I live in a small one bedroom ground floor flat which I bought years ago. I had central heating installed about 2 months ago, 4 rads and a heated towel rail and a Vaillant 831. I'm still on a pre-paid meter with british gas but intend to switch to direct debit. Anyway, with only a few hours of heating a day at 21c and only one rad and the heated rail on, I'm seeing £30 go about every 10 days! £90 a month, it's ridiculous. I put another £30 in last night using 3 rads and have used £4 of that already.
British gas told me on the phone yesterday that pre-paid is not more expensive than direct debit anymore, but surely that can't be right because these costs seem unreasonable for just 2 or 3 rads. I'm wondering, I use a wireless Salus RT500RF to control when the heating is on and off but is it possible that the combi boiler is still running my gas down (not including hot water) even while the heating is off by the thermostat controller and should I be turning something off on the boiler itself to conserve more gas?
British gas told me on the phone yesterday that pre-paid is not more expensive than direct debit anymore, but surely that can't be right because these costs seem unreasonable for just 2 or 3 rads. I'm wondering, I use a wireless Salus RT500RF to control when the heating is on and off but is it possible that the combi boiler is still running my gas down (not including hot water) even while the heating is off by the thermostat controller and should I be turning something off on the boiler itself to conserve more gas?