Those of you with all electric heating, can I be nosy and ask what your monthly bill is?

[Twinklemegan]

If you're in a three bedroom semi in a cold part of the country that would be even better. We have recently moved house and we appear to be averaging around £110 a month, which I'm guessing will be higher in the middle of winter. We have four storage heaters switched on low, plus the hot water and the normal daily uses. We're on Scottish Hydro's Total Heating Total Control.

My starting point is that our old 2 bed terrace in England had gas central heating and our total monthly bill for gas and electric was £55 a month.

A related question, has anyone switched away from a THTC tariff or replaced their electric heating altogether, either with new storage heaters or a new LPG central heating system. Did this save you money?

TIA

we lived in 1 bed flat and had 2 storage heaters hardly used our electric bills were huge worked out around 100 pound a month for very small 1 bed flat

it s the storage heaters only put them on when needed that is what drains the energy

wintewr was terrible for bills one month came in at 288 we were asure we were heating barbers down stairs too as seemed so much for tiny and i mean tiny 1 bed flat

and we were with scottish power we changed straight away when we moved as they were so expensive

Thanks Bubblagirl. Believe me, we only use what we need. In our previous rented place we were wearing 3 jumpers and 2 pairs of socks so we could keep bare minimum storage heaters on (down to minus 10 at night).

Anyone else?

Twink, we are in a 3 bed bungalow in Caithness (cold enough for ya? ), and we are on the same THTC (though who has the control I would like to know, it bloody isn't us ). We are metered and when we have our heating on in the winter we pay out about £30 a week. Now the heating is off we are averaging about £15 per week.

I had the local energy saving people round and they reckoned that was about average for the area.

Our house is properly insulated too

We want to look in to electric wet central heating systems (won't do oil, not with the price it is, and can't get gas here), but have been told we won't save much (though I have my doubts), and we are council housing anyway.

I think if we still had heaters on, even on low, we would be over £20 per week.

we're in a 5 bed detached in a coldish part of the country - it used to average at about 100 pounds a month but we'll have to increase the monthly direct debit to 150 I think , the provider we use in Atlantic who are the cheapest by quite a bit.

We're very frugal about heating (i.e. never in our bedroom, and in the children's bedrooms only if it gets really, really cold) and have energy saving lightbulbs absolutely everywhere. The first winter we got stung terribly by keeping a large bedroom directly above a completely uninsulated garage warm and toasty for 3 months - cost us 2K so never again! We also put a lot of money and effort into insulating the whole house as well as we could - we got a grant for cavity wall & loft insulation so only had to pay 500 towards that, and did a lot of extra work ourselves.

Our house had LPG central heating originally but we ripped it out before we moved in and put in electric underfloor heating everywhere - TBH, LPG has gone up so much in price, I really don't think we'd be any better off if we'd left it in.

We had electric storage heating - and all electric appliances inclduing power shower - in a two-bed, 2nd floor flat.

Bills in winter were £110/month with Scottish Power as providers.

'is Atlantic' even

fingers must be too cold to type!

only have heaters on in winter (although wish they were on now)
i have no gas at all in the house
£20 a week

in summer about £7.00 a week...

i do have a card meter though so that makes it more

If you are up for a bit of work - try a wood burning stove with a back boiler running DHW & CH

It is fab

Scottish Power are straight up rip off merchants.

We're on LPG now, and I'd have kept the wood-burning fire, but the house is rented so not my call.

But the beaches here are full of driftwood.

If it is of any help, I have a studio flat with 1 night storage heater which was installed 2 years ago - so it's fairly new. Eco7 Bill for Nov-Feb was just under £42. So to run that one heater, is about £13-£14 per month. Have an Eco7 Tariff with EDF.

we had a wet electric central heating system in a 2 bed flat on very windy and often cold east coast of scotland. Worked well and our bills came in at approx £80 per month during the winter, which didn't think too bad as covered everything.

Oh yes, we're definitely going for a wood burner before next winter. The thought of power cuts with no backup is not a good one. It sounds like it's not that bad then, especially if I can persuade DH to just turn the storage heaters off (which I will). But we have no panel heaters linked to the heating circuit so with the current changeable temperatures we have been reluctant to turn the heaters off altogether.

What we are doing currently is we have the storage heaters set on around 3 (out of 9) but with the boost set to minimum all the time. I realised last night that this probably means we're paying to top them up all the time but barely getting any benefit from them heatwise. I'm scared of putting the boost on because that'll use more enery heating them up, so I figure we might as well just have them off. I'd appreciate any advice from people more experienced with storage heaters.

Do you know what sort?

Clearview are fab - but expensive
I have a Aarowe stratford - which is ovely & very hot

I used to have a franco belge - which was good but not big enough

We've not really looked into it yet. We're still deciding whether in the future we'll want to turn the house back the right way up, and if so where best to put the stove for now.

We had a Stovax Brunel in our old house. Very nice there, but here I think we need something a bit more streamlined and modern.