Elecricity Bill

kilvano said:
I have a 2 bed flat in glasgow. Its small and only has 1 person living it.

I have been paying back an overdue bill for the pas 5 months. In total ive paid around 900GBP.

Ive just recieved a bill stating that i still owe them 700GBP. WHAT!

Anyone willing to tell me what their bills are like?
Are these too high?

I have a PC, fidge, cooker, lights...i have a tumble dryer and a dishwasher but dont use them regularly.
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That's ridiculous. I have a 4 bed house with 2 fridges, 2 freezers and all the other things you have mentioned and I pay £300 a year for electricity. I take it the heating in your place is gas?
 
Your next door neighbour is clearly running a weed factory in their house, and stealing your electricity.

You say the flats in glasgow.... makes sense to me!
 
You could report them to Energy Watch for not providing meter reads throughout the year.

They are supposed to (by some legislation) provide an accurate meter reading at least once every 3 months.

You will probably not get anything credited if it is actually power used by yourselves but at least it will give you more time to get the payments to them in smaller amounts.

Edit: Reading some of the FAQ, you are in fact entitled to only pay for the past 2 years if there has never been an accurate read in that time.
 
Past three quarters.

£80, £100, £120.

2 Bedroom flat in Manchester with PC, TV's etc.

That's Gas & Electricity. Although we don't have gas... :p
 
Probably someone is nicking your supply.

Bedsits are notorious for it in Glasgow, everyone there seems to be a qualified leccy.

For comparison i'm paying 95 € per month (76 quid) for leccy which does everything apart from my central heating. So water, and cooking + sockets and lights.

3 bedroom detatched villa
 
Wiggins said:
You could report them to Energy Watch for not providing meter reads throughout the year.

They are supposed to (by some legislation) provide an accurate meter reading at least once every 3 months.

You will probably not get anything credited if it is actually power used by yourselves but at least it will give you more time to get the payments to them in smaller amounts.

Edit: Reading some of the FAQ, you are in fact entitled to only pay for the past 2 years if there has never been an accurate read in that time.
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it changed to 1 year
 
Don't pay it, something MUST be wrong.

£1600 at say 10p per kwh is 16,000 kWh, thats considerably more than the average domestic annual useage in 5 months! Its enough that you could run your electric shower CONSTANTLY for 2.5 months! Either your meter is broken, you leave electric heating on in every room, every day, or you have a drug lab!

Definatly get them to come check it, its just not that possible.
 
You can request a 7 day check, basically take the reading every single day for 1 week. They then calculate what your monthly cost. I got stung by a £500 bill and did a 7 day reading which came out at about 80 quid.
 
I live in a 2 bedroom house, nothing is on during the day apart from my pc, at night a tlly a light and my pc is on and my new meter is churning around £5 every 2 days. Im starting to get a little miffed as i know im not using that much electric but its a new meter so surely it cant be ****** can it?

Prices are through the roof at the minute, its ridiculous.

EDIT* make sure the surrounding flats arnt wired to your meter without you knowing :D

Edit again, just so i know im not making a mistake, i have had a brand new meter in for 2 weeks to the day, this meter should start at 0 yes?
it says i have used 332.76kwh at a rate of 10.65p pkwh how much have i spent on electric?
 
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