To think £10 per day for heating is expensive in a 3 bed bungalow??

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Just that really. Currently costing at least 10 per day to heat our house. It is well insulated in the loft although it has stone walls.
I am just desperate for spring
Can't afford for it to be so cold much longer

Have you got nice thick curtains?
Window insulation?
Tinfoil behind the radiators?

That's extortionate! My 3 bed semi costs less than £100 per month gas and electric combined.

So your heating bill is £300/month? That seems very high! Is your heating on all day?

far too much! how many hours a day is it on? What temperature is it? Do you have draught excluders, curtains that fully cover the windows, etc

Wow that does seem expensive! £300 a month?

wtf that has to be wrong or you are living in a imitation tropical paradise? We pay £130 all in and are much much bigger and draftier. Def not tropical though

Is that just for heating or does it also include lighting, cooking and hot water?

Even if it does include the above it seems very high.

Are you at home all day with the heating on?

That is huge..The biggest bill we have had for a quarter (well almost 4 months was £668 ish..that was with an old boiler in that bad weather we had and OH coming home/doing shifts at odd times so heating on a lot

Something wrong there OP!

Mine costs around £20 a week in winter and its a decent size 3 bed semi and we don't skimp on the heat and have a combi boiler.
I would be asking your neighbours if possible for comparisons and speaking to your energy supplier.
That cannot be right.
How does your electricity compare? And are you on a meter?

That is very high.

I live in a big old Victorian house, with three floors. The highest bill I have had is £300 for a month and some of that includes cooking and hot water.

I would ask the utility supplier to do a cost check for you.

We live in a 1920s 3-bed semi and our most recent bill (gas & electric) was £260 for 37 days and that's with the super expensive nPower tariff we're on and that the heating has been coming on for hours at night and we didn't realise (just moved in and the boiler/thermostat wasn't set up right). Only realised as pregnant and started getting up in the night for a wee.

I've recently turned the thermostat down during the day (SAHM now wearing several layers and slippers!) and we've switched to a substantially cheaper supplier too, so will see savings of about £50-60 a month just by changing supplier.

Are your meter readings correct? Most companies have phone apps or websites where you can supply regular readings.
Is your thermostat set correctly?
Is your heating on full blast all day?
Are you on a competitive energy tariff (use a recent bill on a comparison site to check)?

We have gas CH and a combi boiler for hot water, but electric hob and oven. So we go through a fair bit of gas compared to electric.

We live in the rural location. No gas here. We have central heating via a wood buring stove. It is on all day 8am-10pm just ticking over, not burning hard.
Have had house reinsulated. Have draught excluders and heavy curtain over front/back doors. House has double glazing.
I am so fed up of this cold weather. Feel like my whole day is spent stoking the fire. So dirty, messy and time consuming. If it was cheap it would make it all seem worth while

Oh I see you don't have gas. I find our wood burner lovely but the decent wood is expensive, we would go through a lot if it was our only source of heat. Totally feel your pain there, we'd easily go through £10+ a day on wood (but we're pretty rubbish at lighting it and keeping it lit)

How does a stove compare to having oil fired heating? No personal experience of it though.

Stove heats our rads and water. Everything else in house is electric. Our annual electricty statement for the past 3 years shows approx £1000 per year.

So thats on top of my heating. Why is it so bloody expensive!

How many hours a day is your heating on?

So you're paying 300 a month on wood. That's crazy. how much are you paying for a cord of seasoned wood?

Why is your heating on all day?

purple friends who have oil find it expensive but none in similar house type for comparison. We usually chainsaw our own wood which makes it cheaper but this year it has been hard to get. We have used all our dry wood so are now burning mostly heat logs and a bit of coal.

Oh how i wish i was back in my old house for winter. For a warm house just flick a switch

We moved last year and had oil heati g which sounds like it was cheaper than your current choice. Woukd that be an option, just don't run the tank out in January like we did once. Fuck it's colder than you think with no heating at all!

Sorry, just read it is on 14 hours a day. That is probably be why! Ours is normally on about three hours a day, in the evenings just before we go to bed. Why is yours on all day?

How much would an oil radiator be? I just heat the room I'm in except in the evenings. I have an elec over blanket for sitting downstairs and we all have elec blankets on beds.

Cold hands are my only problem. I quite often have a hat and two jumpers on.

Burning heat logs for ten hours a day is going to cost you a fortune though. Why don't you just buy a stack of wood?

14 hours in fact! Blimey. How many heat logs is that?!

Heating is on from 8am until about 10pm just ticking over not burning hard. If it goes out you have to then burn it hard for a while to get house warm again. Stone walls are so cold.

Heating is on all day when i am home all day.

We usually pay £21 per tonne for logs which we have to collect and saw ourselves but it is increasingly difficult to get. We are now out of dry logs. Currently burning what we can get which is mainly heat logs and coal.

You should never buy wood by weight for a start. Unseasoned wood is heavier than seasoned wood. You should buy it by measurement often by a cubic metre if your property is small.

Whereabouts in the country are you to have a wood shortage?