to ask how much you pay for Gas and Elec each month?

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AIBU to think £100 per month is a bit ouch for a 3 bed home??

That is real, genuine meter reading bill. I was horrified. Now paying £200 a month. Have combi boiler, dishwasher, no tumble drier, all usual appliances. Huge draughty house with single glazed windows and high ceilings. We are both at home pretty much all the time as we both work from home and this winter was bastard cold. But still it seems like a lot to rack up in 3 months.

No not growing weed in the loft...though perhaps I should start to pay off the massive gas/leccy bill .

We pay £140 a month for a 4 bed (Victorian, so high ceiling-ed) semi.
This is for both gas and electric. We are in credit at the moment though!

Thanks June I will definitely have a look into that. I am with Scottish Power at the moment.

Shit!!! Ours is over £300 a month! We have a 1 bed flat!!!

£110 for both.2 bed massionette. use tumble drier and dishy once a day, but both very new and good energy rating. just started hanging washing out again so should reduce the leccy...

was with edf but have switched back to southern elec as the price is considerably lower per unit, guess they have to find the money to sponser the olympics somehow...

should be interesting as we get a free energy meter thing, will reveal how much is going on what.

bloody hell tigerbear, you've made me feel a bit better but that is seriously wrong!

Oh bugger! I think it's because Eon said we had been underpaying for years (it used to be about £60 per month) so they whacked it right up! Has had a huge effect on us and we're really short at the end of each month now. No idea how to rectify the situation - Eon say they've set the new amount as an estimate, but hadn't realised til reading this thread what a huge amount we're paying! Will def call Eon tomorrow!

Last quarter mine was £500 for Gas and £250 for elec.£ bed house. something amiss?They said it was an actual reading?!

sorry that was meant to say 3 bed house!

£66 a month for both. And got £90 cashback from TopCashback.com for changing tariff on NPower (literally money for nothing!).

We have one of those energy meter thingie we got free. Dh says it costs about 80p a day in electric if we were on standard tariff.

We have a two bed terrace.

On average throughout the year about £110 a month for both more in winter, less in summer. 3 bed, only part double glazed end of terrace. We use a lot of electric as need lights on bright all the time because of dp's visual impairment.

£125 for both 4 bed house.

£80 for both per month over the last year, 3 bed Victorian end terrace, rarely have heating on during the day, but use tumble dryer in winter. Cook with gas. Also spent £150 on logs this winter for woodburner though, without which we might have used the heating more. Definitely worth using one of the comparison websites and also cashback websites.

mrsdinky you pay for your logs?!! You want to get to know a tree surgeon or two and check out freecycle for wood...will save you a fortune.

£150 pm for 2 bed flat. BUT E7 heating (crap!!!)

less in Summer, more in Winter. That is the average.

Don't know any tree surgeons, and never had any luck on Freecycle, they always get heaps of people asking, or enormous bits that need chainsawing. Agree £150 was excessive, but we have used it an awful lot this last 6 months.

probably about £160 amonth for both in winter and half that in summer for a 3 bed detached

shame - i know two tree surgeons and I don't even have a woodburner...yet!

Currently on about £60 total for both but I'm at home on maternity leave, have a tumble dryer for nappies (on most of the winter) and it was pretty cold here over the snowy period so had the heating on loads.

We have a 2 bed semi.

Our bills were £400 a month for both when we first moved in until we realised the house had practically no insulation at all and had the worlds most inefficient boiler It's an army house so in a bad way!

So we've basically had to be really tough with ourselves and not use the tumble dryer and not put the heating on even when it was really cold and we're down to £100 a month... still not had this quarters bill though as we are on DD to see if we went over that.

currently £16 a month for both

for a 2 bed terrace

2 bed teeny tiny semi £37 a month for both
Im a sahm, tv on from breakfast to bedtime, washer on everyday, pc often on.

through the winter i was paying £60 a month for both got a bill after 5 months and i was £90 in credit in total yey! They reduced payments to £37 a month for both but i expect that may not be enough to cover it even with credit but taking advantage of savings each month for time being.

Used to use tumble dryer for 1-2 hours a day but made it a new years resolution 2009 to stop so only used it a handful number of times in the past year. TBH it was starting to work badly taking 2 hours to dry what used to take 45 minutes. The rest has done it good as now i only use it occasionally but once again it only takes 45 minutes to dry a load.

If the weather is good it gets pegged out, if its bad the heating is usually on so put it on radiators and anything that doesnt crease and therefore needs no ironing get puts on hangers and hang on curtain poles upstairs to catch the hot air as it rises.

I used to love the simplicity of chucking it from washer to dryer and the lack of ironing required as well but the biggest motivation for me is the fact the dryer used to shrink a lot of dd clothes meaning i had to buy her new ones more often as well as pay to run the thing.

My philosophy ladies...If its on we're paying for it!

£100 in the winter, electricity only, studio flat, no tumble drier.

£72 per month. That's the price for over the winter. That's for both gas and electric. We live in a 3 bedroom flat with 4 adults.
The shower is the most expensive thing and we all have laptops, televisions, stereos etc.
3 adults are here for the majority of the day.

No tumble dryer.