What's your energy bill?

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We've just got a notice of our direct debit for the next 6 months. (We also got a refund since the last increase ). So DP wondered how we compared and I said I knew where to ask. Would anyone be happy in sharing the following?

Accommodation type:
Number of people:
Monthly cost of gas and/or electric:
Lifestyle factors:

Accommodation type: large 1930's 4 bed semi with three reception rooms
Number of people: 4
Monthly cost of gas and/or electric: £450 ( bulb just reduced it from £495

Lifestyle factors: me home all day. DH works from home two or three days a week in a garden cabin. Boiler three years old so should be fairly efficient. Only use tumble dryer in emergencies , have heated airer for when it's raining/ too cold to dry outside. Kids spend far too long in the shower so I'm blaming them!

Accommodation type: mid terrace, 4 bed, London
Number of people: 2
Monthly cost of gas and/or electric: was £148, went up last month to £214
Lifestyle factors: DH WFH, both DCs at uni, I work FT elsewhere

4 bed detached
200 year old with wood windows
£130pm

Three bed Victorian semi.
Gas £90
Elec £35
One of us working from home three days a week.
With British Gas.
Metre readings recently submitted and they were lower than estimated which is probably down to new more economic boiler.

Accommodation type - 3 bed 50s semi
number of people- 2 adults 1 child
monthly gas and electric - £68
lifestyle - I work from home. In most evenings. Average use of electric and heating.
company: ovo - fixed until next summer

5 bed detached built late 6Os
2 adults
£185 until tomorrows rise and again when the heating goes on.
1 adult out 10 hours a day, one out half a day every day.

Type: 4 bed new build (5/6 years old)
People: 2 adults 1 DC (6m)
Monthly: £250 (includes a little overpayment)
Lifestyle: DH permanent WFH. Doesn’t like being too hot or cold. Both me and baba home on Mat L.
we have the air con on in the summer with fans non stop/heat in winter. My DC only slept without a fan on in our room for the first time in her life last week! I know it’s pricy but we have always payed to be comfortable in our own home and we agreed that especially with the baby we will continue to do this and cut back elsewhere.

Company: EDF fixed in Dec 21 until Jan 24. Currently pay a little bit more than the standard but we will pay less than it from 1st which is what we planned it for!

Thank you everyone, it's really interesting reading the variety, especially range of attitude/approach. DP is always telling me I'm too stingy with the lights, heating etc. and I think he may be right.

One thing I'm confused about is that over the summer I've built up a couple of month's worth of credit. Why are they refunding it to me? Surely the point is to build up a bit of credit over the summer?

Accommodation type: semi detached house built 1989 so 33 years old. In an exposed space. Very windy.
Number of people: 4 and 2 cats
Monthly cost of gas and/or electric: £125 combined. Though recent grant has cut this down by about half. Fix ends in 6 days. Expecting massive jump.
Lifestyle factors: I WFH full time. Have done since 2019. DH hybrid now but probably 60% WFH using energy hungry tech that he needs for his role.

2 bed (but large) victoriana terrace.
1 adult, 2DC
Electric DD £63pcm, using about £35 currently.
Oil c/h. No shower. Don't us e dishwasher or dryer.

3 bed terraced
Probably about 60/70 years old
Electricity about 60/70 a month(actual usage)
Gas is between 100/200 quarterly
Dh home most of the day and plays guitar so amps etc plugged in alot and tvs on pretty much all the time

Accommodation type: 4 bed terrace
Number of people:6
Monthly cost of gas and/or electric: £491
Lifestyle factors: work from home and a DH with cancer and gets cold

My supplier has 748 credit sitting there, they increased my bills from 214 to 417 and yesterday increased again to 491. I have actually made a number of changes and am now using around 200 a month (smart meter) however they still increased it based on average usage over the year. I have made a complaint.

They are refunding you because energy companies got in trouble for keeping peoples money when large credit had build up

2 bed top floor flat (with own front door and stairs from the ground which creates a lot of cold air!). Wooden windows frames I would gladly get rid of but can’t.
single occupancy
currently paying £65 on DD having made it thru the last 2 winters well in credit. The government £400 should keep me in credit despite rate rises.
typically go in the office 3 days / wfh 2 days, shower at the gym where possible
live in Scotland where it’s cold!!

Accommodation type: 3 bed semi approx
30 years old. On a corner next to a field so quite draughty in winter particularly as upstairs insulation is not great
Number of people: 2 adults 2 teens
Monthly cost of gas and/or electric: it was £298 with British Gas but just had notification it's going up to £366
Lifestyle factors: All out of the house most of the week but teens are very bad at leaving lights/TVs/consoles on so I'm on a mission to change this and they are gradually getting better. We've purchased some insulation tape for windows and a thermal front door curtain so hoping that may help.
We also have an indoor heated airer that runs a lot in winter but no tumble drier

One bedroom basement flat - tiny flat in 1850s house.
2 adults
Present Monthly cost (gas and electric) £124.00
Both at home - pensioners.
No tumble dryer, dishwasher, rarely use electric oven. Only 3 radiators in flat. Gas central heating.
Eon next is the supplier.
There's something very wrong with my bill .....

Accommodation type: Victorian
Number of people: 6
Monthly cost of gas and/or electric: £262 (£340 if 2nd boiler is turned on again)
Lifestyle factors: 1 at home in the day, no insulation, 3 floors, prepayment for g and e upstairs and meter readings for g and e downstairs

Accommodation type: 4 bed semi, 100 years old
No of people: 4
Monthly gas/electric: £250

Two of us work from home so there’s always someone in the house. I started the year paying £150 a month but voluntarily increased it to £200 in April then £250 a couple of months ago. Now in £500ish credit. It’s a big, double fronted house with large windows so currently buying thermal curtain lining, draft excluders and Oodies for the whole family! We are (were) big gas users at 30,000 kWh per year so doing everything we can to cut that usage.

2 bed terrace, built in 80s
2 adults, 1 child
Electric only, no gas, no central heating - free standing heaters only
I wfh home x3 days per week

Have been paying £110 pm. b
We were paying £193 about 3 months ago after Bulb put up our d.debit, but that resulted in credit of over £300 so we argued it down significantly and we are gradually using up the credit.

3 bed detached, about 500years old, single glazed. 2 adults, 2 children. We're at about 100 a month but not got heating on yet.

3 bed 1930's end of terrace.

2 adults, 2 kids. 1 adult WFH.

While heating is off over the summer months gas and electric been £65-70 a month. We paid £120 DD until next week when (we come off a fix) with the new rates our average costs per month based on annual usage will be £250 before the government subsidy.

We use the electric shower as we're sporty. So can be on 4 times every day. I run a cool house, heating only clicks on when it's below 18oC in the house. No tumble dryer.

Accommodation type: 2 bed mid terrace, 10 years old
Number of people: 2 adults 1 toddler
Monthly cost of gas and/or electric: £132 combined
Lifestyle factors: dh works from home, our dd has more than doubled since the first 2020 lockdown.

3 bed mid terrace about 50 years old
3 working adults
£115 in September - bulb
All out most of the day but one of us has a power shower habit which will have to be curbed from now on - glaring at you, DS.

Accommodation type: 4 bed end terrace, at the top of a windy hill
Number of people: 6
Monthly cost of gas and/or electric: gas DD gone up to £196, elec prepay at around £135
Lifestyle factors: both work full time. Kids all at school. Careful user of gas..actively trying to reduce. Electric-high useage due to many games consoles!

3 bed semi, me and 2 dc.
Currently on a fixed for another year and paying 120 a month (reduced to half with govt fund)
I am 400 in credit as turned the heating off entirely over the summer and have only used it few times the last few days. I wfh but only switch it on when I need it. The boiler is only a few years old and so economical. And I don't have a dishwasher or tumble drier (I use a heated airer).