Would you mind telling me how much you pay for your Gas and Electric plus your family stats?

[Nbg]

Just had our bill and I think I could vomit.

We owe them £1000 just over for the period from end of November 2007 to 20th May, so our payments have gone up to £200 a month

Family of 5, 2 adults 3 kids
We have dishwasher, washing machine, tumble dryer, laptop and tv.

What do you pay?
I'm doing this for research really and if ours is bad then I'm going to swap because we cannot afford to pay that much.

The last bill we got was about 160.00 for gas and about 70.00 for electric, this was for period over winter months. This amount was for whole period as we do not pay by monthly direct debit.

We live in 2 bedroomed end terraced with 2 adults and a 20 month old DD1, DD2 is a newborn so probably wasn't around over billing period.

We have a pc, laptop, washing machine, tv...no dishwasher or tumble drier...cooker is electric, heating is gas.

atm paying £80 pm by dd on gas/electric evenly - family of 4 in 4 bed house. Gas water and ch, hob , electric oven, wm, dw etc rarely use tumble drier. Should probably really be £35/£50 ish but in debit to gas after winter reading so can't reduce until after summer and not significantly out on electricity yet.

I'm going to try it Collision.

I've stopped using the tuimble dryer for now and I'll try to use it in emergencys like a wet bed or something.

Is it actually really warm in our bathroom. I dont know why I never thought of it before.

Also I've tried to explain in terms as basic as possible to dd who is 4, that we need to turn everything off as soon as we have finished with it so that it will save us pennies and we can spend it on nice things

Hopefully our next bill will say that our dd is going down!

You could try getting one of these - initial outlay of £40, but it tells you exactly how much you're using.

Make it a game with DCs to run round the house switching things off and see how much difference it makes, some things will really surprise you as to how much power they use even when doing nothing.

Some power companies will let you have one for free or at a discount, if you ask, too.

LMD I would be very interested in one of those. Do you know which energy companies give them out free? I am with Powergen.

Bluefox, I called Eon last week and they were giving them out free.

we only have electric, I was horrified at our winter bill, £280 for the quarter, we have washing machine, fridge freezer electric cooker, one computer, and in winter we put on one electric storage heater and were using the wood burner stove all day.

we are with good energy (supposedly green supplier)...

in summer I think our bill was £100 for a quarter.

Thank you NBG.I forgot Powergen is called Eon now. Im off to ring them.

4 of us
4 bedroom 1930's semi
dishwasher, tumble dryer - both on every day
i work from home so computer on permanently
spotlights throughout the house (hard on elec)
gas central heating
but new windows, well insulated etc..

we pay £121/month for dual fuel with npower.

we changed from british gas & seeboard just before christmas and our bills almost halved.

amidaiwish - do you mean your estimated bill (the amount they told you to pay on a regular basis) or your actual bill (the amount shown on your bill)? npower are notorious for underestimating and then sticking it to you later. Check the actual bills you receive to see that you are not underpaying. Lots of people don't check their actual usage bill....and then get a nasty surprise later.

thanks for the warning janinlondon

they based it on last years usage which was actual usage from our previous bills.

they seem to come and read the meters a lot! so hopefully they have got it right, but i will keep an eye.

Paid my last two quarterly bills a few weeks ago. Electricity £451. Gas £485. FFS
Only 5 of us. But big house.

£130 pm elec, £120 oil (no gas) £85 logs & coal.

3 people, use t/dryer all year round.

Elec has just gone up from £90 pm, no idea why.

Got our dual fuel bill from Scottish Power today. We will now be paying £177 a month, up from £123! The gas element isn't too bad, it's our electricity consumption that staggers me. And I don't think we're profligate users . . .

70s house, 4 bedrooms, 2 receptions. Well insulated, double glazed, modern boiler.

Time to look around, I think.

Scottish Power tried to bump our bills up by £75.00 per month I phoned and complained and they had made a miscalculation. Still up by £40.00 though.

I think Scottish Power are OK, it is Npower who really tried to screw us. I wouldn't go near them ever again. Noticed on the uswitch website, they were promising they could give you a lower price than your current supplier. Input our data on that site and on Npower site. The result was a £300 per year more on Npower......

Electrictity £175 per quarter (npower) but suspect it will go up soon.
No gas here
Oil £800 per annum

2 dcs, home all day. Washing machine & dishwasher used twice a day, tumbledryer (try not to use in summer).

1 me, 1ds, 3 bedroom, 90 pm for elect 50 pm for gas. All the gadgets I bet .

Forgot to say - we are 2 adults and 2 teenagers. Tis probably the gadgets . . .

£90 quarter electricity - pay £30 month, owe them about £50, but as on DD, it will even out over summer.
£90 quarter gas - they owed me £50 at last bill, this bill I owe them £20, but over summer no heating, so they will owe me again. So probably about £70 quarter for summer?

Two adults, one toddler. TV, washing machine, dishwasher, gas CH and cooker, computer/laptop/lcd tv. one works half the week, one works other half, so often some-one in.