If you have a large 5 bedroom house, what is your electricity spend per month?

[hmcReborn]

Assuming that you have a boiler and gas central heating and hot water.

I am almost too embarrassed to declare ours. I never normally monitor bills , and confess I haven't really noticed before, but I just had to take the recent bill out of the filing cabinet and photocopy it for proof of ID, and noticed that it was (oh God, here goes) £160 for the month. Is this normal ?!?!

We are a bit lax with leaving lights on and tv on - will change my habits for my pocket and the planet, but we're not that lax

that's odd

what sort of bulbs do you have?

aargh, ours are about £350 pm combined, need to come back and read this thread properly. I work from home so constant use, and our heating is not the most efficient. Loads of spot lights and downlgihters too.

258sqm is that helps compare, 5 beds

2 adults , 1 toddler so some rooms not used

We have oil heating but we also have electric underfloor heating which is used occasionally

Here's ours

Ignore first reading as we moved in then part way through quarter

your April/June usage at less than 2kWh/day is stunningly low. Does that include a washer and other appliances, or do you have solar PV?

They're mostly pretty 'dirty' PJ - when I moved in here, there was a gargantuan supply of them already in place so I've been using them up.

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Where you can, swap to energy-saving lamps, especially for those which are on for long periods such as hall, landing and porch. An 18W will do, and an 8W for the porch is plenty. They run for 55 and 125 hours respectively on 11p worth of electricity. CFLs will be fine as it does not matter they take some seconds to warm up, or LEDs if you see them equally cheap. I laid in a stock of CFLs when they were subsidised down to £1.

If you have spots and downlighters you are doomed to inefficiency, but LEDs are coming down in price and will save you 70% or so electricity on halogens, and last longer.

I love my LED bulbs, they save me so much money and the company I use puts a little bag of haribo in with each order.

I even made dh change the step down transformer in one fitting to cope with LED bulbs. Totally worth it.

PJ not sure if you were speaking to me about April/June if so we didn't move until mid May that year so that's only a reading for 1.5 months

No we don't have solar panels and yes we use a tumble dryer

We pay PS40/month. We have solar panels.

Our gas usage is 0 for probably 9/12 months. We have an induction hob and use the immersion for occasional baths. I've got oil filled radiators for heating.

5 bed house, 2 A & 2 C. Heavy dishwasher & washing machine usage.

It's been a few years since I checked but changing supplier didn't seem to make much difference. To me they all seemed pretty similar for standing charge and price per kWh. I don't see how you can save £700 pa as a PP suggested - unless you change your energy usage.

Hmc we are similar to you, house size (2800ft2) and bill levels, gas is about the same again. I use tumble dryer, dishwasher, electric underfloor heating every day and the house is occupied most of the time. We are gradually replacing halogen spots with LED's in phases, about 10 at a time (we have about 120 through the house ).

I just switched to a special British gas deal through moneysavingexpert (also available to existing BG customers) that should save nearly £800 over the next year. They also have a monitoring service that alerts you when you should switch supplier to save money. Very straightforward.

We pay 169 a month direct debit for gas and electric combined, 4 bed old house and family of 6.
Our direct debit was 110 up until a few months ago I think 169 will probs be right for the winter months in summer though I think we will be in credit.

link to British Gas deal

Sorry - this link is better

Large 4 bed here and our combined bill is £115 per month. I think the electricity element is under 40. I have 2 teenagers constantly on computers etc. We use the dishwasher daily and electric oven too. Washing machine is on most days and that is cold fill. However we rarely use the tumble drier.