Gas blog

I've always thought this house was very efficient, thermally. Gas bills
have been very low compared to my place in Cardiff.

It seems SWALEC have made a huge **** up. We've always had to dispute the
meter reading whenever one of their meter readers called. Seems the meter
no. on their PDA never matched the actual meter.

Anyway, they were sending bills out assuming we have a newish metric meter
[1] when we have an older imperial meter[2]. Hence they have been charging
us 34.6% of the actual cost of the gas since August 2002.

It seems they eventually twigged and sent a competent person out to check
the meter. The latest bill has the correct meter no. and multiplies the
units by 2.83 to get cubic meters. Fuckers backdated it to last October,
presumably when they did the audit, and I'm now paying the actual cost of
the gas.

I haven't had any letters asking for the arrears so hopefully they have
taken the hit for that as it was their **** up.

[1] 1 cubic meter per unit
[2] 100 cubic feet per unit

 

They might try to bill you, as I'm utterly certain it's been tried
before in exactly those circumstances - I mean, you did use it, after
all.
Sleep well and don't worry about the massive bill.

 

I had this on one of my rental places a few years back. Rough rule of
thumb is if it's cubic ft multiply the units by 36 to get kwh. If
cubic metres times units by 11. My bills were fucking huge. Only found
the cause when I went through very old bills and saw the different
correction factors.

 

Time to start fiddling the meter.
<looks for 0.25mm drills>