To ask your electric bill ?

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Ours is currently £140pm!
We are a family of 2 adults, 4 children.
3 Bed house.
Main usage would be the washing machine and Tumble dryer - They are on a min 3-4x a day each. I know this will rack up cost.

Current energy provider have said "Its high"
Then deflect by saying silly things such as "The seal on your fridge might be broken " and " You must have a hidden electric immersion in the house"...Neither statement true.
We have 1Tv in the house and whilst its on throughout the day, as well as phone chargers, everything else is turned off at the wall!

Everyone I know seems to pay so much less!!!

Ask my electric bill what? I do not see the point. It is inanimate.

£58pm for gas and electric, 1 adult 1 child in a 2 bed house. Don't own a tumble dryer, never will.

Gas and electricity are £187 per month combined, that’s for 4 people running 2 televisions, a PS4, washing machine and tumble dryer pretty much daily.

I honestly don't see how a family of 4 needs to do 3-4 loads of washing a day. I do that per WEEK for 2 of us.

Sorry, I misread! I see you're a family of 6. Still a crazy amount of washing though.

£74 gas and electric but we have free solar panels

Do you know what you are paying per unit, and any standing charge?
There might be a cheaper deal out there you could change to

I pay £89 a month for electricity and gas.. I can’t remember what the split is off the top of my head but that’s for two adults and two children, and I’m a SAHM so things are on quite a lot!
We use our washer dryer at least once a day, sometimes twice!

You can't compare your costs in pounds and pence to others. What you are using bears no relation to others as everyone's habits and tariffs are different.

Find out how many KWH's you have used in the last 12 months and put this information into a price comparison site to see whether you can get cheaper rates by switching.

Average consumption in the UK is 12000kwh elec and 3000kwh gas per annum, however, these are only averages.

Your best bet is to look at the efficiency of your appliances and how much you actually use them and for how long, this will open your eyes as to how much you're using and any potential savings you can make.

Sorry that should have read....3000kwh elec and 12000 has

£20 but hearing and water is gas. Approx £80 / month. We're off grid though so gas Iain a tank (costs more than mains)

£50 a month for elec. 4 bed semi 2 with 2 adults a two year old and a baby. Washing machine on every day (and using the tumble dryer most days - we have a washer/dryer so it’s condensing).

We do have a LED bulbs in all lights and we had a new kitchen out in with new appliances so I’m sure they must be efficient

Gas central heating, hob and shower.

£85 for gas and electricity. Family of four in a three bed house.
I have the washing machine on loads but have only used to dryer three times in the last six months to try and save some money.

Do you have gas or other heating on top or are you all electric? If you're all electric, that's probably about right considering how much you use your washer and dryer. Can you wear clothes more often, make sure you're doing full loads, and dry outside where possible?

What's your shower run on? Electric showers use a lot so if you have one of those, that could also be a factor if you're all showering daily/taking long showers - a poster earlier this week was complaining about a teen DS taking 30 minute showers daily.

Some spot lights use a lot of electric if they're old fashioned bulbs, not LED. Dishwasher is a red herring though, as they use far less water than washing by hand, so are likely to cost not very much to heat that water.

Ours is just over half yours for gas and electric, but we're two people in a small well insulated house and are always on the cheapest tariff so not comparable. When did you last switch? You need to switch regularly and make sure you're always on a deal and pay by DD if at all possible otherwise prepay and/or standard tariffs bump the cost up.

2 bed semi detached, 2 adults and a toddler and we pay £40 per month direct debit for both electric and gas. In around £36 credit at the moment.

£160 pm duel fuel. 5 bed detached home. Dryer used every other day in the winter. We have a smart meter and I can’t seem to get it down much more. Mostly it’s heating it in the winter that costs. It’s early 1960s and quite open plan.

About £30 a quarter (one bedroomed flat) but my hot water and heating are gas. Oven is electric though. TBH I wouldn't have a tumble drier for anything you could pay me.

Main usage would be the washing machine and Tumble dryer - They are on a min 3-4x a day

This is your problem, right here. Why on earth are you doing so much washing and then tumble drying it all? Aside from the money it's costing you, what about the planet? It is waaaaay too much.

I have no idea what I should be paying but I owe them about 800quid so obviously wasn't enough!!! Hope that makes you feel better??
We are a family of 4 and have storage heaters.
I use the washing machine to much as sadly suffer ocd so everything is contaminated......and this was before covid!

The seal on your fridge might be broken

We do have a 22 YO fridge freezer with a broken seal (if you close it you can open it again straight away, for both the fridge and the freezer, we also have a second undercounter freezer and the difference is noticeable).

I thought our electric bill had gone up so I dug out a consumption meter and tested the old FF. It used hardly anything, maybe a couple of quid a week or something.

Ours is gas and elec combined, so not really comparable, but it gives me an excuse to vent.

Our payments are huge because DP didn't get round to reading the meters for months on end and they drastically underestimated our consumption. When he finally got round to it, and they updated the account, we owed them over £1,600 and I gave him the most almighty bollocking. We're paying £345 a month, that they've just reduced from £378.

They asked for a meter reading 3 weeks ago and he hasn't done it yet (the meter is in a stupid place I can't possibly get to, and they wanted several hundred to move it somewhere sensible). When we get the next bill, I want to pay it in full and switch to a company that will either send a meter reader like they used to or come and fit a smart meter without pissing me around for 3 different appointments that never happened like Shell Energy have.

What's your heating run on OP? A common reason for high electric bills is the wrong tariff or incorrect use of storage heaters, that are designed to run on economy 7 type heating, which only saves money if you use as intended and have an appropriate tariff, otherwise they can be £££ to run.

as others have said, comparing money is pointless. You need to tell us

• unit rate
• standing charge
• single meter or economy 7
• how your house is heated

although 3 x tumble dryer a day (don't you have any outside drying?) will guzzle money.

very few who start these kind of threads ever come back, but if you do we can probably help.

I too up £80 a month for five of us in a three bed. Three xboxes and a laptop often running concurrently! Sometimes we go over but rarely.

Using your tumble dryer will be doing it. It’s the worst energy sucker. Get a clothes horse.

149 last month. Four bed house but mostly only two adults living here, tho student DC come and go. Washing machine most days (DH and I do lots of sport) No gas boiler at the moment so water heated by electricity. Devices charging all the time. Underfloor hearing in kitchen, hall and four bathrooms