Just wondering what is the daily average for gas usage on a typical 4 bedroom house.
We’ve just had our gas bill through and the cost is a lot more than normal and nothing has changed since last winter. The worst bill we ever had after 5 years in this house over winter was £130 per quarter. The central heating comes on at 5am and stays on till 10 pm and the hall stat is set at 19-20*c. The gas usage in our house is mainly for the CH and hot water. The hot water comes on twice a day for 2 hours in the morning and in the evening. We don’t really use the gas hob to do any cooking as well. The system is serviced every year as well and the house is 5 years old. The boiler is a glow-worm ultimate 50FF.
Anyway we spoke to British Gas and they’ve asked us to take meter readings every day for 7 days which we have done. The meter readings show that we are using 10 units (28.3 cubic metres) per day at 20*c on the hall stat and 7-8 units (19.81-22.63 cubic metres) per day at 17*c on the hall stat. Is this too much usage.
Our parents usage is 4 units per day and their house is a direct copy of ours but has slightly larger rooms. They have their heating on all day set to 24*c at day and 21*c over night with the gas fire on sometimes and also lots of cooking. It doesn’t seem to add up. We took meter readings in the summer and all we used was the hot water part of the system set on twice a day and that used 1 unit (2.83 cubic meters) per day.
Can anyone say is this way too much usage before we get back to British Gas.
Any help or advice would be great.
We’ve just had our gas bill through and the cost is a lot more than normal and nothing has changed since last winter. The worst bill we ever had after 5 years in this house over winter was £130 per quarter. The central heating comes on at 5am and stays on till 10 pm and the hall stat is set at 19-20*c. The gas usage in our house is mainly for the CH and hot water. The hot water comes on twice a day for 2 hours in the morning and in the evening. We don’t really use the gas hob to do any cooking as well. The system is serviced every year as well and the house is 5 years old. The boiler is a glow-worm ultimate 50FF.
Anyway we spoke to British Gas and they’ve asked us to take meter readings every day for 7 days which we have done. The meter readings show that we are using 10 units (28.3 cubic metres) per day at 20*c on the hall stat and 7-8 units (19.81-22.63 cubic metres) per day at 17*c on the hall stat. Is this too much usage.
Our parents usage is 4 units per day and their house is a direct copy of ours but has slightly larger rooms. They have their heating on all day set to 24*c at day and 21*c over night with the gas fire on sometimes and also lots of cooking. It doesn’t seem to add up. We took meter readings in the summer and all we used was the hot water part of the system set on twice a day and that used 1 unit (2.83 cubic meters) per day.
Can anyone say is this way too much usage before we get back to British Gas.
Any help or advice would be great.