If you have a large drafty Victorian house with gas heating and oven, what is your monthly gas payment?

[frogs]

I'd really like to hear some other people's comparisons, as our monthly gas spend is pretty eyewatering, despite (a) switching suppliers regularly and (b) being quite mean with the central heating.

Thanks!

Our late Victorian, 3 storey, not quite so draughty as it was, mid-terraced house with gas central heating, combi boiler and hob (but not oven) with heating on 2 hours in morning and 2-3 hours in the evening costs £69 per month with Scottish Hydro. Does that help? We live in NE Scotland.

Our direct debit has just gone up to £92!

Large Victorian 2 storey end-of-terrace with gas boiler (not combi) and hob.

We don't have a gas oven but we do have gas central heating. All but one of the back windows is double-glazed but several of the ones at the front are quite drafty, as are all the fireplaces although they are blocked up with wads of plastic bags!

Ours is £63 a month.

Not that big a house but Victorian and a bit draughty. £75 a month but due to go up soon I beleive.

There were a few similar threads earlier in the autumn - here's one www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=legal_money_matters&threadid=627366-f-ck-it-i-am-not-having-heating-on- ever#12779444

We are going to have to do something. We've never switched and are with British Gas. We have large rooms with high ceilings and no double glazing, though some windows have secondary glazing. We used to be v strict and cold but are getting soft.

Thanks for that. Ours is £100 with npower, which obviously is at the high end. Our house is very ramshackle, though.

Off to invest in some more thermal undies and hot water bottles. Would be lovely to get all the windows and doors overhauled, but can't really afford it just yet. Might have to make it a priority, though.

we live in a split level victorian house over three/four levels (if that makes sense) and i'm incredibly mean about central heating! so its on downstairs, in bathroom and childrens room (6am to 8am and 4pm to 7pm)....we have three duvets on our bed so no heating in our room. gas also does our hot water and cooking. however we have an old french solid fuel stove that we put on regularly and only food is cooked on the gas the cast iron pot goes on the plate on the stove and simmers away. hotwater is needed for two showers per day, one clothes wash, one dishwash and a bath every second day for dcs.
we pay 70 per month dual fuel and about 20 per month for coal (oct to feb).

the house is very cold/drafty but the children wear boden long johns and fleecey all in ones before bed and we wear jumpers!

we pay £50 a month - mid terrace

all double glazed windows and loft insulated
am v frugal with heating!

Thanks ssb, will check that other thread.

Do you have a thermostat, frogs? We didn't used to have one on our old central heating system but we have one now and I do think they are a big help.

Thermostat already at the lowest level that will actually make the heating function at all. If I set it any lower I might just as well turn the whole thing off.

Will send dc off to scavenge for logs in H Woods and have a proper fire over Christmas.

I send DH out to scavenge at the petrol station for logs....

We have a large, drafty late Victorian house and LPG, so there's no switching suppliers. We're lucky to have anyone supplying this area at all.

And we spend about £150/month to heat the place.

No thermostat or that. Just gas radiators.

Electric stove, though.

We have a large victorian house (3 stories, big rooms) and last winter our quarterly bills were over £400...HOWEVER we had just moved in, had no carpets/curtains and no loft insulation.
We've worked really hard investing in double glazing, carpeting, insulation, solar hot water (ok that won't help much in winter, but our summer bill was only £75!), curtains etc etc.
I am awaiting my first winter bill with baited breath...I'll be deeply depressed if there aren't substantial improvements...
We have gas ch but electric oven.

Our Georgian 'town house' eats about £120-£150 worth of gas a month. Will almost certainly be more soon. I don't think about the electricity.

large draughty edwardian house, only 3 double glazed windows, 4 big bedrooms , all high ceilings etc... £145 per month, and that was becasue they had tried to increase it to £242 a month. have had new super efficeint boiler, so hoping that helps

Draughty house here too (eot,not large though!)

Every winter we put up temporary double glazing on the worst windows (a bit like clingfilm) which does help. I've also just bought a velvet door curtain (just need to put it up now )

Mercy where did you get your door curtain from? We have a very wonky front door...

I got mine from here

I saw similar ones in Kaleidoscope and Grattan (??) but iirc they weren't the right size for our door.

We've got half-and-half original casement windows and nasty modern windows. I'd rather be cold with nice old windows than snug with new ones.

You can get new wooden double glazed windows, and also double glazed units which will fit the original box frames. We went for the former at the back of the house and the latter at the front of the house. I hope they make a difference!

i hate these fucking casement windows. but this is a rental house so no choice in the matter.