I have just moved into a new house and my monthly utility bills are through the roof!! In my old house I used to pay £30 a month each on the gas and the electric.
My new house is costing a whopping £100 each. The house is slightly larger so there are more radiators but to be fair I have turned off the radiators in the attic conversion as we don't use that room and the heating is on a timer. It comes on 1st thing in the morning before I get up and goes off when I leave for work and comes back on at 5 until 8 in the evening.
Does anyone have any ideas? I have contacted N Power and they say based on the readings the bill is correct. The radiators appear to be fairly new although the pipework looks like it could be the original stuff as it is behind the walls. The boiler is a back boiler and as it is behind the fireplace I have no idea on its age.
Does anyone know of a company in Bristol that can come and check your energy efficiency?
2007-02-21 20:41:11 · 6 answers · asked by Chrissy 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
The house is double glazed throughout, we switch lights off when we leave the room.
2007-02-21 22:12:07 · update #1
Not quite the answer to your question but if you've bought the house, then at that rate of spending it may be worth you paying to change the boiler anyway. Certainly, getting a few people in to quote for that may give you an idea of the current state of affairs and you don't have to accept the quotes!
How good is the house insulation? Are the roof and walls insulated? Are the windows better or worse than your previous house? Do you have more window area than before? Are your doors draught proofed? Are your light bulbs energy efficient?
2007-02-21 20:48:21 · answer #1 · answered by nikki 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the insualtion and age of the boiler. We had a loft conversion and extension built last year which increased the size of the house.
At the same time we improved the overall insualtion by putting a new roof on and had cavity wall insulation done. We also had a new more efficient boiler.
This has made the house much easier to warm and keep warm, thus resulting in lower bills.
2007-02-21 20:56:45 · answer #2 · answered by Mark J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same thng has happened to us. we are with gas and had a whopping bill after the first quarter of us moving in. We paid without question but now we have received a bill for £1467.42 for the months of nov - jan and we didn't even have our radiators on due to the last bill, the only gas we would of used would of been our water. We phoned them up and asked them to come round and check the metre explaining that our heating hadn't been on (we've been using electric fans as our electric bills are quite low) they said that the metre was fine and so was the reading after having a huge row with them they are now checking to see if our neighbours bill (we live rural so only have one) is combined in ours, but they reckon it won't be and we are still liable to pay the bill.
2007-02-21 20:50:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the electricity side you should try switching everything off and seeing how much your meter goes up by. We have halved our electricity bill by turning off the little shower lights, the TV boaster, the TV and video at the wall, anything with a clock or a little light that we weren't using. We were gobsmacked by the difference.
Good luck
2007-02-21 20:50:05 · answer #4 · answered by ViksB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not get a Corgi registered engineer to check the system over? We did when we moved in to our new house and i'm glad we did as he condemned it when he had a proper look at it.
Go to uswitch.com to get the cheapest prices.
2007-02-21 21:07:01 · answer #5 · answered by richard_beckham2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-21 20:59:41 · answer #6 · answered by pnuk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋