Hi. We've moved in to a new house pretty much exactly 30 days ago.
I had my own semi before, and girlfriend had her own mid-terrace. We're now in a detached cottagey thing in Kelsall.
At my house previously, my electric was around £35 - £40 per month and gas was the same.
At my girlfriends, it was somewhere around the same.
This new house is oil and woodburner heated.
The first month's electricity is coming in at 600kWh, which is approx £95.
There's only two of us here! The only thing that's new that we've never had before is a dishwasher. We both had washer-driers before, and my cooker/hob was all electric. I used to run some big IR heaters when spray painting at mine, and had the air compressor running sometimes, and used an electric heater in my conservatory 'office' when it was cold. We haven't done any of those things here in this new house yet.. only been here a month, still figuring out where to put things.
There are outbuildings and things here, in total there are three consumer units. One for the house as original, one for an extension to the house/kitchen, and another small one in the garage. I'm just wondering if there's something fishy going on the meter is faulty or something. Does that ever happen?
Unlike my old spinning-disk meter, where I could actually observe how much it was spinning, this one is digital. There's a '500 p/kWh' red LED on there.. Is that supposed to blink once per half-kWh used or something? It would be nice to see if switching things off makes an obvious difference.
All the showers are non-electric fed by the oil-fired boiler too, so it's not that either.
I had my own semi before, and girlfriend had her own mid-terrace. We're now in a detached cottagey thing in Kelsall.
At my house previously, my electric was around £35 - £40 per month and gas was the same.
At my girlfriends, it was somewhere around the same.
This new house is oil and woodburner heated.
The first month's electricity is coming in at 600kWh, which is approx £95.
There's only two of us here! The only thing that's new that we've never had before is a dishwasher. We both had washer-driers before, and my cooker/hob was all electric. I used to run some big IR heaters when spray painting at mine, and had the air compressor running sometimes, and used an electric heater in my conservatory 'office' when it was cold. We haven't done any of those things here in this new house yet.. only been here a month, still figuring out where to put things.
There are outbuildings and things here, in total there are three consumer units. One for the house as original, one for an extension to the house/kitchen, and another small one in the garage. I'm just wondering if there's something fishy going on the meter is faulty or something. Does that ever happen?
Unlike my old spinning-disk meter, where I could actually observe how much it was spinning, this one is digital. There's a '500 p/kWh' red LED on there.. Is that supposed to blink once per half-kWh used or something? It would be nice to see if switching things off makes an obvious difference.
All the showers are non-electric fed by the oil-fired boiler too, so it's not that either.