Myself & my mum live in a 2 bedroom flat. Our energy provider is Scottish Power. We had a new meter installed at the beginning of december & in 3 months our energy bill is nearly £1100. Surely this cannot be correct?! There is only two of us, we are rarely in during the day & about 90% of electrical appliances are switched off at the socket. Our hot water heater has been broken for about a year and a half so we don’t even have any hot water so it’s not like the electricity is constantly heating the hot water supply. (We have an electric shower though, just incase you’re wondering) We’re at a loss what to do because surely we can’t be running up that amount of electricity in a 2 bedroom flat!
Has anyone ever had this issue with any other providers, or scottish power? What steps did you take to resolve this. & if you can tell me, if you have approx the same living conditions, how much do you pay per month?
Thankyou
The old and new meter readings are written on a sticker in the cupboard where the meter was.. the old is about 3400 & the new 34500.
I’ve actually just noticed it this morning.
& the meter reading is now about 46,000
may well be a mistake in the actual meter readings. You may have had an imperial meter before and now have a metric meter and the gas/electricity companies take the same reading regardless. Also don’t except an estimated reading, tell them the actual reading yourself. (I don’t know how these companies get away with ‘estimated readings’ could you ever imagine your boss saying ‘you’ve earnedd about x amount this month’?!?!) Is there a chance any one could be splicingelectricityy?
