OK so this is in California but I doubt that will have any relevance to the question.
Over the past 4 months our electric bill has increased by about £10-15 per month for no apparent reason, if anything it should have decreased as my job is seasonal and I'm out of the house more. And it is almost 50% higher than the same period last year.
We do not have air conditioning, we have not changed any habits nor installed anything new.
The electric company were concerned enough to come and check our meter and I believe they changed it (I was at work), despite claiming the original one was working fine. They are suggesting the cause is probably our electric water heater. It was manufactured in 2012, has an upper and lower element.
I requested that the landlord check it for us. Their maintenance guy showed up yesterday and simply put a multi tester across the terminals and told me the elements are fine but seemed unable to explain what he had actually measured. But that the heater isn't the problem.
Would measuring the resistance (for example), tell him if the elements are scaled up or should it have been drained down and them removed?
W.
Over the past 4 months our electric bill has increased by about £10-15 per month for no apparent reason, if anything it should have decreased as my job is seasonal and I'm out of the house more. And it is almost 50% higher than the same period last year.
We do not have air conditioning, we have not changed any habits nor installed anything new.
The electric company were concerned enough to come and check our meter and I believe they changed it (I was at work), despite claiming the original one was working fine. They are suggesting the cause is probably our electric water heater. It was manufactured in 2012, has an upper and lower element.
I requested that the landlord check it for us. Their maintenance guy showed up yesterday and simply put a multi tester across the terminals and told me the elements are fine but seemed unable to explain what he had actually measured. But that the heater isn't the problem.
Would measuring the resistance (for example), tell him if the elements are scaled up or should it have been drained down and them removed?
W.