To think £250 on gas and electric is far too much?

[Curiousmum69]

I'm currently paying £250 a month for gas and electricity on a 4 bed semi detached pretty standard house. Aibu to think this is crazy high.

What are others paying and how can I reduce this

Our is £120 large 3 bed detached, heating is always on.

Yes...this is a quarterly bill that is crazy high.

I was paying £75 a month on a 2 bed semi and always had it at about 20 degrees I was paying about 14p kWh for my electric can't remember the gas price

I’m on a mission to lower our bill at the moment. Regular 1930s three bed end of terrace here. From December to January, we used £205 for gas and electric. I have been a total control freak over lighting, shouting at the kids and DH for leaving lights on. We have spotlights down stairs. The next bill was about £25-30 less for electricity.

Ha! My company wants 250 per month for my 2 bed flat. Live here alone, minimal use of everything. I swear they just make it up.

Christ! I pay £65 a month for a 4 bed detached with a toddler who has a bath every night.

For gas and electricity?

Are you on the payment plan where you work out the whole years worth of usage and then pay a twelfth of that each month, so same amount every month, or are you just paying for what you use each quarter? Because that could explain why this bill is so much more and then the summer bill will be lots less maybe?

Do you pay on receipt of bill or by monthly direct debit? It's cheaper to pay by monthly direct debit and to have paperless billing

That's a lot. Mine is £130 for a small 3 bed, heating on 24/7 in the winter months.

My energy use was sky high when I had a fridge freezer seal that was leaking. The new fridge freezer paid for itself in reduced energy bills within 6 months.

Two factors leap out to me in your post - heavy tumble drier use and teenagers. Anything that produces heat will be a heavy user of electricity.Teenagers are generally wasteful with electricity, might be worth watching them to see if there’s any obvious going on.

I was going to say that an older property will take a lot more heating, but presumably you use gas for heating, and your gas bill isn’t the problem. Do your teenagers or you use any supplementary electric heaters?

If all else fails, check you’re not heating a marijuana factory in your or your neighbours loft! 😂

I have a small two bed modern mid terrace. My bills went up to £57 a month. I swapped provider and it's now £33

Currently pay £250, but only using £219. 3 bed Victorian terrace. But I'm heating the house all day every day as am at home with a baby, and run the tumble dryer a lot.

Good point about the tumble drier - I only use mine in winter and then only 3 times a fortnight. Most of our clothes dry in the airing cupboard.

In summer everything goes on the line.

We're in a 4 bed detached, dryer on most days, heating on 20 when in the house and pay £90 to outfox the market and am still in credit from winter!

I live in a three bed semi new build . . 85 per month!

£220 here were in a 5 bed detached bungalow, 3 reception rooms main bathroom, 2 en suites, and clockroom toilet and large kitchen so a total of 18 radiators and 4 towel rails with trv’s on all but one radiator, cavity wall installation as well as loft installation and double glazing.

We’ve been told our boiler which is 16 years old should be replaced to make it more efficient and hopefully bring the monthly bill down, we can’t have a combie boiler because of the size of the property it wouldn’t cope apparently.

The beginning of last year most of our kitchen appliances packed up so we’ve got new and they are definitely more energy efficient so the cost has come down, our biggest expense is the gas.

We are in an old 5 bed detached house and pay similar to you.

My bills were ridiculously high, similar priced. They wanted about £220 per month for 3 bed detached. Switched to Bulb and my bills have halved. I had never heard of them but took the gamble. Theres £50 credit with the link

bulb.co.uk/refer/laural1736

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Were with bulb as well, oh should of said our property is 16 years old.

..this is a quarterly bill that is crazy high.

^^ £250 per quarter isn't outrageous.

£250 per month is astronomical

We pay £210 pcm, 2 teenagers who constantly have showers, gaming and loads of washing to do.
I work from home but don’t have heating on all day.

Everyone apart from me is shit at turning stuff off.

We have looked to reduce tarif but there is not much to save having looked a couple of months ago. I need to relook I think.

Her quarterly electricity cost was £613.94

Could someone in the family be running a cannabis farm? 😅
Way too high. Suspicious that your consumption went up around the same time as a new boiler.

Do you mean quarterly or monthly @op?

Seems a lot to me.

We pay £210/m in our 4 bed semi

7 kids so, 4 showers, 2 baths per day (some share) 3/4 40deg washes and 2/3 tumble loads. Single course stone wall, single glazed, eaves - so no loft insulation, draughty cellar and chimneys. Nest set to 18.5 on radiator central heating from a new combi. So pretty much the high end of usage and inefficiency and it still comes in less than £250...