Gas snd electric scary

[TheOpalFox]

Does anyone pay £300 a month gas and electric? Theres no way its that high surely? :(scary if it is!!!
One adult one child
No dishwasher, no tumble drier
Scary

That’s very expensive! 5 of us here, all adults & my disabled DH is almost housebound so there's always someone home. We were paying £220 over winter & are £200 in credit so have reduced DD to £180 which will still let us build up a good buffer for the cold months!

Yep my dd is for £285 in winter and we only have the heating on for an hour and 20 mins in the morning and 2 hours at night. Apart from the heatwave we're having now, the house always feels cold.

You have air-con can I come live with you im really tidy 😁

£350 a month. 3 kids 2 adults.
I wfh, we have an ev and husband does around 35k miles a yr. Washer and dishwasher on daily.
We were spending £250 a month on petrol before getting an ev so it's having an ev has saved us alot of money.

About £95 electric average across 12 months. We don’t hold back.
Oil heating.

No, ours is £200 per month for 2 adults and 2 DC in a 4 bed house.

£235 a month gas and electric total, but that runs 2 EVs. Probably saved that much a month in petrol.

We've only just managed to tip into a positive balance from Winter, so we'll have a few months of building up credit and the cycle repeats.

It's not unusual for us to have the heating on late September (we're in Scotland lol).

@LittlleMy what a silly response.

The uk energy price cap average is near £1800 a year

if you are spending more than this and your payment is right you are a high user and if you think the cost is high you need to reduce your usage by finding out how your usage is so high with maybe the exception if you have an EV

smart meter is a good way of finding this OP or there are devices online you can buy cheaply to measure electric use of your house appliances to find out whats eating leccy

It's much more useful to know the actual usage in kWh than the spend.

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/information-consumers/energy-advice-households/average-gas-and-electricity-use-explained

Knowing that is useful - and then people should really give their usage in kWh.

Typical 2 - 2 3 bed house - 11,500 kWh gas, 2700 kWh, electricity

Otherwise it's like people saying "We spend £300 a year on oranges and apples. Is that a lot?"

We pay £275 year round. Our usage is pretty low in the summer months but very high in the winter months. 5 of us living in a 4 bed poorly insulated detached house. One of us is always at home and I have my heating on all day (16hrs) in the cooler months.

Around £100 a month for duel fuel, 2 adults in a 2 bed house, WFH. No tumble dryer or dishwasher, we’re Utilita so no standing charges, at the moment we’re not using any gas so building credit ready for the winter when we switch the heating on. Do you have a smart meter? Can you see where it’s all going?

To be fair, OP didn’t provide anywhere near enough information to begin with, and they haven’t bothered to come back.

I pay combined £40 a month gas and electric for a two bed house. Just myself and my teen son

Is that your direct debit amount, or what you actually use?

Really.?

How much usage do you have in kWh and have you got anything like solar panels?

That seems very cheap - as the standing charges are about £200 a year

Have we learned nothing from the endless threads about energy costs when the prices first went

Quoting a monthly direct debit is absolutely meaningless it's own

Its like me saying is £100 a month for petrol a lot? Without saying what kind of car I drive, how many miles I do a month, what kind of fuel I use, do I go to the supermarket or buy premium fuel it's so silly

Can someone explain why they think it's helpful?

Clearly not.....

I pat 325 a month, we use our washing machine and tumble dryer all the time

40 a month????

@Katemax82yes £20 on each a month. We dont watch tv we watch programs on our phones, we dont use big lights at night only lamps. We both have a 5 minute shower in the evening and I use a slow cooker or air fryer for most meals. As it’s only us two I only need to do two loads of washing a week and don’t own a dish washer

What's your usage in kWh?

A 5 minute shower - is that an electric shower?

How do you heat your house?

We’re 5 adults in a 4 bed house, big electricity users. We’re with Octopus.

My direct debit is £330. I submit meter readings every month and my actual charges come out at about £295 for the last couple of months.
i always have a healthy credit on the account, currently about £500, which I shan’t touch, it’s my safety net, it means I could skip a month’s payment if an emergency came up, like savings that are really awkward to access.

What's your consumption? I am quite curious considering average standing charges add up to half of what you pay, morre for electricity less for gas. So you spend like a fiver on electricity so around 20kwh a month? Even fridge draws at least 1kwh a day?

£365, big house, 5 of us and an EV.

Does nobody know their usage in kWh!!!