To ask what your gas and electric costs are each month?

@TeenLifeMum no just a 200 year old listed building with very high ceilings. We can’t do insulation re walls as solid stone. Very limited on any other options re listed status. I’d love to hear any suggestions

It's the variation on here that astonishes me.

That and how difficult it clearly is for some posters to access genuine help with necessary energy improvements. I know where I live live all the so-called 'grants' come with strings attached or are otherwise unobtainable.

Unless you live in a castle, you need to look at getting insulation. We’re home all day (wfh) and I hate being cold so the heating is on all winter yet it’s still only £148 (and that included the hot tub we no longer have).

£49 gas and electricity combined. 5 bed house. Two adults, one child.

Gosh, sad I appear to have “won” the thread on MN terms as £700 a month. Is anyone near or more than this?

£98.33 combined a month. We live in a 2 bed 1960s cottage flat. Sometimes known as a four in a block.

Only because I CBA adding it up!

So you spent £5.50 in additional gas each week, in the dead of winter? I think that's a bit beyond being conscientious - it sounds very uncomfortable. If it's a decision based on the environment, rather than financial hardship, you could rationalise that the fabric of your home has better longevity if it doesn't have to cope with very cold temperatures - and repairing it comes with a substantial carbon footprint?

275 a month combined. 4 bed end terrace with windows that may as well just be holes in the wall. I'm in credit by about 300 at the moment and still haven't turned my heating on. Octopus energy apparently their cheapest tarrif but was significantly behind with shell after they said I wasn't sending in meter readings (with a smart meter!) long fight got nowhere

£109pm for both, 3 bed terrace with 2 adults and 1 child. About £250 in credit.
I'm slightly sceptical of the number of posters claiming they pay £80pm or whatever, as I know that our energy usage is way below average.

£50 electricity and £15 gas, 2 adults in a 3 bed victorian mid terrace, neither working so home all day.
Electricity was set by them at £32 when i fixed for 12 months as we were so much in credit, but i bumped it up to make sure tumble drier use etc was covered as we go in to winter.
Will get £150 credit for warm home discount sometime before March.
Gas we are over paying, since the central heating doesn';t work as boiler packed in over a decade ago and couldn't be replaced without re piping the whole house and moving boiler to a different room as it broke newer safety laws by being in a bedroom, and we couldn't afford the work, so just don't have heating or hot water.
Thankfully shower is electric, only thing gas is the hob, which is rarely used as it doesn't work properly and isn't really safe tbh, but again, can't afford to replace.

Is your heating on constantly. If that’s where you want to spend your money, that’s your choice, but that does seem exceptionally high.

6 bed detached here and only spend 150 combined. I am a bit stingy with heating during the day (work from home and it seems wasteful just to keep little old me warm). But still - yours does seem mega. Have your provider definitely got it right - not checked the wrong metre or something?!

I'm a very conscientous energy consumer.
Actual use, combined gas & electricity incl. standing charges:
Highest month: Jan - £54
Lowest month: May - £32

I'm with Octopus.

I’ve always been told that it’s anything that creates heat that uses the most energy. So I’m careful with the kettle (not fill more than needed) and heating. Use low temp on washing machine and dishwasher. Use air fryer rather than oven most of the time. Do have the dryer on most days, but it’s heat pump which is slightly better energy wise.

£80.54 a month, currently £165 in credit.

There's just me in a 2-bed semi (gas CH and cooking), but I WFH and really feel the cold, so have the heating on for at least an hour or two in the morning and evening, and will have it on most of the day once the weather gets cooler.

Haha!! I think I might be😆

I know all the figures because I just changed providers a month ago in advance of the cap going up 10% in October. So it's all fresh.

^^That was in reply to the earlier pp asking about how people know their usage. Just realised it looked like I was congratulating myself about considering the standing charges 🤣

That’s exactly what I was thinking!

Our dd has just gone up to £870 per month 😦 I am horrified. But we were in debit so that will pay it off but then I reckon circa £500-600 per month

£100 per month. £500 in credit. We have solar and a battery.

£120 combined with Octopus and I’m about £500 in credit
3 bed semi with 2 non bedroom sharing adults and passing visitors so all 3 beds need heating on

£240 4 bed semi - 2 adults and it’s bloody freezing!!

I can list all of our bills off the top of my head. It’s just something that I know. Same as the day they are paid too.

I’ve just got that sort of brain.

£265 a month. Larger than average 3 bedroom house.

I use whatever energy I what. Being cold is unacceptable to me and I’m fortunate I can afford the bill.

£167 electricity only (heat pump) but that includes 2 EV car charging, so nearer £120 for the house.

3 bed ancient thatched cottage, 2 adults, 1DC