Gas meter

[puzzled2403]

Our gas meter ticks round, albeit slowly, even if no gas is being used. This doesn't strike me as right. I have noticed since our meter was changed our gas bills have been higher. Does a meter naturally tick round even if no gas is being used or are we being conned here?

[Robinia]

Do you mean constantly or do you notice it's moved now & then? Do you have a combi-boiler with a hot water reservoir that re-heats occasionally?

[puzzled2403]

no, it constantly seems to be on the move, even when we are not using any gas. Our heating is turned off and the only other reason we use the gas is the gas hob, our boiler doesn't heat the water.

[full-throttl]

surely you have a pilot lite on the boiler which is on constantly.

[gasman]

If you do not have an appliance that use's a pilot light then you have a leak as the meter should be static when there is no appliance on !!!

[solly33]

My gas meter was changed last year.The gas is then read differently,not sure which way but it changes from an imperial metre to a metric metre.Br.Gas were charging me 4 times the rate.I could not get anyone to sort it out.Nobody could see that my gas bill was 4 times higher than usual.I paid by D.Debit and they took �125.from my a/c I usually paid �30 per month.I was almost having a nervous breakdown because I could not get through to a someone with a bit of common sense.My friend suggested Age Concern.(I am OAP) those lovely people got it sorted in days.So back to your ??? check that they are not reading metric but charging imperial. Hope this makes sense.

[donella]

hi, i read this with interest as I'm having the same problem, i found that due to my quarterly bill of nearly �121 (to heat a one bed flat) i could not afford to use the heating so I've been using electric to heat the water and jumpers to keep warm, then i found that it cost �31 a quarter just to have the pilot light on, so i switched that off too, i got my bill in this week.........its �22..... somehow the meter has clocked 45 units even though all gas appliances are switched off at the pilot light, i have now turned the handle off at the mains to see if the meter still keeps counting, in the mean time I'm not sure how I'm going to convince anyone that i didn't use the gas, think its going to have to be a watchdog investigation,

[donella]

interestingly, although I'm now using the electric more, my bill for that is only �10!!!!!