings on the bill look like they are imperial.
What is the reading today?
If your opeing read is correct (it would be 0112.7...) then your bill would be even bigger.
Compare the meter serial number on the bill to the one on your meter (near a barcode).
(PS ~£10 id in standing & IGT charges)0 -
Your reading looks like it is metric (i.e. 01127.079m3), but the readings on the bill look like they are imperial.
The bill is based on a metric meter (I've manually calculated the charges) the only reason the readings are 4 digits is because the first digit would have been zero so won't show on the bill.
I hope for the OPs sake that the actual reading when he moved in wasn't 01127 or this will mean he has used 9179kWh is just over a month which will mean additional charges of nearly £180!!0 -
really!! so in actual fact we have used £270's worth of gas in just over one month. Im not believing that!! something fishy going on here, builders must have plumbed our gas into every home in the street!! no way have we used all that., we're very conservative with our energy. My girl took the reading when we moved in, she says shes certain she took it down correctly0
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I can't see anything obviously wrong with the bill but do suspect the reading taken when you moved in was incorrect (so it is good the Scottish Power has used an estimated reading).
All you can do is keep an eye on usage on a week by week basis to see monitor usage.
It's good that you have an actual (correct) reading taken on 18-May-2008. Have a look today if possible to see what the current meter reading is. As you appeared to have used 29 (estimated) units between 12th & 18th May (which roughly tallies with the earlier estimated consumption) then the meter today would be expected to be ca. 1973 units.
Another quick check you could make to ensure no gas is being used or lost elsewhere (very unlikely, and you'd probably smell any leak) is to check the meter is stationary when all your gas appliances are off."Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 20100 -
right guys i think i know whats been happening. i omly discovered this my fluke! i have been taking the readings every night since this happened, and when i took it tonight it read 1979, however i nearly jotted down 1919. the meter is outside my house at ground level and the number barrels seem to cut off the horizontal part of the 7's therfefore i can only conlcude that my partner had not notcied this and thought the 1727 was actually 1127. i litterally had to put my ear to the grass to read it was a seven!! wont be making that mistake again. if i call up scottish power do you think they will recalulate it for me using the actual move-in reading of 1727, and not their estimated reading? (which i would imagine was the reading the prevous owners left when the moved out)
in the meantime would some nice person mind re-calculating the bill for me using 1727 for start reading and 1943 as end reading?0 -
in the meantime would some nice person mind re-calculating the bill for me using 1727 for start reading and 1943 as end reading?
That would convert to 2430kWh which works out at £81.44 including standing charge, IGT charge and VAT. I don't know how the discount is calculated so haven't included that so the figure will be slightly less.0 -
Thanks, for future ref, whats the calc?0
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stewie_griffin wrote: »That would convert to 2430kWh which works out at £81.44 including standing charge, IGT charge and VAT. I don't know how the discount is calculated so haven't included that so the figure will be slightly less.
This would also explain why the charges have been split at the 37 day mark. It would appear that for the first 37 days the OP was on a dual fuel package (even though they only took gas) ... this may have been noticed at which point they got moved onto a non dual fuel package (losing the gas&electricity discount for the last 7 days).
IvanPast caring about first world problems.0
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