Gas & Lecy.. WTF

[krazylegz]

Southern Electric... I'm hoping there's a mistake..

Must be those mate as they wanted over ?800 for gas and over ?600 electric off me, rang them up to rant and say it's got to be a mistake, they more or less told me that was the bill and no mistakes, so I told em to p**s off for the money and they'll have to take me court for it

[gmb45]

Just had my quarterly bills in..

Gas ?365
Electricity ?317

WTF.. Surely there must be a mistake...??

sounds a lot to me m8, i pay ?40 a month gas and same leccy, so ?240 for both a quarter with eon, and im ahead with that, there is only me and the fat en tho.

[chucklor]

What about my gas bill for the quater ?587.45, and that is the actual reading and so was the one before so it is correct, I think one of my neighbours are tapped into supply and to top it all I was away for 10 days over christmas and the gas was off!!!

[opsmonkey]

The first reading was (E).. rang em up, kicked off..

signed up with Scottish Power, ?700 a year cheaper...

[ITS A SCAM !]

I use Eon online tarrif...pay ?80 a month and there is 4 people in our house. Also one of these people is a 22 year old girl !! And we all know how much bathing etc these young ones need.

[Canker_Canison]

Just to explain how the DD payments are calculated & why looking at your payments to winter usage doesn't add up.

If you are paying ?40 per month for each, ?80 combined, you will be using ?480 on each over the year...?960 total.

But through the summer months you use a lot less gas & elec than through the winter months. So by the end of the summer you should have a large credit to help pay the higher winter usage.

Add to this any rewards for paying by DD. In the past this was never factored into the payments. But I know that npower did start to deduct the ?60 DD reward from the total expected usage from the elec account. This would make your elec payments ?35 instead of the original ?40.

The idea behind balancing over the year is to reduce any chance of a large bill at the end of the year. But price rises & changes in usage can totally ~~~~ this up. Most providers review accounts twice a year, but it's always best to check up yourself.

[MetalKettle]

You might want to ring them and ask what meter they think you have. There have been mistakes recently with people / billing software getting imperial and metric meters mixed up. and so the readings are incorrect.

Source : work for a lecy and gas distributor.

[opsmonkey]

just noticed that my bill says:

Meter: 00935300

Gas Meter Advance 1090(e) 1425 - Units 335

335 units x factor 100 x correction factor 1.02264 = 34258.44

34258.44 x conversion factor 0.0283 = 969.51

969.51 cu meters x calorific value 39.2 / conversion factor 3.6 = 10556.88kWh

my meter is in cubic feet.. do the above calcs sound right..??

also from 1 Dec 10 to 1 Feb 11 it says i used 6855.88 kWh.. that seems a lot..??

Cheers

[Meat-Head]

Source : work for a lecy and gas distributor.

Say mate, if we come to the bottom of this thread with a couple of buckets, can you fill them with electric and gas?

says i used 6855.88 kWh.. that seems a lot..??

Cheers

Meant to read mine, keep forgetting.

Run your heating for 1 hour only - take note of reading, then think, say 3 hours a night everynight for last 6 months, pick the bones out yourself.

[opsmonkey]

6 months..?

A quarter is 4

[Grizz]

i thought a quarter was 3.

[opsmonkey]

Err yeah it is.. Ooops