How much do you pay each month to heat your home?

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I've finally caved and put the central heating on. I've got washing hanging up and I don't want it going all musty smelling when it's dried.

I usually pay around £70 a month. I live in a 2 bedroom ground floor Victorian flat. Ironically they just reduced my payments to £30 a month but it'll go back up now the heating's on for winter.

I'm curious to what other people pay,, what kind of place they live in and how many people in the home. My place is poorly insulated and a lot escapes outside, which is huge pain in the arse. I have high ceilings too. I was paying more to heat this place than my DB who was in a 4 bed detached with heating on constantly (new baby).

I live alone mostly (apart from when my DH visits from abroad for a few months) and feel like I spend so much on heating compared to others.

About £160 a month combined through the year and that seems to cover it. 3-bed, 1930s detached.

In a 1920s Terrace and there is no insulation. In winter I can be putting up to £150 a month on my meter. Electric is more reasonable at £20 a month

3 bed semi ...95.00 a month for both....but we are all out all day and the heating is only on at weekends and from early evening til about 9pm.I am quite happy with that.

I pay £47a month, have no heating, no gas (that's my electricity only), am out of the house for much of the day, only use a slow cooker or a microwave, washing machine every ten days, no tumble drier.

I am buggered if I can work out how I'm getting through so much electricity and can only conclude that the dog has worked out how to plug in the old radiator and turns it on when I'm at work!

zap a large chunk of that will be the standing charge.

418 a month for gas and electric. 2 boilers and an aga

Wow @ the £800 a month! That's insane lol.

Interesting comments. I'm with Bulb for duel fuel and am over £300 in credit. This is my first place and I was taken in by the fancy fireplace and high ceilings - it didn't occur to me that it would cost me loads to heat the damn place, unfortunately. Hindsight is great! I'm quite careful with energy use too, don't have lights on in all the rooms etc. Have double glazing apart from small windows on the external doors.

My friend was going on (a bit too much) about how she's always got the heating on year round and pays about £30 a month for her 2 bedroom 6 year old terrace. She's always shocked when I tell her how much I pay.

I have a garden but it's not attached to the flat so I have to walk over to it (sometimes past gawping/chatty neighbours) to hang washing out. I don't like putting it out if it's very cold, it takes ages to dry. Otherwise I'm fine sticking it out if it's a nice day but often it starts raining here, usually right after I've hung the washing out! It's frustrating.

Was thinking about getting one of those covered electrical clothes driers but I read that they sometimes pack in quite soon and don't dry properly so I've not done that yet.

I'm in Scotland too, it's cold and frequently rainy.

£190 p/m for gas and electric. 5 bed detached. 3 of us. Could probably get it down to £150-160 if I didn't take at least one bath a day and I seem to have the dishwasher and washing machine (and tumble dryer) on twice a day each too.

Heating is Almost free for us, we burn wood we collect from our land. We probably spend £60 in the summer of chainsaw fuel, oil and other stuff but that’s it.

Ours is quite cheap with being gas ch. Electric heating is around three times more expensive than gas to provide the same heating. Incidentally all new build properties from 2025 are not allowed to use gas for heating, they must use electricity.

I have oil heating and I pay £50 per month for it. The heating is on in the morning, and for a couple of hours at night, more on the weekend. Heating is the one thing I cant compromise on I hate being cold! Electricity is about £80 a month for a 3 bedroom semi detached.

About £100 a month - largeish 2 bed flat but lots of windows and 4 of us (DH often WFH, I work nights, so one of us is often at home even while the kids are at school).

I know it's on the high side but console myself with it being 'clean' electricity and carbon-offset gas.

I suggest you get a dehumidifer with a laundry function (and if you have a high ceiling that you fit a ceiling airer). Other things to consider are ventilating your kitchen properly and making sure you never leave the bathroom door open after a shower. It costs a fair bit more to heat damp air. Of course it also costs to run a dehumidifier, so it's not a perfect solution but it may help.

3 storey large Victorian semi, 5 people, usually one in every day. Just updated tariffs and paying 85 for gas and 100 for electric a month.
I need warmth and light. We've insulated and upgraded loads since we moved in, so paying less than 15 years ago (the spikes in electricity use and wasted heat from extensions being done were shocking!)

Allmyfavourite This is true, but everyone else will be paying standing charge too. So I'm still paying quite a lot in comparison to those who have electric heating, tumble driers and ovens going all day.

I only have an electric blanket and an 'insta'heat' shower as main drains on the system.

Our quarterly gas bill has just landed and July to Sept was £60, Oct to Dec will be around £150, Jan to March around £200, April to June probably £150. Around £550 annually.

But we're the only people in the world who don't dual fuel or pay by direct debit.

Electric is fairly consistent but I can't remember how much it usually is which means a bill will be coming soon.

I'd estimate around £100 per month for both, 3 bed detached.

We have a combi gas boiler and use electric for everything else.

We pay £90 a month for both gas and electric, so £40 a month for the gas but if we're home we have the heating on.

Ours is a newish 3 bed semi townhouse.

@Koloh I didn't realise you could get dehumidifiers with a laundry function! That might be a good idea. I do suffer from sinus issues and wonder if that might be what's causing it, all that damp laundry lying around.

£120 for gas and electric

Unless you have an unlimited supply of free logs stoves or open fires are the most expensive form of heating surely. A bag of logs costs nearly £5 and do not last long, probably an evening, similar with coal.

Dehumidifers are really good IME. Done wonders for my asthma. I had a Simple Eco Air with laundry fan which was pretty good and cheap and lasted me about 7 years. It just packed recently and I have replaced with a Meaco, which was more money up front but cheaper to run and quieter. Ask around -- maybe someone can lend you one to try out.

I live in a post war, three bed ex council house.

I don't use the central heating, except when it's -, or on Christmas day and will probably pay about £80 a month. We (me and my adult DD) are out a lot, though and really careful.

We can charge our phone in work and do so .

Except when it's minus that should have read.

That's for gas and electricity combined.