to ask what you pay in gas/elec each month?

[ScoopsMama]

So, I'm stressing about finances and I know our gas and electricity bills are just ludicrous.

We pay £231 per month gas and £149 per month electricity. This is with SSE in Scotland and by direct debit.

We live in a big, 4 bedroom house. However the heating was timed approx 0530-8am winter and 4.30-8.30ish in winter. We obviously popped it on in between if ever needed. It's been off since May.

We have the hot water function on constantly. I know we probably need to update to a new combi boiler.

But does this seem around average? Because when I search our KwH usage, the average UK usage is more than half of what we used last year!

What a waste of money

Three adults live at my house, me plus two adult daughters. We spend £20 per month on electric, no gas and spend shit loads on coal during the winter, £30 a bloody week!

£400 for both plus water, 2 bed flat, 2 people

Damn, I meant £40 per month on electric

I used to work for a power company in telesales (hangs head in shame, but I needed the money!) and there were different tariffs for customers that had never switched and ones that we poached. Not sure if that's still the case as it was yonks ago but definitely worth checking a comparison site if you never switched before, and even if you have by the size of that bill.

My grandparents' old stone house was much warmer in winter with range burning, it kept a low level constant drying heat that meant the gas central heating was just there for a boost, worth considering?

£170 for electric. We don't have gas. We (me and 2 toddlers) live in a 2 bed flat. I'm with EDF.

I was going to start a similar thread! I just read my meter and put my readings in and my electricity (my only source of power) is at £38 pm.

I live alone in a house with no heating. So in the winter it's electric blanket on part of the night. Electric showers twice a day, and I boil the kettle maybe three times daily. Washing machine on maybe every ten days, one fridge freezer, cooker only used on average twice a week, slow cooker same, microwave every other day.

I am apparently £126 in credit, this quarter. But I am damned if I can work out how I am using so much electricity. My DP (similar usage, lives alone but smaller house with electric heating) pays about £40pm. I also reckon, with longwayoff that they make it up as they go along!

£70 for oil (no gas here) in the winter months and £25 for electric (Cooperative Electricity), old 3 bedroomed semi-detached house with thick walls, no double glazing. Heating (oil fired system) is on for an hour in the morning and for about 5 hours in the evening.

About 120 per month combined (small 3 bed terraced house with single glazing).
During the winter months it can be a bit more (usually about £160 per month combined) but i’ll have the heating on loads

On average £120 for both altogether in a 4 bed semi (with rubbish double glazing!) have just switched to a smart meter so interested to see if that reduces costs any further also have boiler that goes off at acertain temp not timer

Just paid £185 for last 1/4 gas & electric with eon , new combi boiler, 3/4 bed terrace , generous with both heating and hot water , don't use much electric. SE

Are you getting the meter readings done and bill adjusted accordingly ? Perhaps you pay by a set amount direct debit and have overpaid if the meter readings are not being done ?

I had one very large electric bill at old property because the meter readings had been estimated for many bills , read the meter and had a credit on my account

I hope it gets sorted out

£96 per month with EDF dual fuel.

We build up credit in summer months. It helps us budget, so we don't mind.

Large 4 bed detached bungalow, built in the 40s, reasonably well insulated and with a combi boiler.

We've taken out our bath and only have showers now, so should help us economise even more going forward.

Two of us here, at home most of the day in the winter and we don't scrimp. If it's cold, the heating is on.

We do have thermostats on most radiators and a gas fire in the living room, for cooler evenings in early spring / late autumn.

Heating has been off since early April and will probably go back on early October.

Oh, and I use the tumble dryer on rainy days, dishwasher on every day and washing machine on 3-4 times per week.

Electricity dd is 178 per month, gas about 20.

Two adults, four kids. Five bed house.

My gas & electric combined is about £55 a month in an end terrace 2 bed house which gets really cold in the winter because of the exposure.
Heating is basically on most of the time for 7 to 8 months of the year.
Gas heating, gas hot water & cooking, electric shower.
I usually get a rebate of between £50 & £100 a year back due to 'overpayments', then they recalculate based on me having no credit & overestimate again. Every year.
Arghhh.

Old stone cottage. We pay £40 per month for electricity (EDF), and oil central heating/hot water is about £400 per annum roughly (fantastic new Grant outside boiler - very efficient). We top up in the winter with using our Freeview multi-fuel burner and have gone from logs (messy and labour intensive) to coal which we have delivered - that's approx. £100 per month but we're retired, so I love sitting by a lovely toasty fire in the winter!!! Luxury!!!!

£100 per month for gas and electricity combined. We're in a 3-bed 1930s semi, heating on 20° all day through the winter and not brilliantly insulated. Avro Energy.

We switch to a new company every year or so to get a good rate.

£130 per month covers the payment for gas and electricity in 3 bed, mid-terrace that is not occupied during usual hours.

We live in the worst-insulated-house ever. Yes, we have insulated windows, loft insulation etc. but the front and the back of the house have ludicrous amounts of glass (that can't be reduced as it's a conservation area) to the point where no calculator in the world can justify cavity insulation or such because the relative square meterage of glass to wall makes it null and void.

£83 for both through First Utility for a 2 bed semi detached house in SW england, no combi boiler either.

OP, I originally left the hot water switch on when I first moved into the house and it really ate away at the electricity! A plumber was horrified when he realised after a month. Is that what you're doing? If you have a regular boiler with a tank in the airing cupboard, that stays hot for hours and hours, you don't need the hot water on constantly with no combi boiler!

£38 a month for gas and electricity with Eon in a 2 bed house

Why do you have your hot water on constantly? Surely that is what is costing you? Your boiler is heating up water all day long? I have the hot water on for an hour in the morning and three I think in an evening. There is always enough to hot water for several people baths and showers.
Why do you have it on all day?

What the actual hell?

We pay £100-120/mth gas+electric for a 4-bed detached, and that's with the house occupied all day, and we're profligate with our energy usage.

Big 5 bed detached, new-ish build (12 yrs old) and costs £103 per month for gas and electric combined. I am not careful with it and think nothing of turning the thermostat right up when it’s cold in winter!!

£453

Yes. £453. 2 boilers, gas aga.

£50 a month for a small 2 bed terrace - so not the same size wise - but heating was on a lot in winter, and I work from home on a computer and my OH is a gamer with his PC on a lot so more electricity use than you'd expect for a house of this size. That's with EON.

I always win whenever this question is asked! (if paying the most is winning)