Whats your Quarterly/Monthly Leccy Bill?

4 bed student flat
2 PCs on 24/7
another 3 on a lot of the time, 2 tv's basically on constantly, loads of spotlight bulbs, 2 fridges, sky + router on constantly, lots of showering.
£216 per quarter
so £54 each.
 
I'd phone them up, and demand somebody comes out to inspect your meter ASAP - tell them you've turned nearly everything off, and the meter is showing you're guzzling at the electricity.

If they prove it's your fault (ie: you've got a heater or immersion heater blazing away), then I'm afraid you'll be liable for the charges! :eek:

For the record, I now pay £50/month for G&E in a 2 bed house with my partner.
 
You need to have you meter checked. They do often go wrong. They should send an engineer out free of charge.

Also, I fail to see anyone who uses their electricity normally can rack up such an expensive bill. Odds are on your meter is broke.

Oh and everyone on here should read the meter themselves and get the bill changed every month. Even the meter readers get it wrong. Ours this month was out by 1000 units and that was a reading done by themselves. As soon as I got the bill I told them the reading was wrong. They are happy to change it to your own reading.
 
That £110 a quarter electricity covers the cooker, water and heating too - we don't have gas Sounds like we've got it cheap :p

Although our apartments are so warm as they're new we never use the heating.
 
Just had a bill today funnily enough.

£413.95 for the last quarter. Seems too high if you ask me although four kids and six PC's on a network don't help (plus two laptops, PS2, Xbox etc).

Used to fold 24/7 on two machines but had to stop.
 
it may not be relevant in your case, but my flat has powered ventilation to every room in the flat, i've switched this off and am going to check after a week and see if it's made any difference as my readings seem on the high side, only problem i have is that the meter isnt somewhere i can see it, i have to get the concierge to take a reading for me :s
 
Ladforce said:
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 :)
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You could very easily be pulling more than 500w from the media Pc. My works desktop runs through a ups and I can monitor my power usage realtime. Its sat at about 325w whilst typing this and its a VERY basic pc.

I also run a media pc at home myself and it does supp the power, never leave it on when you're not using it.

Fog
 
Jebus! I never knew electricity was so expensive! We haven't had our electricity bill through since July. :-\
 
Our gas and electric bill are due they came to read the meter yesterday,

Pay £46 a month electric and £30 a month gas. Hope that covers it as weve just had central heating fitted end of last year. Never had a credit meter before ive been used to pre payment meters so i hope im not in for a shock when the bill do come
 
Gaygle said:
Jebus! I never knew electricity was so expensive! We haven't had our electricity bill through since July. :-\
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Well if you've not been paying monthly through your bank, then I'd prepare to bend over mate when it comes in.

NPower tried to take over £1000 from my account a couple of years ago..turns out they were underestimating the reading for years, then one day they decided it would be best to ask for the money all in one go.

The 'lovely' call centre lady said that I would have to pay it - or get cut off. I explained that as I'm disabled it probably wouldn't be a good idea, but she insisted. Luckily I spoke to her supervisor who was somewhat more based in reality.
I had to pay mine off in installments over a year as it was my fault I had not checked the meter readings regularly.

I remember something about this on Watchdog recently, so it may worth be contacting them, along with Ofgem as they were trying to clamp down on the power companies for this sort of practice.
 
1 bed flat, just me living there.

£40 / month electricity
£20 / month gas.

Always used a lot of electricity apparently, swear I'm getting ripped off though.
 
Foghorn Leghorn said:
You could very easily be pulling more than 500w from the media Pc. My works desktop runs through a ups and I can monitor my power usage realtime. Its sat at about 325w whilst typing this and its a VERY basic pc.

I also run a media pc at home myself and it does supp the power, never leave it on when you're not using it.

Fog
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Thats very high usage for a nearly idle pc , I dont think the meter is accurate. My quad core pc uses about 200W when idle and about 350W when loaded. Im talking just the pc, not monitor as the media pc mentioned will be attached to the tv. A 500W pc is only really possible with sli/xfire or a ton of hard drives at the moment.
 
Ladforce said:
Thats very high usage for a nearly idle pc , I dont think the meter is accurate. My quad core pc uses about 200W when idle and about 350W when loaded. Im talking just the pc, not monitor as the media pc mentioned will be attached to the tv. A 500W pc is only really possible with sli/xfire or a ton of hard drives at the moment.
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:D

Its alright, I'm a twit, I forgot my monitor is plugged into the ups too.

Fog
 
Shmo said:
1 bed flat, just me living there.

£40 / month electricity
£20 / month gas.

Always used a lot of electricity apparently, swear I'm getting ripped off though.
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Gas sounds like mine (gas heating and hot water).
However the electric is twice mine.
 
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