Whats your Quarterly/Monthly Leccy Bill?

I just had a quarterly bill through for £400 for my one bed flat, but the previous one was an estimate and a very low one, still steep though so i've had to have a look at what might be causing it
does sound like yours isnt a result of the previous estimate if you had a reading before that
 
Just so you know, the SWALEC online bill is a joke.

I opted for paperless billing, so every month they'd email me with an estimate, which I'd pay immediately.

2 weeks later I'd get a letter through the post saying I owed ~£4.41 or thereabouts, and would be cut off if I couldn't pay asap. I'd check the online bills and they'd all been paid..

Eventually I rung up SWALEC and changed to a direct debit.. you just can't trust their estimates.
 
If you know how much was used in units can't you find out how much per unit you pay? If the meter is correct then it could have been a few estimates have been wrong and it's finally caught up.
 
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Well after speaking to my other half, I'm leaning more towards the side that our meter is dodgey.

They read the meter 24th Jan and it was at
Day: 13259 (4689 used since last bill)
Night: 8837 (1349 used since last bill)

Todays reading:
Day: 13608 (349 used since 24th Jan)
Night: 8976 (139 used since 24th Jan)

Not sure on these as far as price wise it goes. Shall work it out in a mo.

With the things we own, and it being such a small flat as well - I just don't see us using that much energy :(
 
Hmm, usually about £220 odd, quarterly.

Our heating and cooking is done on the 'leccy though, never bothered getting oil back in since it made the house stink of heating oil from a dripping pipe.

Electric heating - costs more, but you don't asphyxiate.
 
My wife just got our whole years gas bill thrown out due to them not being able to bill us correctly. They ahve been trying all year to get it right. We moved into a new house and the meter didnt work, we told them straight away.

They keep sending us bills for the old serial number meter which we kept sending back.

They then kept saying they would work it out on average with a months useage. No chance, a months useage in winter to bill us for the whole year, my wife told them where to go.

They have decided to start from now :)

I have a 4 bed house and the bill is the same as the 2 bed, electricity wise. We only have the same number of tv's on, pc's on and washine machines etc. We pay about £25 a month. Every light fitting is energy saving.
 
3 bed semi, all electric bar heating. One pc on about 8 hours a day, dishwasher every night, washing machine 4 times a week, 2 people. I pay 25 quid a month and thats southern electric, likely need to up it a bit now i reckon though.
 
Slight update.
After turning most things off in the flat, and only having the TV/Media Centre on and the fridge we used 3 units in two hours.

Seems quite high, that's over a 1,000 units a month just on a TV/Media Centre and the fridge plugged in.

Over £100 a month for just a fridge/tv plugged in :confused:
 
So from your figures 349 and 139 they reckon youve used 488kWh of electricity in 6 days ( im assuming the meter reads in kWh like most). Id say that was pretty much impossible for a flat with 2 people unless you left everything on all the time.

Edit - just read your update, theres no way that a tv/media center and a fridge uses 1.5KW an hour which is what they would need to to hit that unit usage.
 
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Ladforce said:
So from your figures 349 and 139 they reckon youve used 488kWh of electricity in 6 days ( im assuming the meter reads in kWh like most). Id say that was pretty much impossible for a flat with 2 people unless you left everything on all the time.

Edit - just read your update, theres no way that a tv/media center and a fridge uses 1.5KW an hour which is what they would need to to hit that unit usage.
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Why not? You can buy 1kw power supplies for PCs, and fridges can use 500Ws easy (plus modem, monitor, lights etc.). 1.5kw in an hour is easy if you have power hungry devices...
 
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Samtheman1k said:
Why not? You can buy 1kw power supplies for PCs, and fridges can use 500Ws easy (plus modem, monitor, lights etc.). 1.5kw in an hour is easy if you have power hungry devices...
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Fridges dont use anywhere near 500W they use about 1700kWh per year. Also although a pc power supply is rated to 1000W it uses no where near that its just the power output its rated to (obviousy you could draw that from it but youd need a load of components to do it which i doubt the OP has as its a media centre). I didnt say 1.5kW was hard to reach but it is with those appliances.

Edit - actually the fridge average is 1450kWh/year
 
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Ladforce said:
Fridges dont use anywhere near 500W they use about 300kWh per year!! Also although a pc power supply is rated to 1000W it uses no where near that its just the power output its rated to. I didnt say 1.5kW was hard to reach but it is with those appliances.
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Sorry, I meant fridge + TV + modem etc can easily reach 500W. My LCD TV is 200W on its own lol!
 
Samtheman1k said:
Sorry, I meant fridge + TV + modem etc can easily reach 500W. My LCD TV is 200W on its own lol!
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Yea 500W combined is possible but another 1k on top of that would be difficult and would point to the meter reading incorrectly. Also, edited my post as I quoted the fridge kWh from a mini fridge :)
 
think i pay about £30 a month :/ me and the gf are out most of the day anyways, turn the PC off when we go out, TV isnt on much, not really got much else thats electrical LOL
 
nikebee said:
Slight update.
After turning most things off in the flat, and only having the TV/Media Centre on and the fridge we used 3 units in two hours.

Seems quite high, that's over a 1,000 units a month just on a TV/Media Centre and the fridge plugged in.

Over £100 a month for just a fridge/tv plugged in :confused:
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Turn off everything and see if the meter is still going. As said someone may be running off your supply.
 
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