To ask for your electricity usage for last year? Possible weed grower!

[buddhasbelly]

We’ve just moved house (2 bed detached bungalow, 70s construction, gas & electric) and got our predicted energy bill - we have a sky high fixed kWh rate but that’s just the way things are at the moment.

However the annual predicted electricity usage is 5300kwh - our old house we used 1700kwh in a year!

Our bedroom has a strong smell of weed. Could the predicted usage be down to the last owner possibly growing weed? I’m sort of hoping so as the predicted use seems crazy. The gas usage is about the same as our old property.

aibu to ask for your average electricity kwh for last year? I’m trying to gauge what others are using, particularly interested to hear if you have a bungalow!

5656 a year

seems be higher then some of our friends

not sure why

tho have fish tank and 4 fridge /freezers

not sure if that drains it

spa isn’t included in that

3 bed semi - 2 adults and 5yrs

Sorry about your dad @buddhasbelly

Went back a year before we had spa and was 6336 a year

really not sure how they work it out as used more then

doesn’t make sense

We live in a 3 storey end terrace, 4 bedrooms, 3 kids, 2 adults, I am a homeworker and DH is also home all day. We don't particularly watch what we use and have a tumbledrier on at lot in the winter.
Our yearly usage is between 4000 and 4500. We do have gas central heating but our yearly bill is less than £200 a year.

5000kwh a year here, but we have a 5 bed, 2 kids, WFH, electric showers and oven, 2 freezers. A lot of visitors/guests which pushes the use up.

I have a smart meter and can look at our hourly stats. Using heavy duty power tools can really push it up. Something like that (if previous owner was a mechanic), or a hot tub, could make up a big % of the usage.

I know people who grow to sell from just one room so reckon it's possible it could have been used for that, given the high predicted bill bad strong smell seems likely answer.