Just moved in

[ACOperson]

Yes, its usually only that bad on 'permanently on' DHW though (i.e no motorised valve controlling water).

 

[gasmarkone]

Loads of speculation here. I'm interested in that naughty gas meter whizzing round. I wonder if it's a metric E6 meter. They're very naughty meters, it has been known them to show gas consumption even though nothing is running, happened to me. This is just speculation, but £100 a week, forget the sludge/pump/balancing, switch it off!!! No holiday this year otherwise.

Mark

Milk, no sugar ta.

 

[lor]

i think Chrisr 1 profplumb 0

 

[ACOperson]

Erm, I would check the dates on the bill. Even if the boiler was running day and night, providing its a domestic boiler, a bill of £300 is impossible.

The person said that they had just moved in, so I'd expect that they're paying for someone elses gas

Besides, even if it is using £100 per week of G20, thats still not the reason for no heat downstairs...

 

[Litherbeth]

Thanks everyone for your help. I am getting heat downstairs, with or without the hot water being on. It just takes forever to heat up and then when it does, it doesn't belt out the heat like upstairs.

What I have done is leave it on constant and see if that makes any difference. It seems to have certainly warmed up. So why would it take nearly two hours for the rads downstairs to heat up from cold? If it was sludge, would they not heat up at all?

I am interested in what you say about the meter. It looks like at old one with dials on it. I have tried BG who have been (sorry to those who work there) an absolute jobsworth. In the end I have decided to abandon ship and jump to Seeboard. (frying pan into the fire, I hear you say!). As I am now leaving them, they will not come out and test the meter. Seeboard, as they do not have us yet, will also not come out and test the meter, until we are with them for about a month. In the meantime we have now used over 600 units in less than 3 months. I am scared to leave the heating on. Our bill will be horrendous. If it were £300 for about 300 units and it is still whizzing round - we are looking at a bill of about £700 for a quarter.

 

[Litherbeth]

PS: it's an UGI meter 1987 - grey with dials not digital if that helps?

 

[croydoncorgi]

Are you absolutely, positively certain that you're not being metered in cubic feet and billed in cubic metres?

(This is nothing to do with why the heating is dodgy.)

 

[Litherbeth]

Thanks. I really don't know for sure. All it says on the billl is 427 units = 13379 kWh which equals £298.55 inc VAT.

 

[Litherbeth]

You may well have hit on it there! It would explain the excessive bill. I have just spoken with Seeboard who have also suggested that it is a metric meter and could be being charged by imperial. Thank you so much for that. The heating still isn't great but I find if I leave it on low constantly it keep the rads hot downstairs. It's when it has to start from scratch that it takes forever to heat the downstairs rads.