Cost of heating houses

[chumbal]

Hello

Currently looking to move but worried about potential costs of next house.

I have always lived in newer houses and currently pay £80 joint for gas/electric to heat and light 4 bed detached.

How old is your house, house style and how much do you pay each month?

I was shocked to hear people pay £200 per month (on another thread!)

Trying to get a budget for next house!

Thanks

5 bed detached 1930’s but solid walled not cavity. Some original single glazed stained windows. Dishwasher on most days, washer dryer every 3. Approx £2400 per year combined.

My house is detached, about 120 years old with later bits. The main things were to make sure there was no damp, all the windows were double glazed and in good condition, and that the lofts were properly insulated, which is not expensive, - 20cm wadding between the joists, and blown insulation fitted between the eaves.
you need decent access to the lofts.
The other thing I found was the previous, elderly owners had fitted a boiler too small for the house. when it eventually failed, I had a new one with an extra 6kw power.
I spend about £100 a month for gas & electric together, in a 4 bed house

3 bed 1970s terrace. Not particularly well built with very thin walls! During summer about £35 per month combined , in the winter up to £65 combined. Can't imagine spending some of the sums other people have quoted!

140 year old terrace, 2 large bedrooms and 2 reception rooms (as estate agents would say), high ceilings so takes a fair bit to heat even though I have newish double glazing/doors and loft insulation. Big cellar so the cold rises up through the downstairs floor in winter.

I am on prepayment meters, so with all that you'd expect me to be paying £££ compared to most people. But I'm paying around the same as you currently pay each month at the moment - in summer I use about £40 of electric/month and barely any gas despite the hot water and hob using gas. In fact a fiver of gas lasted us the entire school summer holiday!

BUT - I don't heat my house to a million degrees like some friends and family seem to, we wear a jumper if cold before putting the heating on and I do switch everything off when not in use.

I pay about £50 a month combined in a semi-detached Victorian. I have brick walls with no cavity to insulate, high ceilings and a lot of large single glazed windows. I have the central heating at 18C for a couple of hours in the morning and evening in the winter. My primary heating is a woodburning stove and I spend approx £250-300 per year on wood. Apart from the room with the stove, I do not keep the house especially warm and I am happy to wear vest and jumper in the winter.

If I didn't have the stove and wanted to heat my home to the kind of level many of my friends do (heating on most of the day to a level where they are comfy in bare feet and just a t-shirt on in the middle of winter), I think my gas/electric payments would be more like £180 per month.

We don't over heat our house. We are retired, but the heating is only on mornings and evenings. We have a multi fuel stove though, which fills any chilly gaps in the day. We are oil heating, so around £800 on oil and about £250 on coal and logs per annum. Our electric is about £35 a month.
I know people who spend far, far more on oil, but they have the heating on all the time at 22 degrees. We tend to rely more on warm clothing.

Such diversity in costs so far thanks

Anyone else care to share?

I live in a 4 bed detached and pay £120 a month for both but we upgraded our boiler in the autumn so looking forward to a reduction on that.

We also have solar panels (bought, not leased) which make us around £500/600 a year in what we generate.

1980s 4 bed detached, £90pcm if we're not using our wood burner much. Ancient boiler though, so I presume people with newer ones pay less.

People vary so much in how they heat their homes though.

£250/per month but that includes £25/month on electric car.

House is mixture of late Tudor manor and Edwardian extension. 1 wood burner runs 300 days a year and another runs around 50 days.

The Edwardian end is more expensive to heat despite being much smaller.

Single glazing of course with no option to change it. Wind blows straight through the W&D infill panels of the timber framed parts.

We knew about the running costs when we bought of course and have halved consumption compared to previous owners with efficiency improvements.

3bed terraced 1920s, about £50pm in summer and £75pm in winter

I'm a 2 bed ground floor maisonette with gas cooking and heating. There's no radiator in the kitchen and the one in DD's room is never switched on as she gets too hot.
Before I moved in in May my direct debit was set to £51 per month in September it was put up to £93 per month and they've just put it up again to £134 per month!
I just don't know how it's possible

Large 4 bed 1920s semi, solid no cavity walls, one layer of scraggy rockwool in the loft, high ceilings, tumble drier on frequently. 14 radiators, some of them large doubles. £130pm combined, though we're in credit with that.

We've just moved out from a tiny 3 bed 1930s semi which we paid £130 a month combined for. Moving into a 4 bed detached new build house in a few months time & looks like we will save a bit on fuel when we do!

We pay 95 per month gas and electric for a 4 bed detached 140 year old house. All solid walls mostly double glazed. Not nearly as bad as I feared!

3 bed mid terrace 1890's, we pay about £80/ month averaged throughout the year. And our bill seems to be less than our neighbours.

I pay £117.00 for gas and electric £85.00 a month so all together £202.00. My house is 1970s and it’s a large 4/5 bedroom detached house, under floor heating in 2 bathrooms, wash a lot and my tumble dryer a lot for 6 of us.

Three bed semi with large rooms. £1600-2000 per year but the heating is on most days as there is always someone home. House never colder than 18.

We've recently moved to a 3 bed (loft conversion) semi-detached house. We're already on £200 forgas and electric for the month on a pre-paid meter. I honestly don't know how it's possible, all windows are double glazed etc. We have the heating on from 4.00-10.00 and 16.00-21.00 daily and gas seems to be going much quicker than electric. I am sure we are doing something wrong or this house is crap!

Four bed Victorian semi, costs £90 a month gas and electric

House is about 120 - 125 yrs old, over 4 floors, 6 bedrooms, high ceilings, so the 'volume' of each room is high.
We are quite 'tight' with the heating - some people think our house is cold, but I'm of the 'put a jumper on' school of thought.
We pay around £120 a month combined, but every year when I look to change suppliers, it isn't the gas usage they query - it is the electricity. We have 3 (teen + 20) dc all of whom are constantly plugged in to devices whenever they are home. DH and I also work at home sometimes and both have both work and our own laptops. I use the tumble drier a lot. All these things add to the electricity bill - the gas (heating) isn't ridiculously high. It is going to vary poster to poster though, depending on how much they have the heating on, and to what temperature.

Five bed detached, 2002 build. £95 a month for gas and electric. House is heated to 20 degrees because I was told that was more efficient than 18. Water is heated for 50 minutes a day (I have of those insulated tank thingys) and heating is on from 5.30am to 9.00am and 4pm to 10pm. I switch supplier every year after doing a comparison to reduce my tariff. I’m currently a couple of hundreds of pounds in credit and usually get a refund each year.

Previous owners were paying £200+ a month, were always in shorts and T-shirts, heating set to 24 degrees and most windows open for ventilation. Fucking unbelievable

Very large 4 bed detached and we pay £140 a month combined gas and electric. Most of that is electric rather than gas.