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we have a small semi but our electric company seems to think we live in windsor castle ! nearly 2000 for 8 months and we basically only use one room ! we have of course complained and they say this is the correct bill. i think the travellers nearby have tapped into our source ! seriously is this average. sorry not horse related but i wanted electric at our stables but now think its unaffordable.
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Good god thats not right! I live in a 3 bed end of terrace and there is often someone here all day and all evening and we pay £95 per month for gas and electric. Do you have electric heating and water?
 
My god, you are right something is wrong there!
We (a family of 4) live in a rather large 3 bed, and i have the stables electric run off the house too and i have lights everywhere down there (all be it energy bulbs
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) and we pay £40 per month and are always in credit and getting money back about twice a year it's great!
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I would certainly get it checked out!
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Kate x
 
You need to check if they have read the meter or are they just sending estimates, take your own readings and ring them... if someone has tapped into your supply it would have to be after the meter so this is unlikley unless someone has conected up to a outside point like a shed or other outbuilding...
 
It appears that you are being vastly overcharged. You need to check that your readings have been taken correctly. There may also be a problem with your meter which may need replacing. I remember BBC Watchdog doing a programme on this a long time ago, you appear to have the same problem.
 
I think you can get a free electricity check from many electricity boards - they come and check your wiring doesn't need re-wiring etc. Might be worth asking them to come out - they could soon tell you where the electricity is going.

One thing you could do is work out which fuses in your fuse box control which parts of your house, and see if electricity is disappearing when everything is off. Do it when dark with a torch. You could turn everything off, turn off the power and then add in one fuse at a time and watch to see which fuse makes the electricity meter wizz round - if there is, remove it permanently as that would stop interlopers draining it!, also add in different appliances - you could have one using more than it should - we were bored at work one day and discovered the photocopier toook HEAPS of power
 
My stables run off the house supply. I have a constant feed to our sewage system which runs a pump 24/7. We have electric cooking and showers but Oil CH. My electric bills average at £160/quarter.

We had this discussion in the pub the other day, some of my friends pay £150 a month DD for their electric which I think is mental.
 
I pay for my electric as I use it (prepayment meter) and average £15 a week through the winter with the lights and tumble dryer being used more which works out to roughly £180 a quarter

Get the electricity board out to check your meter. Have you compared readings with them?
 
I'm definitely being ripped off by Southern Electric.

OH and I live in a studio flat - one small room which functions as both bedroom and living room, a 9 foot by 5 foot kitchen and tiny bathroom.

My electric bill went up suddenly about 6 months ago from £55 a month (and I was always in credit) to £119 a month. I queried this with Southern Electric but they had the cheek to tell me that they'd actually increased their prices a year previously and that part of the increased amount was a year's back payment and the rest was the increase applied as it would be normally and ongoing.

I know we're all familiar with electricity price increases from the media and that - but I had received no formal notification whatsoever from Southern Electric warning me of when their price increases had/would take place, and neither was I ever advised by how much.

So of course it came as a bit of a shock. I argued with them till I was blue in the face, but got absolutely nowhere. I really do feel I was taken for a fool by Southern Electric, who must have got away with this with so many other people too.

(And yes, I am definitely looking into finding an alternative supplier!)

How would you like to pay £119/month electricity for a studio flat? And it's not even as if we've got the space to have/run expensive appliances like tumble dryers etc.
 
Go onto 'u switch' - I have just saved £70 per month for ours as our bill nearly doubled overnight.
(We currently pay £130 per month 2 run a 4 bed farm plus supply to livery yard).
Hope that helps!
 
thank you for all your replies. during a phone call months back to the electric people they said we had a surge of elctricity used at 2 in the morning !!!! we have nothing on at that time to cause that. anyway the meter was very old so they changed it and then gave me an update a while later telling me it was registering the same ! i really am at my wits end . my last house was twice the size and used hardly any compared to this. its just weird.
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