Seriously, can you accrue a £441 gas bill in one quarter?

[HinnyPet]

Just got red gas bill from southern electric & gas.

I paid the last one back in Feb and it was £190 for the quarter in the winter/snowy/freezing cold time we had.

How can this quarter's be more than double?

Puzzled...

was the previous one an estimate ? Do the readings now tally or have they estimated again based on consumption last year ?

If you cook/heat/shower with gas and there's more than 3 of you it sounds like the first bill was low. Have you got the old bill to see if it was an estimate? Have a look at the current reading too. Got a bill last month which seemed low but said it was based on proper reading. Turns out said reading was done weeks before and true bill was 30% more

Our gas bill for the winter was over £500 so yes it is possible OP!

I would be surprised if £190 for the winter quarter is high enough unless you have a very small home or don't use gas for heating.
Was it estimated?

Check meter readings and, if both bils were actual readings maybe call gas supplier to get meter checked out?

is it based on an actual reading and the previous ones were estimated?
this happened to us with NPower and what happened was that for over 2 years (!!!) we had not been paying enough because they hadn't logged the readings we had sent them and had based it on estimated readings

so we ended up being hugely in debt and having a £600 bill

DUring the winter my gas (prepayment meter on Scottish gas essentials tarif) was eating £7 or £8 a day so about £50 a week. That's with having the heating on between 18 and 20 during the day and 14 during the night to prevent pipe disasters and only having gas for heating and hot water. For the quarter that would be about £600.
SO it is easily done, especially if the Feb bill was an estimate.

It was an estimate yes...they reduced it by £90 which was great.
I asked them to check the electric too and sadly that was WAY out, so I've paid up to date. £550 for both.

Holy shit people.

Thank you for replies, seems it was about right!