How much do you spend a quarter on Gas - I think they have our bill wrong

[Chuffed]

Just got our latest bill from British Gas and they have said our estimate is going up to £40 a month. A year ago we were paying estimate of £16. Can one child add that much gas? We are only in a one bedroom flat so can't understand how it could be that much over summer.
Can I have some ammunition to go to them with please?

give them an actual meter reading.

Have they done an estimated reading? Have you checked your meter?

£40 p.m. does sound ridiculous for a 1-bed flat.

do a reading yourself and try to find out last one 'you' took. we just got over £200 back as they had been 'estimating' wrong and blokes who come round, hadnt read them properly.hth

yes and apparently our meter is about 500 more than what they estimate which we can't understand how it can be unless they are wrong. There are 5 flats here.

p.s they said we could pay £30 pm and still be in credit and we have 3bed detatched with one dd.

someones wired into your mains supply!!!!!!!!!

It isn't for electricity we have to pay £30 a month for that on top of this.

I know British Gas have just put there bills up by something ridiculous - we have just changed supplier. Might be worth checking on-line who your cheapest supplier will be.

We switched in summer to ecotricity (who supply "green" electricity) and they have a supposed meter "reading" 10,000kwh higher than it should be - that was from somebody coming round - suspect they went to the wrong house!

Have you moved into this flat recently? Did you get your own reading when you moved in?

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No been here since Feb 2002 which is why it seems strange they have gone up in 2 1/2 yrs from £16 mth to £40 mth.

we pay £40.00 as we owed them money, but during july, aug and sept we were only using about £20.00 p/m gas. in the winter thou it's normally about £120.00 ish perquarter. (we don't have a gas cooker so our electric is normally about £70.00-£90.00 per quarter all year around) thats to heat etc... a det. 3 bedroomed house.

i think they've put the charges up twice in the past year B?G, but i don't pay much attention tbh.

Thanks for the info, dh will call them tomorrow as it looks like our meter reading corresponds with one of the other flats so I think we might be paying for theirs all of a sudden.

do u guys read your meter each qtr? (that normally helps)

gas 27 a month- elec 14 a month. have gas central heating which is on a lot during the winter. have tumble dryer etc on electric. 2 bedroom house

I pay £25 a month for Gas and £25 for Electric. both from Hydro Electric or whatever it's called nowadays.