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.

Victorian 3 bed semi with no cavity wall. £140 a month for gas and electricity. Currently £350 in credit.

About £60 per month electricity only with eon. Never use our tumble dryer or dishwasher through choice. Four bed semi.
Oil fired central heating.

When I started to WFH I thought getting an oil filled heater to heat my home office would be more efficient & cheaper than heating the whole house. But when I ran the consumption numbers to work out actual costs I was astonished to see the numbers show it was actually cheaper to put the central heating on & heat the whole house than it was to run a "small efficient" electric oil filled radiator.

You wouldn't think this was the case but it was. Always worth collecting the data & running the numbers for yourself.

£70 for both electricity and gas. 2 bed end of terrace live alone but full time home worker.

Flipping heck, we have a 5 bed detached and pay 200 a month all year round. However we haven’t put our heating on yet, trying to hold on a few more days!

4 bed plus office/outbuilding. £122 this month with Octopus.

About £50 for electricity and £20 for gas - last statement. 4 bedroomed detached house. I’m with Octopus. I have just sold the house and moving to a 3 bed now the kids are older. I’m on my own most of the time (and tend to go to bed early and mess around on my phone). Hardly ever have the TV on 😝.

My son was a gamer (until he went to uni, got himself a part time job and a girlfriend). My electric bill dropped quite significantly once the XBox started to become redundant!

Ours is Victorian detached. £350 a month electricity and gas, but that puts us in a small credit. Last several years we have kept the thermostat at 18 degrees and turn off the radiators in rooms we don't use and shut the doors.

This year we are trying to not turn on the heating at all unless it gets below 15 degrees. I said this under another name on another thread and got castigated hard for being cheap and told that I was being stupid to live like that. By a person who lives in a one bedroom flat....

We have lost 70% of our income in the past 2 months. We can't afford it.

Yes 2 adults (including the gamer ) are hopefully getting their own place next year!!

I’m also moving to an A EPC grade house (even though I love old houses). Hopefully, my bills will reduce further.

That’s not bad for a Victorian house 🏠.

£240/month for gas and electric. 8 bedroom 5 storey Victorian terrace. 8 people living here. We are pretty stingy with heating but the house mostly holds heat ok once it’s warmed up.

£140 pm 2 bed B rated bungalow (quite large) for both gas and elec- elec is about £85 of that but, my husband is home most of the time due to disabilities and some of his conditions also mean extra showers, laundry, heating. I WFH one day of the week as well. Elec oven but mainly use air fryer, dishwasher, tumble dryer used frequently due to health issues.

Will you be at a level where you qualify for insulation grants now @BlindSpotForCats? A huge problem for domestic energy use in the UK is how badly insulated the housing stock is. https://british.insulationscheme.org/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21378572533&gbraid=0AAAAA90wWmjyvStZZN9hcE_lrLPnDaUoX&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_ICXlq6hkAMVVpRQBh3cZA0hEAAYAiAAEgIbEPD_BwE

Loft & wall insulation was the first thing we did in ours when we moved in. That was back in David Cameron's environmental aware days, when insulation grants were available to everyone - before it became 'cut the green crap'.

The lack of long-term view on insulation & national energy independence from successive governments has been dispiriting, not to mention the fact that households using whopping amounts of energy had it ALL subsidised by about 20p/unit throughout the worst 2021-23 price spikes. That was around £1,000-£5,000 of subsidy the Conservatives gave to every high use, well off household during that period...you don't hear much about THAT while everyone shivers through fuel poverty & CoL, but we're all still paying it off!

Get some insulation in as soon as you can, keeping the heat you've already paid for is the best approach of all!

3 bed, 4 people, just got my October bill, 100 pounds for electricity and 40 for gas. Gas should go up next month as the heating is on.
Electricity was more when we had fans on over summer.

I read it isn't devices that use the most electricity but anything that heats up. So kettle, oven, shower etc. I only put enough water in my kettle now to make one brew.
So your tumble dryer, and hot tub will use quite a bit.

I pay £125 for just electric - with oil heating. But I wfh as a childminder and have 4 kids so loads of washing and tumbling.

Gas and electric £250 twelves months a year and that includes an electric car and 1600 square foot house.

£102 electric and £73 gas.
4 bed detached.

Around £90 - £100 for electric, not much for gas yet as haven't turned the heating on. Have an electric oven. Son has desktop computer that he games and streams on constantly and it seems to be very expensive as when he went away for 10 days the bill was much lower.
House is 3 bedroom detached but only two of us live in it currently.

@user927464 that's less than £3.50 a day. You can't buy a cup of coffee for that now.

I've just checked our last year's Octopus bills. DH works from home and we don't scrimp with heating. In winter it comes on 5.30 at 22/23 degrees and it goes off at 8pm. (Have thermostats so once up to temperature clicks off)

We live in a townhouse with no doors between ground and top floor and when we renovated we thoroughly insulated it. It's a warm house.

Electricity per month £91, gas per month £45.

Small 2 bed semi. 2 adults. £76. Electric showers and occasional tumble drier use are the main culprits as well as tv and ps4 use.