Hiw much was your January gas and elec bill?

[chonka901]

This is mine,£285 and I wouldn't say it has been particularly cosy warm.

We set the thermo to 15 at night and up to 17 in the afternoon to take the chill off and get the radiators warmer.

This is for a 1930 three bed semi.

It isnt going to get better is it?

2 bed terrace combined total £76.

235. 3 bed end terrace

Bloody hell, this thread is making me feel better! Mine's £195 all in. Victorian 2 bed with high ceilings but new boiler. Heating comes on for an hour and a half in the morning, then 6pm-10pm. The rest of the day the thermostat is set to 17. If we're home in the day we will pop it on as the temp drops quite quickly. I pay monthly based on use so looking forward to the warmer months.

£133 electricity and £88 gas so £221 in total. And we were away for a week over New Year. 4 bed 1930s semi, 2 adult living here!

Gulp. £343. It's an electric only, 4-bed detached. I wouldn't mind paying that much if I'd been toasty warm for the month but I've been freezing. Roll on Spring!

Definitely not going to get any better.

I have started using the Feb and March no council tax months to pay down the gas and electric bill. As in I pay the equivalent amount of my total council tax as an extra energy payment. It helps a bit psychologically.

Last bill was £142.

60's semi with insulation. Heating set to 17.5 morning and evening, 16.5 in the day in the week. Treat ourselves to 18 or even 18.5 for a few hours on the weekend. Occasionally go up to 19 if I desperately need to get washing dry.

just over £150 for December, for four bed detached house. All electric, with heating on all the time (heat pump). That also includes charging for 2 EVs, so no petrol/diesel costs

To be honest no idea, we pay £121 a month for both and are in credit a fair amount. Modern townhome

Please tell me the heat pump makes it cheaper. We're just in the process of having it fitted instead of electric radiators.

£67.61 for both combined for December. Two bedroomed converted flat, built 1737 with sash windows so little point having heating on much. No tumble dryer or dishwasher.

Heat pump went in at the start of December - and its saved us £50 on December last year.
And house is super warm too - set at 20 during the day so nice and warm when I'm working from home. but there were parts of the house that were always cold, and the bigger radiators, combined with having the heating on all the time mean even those rooms are warm now. It's really worked out well for us 😊

Heat pumps are much cheaper. Nothing costs more to run than electric radiators.

This has been very interesting reading. This house is always cold - I assumed it was because it is poorly insulated (it is) but my bill was £240. I thought that was loads although we were home a lot more over Christmas and it was cold. But actually I should probably turn the heating on for longer as £240 for a draughty high ceilinged 5 bedroom house seems on the low side (though we don't have a tumble drier and I rarely use the oven).

I should also explain @LeafofLorien that our costs are cheaper because we have EVs and battery storage...
so because we're on an EV tariff we get electricity cheap (7p per kwh, I think) between 11.30pm and 5.30am. So we charge one of the vehicles overnight
But we also have 15kw battery storage capacity installed, which we also charge overnight
these then give us enough energy to run the house till the evening - so there's probably only a few hours when we're taking electricity from the grid at higher charges

Relieved to hear this. I feel like we've been burning money to stay a bit less cold this Winter.

£250 for dec. a few years back it was £490 as was 10p for gas - now 5p so happy days

I pay £150 all year round so can have heating on in winter - was paying more. They reduced it and this seems to cover it

summer bill is usually much less

tho have a spa so electricity is higher in June July aug sept

3 bed semi. Usually on all day as I’m home and evening as dd here

You pretty much have been. Apart from maybe very small, very well-insulated flats, I never understand why anyone chooses to install electric radiators. I suppose the way they’re marketed has a lot to answer for.

That's a great hack, we also have an EV and have been looking at the best tariff to swap to (that or an air source heat pump tariff etc). Hoping the solar panels help too, but not sure how much in Winter since we don't have battery storage.

I can’t stand it.

£116- Electricity
£115- Gas

5 bedroomed 16 year old house.

Mine was an insane £266 for electric and £274 for gas do I win 😭 . I do have an electric car but it is crazy prices I have been emailing octopus today about it. I pay £360 dd ever month. My work colleagues couldn’t believe it. I usually average around £400

We find it better to charge everything overnight @LeafofLorien then we sell any surplus electricity we get from the solar back to the grid
makes sense to do it that way as we can charge stuff when the electricity costs us 7p per kwh, and we can sell surplus back to the grid at 15p per kWh
we're on the EV tariff with Octopus, but we don't sell back to them, think we sell to ScottishPower
although obviously not getting much in the way of solar energy from the panels just now!

That honestly such a clever way to do it. The only barrier to us is the storage battery, will have to price up if it is worth the initial cost to come back to us in savings later down the line.

£170 most recent bill, 4 bed 1930s semi. Heating at 18C one hour in the morning, two hours in the evening. Clothing mostly dried on heated airer. Got rid of gas fire.