AIBU to think more than £95 per month for gas is too much?

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So I live in a two bedroom flat with my daughter, my gas bill has been £95 per month during the summer months for gas alone (electric is separate) and I called edf to discuss this and they advised that the £95 per month is not even covering my full bill so at the moment I am in debt with them.

How on earth can my bills be more than £95 per month I didn't have the heating on atall through the summer.

Or is this similar to what other are paying? I just find it shocking

Install Hive or set a timer rather than manually switching on heating. On colder days it will work out cheaper to warm the flat while you aren’t around every 2-3 hours.

Switch off radiators in warm parts of the flat (kitchen / bathrooms).

If you cook with gas don’t go higher than a medium heat.

That’s a lot. We pay £85 dual fuel a month for 5 of us.

Have you got a smart meter? The best rate available?

That’s crazy! our combined gas and electric bills are £30 in summer and £60 in winter the difference / increase is the gas heating. We live in a two bed terrace so probably similar to your flat

Mine is similar. But the flat is cold and I did use the heating in the Summer a bit. I think it is an awful lot too :(

Have a look at the bill and see what you are paying per unit and standing charge, it might be worth looking at other suppliers for better rate ?

2 bedroom, 2 people?
£95/month for gas is way too much?
Check your usage either with smart meter or go and write down gas reading from meter every day for couple of weeks. Do it very diligently to have an idea about your actual usage. Check how much cubic meters/ cubit ft you actually use.
Then do supplier s comparison and switch. Sometimes it's worthwhile to switch even during contract, to pay £30 or £40 penalty and then every month less for usage.
Last thing I can think about you didn't pay enough last winter and had to pay it during summer.

If you don't have the heating on in the summer, something is wrong.

The average bill for gas and electricity is about £100 pm, so for you to spend that amount on gas alone, in what sounds like a smaller than average household and property in the summer doesn't sound right at all.

You don't have a gas water heater that's running all the time do you?

Do you have meter readings and do these match your bills? Could there be a mistake with the readings - mixing up cubic feet and cubic metres for example? Just wrong numbers? Are they estimating instead of using real readings?

Is there any chance a neighbour has tapped into your meter so you're paying for their usage as well?

Do you think if I ask nicely, the boss people will ban those bulb referral links on here?

That is a lot OP. I pay 120 for both but I'm a big arsed 4 bed end house. Also with EDF. I'd be wondering who else I was paying glass for in the building tbh

Maybe you should switch supplier.

What kind of boiler do you have? If it is not a combination boiler do you have the water on all-day?

I spend about £80 per month for gas and electric combined. I live in a 2 bed cold concrete house.

What do your last few bills say about your usage and the cost during each quarter? Like This says, have you been paying off a debt?

I'm sure if there was a leak of the size needed to produce bills that size, you would have smelt it or blown up the entire building by now.

That's mad! Ours is £90pm for both in a three bed semi. We are with Bulb.

This is more than a supplier/tariff issue. That gas cost is about 3 or 4 times what it should be - prices don't vary by that much 30/40% at most.

That is a crazy amount. Is someone else using your meter?!

Or have you previously used more and you are paying off a debt? Are your meter readings up to date?

£70 3 bed semi, both utilities. We have been recommended it could be £57. We currently have credit £270 currently so that covers anything extra in winter. I'd rather have extra in the account.

New boiler with smart thermostat and radiators power flushed so hopefully it will be cheaper than last years winter!

Could you still be paying off high usage from over the winter? If not, and £95 is your actual usage per month, I’d be wanting to know how so much was getting used?! Do you have the heating on constantly?
I had a 2bed flat until recently and paid £75 a month for both gas and electric.

This is very high OP but it doesn't mean it's not right.

If you are having multiple baths run per day or keeping heating on when it's warm it could lead to large bills. You could also be on an expensive tariff.

What would be useful would be if you could tell us how many units you are using on a monthly basis and/or how much you are paying per unit. We could then perhaps point out if the issue is with usage or pricing (or more likely a combination of the two).

In terms of practical tips to help, you could request a smart meter which shows when you are using gas or alternatively as someone above has mentioned, you could get a Hive system or similar.

Are you submitting readings every month? At this rate I'd be taking readings every week or even every day until it was sorted.

I'm alone in a 2 bedroom flat and I'm £55/month for dual fuel, currently in credit and this will be used in the winter.

smart meter won't do anything and many of them are faulty.

tariff? Units used per month? Debt on a prepay meter?

I have been with EDF for 7 years and found this year their prices gave shot up. We are changing supplier as soon as we are out of contract!

smart meter won't do anything

Well, it would mean that the op could see exactly what she was using and would send meter readings daily to the company to check usage

Get a smart meter! We were absolutely robbed over our bills until we got one - cut them in half at least.

We had something similar... although in our house...can't remember how much it was but we had to pay off a massive gas debt over the summer a few years back. We couldn't figure out how it had got so big, I was convinced there'd been a gas leak!
But we then changed our boiler, for another reason, and our bills went back down.

We think our heating must have been kicking in and we hadn't realised - being out at work all day!
So maybe look into whether your boiler is playing up

I live in a one-bedroom flat in London with my partner and we currently pay £15 a month... altogether.

How on earth do you get charged £95?!

Crikey! We pay £45 a month for gas and electric in a 2bed house! I think its £20 for gas and £25 for electric