To ask what your heating/leccy costs?

[Passthegin99]

Bit yawn, sorry, but our energy provider (gas and electric) has just increased our direct debit to £160 per month and I'm slightly dismayed! Feels like LOADS. Is it loads or is that normal?

For context, me, DP and DS in a fairly large 4 bed Victorian end terrace. We don't heat two of the bedrooms and although I'm on mat leave so home a lot, we have special radiator valves (DP is a tech need) that are meant to let us heat rooms individually rather than heating the whole house just for one too.

Is £160 a month excessive?

Crikey, some huge bills here! 😱

We are with Bulb and pay £82 per month April - Oct and then £95 per month for the remainder of the year. We have a reasonably sized, 4 bed/2 bathroom detached in a semi rural location on top of a hill. The house is 30 years old but very well insulated. Had brand new double glazing and new condensing boiler fitted 6 years ago.

We are both retired and heating is on 24/7. Thermostat presently between 19 and 20 but we also usually use the gas fire in the sitting room for a few hours each evening over the winter. Radiators all have individual thermostats. Electricity is on Economy 7 but we only use around 35% during the cheaper hours, (use washer and dishwasher during the night.)

We are pretty much always in credit with monthly payments. Still regularly check we are pretty much on best rates although I do love Bulb and especially their website and how you can determine your own monthly payment.

Ours is 117pm That is a 3bed semi, not brilliantly insulated, with a playroom extension. Our previous 2 bed a year ago was 80ish

£295 a month

£110/month, dual fuel, 3 bed end terrace.

We were with first utility but changed when our bills were going over £350 a month. Now with Co-op and paying £180 a month. Large 5 bed draughty old period property with 6 of us living here. Heating is on 18 at night, 20 during the day. I also charge my car which prob works out about £30 a month.

£67 a month for a 3 storey new build semi detached. Both work ft so heating on 2 hours a day max and fairly regular at weekends. Literally jaw hanging seeing some of these bills

I just switched to British gas (fixed for 1 year) £110 per month for gas and electric. 4 bed mid terrace house single glazed on the front and work from home so heating on more than most .

Just looking at housing types and bills, it shows how poorly insulated and what poor energy efficiency much of the uk housing stock has. Even new builds are having their problems due to poor construction standards. I think it really is high time that UK housing construction moved toward engineered, factory made homes erected on site.

We live rurally so have to bulk buy LPG for our 1200 litre tank. That works out around £180 a month, and around £120 for the electric so £300 for the two. It's the bane of DH's life, and he spends most evenings turning the heating down and switching all the lights/appliances off I feel like a bat living in perpetual darkness.

We live in a 3 bed semi and pay £63 a month gas and electric, thermostat is set to 20 and that payment includes Amazon prime (eon deal)

Ours is £140 per month for gas and electric. That's for a 4 bed house and the heating on every day from 7am til 10pm most days whilst it's cold.

2 bed house. Our smart meter varies between £1.80 and £2.50 a day. Heating is now off in the mornings and on for an hour in the evening. We have a toasty house for some reason.

£40 a month both and 3 bed large semi. Heating on once in morning and once in eve on timer, and then put on manually whenever we are cold in the daytime. We’re with e-on!

Oh I take it back it’s actually £50zz

£110 a month for month it's a 3 bed semi so I think it's a lot . I blame teenage dd who keeps turning the temperature up

We have solar which was on the oldest FIT so the approx £1300-1500/year covers the cost of all the electricity and all the oil (rural, no gas) we use and we get a fair bit more back.
Our thermostat is set at 15, we wear jumpers and add more if cold.

We live in a large 4 bed 1920s semi (~1800ft^2) with 2 bathrooms, 2 sitting rooms and a big modern extension (which is well insulated). We moved in last summer and I don't think it's got cavity wall insulation (we'll put it in this year) but it does have double glazing. Our combined bills are £300 a month and we couldn't find a cheaper tariff (People's Energy). We do keep the house warm (19.5C when we are in the house so heating on 9h a day) and we have 3 kids so are doing a load of washing a day (although I always do a cool wash) and there are at least 2 showers and a bath a day. Can't do anything about the washing but thinking about solar panels or ground source heating or external insulation on the older parts of the house, maybe updating the double glazing. And working on reducing the heating, a friend keeps their house at 15 C which is lower than our drops to during the day when the heating is off, not sure I fancy that (they are in a terrace so will be getting heat from their neighbours). Our last house was a 3 bed detached house with no cavity walls and single glazing so we're used to high bills but we were hoping this house would be less since it's better insulated.

Ours is £285 per month (5 bed Victorian town house semi) and that's the cheapest on the market (Avro). I don't know how it can be so much. Apparently its the gas not the leccy, so it's purely on heating, even tho I don't have the heating on that much and we have usually only have it on in 2 rooms morning and evening and not in the bedrooms much at all.

The only bill more extortionate is the bloody council tax

£87 per month for gas and electric
Large 3 bed semi
Ancient boiler for gas central heating
Electric shower so maybe only one or 2 baths s week

£65/ month dual fuel with octopus energy. Small three bed semi. It used to be £45 but then we had a baby and needed the heating on more! Older boiler, gas central heating, both of us like cooler house and put on jumpers.

I once lived in a place with single glazing and no central heating. By eck it was cold. Since then I prioritise insulated non drafty houses! It would be worth going through and doing the usual energy efficiency considerations. Even simple things like draught excluders and curtains can make a world of difference.

£133 for a 3 bedroom, cold end terrace & my heating is on constantly when I'm home as I suffer in agony when I get cold. I only have gas combi, cooker etc us electric.

In fact its just clicked off so off to put it back on as DH is at work :)

around 210 ppm for electricity and oil. That does all our heating, lights cooking, water etc. 3 bed house in Channel Islands

About £90 a month in total, with British Gas. Late 70s 4 bed detached.

Heating is usually only on in the evening, rarely set higher than 20.

I don’t understand why some previous posters pay such huge amounts.

£250 per month

But we do run a 20000 litre fish pond and a hot tub