Check your meters folks.
This week we had our first electricity bill from ScottishPower, and my God it was scary… Our quarterly bill was in excess of £600!! Now, due to our problems George Wimpey have offered to pay our bill, as they’re using a lot of power coming in and sorting out all the issues, but still, that’s a HUGE amount and didn’t bode well for the future when we’ll be picking up the tab.
Checking the bill, the reading was an “actual” reading, as opposed to estimate, so it wasn’t looking good. Picking myself off the ground I ventured outside to double check our meter, and it turned out it was about 4,000 kilowatts less than the “actual” reading on the bill.
A quick (and it was quick, hats off to ScottishPower in answering the phones rapidly) phone call later and an amended bill, reduced by nearly £500, is on its way to us as I type. Thank heavens.
Just goes to show it’s worth double checking your meter readings, even if they claim to be “actual” figures. I thought with all the energy saving features, bulbs, appliances etc the bills shouldn’t be too painful, hopefully when the builders move out things will improve further.
