what is your monthly electricity bill and how big is your house?

[user927464]

Im trying to get an idea of whether what we use is normal for the size of our house. I've been making real efforts to reduce the amount of electricity we use but it's still going to be over £100 this month. DC have just gone back to uni and so it should drop a bit next month but not dramatically.

We charge an electric car and have electric showers, electric oven, etc. Last months electricity cost us £216!!
Gas was £28

Electric £117 gas £21 3 bedroom semi with octopus

Ours is a small 3 bed (2 + boxroom), electric showers, electric oven, ours is about £75 to £80 a month. We noticed a £20 reduction when both our daughters went off to uni at the same time.

Ireland here - roughly €100 a month for a 2-bedroom detached bungalow, covering cooking, water heating, lighting, TV, domestic appliances and computer use. No gas.

About £160 per month for gas and electricity.
4 bed semi, gas central heating

My usage this last month was £65 for electricity.
Three bed terrace, small, one telly, mixer shower, loads of tumble drying.

2 bed semi. I WFH half the week. Me and my DD12 here. Although she spends half the week at her dad's. Around £45-£55 per month for electric.

I run the washer and tumble dryer about three times per week as well in that.

£60 a month looking at the most recent bill.

Between £70 and £200 depending on time of year. 4 bed detached.

Interesting to read the huge gaps especially the £45 per month. I am being extremely careful with no heating and only "cooking" with a microwave. Washing/drying 4 loads a week but 2 showers a day (2 people). I'm hitting £65 a month with Sainsbury’s Energy and don't know where I can cut back so I can have the heating on. I'm only on PIP atm so money is quite tight.

We have a gas hob and no electric showers, so electric is lighting, oven, washer/dryers, computers etc.

I pay duel fuel for Gas and electricity at £150 per month.
Gas central heating / cooker.
Electric fire.
Dishwasher/ Tumble dryer.
3 bedroom house.
Wet room with electric shower.
Kitchen.. living room .. dining room.
I pay same each month .. so come winter I'm in credit from the summer.. so l never have to pay more in winter.

According to my app (I give readings each month) my average combined gas and electricity usage £53 per month.

3 bed. Gas heating and water and hob and electric oven

£250 a month, 4 adults (1gamer and 1wfh) and 1 child. For electricity and gas combined. With octopus. It feels very high.

The DC use the playstation a lot and Im hoping that with them being away this will make a difference. It seems to use a LOT when they are streaming stuff.

I wouldn't have thought a PlayStation used that much electricity.

£100 is relatively high of that's just for electricity but I'd be looking at cooking, showering, tumble drying and anything else that produces heat or possibly an air conditioner as the culprit.

Is that the bill for the month based on readings? How do you pay and have you checked you can get a better deal?

5 bedrooms, detached, in a field, middle of no where , in N. Ireland, elderly mother at home all day, Im home from 10am, DH is home all day 4 days a week. no gas, - £400 a quarter

And now we have the car to add to that - although now DH has no diesel costs , only had the car a week or more and its working out at £10 a charge so another £120 to add to that

Its not the electric that's a killer, even though that's 30p per unit , its the heating costs , we are oil heating, that's hovering around 52p a litre at the moment., but when there's conflict and shortages, it can go as high as £1.20 a litre - and has done loads of times in the past 10 years

@user927464 the things that cost the most to run are anything that heats or cools - kettles, ovens, hot tubs, ice machines , fridges and freezers , tumble dryers , showers, hair dyers etc

We have LED lights everywhere, we have the TVs set to eco modes . I cook using the air fryers , slow cooker and microwave - had to wipe the dust out of the oven this week when I needed it to cook a pizza lol

Pay £90 per month dual fuel on a fixed tariff with Octopus via direct debit and currently in credit
3 bed + box room/office.

2 people since March
I wfh full-time and other person once/twice per week
One electric shower
Gas CH
electric oven but use air fryer/microwave almost exclusively - used oven twice this year

OP, you're asking the wrong questions. What other people with different household sizes, appliances, insulation, attitudes to electricity use, occupancy times, tariffs etc etc use doesn't help explain the size of your electricity bill.

Our electricity bill is about £55-60 pm and we are all electric except for GCH so cook and shower using electric. We're not especially careful about turning lights off. So over £100 for a month of electricity especially if you have gas on top sounds like quite a lot but you need to work out what it is going on and then see if it can be reduced.

Also, is that £100 the actual cost of electricity you used last month or is it based on estimated readings or your DD amount, because half the time when people quote a bill on here, it's one of those and not the actual cost.

Approx £100 a month. We’re electric for most things, oven, hob, showers, charging car

Gas and electric £90. 3 bed house, 2 adults, 2 kids (3 and 4 months). We are very conservative though.

Sept usage was £37 add on standing charges etc it was £62. The heating clicked on twice @17 for 15 mins. ( smart thermostat and smart meter so can see history) old fix that ended that month. We we were away 5 days too.

We pay £130 a month to OVO every month, 3 bed semi two adults. Our bill will be easy that ( and more) once the heating is on more. But we heat to around 18/19 and it’s not on all the time unless its cold cold. We have plenty credit which at the end of winter we draw out what we don’t use leaving around £100 in and it builds back over summer. We do jumpers warm socks etc and have blankets of the couch.

No gas in the house, so all electric

3 bed detached

used to be £160 a month, just had solar panels installed and the first full month we paid £45

Are you on a social tariff? It might be worth getting a couple of quotes.

I'm with EDF and I also use a cash back site (top cash back) so renewing with EDF via the cash back site I got £75. It took about 3 months to come through.

OP

I pay about £75 per month for gas and electric. I'm in a 2 bed semi detached bungalow.

But it is just me and a cat so I can 'warm the person, not the room'.

At the moment I pay 48 a month for electric and 28 for gas, 2 bed semi, electric oven used every day, washing machine is on everyday, electric shower which is used daily, but that will soon go up now we are going into the colder months