Gas and Electricity useage???? 4 bed house

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Our gas and electricity tariff is due to end soon so I was looking into a cheaper provider and found that our useage seems very very high?!?!?! Can anyone else advise me what their useage is like?

We have a 4 bed house, downstairs is slightly larger than upstairs and we have 1 large open plan room with lots of lights. 2 adults and 2 children, adults at work all day and kids at school. Home most evenings and weekends. We have a TV in every room, laptops and devices charging etc. I usually do 1 load of washing per day and 1 dishwasher load per day.

It seems as though our usage is about 8000 for electricity and 28000 kwh for gas.

We're in a 4 bed, 3 story draughty cold victorian house, well 4 story if you count the cellar. Use the tumble dryer for all washing as we have a grotty little yard that doesn't get the sun, always tvs

Confuzzled - do you know what your usage figures are as a comparison please?

Oops didn't realise the rest hadn't posted - this is our annual usage

1,746kWh of gas and 5,749lWh of electric last year.

4 bed end of terrace town house, passivhaus

So ours does seem mega high in comparison to your 2! I need to figure out why.

To be fair mine is a passivhaus designed to use practically no gas or electric.

Do you switch of lights in rooms you’re not in? Are you using energy efficient light bulbs? Do you switch of chargers and devices that you are not using? These little things can make a HUGE difference.

I worked out that leaving the landing light on at night was costing us about 1p an hour. Doesn’t sound like much until you do the maths and realise that’s over £36 a year. For one light bulb.

Has your gas boiler been serviced? An inefficient boiler costs more, as does leaving the heating on or higher than needed. There was a great thread in December time around how to make a house warmer cheaply.

In our large open plan room we have approx. 30 light bulbs and most of them are often on for about 6 hours of the day - I think we need to turn them off for starters!!!

Yep switch off after yourself. Also change to LED as far as possible. Sort out any draughts.

Literally just got our annual statement - Gas 15027 kwh, Electricity 5667 kwh

Apart from my not being able to spell off correctly

If I was a betting woman I’d say 30 lightbulbs is your electric culprit. That might honestly be more than I have in my entire house.... switch them off when not in use, get LED bulbs as a priority and perhaps consider a few lamps to make the room more atmospheric/less expensive. Also ensuring toilet lights are switched off is a biggy in my house otherwise I find they’re on for bloody hours and as we have spotlights costs quite a bit more.

I literally spend my life switching off chargers for things like music systems, phones etc etc. If your charger feels hot it’s using electricity

The gas is probably concerning me more than the electric because it seems pretty obvious what is causing that and there are lots of things I can do to try and reduce it. The gas however is only for our heating and although I do admit I like it to be toasty warm in our house I can't imagine turning it down too much and saving on it. Our big open plan room takes forever to heat up and it's where we spend most of our time at home.

can't help with gas (we don't have it) but electric use here for two adults is 2500 kwh per year. lights, TV, gadgets, washing machine a few times a week, dishwasher every day. Occasional oven use. Hob is LPG.

have you got lots of halogen lights and kids without the ability to use off switches? Lengthy electric showers? Immersion left on?

Sounds a heck of a lot. We use 9000kwh per year all in - electricity only ( includes heating and cooking) for a 5 bedroom house occupied day and night. Don't know about gas but that's a very high electric usage if it doesn't include heating.

Four bed room room house.
1,502kWh for electricity
14,714 kWh for gas

We are only two (1 adult, 1 DC) and have relatively few gadgets, LED lights, no dryer (but Lakeland drying rack) and are meticulous about switching lights off.

House is not well insulated and often feels cold despite new double-glazed windows, loft insulation and newish boiler. We have a Smartmeter and it's scary to see how much costs rise once the heating is on!

We've got a fairly large 4 bed detached. 2 adults, 3 kids primary aged. Gas central heating, gas hob, electric oven. No tumble dryer, two computers, one tv. Average 1 load of washing a day and one dishwasher load.
Last quarter, to end of December, we got through 1360kwh of electricity and 6636kwh of gas.

Your figures seem very high unless you have a huge mansion. Is that definitely your usage and not your meter reading? At 28000kwh of gas I'd say you have a gas leak.

Ah, sorry, just seen your figures are annual. I don't have annual figure as we've only recently moved house.

Extrapolating, assuming we prob used more fuel sept-dec than in the summer, your usage is still more than ours but not way out of the ball park more. I reckon your tumble dryer and lots of tvs might account for that.

I've just been round and counted 52 lightbulbs in our house. Including lamps.

Is your house well insulated? Ours is only 15 years old so fairly well insulated. That might account for the gas.

I think there are things you could do to reduce your usage, as could we, and we will be now we're beginning to get used to the house. As lightbulbs wear out we're replacing them with led bulbs, getting kids to turn off lights, keeping outside doors closed etc etc

This thread is timely as I have been filing gas utility bills today wondering if I could cut some costs. To give a comparison we live in a largeish house (6 beds) and our electricity is 6858 kWh and gas is a whopping 29572.

We're a 2 adults, 2 kids at home family and I'm a sahm so often in using gas and electricity. We don't have the heating on in all the rooms and have it on a lower temperature this winter to save money. Our hob is gas so that will add to the gas usage. From an electricity point of view I try not use the dryer but I do have a Lakeland heated airer.

We are similar size house but maybe less open plan. Elec 5500 and gas 27000. Two adults two teens, generally out during the day and in at night and weekends and we are in SCotland and like the house warm so heating is on much of the year. We have a power shower and boys can go through a tank of hot water by themselves every day. Teens kave also have got power hungry PCs (DS1 has 3 screens) Similar amount of laundry/dishwashing.

we rarely ever use tumble dryer as we have a ceiling airer or hang outside in warmer/windy weather.

4 bedroom house. 2 adults and 1 teen permanently, extra adult outside of uni term time. I am home most afternoons and DH works from home at least one day per week (actually does work so computer on etc.).

Teens computer is on all the time he is not at school, washing machine averages once a day, dishwasher once a day (sometimes twice a day at weekends as its only a small one). Open plan kitchen diner, conservatory, living room (12 halogen light bulbs in there all other rooms have LED bulbs).

Our last annual statement was in September, gas for twelve months was 9134 kWh, electric was 4296 kWh.

Yours sounds HUGE to me.