How much for gas & electric pcm?!

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Maybe I’m just blind to the rising costs but my energy company want to increase our monthly payments from £188 to £191 pcm to cover bills and a further £59 pcm to help reduce debt so we aren’t too deep in the negative next winter. I need to do a meter read in the hope that will help a bit butttt I doubt it.
So- are we using a stupid amount of energy?! 4 bed house, standard size I’d say, built 1991. Heating on in winter but on a timer so not all time. Summer obvs not on. 2 adult showers a day, one bath for kids but try and keep it shallow. Don’t have lights on really cos of day light. Yes we watch tv and use internet but no one working from home. dishwasher once a day, washing machine once a day sometimes twice, tumble dryer used but not every day.
We’ve obviously got some debt hence the £59 payment but £191 a month, is that right?!

We're not in credit, pretty much on the right £. We fixed last Sept when it was cheaper to do so but the cap has now dropped so would be cheaper for us to be on variable now. I'm so looking forward to switching our tariff next week when we can do and reducing our £.

We pay £110 a month for both via direct debit. Electricity is about £75 and £35 for gas. Last month we spent £18 on gas but the direct debit covers winter increase.

This has dropped since prices were crazy high. I am also on a fixed rate. Both for approximately 12 months, at a slightly lower rate than the current variable tariffs available.

We get 5% interest on our credit with Ovo. It’s there to cover winter months so we don’t have to worry about increasing the heating in cold spells and if we don’t use all of it it we pull a chunk out in spring. It’s was about £300 credit by the end of winter when we drew it out this year.

Mine's about £80 a month for dual fuel. I adult and a cat. Two bed bungalow.

I pay when I get the bill and I have a smart meter so I can check when ever I want.

I actually use more electricity in summer. My place is very well insulated, once it is warm it stays that way so in summer I have fans and portable AC.

3 bed 1870s semi….we have smart metre so pay what we use every month…..2 of us….last month was £78

Big Victorian semi, with lots of solar, 2 of us, 1 wfh, the other wfh 2 days pw. We pay £127 pm, and currently in a lot of credit. We have gas heating, water and hob, an electric oven, dishwasher, washer dryer etc. Last summer we had most of our windows replaced, and that seems to have reduced our heating bill significantly. In fact, even with the pants weather for most of this summer, solar seems to be covering most of our electricity usage. I don't think we are typical, but it does make sense of the OP's usage.

Without meter readings no-one can do anything other than speculate why your payments are so high so I would get them read ASAP.
Also having debt during summer is not a good thing, if paying by DD this is when you want to be building up a surplus, not paying down debt.
Do you have a SM, if not I thoroughly recommend you get one so you can see your usage in real time?
Had a SM almost since they came out and think they are great. Had an issue with ours when we moved a couple of years ago so got into the habit of taking manual readings each month and still do it.

Other people's DD's/usage are of no real relevance as only you know how you are using your G&E.
That said, our DD is £50/M with actual usage currently £75/M but we have a good surplus hence the disparity (4-bed det).

4 bed semi here, £200 pm all year round. I don’t scrimp with the heating and cook a lot (oven) so I think that’s ok in this new era of expensive fuel costs.

Not rich but very asthmatic, living in a house that wasn’t warm would be an issue for my chest. I’ve cut my holiday budget dramatically to live in a warm house all year round.

I went into the winter last year with a £1000 credit, I think I was paying £140 pm last year, that has gone so I expect I’ll be in for more this year.

4 bed draughty Victorian terrace with single glazing and we pay £185 at the moment, which is about right. We both work from home, but in the winter unless it is a proper cold snap, have the heating on in the morning and evening only.

I pay £200 a month but I’m in debt…this is hardly touching the debt. I hardly had my heating on last winter because of the expense but I still accumulated debt. I’m with e.on next and after several complaints about them refusing to take my readings instead choosing to use estimated readings they refunded a years worth of monthly over payments, but somehow this hasn’t reduced the debt at all!

I live ina small 3 bed semi and pay £95 pcm. But we don't have a tumble dryer and are frugal/well insulated in the winter.

With the usage you describe, that sounds about right.

2 bed apartment
Gas for hob and heating and water
Electric oven

Usually about 40 electric and 15 gas in summer
I'm paying £120pm to clear debt from winter

We lay just under £300 a month for electricity and gas.
This month's bill was about £220 so we are in credit over the summer so far.

There are 3 adults living here (3storey, 4 bed, end townhouse, about 18 year old house, new boiler last year)

However, we have 3 electric cars. DD does a fair amount for driving to and from work so charges fairly frequently. Dh probably charges once a week, me less so. Me and dd only charge during off peak times - midnight to 7am on our tariff. Dh sometimes charges outside of this but that will change in September when dd leaves.)
We have gas central heating and water, gas hob.
Pretty much everything else is electric.

Dd moves away at the end of the summer so our electricity is likely to drop a quite a lot due to much less EV charging.

It will be interesting to see how much a difference it will make having one less adult and not charging an EV every week nights.

We live in 4 bed detached built in 2018. It’s very well insulated. Our combined direct debit is £125 a month, we’re £360 in credit. I’m at home all day.

Our bills will change soon though because we’ve ordered an EV

We pay about £150 per month , large 4 bed detached (SE) , don’t limit use of anything and did have a fair bit of credit going into the winter . It may go up a bit this winter . No smart meter .

£225 a month here, no credit but no debt either. 3 bed Victorian semi, high ceilings, stained glass windows, old boiler system. It was £300 a few months ago. We are desperately trying to get it down, not sure if there will be much heating going on this winter.

Hi guys. Am a newbi on here. Havent slept a wink all night and its now 4:00am. I happended to check by bank account last night and found E-ON have taken £175 for my gas and electric for this month. I am on a pay monthly plan and am living by myself in a one bedroom small bungalow. Am disabled so am usually in most of the time and usually only use hot water for washing up and shower. I feel so sick over this as am unable to work and am on benefits so this usage amount is going to ruin my life.

Our 5 bed ( sometimes with 6 people in) costs around 170 per month and we are in credit on both gas and electric

edited to add - house is 3 years old and we have a smart meter

It might be that they are predicting you will use a lot more over the winter so have upped your payment. Give them a call today.

£175pcm does seem a lot I pay £102pcm year round for a three bed. I work at home so the heating is on quite a bit. I have the thermostat set to 17 and have the heating set to come on whenever it dips below that.

I’m paying £120 for a large two bed flat. Using everything when I want to. It hasn't risen in ages, but I am £300 in credit.

What? I’m on my own - barely put heating on, or tumble dryer no dishwasher. Only 2 years old the flat. Costs me 160 a mth. What is going on??

5 bed detached north Kent, £340pm EDF, £60 in credit. We also burn £1,500 of wood a year. House isn’t even warm :-(

So I phoned the power company today and had a long conv with an employee. I told him the costs they were taking out my account. What really peed me off, was the part of the conv whereby he said he would see if he could reduce it a little by using his own employee option. I dont know how to describe it best, but it is something the staff can do sometimes by adding a slight reduction to the bills using their individual discernment - thus keeping another user from moving over to another company. That made me realise just how much these companies are no different that say a cell phone company. I have to wait now for an engineer to come over and check the meter for faults.

I wonder if there's a big variation between providers reading the last few posts. I feel fortunate mine is on the lower side. I've been with Octopus for years and I trust them not to be screwing customers over. If anyone wants to look into switching to them, if you use my referral link you would get £50 off, and they would give me £50 off too.

https://share.octopus.energy/ocean-ash-794

The biggest variation is in the amount people use. Price per unit, not so much, 10-20% at most.

Some of it will be necessary due to disability, but most of the time it will be just due to a larger household/bigger house or excessive/wasteful use eg heating on all night, over-frequent laundry, using tumble dryer in good weather, leaving lights on etc.