£5,000 Electricity Bill!!!!!!

[Rileywoo]

Hi I am a new member. My daughter has just received a whopping bill for over £5,000. They are out from 7 am to 7 pm. Have only usual items i.e. fridge/freezer,t.v./oven/DVD player/surveillance camera. On monitoring her meter from 5 pm last night to 12. noon (bearing in mind they were in bed for 9 hours. the meter says 17 Kw have been used. Something is sadly wrong somewhere. Any advice please?

 

[Megavolt]

There not feeding the local skunk farm are they. Seriously tho the eletric meter is properly faulty. Get someone out to test it ASAP

 

[stef]

Is it an estimated bill? Who with? How long have they been with the supplier?

 

[ashrow]

Agreed, something not right get them out to replace meter

 

[loop3]

Tell em to **** off.

 

[UKMeterman]

Ok,
Can we have a photo of the meter, where the cables come into the house and the connections to the fusebox? Is it a digit meter or one with pointers. It is possiable to read the pointers incorrectly and cause a huge bill, if it is pointers please could you let us know what you think the photographed meter should read.
As you are a new member you won't be able to post photos here, use a flicker account or something similar to upload the photos and then let us know when done and where.

 

[ian.settle1]

Someone I worked with could not understand why his bill was so high, as he was on a brand new estate he asked the developer what was going on. It turned out that they had taken a supply from his DB to supply the site huts near to him.

 

[Darkwood]

No mention of heating for the premises ... what kind of heating ie storage heaters ??? mix these with yrs of estimated bills and you can see bills into the thousands when the meter is actually read.

 

[UKMeterman]

Or even worse than storage heaters, heated by panel heaters alone and lots of 50W halogen light bulbs...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

check to see if any cables snake off in the loft...through to next doors loft.....growers...lol

 

[ayjay]

thats ridiculous, we definatly need pics or perhaps a sparky in your area could have a look
i once worked at a small phone shop, his bills were £300- p/week yet he was only using a 2 kw blower heater &a few lights
it turned out that a shop large furnature shop next door was using his supply
the meter in his basement was very hot as was the board and 16mm tails!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Hi Rileywoo

Where are you (or the offending meter) based?

 

[Engineer54]

Yet another OP that comes here, asks a question and disappears. Can't be that worried about it can he, ...he posted 19/20 hours ago now!! lol!!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Should be up to £5500 by now

 

[ayjay]

perhaps he,s gone to pay the bill

 

[Adam W]

More likely gone to ask exactly the same question on another forum. Maybe he's already got the answer he's looking for.

 

[Richard]

I attended a fault lately where a 16mm2 SWA feeding a large garage was damaged but not severly enought to blow a 60A 1361. This fault resulted in 3KWish escaping to earth 24/7 equaling astronimical bill! Just a thought.

 

[jarmez]

mabey he sold his gear and payed the bill

 

[ayjay]

maybye the guys operating the cannibis farm next door have bumped him off

 

[Geordie Spark]

Hello and :welcome2:

(just bumping up my post count .......... 3000+ club, here I come!! )

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Hello and :welcome2:

(just bumping up my post count .......... 3000+ club, here I come!! )

LOL. I can't help but look at mine since that appeared. Only 500 and something to go.

 

[Floody]

or had a belt from messing with it

 

[Paul.M]

At £0.14 per Kw hour this property has use over 35,700 Kw and means they are using over 16 Kw per hour every hour! What the hell are they feeding? The factory next door???

 

[harrod58]

Ouch !! £5000!!!!

 

[Rockingit]

At £0.14 per Kw hour this property has use over 35,700 Kw and means they are using over 16 Kw per hour every hour! What the hell are they feeding? The factory next door???

That's what I thought, too. Sometimes we see these threads and it's fairly easy to predict something like an immersion heater etc, but THAT amount of power just doesn't compute. There HAS to be either an error in measurement or a DNO/construction level cabling fault.

If the OP is still reading this thread, go into Maplins and spend £20 on an AC CURRENT CLAMP METER. Put the jaws around either one of the cables that go FROM the meter into the fusebox, set the dial to 'A' (not mA) and tell us what the numbers are.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

That's what I thought, too. Sometimes we see these threads and it's fairly easy to predict something like an immersion heater etc, but THAT amount of power just doesn't compute. There HAS to be either an error in measurement or a DNO/construction level cabling fault.

If the OP is still reading this thread, go into Maplins and spend £20 on an AC CURRENT CLAMP METER. Put the jaws around either one of the cables that go FROM the meter into the fusebox, set the dial to 'A' (not mA) and tell us what the numbers are.

eh?....a `20 quid` current clamp with mA on it.......i`l have one please...

 

[Rockingit]

eh?....a `20 quid` current clamp with mA on it.......i`l have one please...

Can't be 100% sure, but pretty confident my last cheap 'drop in the mud' one was less than £30