Electric bill

[Gordon Smith]

When I leave my Apartment everything gets turned off at sorce, power & water, just leave fridge door open.

[Fran]

It could be the aircon, I've noticed that after a power cut ours turn themselves on. We now switch everything off at the mains when we leave.


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[JohnF]

In my experience, it's not just an outside electric socket that may be "borrowed", I've known cases where neighbours pools have been filled or topped up using someones outside tap while they're away - and it's not just Turkey, Spaniards feel comfortable "borrowing" things at time.  In fact, we are currently "borrowing" electricity from somewhere/someone and even our electrician can't work out where it's connected!

Agree with all the above comments regarding electricity, switch everything off at the consumer unit when you leave and then if you do get a large bill, it's time to check who's got keys...

JF

[Rana]

Yes thanks John this is a practice we always follow when we know the Apartment will be empty for a long time, (switch everything off from mains) so either the cleaner has forgotten to do this or one off the mentioned comments earlier. As i remember there was a power cut recently in Fethiye area so whether that has anything to do with it. We have asked our neighbour Emre to check later for us.

[lynne]

This happened to us - turned out to be the electric water heater switch was on.

[Rana]

Our Apartment has just been checked by our neighbour and turns out our electric hadn't been switched off, so our hot water switch, fridge, internet switch all left on since November! Good job we discovered now rather than few months later 

[sadler]

How lucky are you. So much mor3 cold have been used.   

[Karennina]

Glad youv found out why Rana, when you say hot water switch do you mean on a boiler?   :)thanks...

[Rana]

We had a hot water switch fitted last year Karennina which our neighbour dealt with for us. As we know it's connected to our boiler but as we go generally in summer time we haven't needed to use it. At some point it must have been switched on, possibly by our cleaner as she cleaned in November and maybe water not hot enough.