Gas-Lekki-Heating Bills?

[zebra]

1. Averaged over the whole year, what is your average gas bill per month?

2. Electricity bill per month? 3. What kind of property do you live in (2-bed flat, 3-bed semi, or?)? 4. What kind of heating do you have (GCH, storage heaters, or?)? 5. Do you put the heating on A) timer; B) when you feel like it; C) all the time -- constant thermostat? 5. Is someone in the house most or just some of the day?

This follows on the thread which repeated the common advice that keeping a constant temp (thermostat same temp all the time) is more energy efficient than alternatives. I'm wondering how much we could save if we did that.

My answers, for our last house:

1. £12; 2. £10; 3. Average size 3-bed semi
2. GCH (combi-boiler); 5. B -- when we felt like it.
3. Someone home most of the day, though less over holiday periods.

Nobody else is interested?

here you are zebra: 1.no gas 2.150 euros 3.3 bed semi with draughty office on top 4.electric oil radiators only (and no economy 7) 5. all the time, but turned down at night (not for efficiency reasons, but because it takes so damn long to heat the house up) 6. someone is almost always in.

However every now and then I decide to turn some heaters off at night or when no-one is in the room - it is definately not cheaper to keep the house warm all the time, though it might be if you have the kind of heating that can heat a house up quickly!

Is that 150 euros per year? Surely not per month?!

per month!

It's 220 odd per month winter and I'm guessing under 100 summer ( but may be more as this house has air con - the reason we rented it! ). It's slightly high because of the home office, but it's mostly down to the electric-only heating and having it on all the time - I'd turn it off more but dp objects to cold. Plus now I worry about 8 week old ds.

zebra, yours sounds incredibly cheap! Ours are

1. £33.50
2. £43
3. medium-sized 3-bed terrace with attic, v leaky
4. GCH (combi boiler, 20 years old)
5. A (7am-9am, 1pm-11pm) + a bit of B on very cold days
6. most of the day

You must have a very efficient boiler and cavity wall insulation? (Can't have our walls done because it's a Victorian cavity and isn't like a modern one, runs along the row and has random bricks and rubble in it)

1.£35
2.£30
3.3 bed terrace
4.GCH
5.C
6.All day - I work from home

Wow, SP, wow. I think you have good cause to keep things warm with tiny one in house, though.
I thought our bill was low, too, but still want to hear more. We were with a 'Green' Electricity supplier, too (Unit-E), so not the cheapest, either.

ps, JanH: our house was built with double-bricks, not cavity at all. In a sunken garden well-sheltered from westerlies, and double glazed, though I opened all the windows to air the house out sometimes, even in winter.

Wow Zebra your bills are very low!

We pay £35.00 electricity and £43.00 gas, DD per month, may get a small refund at the end of the year but not a fortune.

We have a four bedroomed (two singles, two doubles) Victorian semi, recently upgraded the insulation in the loft. We are all at home all day every day (DH works from home) and the heating has recently been on between about 8am and 10pm, although the last few days it has been warmer and we have gone back to putting the heating on when we want. HTH.

Only our livingroom and main bedroom windows are double glazed the rest are old fashioned but lovely sash & case.

We pay both by direct debit and occasionally have to add, or get a rebate at the end of the year, but its very little.
Anyway we pay per month, gas £20, electricity £13.
We live in a 3 bed, purpose built ex local authority maisonette (2 floors). Until last month we had very old draughty windows, just had double glazing and already the heating has been turned down.
We have gas central heating, radiators in each room.
The heating and hot water is on a timer. We have it on from 7am to 10am then 4pm to 10.30pm. Someone is in a lot of the day. We sometimes put it on in the day if we feel the need.
HTH

1, £25, Im in credit with the gas company all the time, but use up some of the credit during the winter when I can have the heating on all day if it's really cold.
2, £25
3, 3 bedroomed ground floor flat
4, Gas central heating
5, heating on a timer, (6.30am-8.30am) and again (4.30pm-8pm)But if it's really cold and I'm in the house I sometimes put the heating on all day,
6, Somone in most days all day.

1. £0 no gas here
2. £55
3. Large 3 bedroom maisonette
4. Brand new electric storage heaters
5. timer 6)most of the day (me and the baby!)

Our quarterly bills have just arrived. Both are estimated & both under-estimated at that. Gas was £72 & electric £82.

3 storey 3 bed terrace.

Stupid GCH doesn't work properly since the combi boiler tank thingy blew up. The exhaust pipe from the boiler isn't long enough so it blows the pilot out when the wind changes. Then the pump is on all the time. Apparently it is a Big Job and would cost a small fortune to fix. ( so says British Gas).

Have to leave it on thermostat for that reason (so it clanks on at 4 am!)

Someone here all the time.

1. no gas here in sticksville

2. electricity about £80 a month, but the main fuel is oil. Oil about £300 - £400 every time the tank is filled, which is about every 2 - 3 months in winter and generally only once in the summer. also burn quite a lot of wood - open fires! 3. big. old. 4. all the time in 1/2 the house (but radiators are on individual thermostats and they aren't on high), other 1/2 of house is underfloor heating and we are much more frugal with that. 5. always someone in the house.

1 £10 per month on gast
2 £45 per month on electricity
3 3 bed mid terrace
4 1 storage heater in our bedroom upstairs and 2 gas fires downstairs (kitchen and living room.
5 The living room fire is on very low most of the time when we are in.
6. DD and I are in in the afternoons, gor things on most mornings

We pay £25 per month each for Gas and Electricity, recently had a £300 credit from Elec over period of 3 years.

Live in 3 bed victorian terrace with non-double glazed sash window.

Gas CH (Combi boiler), timer 6am to 8am, then when it's needed as we're all out most of the day.

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£50
£50
3 storey 3 bed s/d 1880s
4)gch, 2 year old combi boiler installed by cowboy (hence astronomical bills)
5)All day every day

1. We have no gas here

2. Electricity bill - have not yet had an electricity bill despote being here for 10 months (still chasing) but expecting it to be around £50-60 a month, based on other peole in earlier phase

3. Property - very new 2 bed apartment, 5th floor (so benefit from heat from below a bit)

4. Heating - electric heaters, all independent of each other with own thermostats

5. Heating is put on as and when we feel like it. They have timers but it only takes a few minutes to heat up the apartment so haven't bothered with them

6. Is someone in the house most or just some of the day? 3 days a week, only in first thing in morning and in evenings from 6ish. Other days varies, but in all evening/night and parts of the day

Right, we live in a 2 bed flat and put 40 quid a month in our electric meter. That isnot for heating though as that is gas which is included in the rent.

1. Too much. Have never-ceasing problems with overpaying gas bill despite changing supplier. I reckon it should be about £25 a month though.

2. £25 a month. 3. Modern 4 bed detached house with uPVC double glazing. For the most part it is very well insulated (read, stuffy) apart from huge draught from badly fitted front door. 4. Standard gas-fired boiler with radiators. Use it on timer (in winter) - 6.15 - 8 am - 5- 9.30 pm. Do sometimes override in daytime. Also have thermostat set to 19/20 degrees. 5. I work 3 days a week but in and out on other 4 days. DH also works from home to some extent (and tries to ensure his home days are when I'm at work and DS is at nursery). DH's home office is in the smallest bedroom above the garage, norht-facing and gets cold. He sometimes has the heating on and sometimes uses an electric convector heater to supply warmth to just that one room.

live in a "rural area" therefore not gas. Have oil which fires the heating, hot water and aga for cooking.Also have open fires which we use a lot Here goes:

1. Oil is £60 per month by DD
2. Electricity is 26.40 per month by DD
3. House is an old cottage ( 1645) - 4 large bedrooms, 4 rooms downstairs. NO Double glazing and plenty of draughts.
4. Heating is Oil for radiators and have double radiators in every room. Also have open fires in main living room ( main walk through area) and smaller sitting room. In middle of winter if at home all day will light these and always at weekends.
5. Heating on timer for days I work - 6 til 9am and 4 till 9pm. When at home and weekend on all day. Often turn down on thermostat if 2 fires and aga are going flat out!!