Bloody hell! Energy Bill £220!

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I've been quite frugal with gas and electricity this month but it's still £220! Help!

This was our daily rate when the temperature outside was low. We have to use heating because we have a small child.

My actual usage was £306 and I thought I was being tight with the heating!

Just checked my bill - we've used 3340 kw 😲

No idea how it's so high. It's a Victorian semi so not super efficient at holding heat.

£345 for electric (don't have gas)

For my quarterly bill - actual useage

5 bed house and I'm home most of day. That doesn't include heating though we have oil and wood burner

I haven't used tumble dryer but I use dishwasher daily.

I only need to pay £145 though because of the £66 we are given monthly

I’m not sure of my actual usage yet, @reddA, but from looking at the meter it’s going to be an expensive month - probably about £800 for gas and electric combined (half my heating is gas, half electric underfloor heating). I’m stuck in a stupidly large house for another year until I can sell it when my divorce goes through, and it’s old, so not easy to keep warm. My heating is set to either 16 (gas central heating thermostat) or 17-18 (underfloor individual thermostats in each room), so hardly tropical (last year the gas heating was generally set to 18, and the underfloor set to 20-21, so quite a drop in use)

it sounds as though you have a well insulated house. Mine isn’t, and can’t be upgraded easily. I am really looking forward to being able to move!

Mine gas and electric was 260
minus off the 67 so 190 ish

gas has been set at 19 on the thermostat
we don’t stint on electric or gas use

House is well insulated and we have shutters & roller blinds on every window
insulated curtains at front door & patio doors which I think as helped

Actually, just had a quick calculation, and think this months’ bill might be around £600, not £800. Still ridiculous, though, as we’re still all sat under blankets/wearing oodies etc

@ElfDragon I really don't understand it, I've not bee on prepayment before so I assume they can't come back to me and say there was a mistake - really hope not anyway!!

@ElfDragon
my son recently bought a huge 2 bed 2 bath flat has wet underfloor heating and it’s so cheap to heat his flat
I always thought it was really expensive to run but the heating comes from a ground source pump in the buildings grounds - think that’s right words for it

It cost him £10 a week roughly to keep it on at 19 and the flat is boiling

he’s actually switched it off 3 days ago and the flat is still really warm .

he put his wet clothes in the utility room last night and they dried within an hour 😂

It’s got double height ceilings and balcony doors so you wouldn’t think it would stay warm and retain the heat but its amazing

Well yes, mine is £248 so far this month. It’s been bloody cold.

220 is pretty low for this time of year at current prices.

@Yabado i wish mine was that cheap to run 😂 Sadly I’m stuck in a massive 6 bedroom place, over 3 floors. My kitchen/main reception room with underfloor heating are both huge rooms (each over 20 square meters) which are impossible to keep warm without having the underfloor heating at over 20 degrees, and I just can’t afford that. Those rooms shouldn’t be heated by underfloor heating alone, the spaces are just too big. It’s a lovely house in a heat wave, as it always tends to the cool side, but a nightmare in winter, especially when costs are so high.

on my last quarterly bill, I had managed to cut my electricity usage by 2/3 compared to last year, so I am doing well, but I really can’t cut it any further without being uncomfortably cold (and I have 3 disabled children), or causing issues with damp in the property.

With the price cap being what it is and the estimate of an "typical"* household paying £2,500 over a year for dual fuel, I'm more surprised that people are shocked by bills being a few hundred a month over winter.

*this is based on a household of 2.4 people that consumes 2,900kWh of electricity and 12,000kWh of gas each year.

@ElfDragon
😂 definitely bigger than my sons which is big for a two bed flat
the balcony doors are around 15ft high

My sons got no other heating just the underfloor heating but I was shocked at how cheap it was

the building was built to be eco friendly cheap heating renewable energy that’s why my son bought it for the cheap energy cost

We're on a prepayment meter because of the previous owners, and eOn is pretending they can't change it.

Our last month cost was £616.

We're in Scotland, and have a large draughty house, and we're home all day. Getting some new windows next month, which will hopefully help.

But aargh. It is so much.

Our combined gas and electricity was just over £200, for one week! We did have the heating on all the time because I'm at home with the children whilst on mat leave and the children nap so we need heating on upstairs too. It's a fairly big house...

This week's reading will seem much more reasonable compared to last week!

We live in a 3 bed semi, very well insulated, gas ch, gas hot water, gas cooker, electric as normal, dishwasher, washing machine, occasional tumble dryer use, heat lamps for a tortoise plus 2 small oil radiators that are now on 2 x half an hour each per day to heat the porch and utility room. We have the hot water on for 3 hours a day on and off, plus timed ch for 1 1/2 hours in the evening for bath and shower times. When it was cold we had the heating on a few hours more in the daytime but we never have it on overnight and very very rarely in the morning.

I've just checked our readings, the month's bill from October 14th to November 14th was £174 all in, including everything. From the 14th until now our electric usage is £25 ish, gas £19 ish, and that includes the very cold spell. We're on the standard variable rate. I thought we're doing ok but looking at the high bills people are talking about I'm doubting my maths, hence why I'm checking them again!
2 adults here, one out the house all day, me in a lot as I work part time. No young children.

Your workings definitely sound wrong @Curlygirl06

Roughly £230
But in summer it would be £85 or less
So this is not a average monthly bill
We have had a real cold snap as well

@Curlygirl06 yeah tumble dryer here too - I find the kettle uses the most electric, we have fans on too - me all night due to menopause and lodger all day due to working nights so stops any noise. DD back from uni also so more showers - electric so that adds up but still low overall and it confuses me more than anything.

Mine was combined £563.01
£396 was gas. Had the heating on constant 19 degrees between 6am and 9pm. That was over a period of 25days.
Can't believe how expensive it's become

Just got an email from Eon the other day saying that prices are going up again 1 Jan!

Mine was £344...eek.

That does sound cheap.

Especially the gas.

That's quite low. Good work