Whats your Quarterly/Monthly Leccy Bill?

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I'm just wondering what type of house (no. bedrooms etc) and how much people pay for the leccy a month or quarterly is.

Just had a rather unpleasant letter from Swalec saying that our bill for the last three months (Nov-Jan) has been more than expected.

Our bill for over a year now has been around £30 per month and we pay monthly £55 DD per month just to be sure. That's £90 for three months and we pay £165 over those three months... We'll get the credit back when we move Leccy suppliers or move out of our flat (as I understand it).

A nice surprise when we opened the letter and it said...
"You paid: £165"
"Your bill: £600"

:-/

We have a one bedroom flat, the lounge/kitchen/dining room are pretty much all one room. What the heck do they think we've got running in our flat to use £200's worth of electricity a month?

We've bought nothing new and have been in the flat no more than usual and in my mind used no more leccy than usual.

I hope you guys can put my mind at ease and that £200 a month for a one bedroom flat is insane for electricity. Heck when I lived with my mum I'm sure we only used around £300(ish) a quarter and thats a 3 bedroom house!
 
Might be a mistake?

Check your meter readings from when you moved in and any meter readings (as opposed to estimates) that you have on your bills. I hate leccy and gas bills personally, even with a Cambridge degree it hurts my brain trying to work out how they calculate the prices :p
 
Old barn conversion, 2 bedrooms, large open-plan kitchen-living room.
A few devices constantly on or on standby, (Modem, access point, printer, wireless music station, tv, sky, and PS3)
£130 a quarter.

I'm guessing you have been "read" at some point, and now they're recouping used leccy from their previous "estimates"
 
Yeah sure, I'll be desputing it. My other half has actually just nipped home to check past bills and meter readings. (We usually take note of our meter every few months).

I'd say 8 or 9 times out of 10 their estimated bills are on target. (Usually maybe 2 or 3 units out). Apparently this has come from an actual reading.

I'm just hoping I'm not going off the rails thinking £600 for three months is nuts (I know it is, but just want to put it into perspective against similar/larger premises).

Will be phoning after work tonight :)
 
Gotta be a mistake.

We are in a 2 bed semi, 2 PC's, telly is on all day (kids), and our 3month bill was ~£150.

EDIT - If it has come from an actual reading, and the last few bills you've paid have all been estimates, it might very well be that they've been estimating lower than you've actually been using, and now you owe back dated monies.
 
I pay £90 per month for Gas and Electric.

4 bedroom house with me the wife and 3 kids in it.

TV on most of the day, washing machine going a lot, PC's and Xbox on a lot of the time and a ceramic heating system for my snake on 24/7
 
Do you have electric heating or hot water and it was accidentally left on or something?
If the reading on the bill match your meter then it's correct.

Hopefully they just wrote a '2' and it looked like a '7' or something.
 
I've just got off the phone to my other half.

Just checked the last bill and it was £81.61 for Aug - Oct 07

Oct 07 - Jan 08 is £557.66

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)

Something is mad here.

We do have electric storage heaters, but they're never on and are never used. I think we've maybe used them twice since we've lived here, realised they were terrible and didn't use them. We also have the advantage of living on the top floor so we get the heat from the flats below us :)

We have a small electric boiler for hot water, but it doesn't work correctly (boils for say 2 hours for 10 seconds of hot water). So this is left on all the time and has been since we've lived there and hasn't ever increased the bill dramatically... it could be this, but I'm not 100% sure, logically it would have pushed our bills up before??

It's something I've been trying to get our landlord/letting agents fixed for a long while now :rolleyes:

If it turns out to be that then I hope I can get them to foot the bill.
 
HeX said:
EDIT - If it has come from an actual reading, and the last few bills you've paid have all been estimates, it might very well be that they've been estimating lower than you've actually been using, and now you owe back dated monies.
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Hi Hex, we did think this.

I've just checked my last three bills online.

This months is an actual reading, the previous bill is an estimate, the one before that is an actual reading again.

So unless they got the last one drastically wrong, I can't really see it happening.

I hate estimated bills... why can't I estimate I owe them nothing at all? :p
 
4 Bed House, usual things with 3 people living here. Last bill was £2367 for 3months.

After questioning this it turned out the guy read the meter wrong and our bill was actually £167.
 
=walls= said:
Was the previous reading an estimated reading, or did someone come round and check. I've been caught on that one before
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Hi ==walls==, the last bill was an estimate. However we check our own meter when we get our bills and use Swalec's "Submit Your Meter Reading Online" facility in our account for when you get an estimated bill.

From memory their estimates weren't that far off last time.
 
Ukadder said:
4 Bed House, usual things with 3 people living here. Last bill was £2367 for 3months.

After questioning this it turned out the guy read the meter wrong and our bill was actually £167.
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That's given me hope, the unfortunate thing for us is that the meter is correct :(

I just can't see whats happened, unless there is a fault with the meter... but then how does one go about proving that?

This really couldn't have come at a worse time for us... my other half is without work (as I mentioned in my previous thread about holiday pay and such) and has no more money coming in for at least a month and I'm paying all the bills myself. My pay isn't very much even though I do have a good job, and it's probably just enough to pay all the bills on my own... this whopper has come along and really put a dent in our plans.
 
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