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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blueskies" data-source="post: 560324" data-attributes="member: 38376"><p>Hi I am posting on behalf of my parents who are retired.  In September they had a new consumer unit fitted, a new cable for the power supply to the garage installed and a new gas boiler installed.   Since the work was completed their electricity usage has increased by about 500-600kWh per month.  They were low users before so this is a shock.  There are no immersion heaters or anything like that on the property.  We have bought a whole house energy monitor which is showing quite high usage through the day with a peak during the evenings.  They are just using a lamp and a tv in the evenings plus a fridge and freezer.   It is causing a huge amount of stress.  We are even considering if the new neighbours (it is a semi detached property) could be stealing the electricity.  There are also new neighbours on the other side.  I doubt this is the reason but we're going mad trying to figure it out. I don't know how to check if anyone else is stealing their supply.  Could it be a faulty wire somewhere?  The evening peak suggests its related to heating as they tend to put the heating on during the evening.   But its a gas boiler so that idea may be daft.  Can anyone suggest any possible reasons why this has happened or things that we can try please? Thank you.</p></blockquote><p></p>