What's your biggest annual utility bill? Mine's water.

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Just been doing a bit of a bills analysis and I'm surprised that our (metered) water bill is the biggest one.
Elec £400 pa
gas £350 pa
phone £320 pa
water £500 pa

Anyone want to share theirs and please give me water saving tips!?

I think ours is as follows (but am to say that I haven't checked recently as they are all done by Direct Debit)

Elec = £700 pa, which seems ridiculous for a 2 bed flat, although we don't have gas so it's only one fuel bill
Water = £360 pa
Phone = £600 pa, but we make a lot of phone calls to SA - at least 2 hours a week - and that includes unlimited broadband so I think that's not too bad.

I need to find ways of reducing the electricity bill

Our elec bill went down dramatically when we replaced the dodgy frozen up freezer.

water. live in Devon. most expensive in country. pisses me off.

me and small dd. no baths, only little showers. meter £600 per yr.

Electricity at around £1300 per annum.

Our water meter is £20 pm. 5 bed house, 4 toilets, 3 showers, 1 bath, 5 people, dishwasher on once or twice a day and at least one clothes wash a day as well.

Its a toss up between gas and electric. It is probably gas though, seen as over the 4 years I've been here, we have had no gas for 18 months, and I barely turn the heating on, yet I pay £100 a month . Electric is £125 a month, but we do use lots of electric I guess! But the gas takes the piss quite honestly!

Water is £360 a year
Phone dunno, I don't use it, just have the land line for broadband. I guess if you add mobiles in then the total would be £80 a month, so £960 a year? That is for 3 contracts and a land line.

Probably water. :also Devon: I vaguely remember it's something stupid like over a grand a year, I try to block it out.

No meter, 5 of us, I let autistic ds1 run as many baths as he likes and go to the beach A LOT. Make sure I get my grands worth

(No hosepipe bans here for the last ten years before people suck lemons about baths)

ours is

Water - free on a borehole
Elec - £1,000pa
Oil - £1,500 pa if we are lucky
Drainage - £600 pa
Phone - £480 pa for a landline and one mobile
Parish rates - £300 pa (same as council tax)

Electricity, easily. No gas, storage heater, freezing winters. No way to reduce it really. It is what it is.

Gas £936
Electricity £840
Water £250
Phone & Broadband £432

We are having new windows & doors in January - hoping that will seriously help our gas bill! We have wooden windows at the moment, no double glazing.

Gas by a long way, tho not in the summer obviously. Water is tiny and we have the dishwasher and the washing machine on every day.

Have just looked it up and my gas bill last year went from 21 a month in august to 123 in january.

Gas 600
Electricity 360
Water 300
Council tax 660 (Wandsworth)

1 bed flat though.

I thought ours would be electricity at £960 pa (no gas)

But it's council tax - £1200 pa. If we were 5m to the west we'd be in Wandsworth and it'd be £660 like ethelb!

How did I forget about council tax? Much more than anything else at £1200pa.
The metered water is about £80-90 per 6mths but the drainage is twice that which is how we land up paying £500pa.

yep thats on a a meter a am afraid. modern loos, its a fairly new build, and a shower device.

south west water----we fleece our customers to pay for the lovely beaches for the holiday makers im afraid. and that combined with tiny population pushes up our bills.