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How much is your gas/electric bill?

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Uwila · 07/04/2006 12:54

My DH announced to me this morning that our quarterly energy (gas and electric) bill is £600. So, obviously, £200 per month. We live in a four bedroom house. This seems shhockingly high to me. Are we terribly wasteful?

If you live in a similar sized house, how much are your bills each month?

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lars · 07/04/2006 13:03

Uwila, just had an electric bill for 300 much more than we normally pay. We brought an electric log fire in October, believe it might be this.

Bugsy2 · 07/04/2006 13:04

3 bed edwardian terrace with gas central heating & hot water.
£34 per month for electricity and £37 for gas.
Not particularly good at remembering to turn off lights, but I don't have a tumble dryer.
Are your meters read regularly - this can make a big difference, as you may be being overcharged if you always have estimated bills.
Does sound on the high side to me.

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Uwila · 07/04/2006 13:08

Should add that, we had 3 adults and two young children living in the house. Nanny and kids are in and out on most days. So, the heat and hot water are all day, every day. We have a washer and a tuble dryer and it is running a lot of the time.

Anyone else with similar use in their house? Maybe other house hold that have nannies or a parent on the house with the kids all day?

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lars · 07/04/2006 13:10

still seems high though.I was told to monitor meter,as it could be faulty.

Piffle · 07/04/2006 13:11

Heck!
We live in 4 bed detached ours is £57 per month combined.

cece · 07/04/2006 13:11

We used to live in a 4 bed semi and last year we paid £43.50 a month for gas and electricity. But that was all year so think the summer helped to cover for the higher winter bills.

That was before the rpices rose though.

We are now renting a 3 bed end terrace - without double glazing - and pay £60 a month. This is not enough to cover the bills as each estimate has been under but we have only been here for the winter...

Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 07/04/2006 13:13

We are 2 adults and 3 teens (almost) - dh works shifts so there is usually someone at home. Our winter gas bill was £250 and electric £120. Heating is gas - cooking elec oven, gas hob, plus usual washer, dryer and dishwasher. We had a new boiler fitted about a year ago and if the prices had stayed stable the bill would have come down I think.

otto · 07/04/2006 13:16

I would say that's on the high side even if you are in much of the day.

We live in a three-bed house with drafty floorboards and large windows that aren't double glazed. Our winter quarter bills amounted to £250. We are out all day though and don't have a tumble dryer.

Lots of utility providers have increased there prices recently, could this have contributed to your larger bill?

If you want to compare costs with those of other utility companies you could try this site www.uswitch.com

purplemonkeydishwasher · 07/04/2006 13:19

I switched to Scottish power after they said it would only be £41 a month combined. HAHAHA and big mighty HA
eventually i saw that we were using more than that so doubled it. did that help?
we now owe them £700

jalopy · 07/04/2006 13:27

Our last gas bill was over £450 for the winter quarter. We live in a 4 bedroomed house and have the heating on twice a day during the weekdays. We switched supplier.

batters · 07/04/2006 13:47

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MamaG · 07/04/2006 14:15

I went onto uswitch.com and apparently I can save £260 a year! Worth doing I think

cat64 · 17/04/2006 15:17

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Frizbe · 17/04/2006 15:28

We're in a 4 bed house and work from home, combined bill per month has just been put upto £112, from £94.
Might be worth checking your meter clock as well, as if you've had any powercuts, the clock will be out!

hulababy · 17/04/2006 19:02

We pay roughly £50 a month for each. This is for a 3 bed 3 storey town house. We are planning on switching after the next bill, when we will have been here 6 months and have a better idea of what we are using.

Munz · 17/04/2006 19:07

3 bed house hte electric is £80 approx per q/t (just had a 5 month bill for £160) gas is £120 ish in the winter and £50 in the summer but thta's british gas.

we're all electric - oven etc, only gas we have is the heating, hot water and the hob.

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Uwila · 18/04/2006 09:21

Thanks everyone for your replies. More replies welcome (of course).

Haven't had a chance to go to the uswitch website... but aim to get there soon. We have just reduced the time the heat/hot water is on. But, I think the constant use of washer and dryer are our big culprits.

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threelittlebabies · 18/04/2006 09:26

Started a thread about this last week I think, good old British Gas sent me a letter announcing they are putting up our montly gas payment to £81.50!!! Shock Can't remember the electricity off hand, will go and look (and probably faint clean away). We live in a 3 bed semi with an extension downstairs, and as am on mat leave we are in the house most days. But still feel like I am being had.

morningpaper · 18/04/2006 09:27

that is high Uwila

Do you have halogens? I worked out that running just ONE of my halogen bulbs was costing me £6 a month so I have got rid of all of them

Gingerbear · 18/04/2006 09:28

4 Bedroomed detatched house. We pay £30 per month for electricity, but out in the sticks, so no gas. Have just switched from LPG to oil heating, as LPG was costing us £1400 per year!!!!
(Oil looks like it will be half that cost)

puddle · 18/04/2006 09:31

We live in a three bedroomed house and we are here five days out of seven. Ours are more like £70 a month.

We're with Atlantic too - v cheap and they also do a loyalty payment of a free month in every twelve.

puddle · 18/04/2006 09:32

Forgot to say we also have the washer running at least once a day - tumble drier every other day. I do have the heating on a lot too as I feel the cold.

crazyiknow · 19/04/2006 14:24

mines £50 on each per month im with british gas i swear they are screwing me as everyone says that is ridicolously high

katetee · 19/04/2006 16:15

Hi
I have just received this 1/4 bills and am gobsmacked. Gas £135. electric £150 and I live in a tiny two bed semi!!! No tumble drier, it packed up in september, no-one in during the day. Mine has got higher and higher over the last year, tbh we cant afford it anymore. What are you supposed to do? Everything has gone up except the wages, dh hasn't had a pay rise (not even inflation related) for 6 years!

brimfull · 19/04/2006 16:24

we just had our monthly bill,
electricity - £53.00
gas - £29.00

We have gas cooker,heating on really low most of the time as we've just had cavity wall insulation and it's made a huge difference.
We do use tumble dryer .Also 4 bed house.

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