Our electrics gone from 28 a week to 70.

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It’s been like this for about 18 months now, any ideas?.

It’s not normal for us though.

Jan 15. 3769
Jan 16. 5488 = 1719 units.

July 17 8504
July 18 11021 = 2517 units.

I don’t even use the main oven. We use a halogen oven instead.

The useage doesn’t reflect our lifestyle.

July 18 11021
July 19 13571 = 2550.

So, 33 units to run a dryer for 6 months, I can understand that bit. But I can’t get my head around an increase of over 30 units a week for no tangible cause.

I can’t get my head around an increase of over 30 units a week for no tangible cause

Perhaps if you would listen?

28 units per week is probably not correct. 70 is much more realistic.

The error is much more likely to have been the 28 units. Not the 70.

I am listening, I have pdfs of my bills from 2013. That’s how much I was using.

Why is that so hard to believe?. Everything in this house bar the dryer was chosen to be energy saving. Dh chose the dryer so I had no input.

I wasn’t giving false readings for 4 years then decided to live life on the straight and narrow, but moan about it on mumsnet for giggles.

My ex moved out and our usage dropped 30% overnight! The only cause of that is lights and tv on a couple of hours less a day.

I am listening, I have pdfs of my bills from 2013. That’s how much I was using.

But you are saying the 70 Is wrong? How do you know that's wrong and not the 28?

Why is that so hard to believe?. Everything in this house bar the dryer was chosen to be energy saving. Dh chose the dryer so I had no input.

I never said I didn't believe you!

I wasn’t giving false readings for 4 years then decided to live life on the straight and narrow, but moan about it on mumsnet for giggles.

I didn't suggest you were. You seem adamant the 4 years were correct and absolutely unwilling to accept the 18 months may have been correct. Why is that? The 70 is a much more realistic figure.

Actually it’s 55 units a week. So 25 units increase for nothing. I know nothings on in the loft as the hatch is off to cool the house. It’s pitch black up there.

If I email my supplier can they investigate remotely I wonder?.

Why would the investigate if you email them but over the phone they told you it was correct?

Why has 70 suddenly changed to 55?

4 units a day is highly unrealistic tbh. I think that's pretty much background usage. Fridges themselves use 1-2 units per day. Your central heating will use some too etc etc.

55kWh a week isn’t realistic for this house though. No ones electric doubles in 6 months with no lifestyle changes.

No kids, 2 adults out all day and in bed at 10pm.

Something went wrong in 2017.

Now you are talking about them being kWh

Sorry OP but what are you actually talking about?

No ones electric doubles in 6 months with no lifestyle changes.

Quite. Which is why it seems far more likely that the 28 units was the wrong figure in the first place.

70 went to 55 because I was working it out this morning with dh watching goodwood in the background making noise so I came in to the bedroom for some peace and did my maths again.

So now he’s playing guitar using an amp that’s used in stadiums & a looper pedal.

If none of you know what a looper pedal is you are lucky.

This house is cheap to run, it always was. Not so much now. The electric companies aren’t exactly interested in you paying less are they?. If you all think 70 units is normal so will they.

It’s pissing me off that I pay more for roughly the same though.

I’ll do daily reads and see what comes up.

We have a lot of devices charging up but are religious about turning them off. Our combined bill is £60 a month so yours sounds extortionate. Ours is with an adult home all during school holidays plus an Xbox mad teenager. We have lights on a lot as our house is dark.

An electric unit is one kWh.

So, for the first 4 years we lived here we used 4-5kwh a day.

Now it’s more like 8 for the last 2 years.

Really I can read a meter. I can’t do maths and listen to dhs commentary on the new Porsche taycan & why the 800 mile range battery is wildly optimistic but I can read the meter.

Gas use is static. I expected it to be £9 or so this month and it is.

No one is saying you can't read a meter.

What we are saying is that the 28 units is very much more likely to be incorrect.

Nobody is blaming your meter reading.

Did you ever have economy 7 or more than one rate of electricity?

I should’ve have posted a bill at the start. This is from 2015. Before it all kicked off in 2017.

We don’t use a lot of appliances, we don’t leave things running & everything's been bought by me to be cheap to run. I go to relatives houses and they leave televisions running when no ones in the room or leave lights on for no reason. It makes me twitchy, they also have no idea how much their bills are which is just alien to me.

I keep looking at appliances and wondering if something’s gone wrong and it’s running full pelt.

What bill are you comparing that too ?

Posting the bill doesn't mean it was correct. The error is far more likely to have been the lower usage amount. Still.

Really Not in this house. It’s getting to the point where running the last poorly insulated rural house with E10 will be cheaper than running a new build semi stuffed with insulation. Single rate electric on the bill.

Same eon meter since 2013.

There’s no cables running to our house, everything’s underground including the telephone line. The only other way in would be the garage which is semi detached to ndn garage. He seems a bit straight laced to try and tap electric. He puts hi viz on to mow his lawn and wash the windows.

Mrslupin This years useage. I know the unit charge has gone up etc but my consumption is going up for no good reason. The tumble dryer accounts for 30 odd units in 6 months which is roughly what the data label says.

Still That bills correct. Other energy companies have read the meter over the last 6 years. That’s how little electric we use. Discrepancies would have been spotted and a bill generated by now if I’d been wrong.

I’ve just told dh everyone thinks I’m bonkers about this “well you are a little bit bonkers but your not usually wrong about stuff like this”.

Right. Well that's that then. What did you actually post for? You are right.

Having a well insulated house will only affect your heating bills, so unless you have electric heating that's irrelevant.

So many things use power, it really isn't high usage at 55, especially as you have a dishwasher and a tumble dryer, and you have an electric cooker?

By all means ask the supplier to do a check, but they'll probably laugh.