Electricity Bill

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I've just picked myself up off the floor after receiving my first bill for this house. £150 for 1 month? I'm really careful to turn lights off in unused rooms... how on earth is it £150? What do you pay per month?

If you only have lights and appliances running on electricity, rather than heating, that seems a lot for an average house. Is it a meter reading rather than an estimate and are they charging you for changing name, making any charges for the next quarter etc? Did you take the meter reading when you moved in - does that correspond with the number on the bill?

That does sound quite high .. Are you sure its not for the quarter? When did you move in and did you ring with a reading on the day you moved in?

Thats does seem quite high, ours for 3 bed with me and the kids in most of the day is £70 a month for Gas and Electricity.
I remember when I first moved in the exisiting company billed me at their Standard rates (Prev owner was online rate), check they havn't reverted you from discounted deals.

Check in your airing cupboard, many houses have a back up immersion heater for if the boiler gives out. Sometimes people just leave this on - should be a fused red switch. If you've got a constant supply of really hot water then this may be the reason.

was the bill estimated or actual? does sound high assuming you have gas central heating!

It depends on the supplier. When we moved into our house, we swtiched supplier (ie wanted the supplier at the old house to supply at the new house) but we only rang them as we were moving and they could only do it after the expiry of 60 days I think. We were of course getting used to a new central heating system etc but it was £580 for 2 months (thats gas and electricity). Check that its not an estimated reading - do you have a record of the readings when you moved in? Unfortunately it might be that you're just on a really high tariff.

Check both the opening and current readings. Ours went awry after the meter reader misread the digits shrotly after we'd moved in so I took a dated digital photo of the meter and they correct it.