400 units of electric in 1 week?

adamtj09 · 26-09-2013 11:34AM #1

Hi recently moved house. Our new house is using ESB, however we were shocked to find that in one week the meter had increased by over 400 units! Surely that cannot be right. We haven't had heating on, water tank has only been on periodically and electric shower has maybe been on for a total amount of 1 hour. Other normal applicances like tv etc have been on but surely that wouldn't use 400 units either! Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

vicwatson · 26-09-2013 11:42AM

adamtj09 wrote: »

Hi recently moved house. Our new house is using ESB, however we were shocked to find that in one week the meter had increased by over 400 units! Surely that cannot be right. We haven't had heating on, water tank has only been on periodically and electric shower has maybe been on for a total amount of 1 hour. Other normal applicances like tv etc have been on but surely that wouldn't use 400 units either! Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

:eek: surely not 440 units in one week, my use is about 4500 units per annum

Hoagy · 26-09-2013 11:46AM

That doesn't sound correct. Are you sure you're reading the meter correctly? The last digit is a decimal and you ignore it.

I'm a fairly heavy user with a garden office going all day with electric heat etc and we use about 150 units a week.

byronbay2 · 26-09-2013 11:47AM

You sure there isn't a cannabis growhouse in your attic??

adamtj09 · 26-09-2013 11:49AM

vicwatson wrote: »

:eek: surely not 440 units in one week, my use is about 4500 units per annum

It has gone from 119606 to 120034 in just over a week. Really strange!

LeinsterDub · 26-09-2013 11:51AM

adamtj09 wrote: »

It has gone from 119606 to 120034 in just over a week. Really strange!

So 43 units?

adamtj09 · 26-09-2013 11:51AM

Hoagy wrote: »

That doesn't sound correct. Are you sure you're reading the meter correctly? The last digit is a decimal and you ignore it.

I'm a fairly heavy user with a garden office going all day with electric heat etc and we use about 150 units a week.

That could be it.. are all meters this way?

Hoagy · 26-09-2013 11:54AM

Yep.

adamtj09 · 26-09-2013 12:06PM

Hoagy wrote: »

Yep.

That is it, so it was 40 units not 400 panic over!!!

brightspark · 26-09-2013 06:50PM

https://www.esb.ie/esbnetworks/en/downloads/ESB-Estimated-Meter-Reading.pdf

Instructions on how to read your meter.

400 units of electric in 1 week?

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