Gas & electricity bill £370pm

[foodiefil]

Hi - not sure if this is the right place for this but I wondered what people thought of the above.

Some facts:

• supplier Bulb
• property type: 3 bed Edwardian terrace - the kind that is long. Two reception rooms - large kitchen. Utility.
• mostly single glazing
• use does include underfloor heating in the kitchen
• occasional use of electric heater (fake log burner thing)
• gas fire
• gas oven
• average use of lights, TV, charger etc but nothing major by two adults
• this is from a meter reading
• it's been this much for 2 years

Are we leaking gas from somewhere or does the above tell somebody smarter than me where we're going wrong?

Or does that sound right?

Please help 😢

It seems high to me but we live in a flat so maybe more in a house. the single glazing probably isn’t helping. but we pay less than half of that for a 3 bedroom flat - over 100 years old, high ceilings etc

Wow that’s expensive but is that the price
Of underfloor heating and an electric heater?I have no experience of either but I’d cut them
both off and buy slippers

Anything electric will be expensive. How long is the underfloor heating on for?

We pay £123 ish per month gas/electric in 4 bed detached house in Scotland

Does your bill show you how much is gas and how much is electricity? Do you have gas central heating?

It does sound a lot. Most people on MN seem to pay about £70pm

I pay half of what you do for a 4 bed semi with three teenagers who leave every appliance in constantly, and I love my time dryer.

Have you tried a price comparison website?

Do you know what the split of gas and electric is?

Or even switching to a different tariff with bulb?

I'm south east 3 bed semi. 2 adults and 2 kids. We pay less than £100 for g n e. I think yours is very high but it depends how long the underfloor heating is on for as That will make a difference I assume.

£116 a month for a 5 bed/3 bathroom/2 living room/large kitchen diner house in Scotland, I am always freezing so don’t skimp on the heating plus we have 4 DC so washing machine/tumble drier on probably twice a day. I’m always in credit as well.

I think that sounds very ,very high. I wouldn't normally know but I have just done the whole price comparison thing. We were on bog standard ie the highest tariffs, house with 2 teenagers and husband plus both of us work from home and a big single glazed old house and we were paying way less, even before we started changing tariffs.
There are 2 things going on here

1. Talk to your energy providers. They can do tests for you. Check everything is working as it should be. (My brother did it recently and found there was a problem with the meter)
2. Also do prcie comparison wesbites. We used Martin Lewis. Citizens Advice also have one on line.

That is a huge amount of money!

We pay £87 per month for gas & electricity combined & I'm in a 4 bed semi.

I really think you should ask your supplier to check what's going on.

I live in a very old, large apartment - 100 m^2 approx under a roof with next to no insulation. Leaky windows and indeed walls. Everything electric, storage heaters. Supplementary radiators, convection and fan heaters when cold. I pay £120 per month.

Family of 4, SE, Edwardian terrace, single glazing, bit drafts. I use washer and dryer every day. Gas combi boiler and oven. Electric everything else. Loads of gadgets but no underfloor heating. We pay £160 per month which I thought was high. Your bill is insane - you’ve either been hugely overcharged or you have a leak. Or you are paying for a neighbour too - it happens. Or underfloor heating needs to be switched off.

Wow, are you on one of their smart meters so you can check what you are using on a daily basis and change your habits to see what affects it most? If you turn everything off, is there still anything measured on your meter and it’s faulty? Your bills are massive!
We are a 5 bed det also with Bulb for dual fuel. Approx £110 a month.

What is your gas/electric usage per month/per year? Have you visited a price comparison site to check you’re on the cheapest tariff (eg Moneysaving Expert?)

We live in a large Victorian semi which sounds similar in size (also mostly single-glazed). Our energy bills are spread out over the year (we use a lot of gas for heating in the winter) but costs around £100 per month for both gas and electricity having just changed supplier.

We live in a modern four bed townhouse. Our gas and electricity combined are £110 a month. The only time our bills were like yours was when we lived in a 400 year old house which had such bad drafts that birthday cards used to blow over on the mantle piece even when the doors and windows were closed (or maybe that was the ghost ) it was freezing and we had the heating on all the time.

That seems v v high. I pay £50pm with bulb for gas and electric

Electric underfloor heating is notouriously expensive. how many hours is it on?

Under floor heating in itself may not be expensive: depends if you have a wet (water) or dry (electric) system.

tell us how many kWh of electricity you use in a year

and how many kWh or cubic metres of gas you use in a year.

and, how much are you using in the current warm spell?

How is your house heated? Is the UFH electric?

How is the hot water heated?

How thick is the loft insulation?

We pay £80 a month for both
What have you done to cut your bills?
Have you checked your loft is insulated?
What’s your heating run on , how old & efficient is your central heating it? Do you have thermostats on radiators
It’s unusual to have single glazing these days have you looked at changing your windows & doors to glazed ones - it would be worthwhile. How well do your internal doors fit, would draft excluders make a difference?
Have you looked at the efficiency of your appliances, things like electric heaters cost a fortune to run

We had cavity wall insulation which has helped
Simple changes like energy efficient light bulbs, timers have saved us about a £100 a year on our bills
I think your bills sound ridiculously high. When we moved into our house the first bill was very high and that was because the immersion heater had been left on. A simple mistake can be very costly

That’s crazy Hugh. We’re a 4 bedroom Victorian Terrace. No double glazing and pretty profligate with the heating, have it on at 20 degrees in the winter. Use the tumble drier a lot as well. We pay about £160 per month.

If you have ELECTRIC under floor heating that will be the cause. It is so expensive.

My MIL gas and electric bill before she got double glazing fitted on her 4 bed Victorian semi detached was £175pm.

That was 4 adults, living in three separate bedrooms with TVs and usual tech. She also has a cellar with a pump on 24 hours to stop water flooding in. An electric heater in the kitchen as there's no radiator and 13 radiators across the house. Gas boiler to heat radiators and water but with an electric immersion heater as back up

£370 is an insane amount for the size of your house unless you've got the underfloor heating on 24 hours a day. Also how do you heat your water? Do you have an immersion heater?

Basically anything electric and used to heat, is going to be expensive. My uncle once had a 2kwh heater running in his garage to stop his metal work tools seizing up - 10 years ago that was costing him £5 a day/£150 a month just to keep a garage warm - he soon put a stop to that.

Sounds very high to me. Ours is £110 a month for gas and electric on a 3 bed detached house. Have you tried changing supplier?