How much are you spending on your energy bills every month?

@TeamGeriatric @gatheryerosebuds

MN term for the dreaded hot tub 😁

Read the thread. 18 for the whole evening (4-11) is higher than many.

Also with Octopus.

3-bed 1960s semi, which we moved into in September. Currently it's about £120 a month for gas and electricity, but we've only lived here in the cold months so far. It'll be interesting to see how it balances out over a whole year.

How many kWh of electricity did you use in January?

Approx £275 a month at the moment. 4 bed bungalow but at least one person here every day working from home and we have two electric cars.

All electric 2 bed flat with octopus, last month 440 units used, £124, thats , heating only in one bedroom amd bathroom for a bit,2 adults working outside the home 5 days week

this is a downside to wfh

I think you are paying a very low price. We are in a similar situation as you, five bed detached, two adults one child, smart meter so pay for exactly what we use and January cost us £360. Roughly 160 electricity and 200 gas. I go to bed and dream of your Bill. It is a nightmare lately. Previous month was £275 and November was £250. Can’t wait for it to start warming up weatherwise.

Also with octopus and on a fixed tarrif. My DD is just under £200 a month but at the moment I'm about £20 a week for electricity and £50 to 60 for gas. So using about £300 a month. 20 year old 4 bed house, 2 adults, both working at home, heating off overnight and on very low in rooms we aren't using. I'm in Scotland, it's cold. My standing charge is around a pound per day so that's £30 a month before you start.

£360 this month with Octopus.
Five bedroom detached old house with gas Aga that is running all the time. Washing machine and tumble dryer used almost every day.

£380pm, also Octopus, for Jan. Gas and Elec.

Jan is the worst though - always the highest month by far. I expect a drop in Feb and then a far bigger drop in March.

Between April and Sept, gas costs go to about £30 and Electric £100 ish so a clear £200pm cheaper than right now.

It’s no wonder your bills are lower, your house isn’t at the minimum recommended temp (18 degrees) so of course you’re saving money.

a little bit in credit, £200

£350pm gas / electric combined.

3 bed 1930’s semi. Can’t believe it’s that much but it is.
we’re with British Gas.

I have to agree...a sex pond sounds very fishy

around £500 per month eeek

About £600 a month. Big, poorly insulated old house. Hope it will be less once we've spent £££ on refurbishment/ rebuilding it. Alas, at the moment we're don't have the £££ to keep the heating bills down. Also we like it hot.

Octopus. Mine was £160 for Jan (electric only).
No central heating but I have an electric heater on for about 12 hrs a day at moment, just in the room I'm in. My house is Baltic though, 10C without heating and struggles to reach 17C with it.
I pay £100 a month DD to build up some decent credit for winter.

My imagination is running wild

Modern 4 bed house over 3 levels, approx 134 sq metres. We pay the bill amount when it arrives each month, which for some reason they send on 25th of the month, so we get the nice present of a bill on Christmas Day. It is typically around £210/month for both Gas and electricity combined at this time of year and around £100/month in summer. The heating is on for a couple of hours in the morning, and about 5 hours in the afternoon. The thermostat is set to 20. My husband is quite religious about turning the heating off if we go away for even a couple of days, and we turn the central heating off entirely around early May and usually try and hold out on turning it on again until end of October. We are with EDF.

£180 combined gas and elec in Jan

the washer dryer dishwasher feel like they are constantly on. Heating probably on for 3 hours a day

energy prices have increased significantly in recent years

Also with octopus, rural so not on gas (oil central heating) we currently pay £150 a month for electricity as we are using up an account credit but usage is £190(!) a month.
4 bed, 3 reception, 1920s semi, double glazed but not particularly well insulated.
5 of us at home, 2 of us WFH every day.
Do a lot of washing /tumble drying and have underfloor heating in kitchen which is expensive to run. But still sounds like a lot compared to OPs usage.

Are you on the Tracker tariff? There was a few days when the electric went to over 40p per Kwh in Jan, plus a generally cold month. We're on Tracker and our bill was around £155, it's usually around £125. We pay a variable direct debit so that's definitely what we've used.

£128 combined with Octopus. I've gone form fix to fix and it actually went down from £145. Heating is on almost constantly as on mat leave so at home and my house is very open plan.

3 bed semi with a nippy conservatory.

£545 last month. 6 people in a 5 bed house, heating on 5-6 hours a day plus sex pond on all year.