To think £100 p/month for heating bill for a 2 bed flat is too much?

[IndigoTea]

Hi,

We've just moved into a new block of flats that has only one energy provider and have charged us £100 a month for the heating bill, and insist it is correct. The place is a 2 bed small flat. Is it just me or is that way too much?

depends on how long you have it on for!

Yes, way too much. We have a 2 bed house and pay about £55.

That's more than for my draughty old 4/5 bed semi!

Is it electric or gas?

Radiators or fan heaters?

We pay that amount for our two bed flat, doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

Though you can change your monthly payment and then just get a rebate/top it up when the meter reading is taken, right?

It depends - is it gas or electric - if electric what sort of system
Do you use an immersion heater for hot water
How often/how long do you have the heating on
Are you using gas/electric fires
Check the meter to see how much you are using a week

do you have storage heaters? if so it costs way more.

i live in a 2bed flat now and ours is £66 a month. But we lived in a shoebox 1 bed/almost bedsit and had 2 storage heaters on and our heating was £100 a month and after a year we owed £300 on top of that when the meter was read

Is that for everything? Heating, hot water, cooking.

Ours is more than double that, 3 bed cottage.

I think prices have risen a lot recently, so it may be correct.

is it for gas and/or electric. we pay £145 a month combined gas/electric for a 4 bed detached

I pay about £100 a month for all gas and electricity, three quarters of my energy use is gas, I have a three bedroom modern flat spread across two floors.

Sounds right to me,I'm afraid When we lived in a 2 bed flat (11 years ago),with ceiling heating and immersion tank for hot water it came to at nearly that.

2 bed flat here and we pay around that.

Thanks everyone!

It uses district heating, there is no gas boiler on site but there is a hot tank. This is ONLY for heating, so hot water and underfloor heating. Everything else is electric.

Sounds about right. I pay around £15 a week for "heating" this time of year- which consists of one single gas fire in one room.

There is a flat rate charge at £32 for them providing the heating. Then the usage bill is added to that.

A usage fee of £32 a month , no that's not OK. That's a third of your bill? Is this in the UK OP?

As everyone else said - it obviously depends! How long do you have the heating on for, how high, electric or gas, what type if heating how much hot water do you use etc etc

i think that is way to much.. i would question that
in a friends flat is would pay a charge of £20 a week fixed rate.. it was for every one in the building to. it covered all her heating hot water etc even if she wasnt there she would have to pay it?

is your charge like that?

i have a metre. and a boiler and i used about 10-15 aweek during the winter months.. and thats with £3 debit added weekly to.

Sounds high, ours is 2 bed flat and we pay around £80 a quarter for gas and electric. So £25/30 a month. We never turn the heating off in winter so that's 24/7 for about 5/6 months of the year

I think that sounds a lot personally. I lived in a 2 bed flat before, electric and gas, the central heating was done by gas and it was 62 a month and I got a 90 cheque back when I moved! Even in my single skimmed bungalow my bill isn't as much as that! Have a shop around, I pretty much change every time my contract is up as they all compete to get you to change and a lot of them offer the fixed price rate for the first year to.

Wilson, yes in the UK.