Your gas and electric - how much?

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I moved to a 3 bed terrace last year. Band B council tax. We started at £99 month for gas and electric but I fell behind. Now we’re on £149 but I’m still cold, often.
How much does it cosy to keep a cosy home? I’m living under sofa blankets here.

Same house as you and ours is £90 with Bulb in a tech heavy house/combi boiler. Have you tried uswitch?

Our quarterly bill has just arrived for gas and electric from the Christmas period where we were home non stop over the last 3 months, came to £154. We live in a 2 bed house semi rural. We are careful with heating and only have it on when it’s necessary like you we have sofa blankets and extra layers on most of the time. We couldn’t afford to have heating on constantly.

YABU

I'm paying £125 a month and I'm alway moaned at for how cold the house is (large, Victorian 3 bed). I can't get the bills any cheaper with all the electric we use for technology. But the hearing is only on for max an hour in the morning and the same in the evening. And I've already switched supplier. I think I may need a new boiler or to get rid of my children.

4 bed detached (so no-one keeping us warm either side) and over the year ours averages out at about £70 per month. we are with Octopus and do monthly readings and in the summer it's been as low as £30 and in the winter as high as £125. DH WFH using IT equipment, and heating is often on during the day and I'm not shy about using the tumble dryer etc. It's a new build tho so maybe warmer / more energy efficient?

Mine is about 95 a month in a 4 bed with large rooms. I don't put the heating on much or at all if I can get away with it. My house is pretty cold! I try to minimise electricity by switching lights off when not use, currently don't have a TV or pc. I've always got dehumidifiers running. Running baths is expensive. I try really hard to minimise energy used in the house and don't understand how it's so costly.

£90 a month, 1930s detached house, heating on most days, use tumble dryer about hour or so a day. With British Gas, got a good deal in September through MSE, better deal with BG came up in January so switched to that, get cash back on each switch.

About £60 for a 3 bed terrace. We're of the 'put another jumper on' school of thought.

I'm in summertime Melbourne. Hang on, it was officially autumn on the first of March. 🍁 And yes, Melbourne does get cold in winter, think a moderate London one.

In winter I heat (ducted heating) three rooms: living room, kitchen and laundry, the latter as all washing dries there. I have no drier. I heat my bedroom for 15 minutes before I go to bed, but then I like a cold bedroom.

Everything else is shut off. I rarely ever use the hot taps except for showers and face wash. Cold is fine. I run the washing machine and dishwasher after 10.00.pm and before 7.00.a.m, for the cheaper rates. All re-charging of tech is done at the same time. I turn off lights like a maniac.

I live alone so can Scrooge it without pissing others off.

To be fair, when the heating's on, it is well warm.

Mines £75 for a 3 bed semi detached in the winter and about £50 in the summer. The heating is on quite a lot, for about two hours a day in winter. I'm also home with two toddlers 4 days a week but only really use the TV, which is on pretty constantly. I also use my tumble dryer 3-4 times a week.

My bills are about £62 a month on a yearly plan using around 2600kw elec and 9500 gas. My combined winter bill was around £265, but then will decrease. I use Money Supermarket, just changed again to s cheaper tariff, even though it's partway through the year and the bills are reduced.

This is British Gas, small cottage with thick walls and dg.

4 bed detached. 5 adults. £150 monthly with Bulb. Heating on 6am-10pm @ 21*. Always lovely warm house. Tech heavy, high washing machine/tumble dryer usage, boiling water tap.

300€ a month
4 bedrooms, 4 adult sized people.

3 bed terrace. British gas pay as you go.

In winter, £40 per month on gas and electric in winter. About £30 electric and £20 gas in summer.

Going on to direct debit, would only save my £50 per year and having worked in the gas and electric industry, I know how much they can fuck people over with random big bills and taking money out of peoples accounts.

I use the tumble dryer a lot more in the winter though as due to wet winter not able to dry outside. I live in my own, put 2 jumpers on in colder weather.

That's a lot, above average for the UK. Is this just for winter or a yearly average? Is it based on actual usage or just how much money your supplier has asked for? Have you used a comparison site to switch to the cheapest supplier?

Can you improve the installation in the house. What sort of heating and hot water systems do you have? Do you use a tumble dryer a lot?

Sorry for all the questions but those are the sort of things you need to consider not a small selection of random numbers from people whose circumstances may or may not be similar to yours.

I feel the cold even when under blankets and wearing multiple layers in a house heated to 21 C when sitting down. If you can, getting up and moving around helps enormously.

That's a lot for a terraced house - I assume old boiler/old windows maybe?

I pay £115 pm for detached 4 bed bungalow and we have heating on all Sat long, use tumble dryer in the winter, quite tech heavy and dh uses power tools quite a lot.

We have a new boiler and tonnes of loft insulation.

All day long..

FFS installation = insulation.

Discussed this with DH last week £4200 . And we are pretty careful.

£130 a month for gas and electric. 3 bed terrace for three of us.
Lots of laundry and I need a warm house (yes, I'm still in thermals) so it ain't cheap.

We pay £131 a month combined, four-bed detached. The heating is thermostat-controlled so when it drops under our set temp the heating kicks in, so it's usually going on and off throughout the day and night. I don't like being cold but also don't like being hot so we've finally found the ideal temp for us both We both work from home a lot and my DH has a lot of computer equipment so I guess our electric is probably higher than average. We do quite a lot of washing and tumble drying too.

£40pm for both, 2 bed apartment, no tumble dryer

3 bed semi. Was £50 a month up until I went on maternity leave and baby arrived. Shot up to £100 a month. Good job he's cute