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400 units of electric in 1 week?

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  • 26-09-2013 11:34am
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    adamtj09
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭


    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.


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    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    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


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    Hoagy
    Registered Users Posts: 708 ✭✭✭Hoagy


    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.


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    byronbay2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


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


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    adamtj09
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭adamtj09


    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!


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    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    adamtj09 wrote: »
    It has gone from 119606 to 120034 in just over a week. Really strange!

    So 43 units?


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    adamtj09
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭adamtj09


    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?


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    Hoagy
    Registered Users Posts: 708 ✭✭✭Hoagy


    Yep.


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    adamtj09
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭adamtj09


    Hoagy wrote: »
    Yep.

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


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    brightspark
    Registered Users Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭brightspark


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

    Instructions on how to read your meter.


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