Do Gas meters go wrong?
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johnD you are not going to get a reply to your simple question by the looks of it.. 
giblets said:
No I don't think so, as all the pipes from the boiler run along the loft floor, down into the airing cupboard, & under the upstairs floorboards to the downstairs shower room or bathroom or the kitchen. So if there was a leak it would show up on the downstairs ceilings.
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Have you upset him in a past life. simple courtesy of yes or no from him should not be that much trouble
JohnD said:Go on, tell me if the meter readings are Actual or Estimated
the readings are 1st reading is Actual, 2nd Reading is Estimated (it's about right) & last Reading is Actual.
1st Reading was 00437, 2nd Reading was 00528, Last Reading (29/08/07) was 03424, & Todays (11/09/07) Actual Reading is 03442. The Bill is for the period 23 Apr 07 to 29 Aug 07 & is for about £700.
Very odd.
Do you have a room stat, and was the boiler definitely not trying to heat the rads? Are the electric valves working so there is no circulation through the heating pipes when you are running hot water only (give then a feel) You would lose a fair bit of heat through all that pipework, but the timer and stat should have left them unheated. As they are in the loft they need the extra-thick climaflex (thick as your arm)
Is the hot cylinder thickly insulated?
I see you have a Potterton Profile 50e, i didn't know they could be sealed. i believe it has quite a lot of iron in it so if it was keeping itself hot it would use a certain amount of gas; though the timer should prevent it. Looks like you have the boiler stat turned very high.
Pity it's in the loft as I imagine you would not be aware if it was running, they're not very noisy despite the fan.
Have you had the gas pipework pressure-tested for leaks?
OOI my mother has a Profile 100e (similar but bigger than yours) , gravity DHW, so less efficient than yours, running all day, room stat set to 20C so not used much outside winter, her gas usage 5 May to 26 Aug was 254 units/8020kWh costing £204. In winter it is about £120/month (large house) so you have got some kind of problem. Try timing the meter when the boiler is running to see what the usage is; then again with the boiler turned off at the FCU
I hope they're not charging you for a cu.ft meter as if it was cu. metres.
Do you have a room stat, and was the boiler definitely not trying to heat the rads? Are the electric valves working so there is no circulation through the heating pipes when you are running hot water only (give then a feel) You would lose a fair bit of heat through all that pipework, but the timer and stat should have left them unheated. As they are in the loft they need the extra-thick climaflex (thick as your arm)
Is the hot cylinder thickly insulated?
I see you have a Potterton Profile 50e, i didn't know they could be sealed. i believe it has quite a lot of iron in it so if it was keeping itself hot it would use a certain amount of gas; though the timer should prevent it. Looks like you have the boiler stat turned very high.
Pity it's in the loft as I imagine you would not be aware if it was running, they're not very noisy despite the fan.
Have you had the gas pipework pressure-tested for leaks?
OOI my mother has a Profile 100e (similar but bigger than yours) , gravity DHW, so less efficient than yours, running all day, room stat set to 20C so not used much outside winter, her gas usage 5 May to 26 Aug was 254 units/8020kWh costing £204. In winter it is about £120/month (large house) so you have got some kind of problem. Try timing the meter when the boiler is running to see what the usage is; then again with the boiler turned off at the FCU
I hope they're not charging you for a cu.ft meter as if it was cu. metres.
mdbalson said:
How do you know that the FIRST reading is correct?
Did you check it when you moved in?
Its very common for people leaving to give an understated reading so they pay less ( and you pay more! )
Was the FIRST reading really by the meter reader and not the previous people?
In most areas you only get a meter reader once a year.
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Why is there such a large difference between reading 2 (00528) and reading 3 (03424). This equates to 2896 units used between those 2 readings. The difference between reading 1 and 2 is only 91 units and between reading 3 and 4 is only 18 units.
You really need to understand why you've used 2896 units is such a short space of time, and also why this is vastly different to the units used in other periods.
Give us the readings again and the dates they were taken.
Can you tabulate the readings and their dates please. Ideally then work out the daily usage between the readings.
Thats a VERY high consumption but it seemed stable both before and after the high usage dates.
Clearly something unusual has happened. Have you been away or on holiday and has anyone else been in charge? Have you had any hot water leaks or left a hot tap on you weeks at a time or had hot water leaking through a washing machine?
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Thats a VERY high consumption but it seemed stable both before and after the high usage dates.
Clearly something unusual has happened. Have you been away or on holiday and has anyone else been in charge? Have you had any hot water leaks or left a hot tap on you weeks at a time or had hot water leaking through a washing machine?
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