to think that £156 is a very high electricity bill for 30 days??

[AliBean]

Please can I have opinions based on your own experiences?

To put it in perspective we live in a old farmhouse with stone walls. All our heating, cooking and water is powered by electricity.
We are on economy 7 and have mostly storage hheaters but two electric dimplex heaters upstairs.

We have only lived here since November and the bill for Nov-Dec was £280 which was a huge shock but since then we have been really careful and to have been presented with another bill for the equivilent monthly sum is very worrying.

Does anyone know who I should call to get the metre inspected?

TIA

We are in a 2 bedroomed flat. We get 2 bills a year. Our first bill was for £680. We are with n-power. My dh phoned and we are now on a cheaper tariff. Our direct debit will be £90 per month.

Hope this helps a bit. Phone the power supplier and see if you can get on a cheaper tariff.

I would have thought your energy supplier would look at it if you complained.

I've just got this quarter's for a modern 4 bed house not on any special tariff & it's £660 for duel fuel. Don't know if it helps you to compare at all but if you're getting everything for £156 per month in an old house I'd have thought that was quite good.

yes, just ask them. They can come and look at it (sometimes they put something on it that measures the daily usage...can't remember how it works!). You can even start doing that yourself.

It's an expensive time of year for heating though (have just got our gas bill ).

Holy moly. I pay £19 a month for elec and £40 a month for gas - in a 3 bed semi. We're with Southern Electric and have gas central heating. Call your electric company and get them to inspect the meter and check which tariff you are on as there are many. Check the lagging in your loft and plug any drafts you may have. Good luck...

well economy seven is about 25p per unit at night compared to 15p ish per unit at night.

i know this a supposed to be a neccesity, as storage heater power up over night.

so you are talking about 4 weeks or so, i know that prices have gone up loads, and i rely on gas for heating so have been in shock about my bill, yet yours seems like it's about £40 a week.

I live in a smalll 2 bed house, and my gas on average with frugal use had been about £17 a week, and about £10 electric. If you are in an old framhouse, then i would say that figue, altho horrendous, is comparable to my bill. iyswim.

Ours for the same period was £320 on pre payment meter. But we have called Npower about this who have said that the bill cannot possibly right and they are currently looking into it for us.

But as I owe them money on teh gas account any money they owe us will be taken off that [anngry] I wanted cold hard cash to buy new clothes to go with my shiny bouncy new hair.

SheSells - 320 for 30 days or 90 days?

Bearing in mind you have everything running on electric that doesn't sound too unlikely.

We have gas cooker, CH and HW and still pay £50 a month. You have all electric, and storage heaters cost a bomb to run.

Nov to Dec so 30 days I guess. We put about a tenner every other day on the meter if not more i.e. sometimes its every day.

We pay £157 a month for electic.

To be fair dh does have a office full of computer servers ect which are on all the time.

Hmm it would seem that I am being unreasonable then and it is about right.

Gutted...thats the new rug put back for another month!

Thanks for all your responses.

Only one more point -the watchdog team have got a piece on their website about meters pricing and others such stuff it may be worth a look as people on economy 7 were featured in the last report

it's worth checking though ali

We live in an old farmhouse, heating done by oil and our electricity is £165 a month so no I don't think so.

We're an all electric three bedded semi detached with fairly good insulation and we'd get through about £150 of electric a month in the winter. I think our last quarterly bill was for around the £550 mark (and they were both read readings rather than the usual guesstimate)