How much more does an electric-only flat cost?

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I am consider buying a flat that only has electric.

My partner says this will cost A LOT more in energy bills. Is he right?

It's a small, two bedroom, flat.

We had a 2 bedroom all electric house. It cost a bloody fortune to run. Especially the heating. We put an LPG cooker in, and now have air source heating and the bills are a lot smaller.

We rented a one bed flat 10 years and vowed never to go anywhere near electric heating ever again. The cost was astronomical, at least 5 times what we pay now we're in a 3 bed semi. 😨😲

How old is the apartment and how well insulated is it? If it’s top floor or in the attic, it will be more to run than if it’s surrounded by other apartments.

I lived in an electric only 1 bed flat, it cost about £160 a month in winter.

I now live in a 400 year old 3 bed farmhouse and the electric bill is £40 a month with £60 a month for oil. I'm saving about £60 a month over winter!!

We have 2 bed 2 bath all electric flat and in nov,dec jan we pay around 100-130 a month and around 50 in summer months

Depends what you're comparing it to.

We had a lovely, warm, newish, middle floor flat with neighbours both sides, and storage heaters on a night tariff. It cost less to heat than the 3 bed 1960s terrace house with dodgy insulation and elderly boiler that followed.

With electric heating:

1. You won’t pay to have a gas boiler serviced/ insured. Mine currently costs about £199 a year (British gas).
2. You won’t pay, the daily ‘standing charge for gas, currently at least £95 a year (and rising). A 25p a day gas standing charge, will run a 1kw electric fire ‘free’ for an hour !
3. Gas is currently subsidised at the expense of electricity - as all social and green subsidies (c25% of an electricity bill ) are loaded into your electricity not gas bill. Government has said that this can’t continue and will be rebalanced, so that going forward - ceteris paribus - gas bills will rise, electricity fall.

We moved from a 2 bed terrace with gas and electric at an average of £60/month (pre-October price rise). Since then, in a 3 bed all electric flat, our bill is £300-350 per month (though this is winter so I don't know how that will average out over the year). Following this thread with interest as I'm convinced it can't be just the fact it's electric and something else must be going on to make our usage so high (though we've been equally careful in both places, if not more so in the flat).

Mum and I live in similar flats. Her electric only costs around double of my dual fuel.

We currently only have electricity in our apartment and even though the heaters are rubbish the bills are through the roof! I pay more here for a relatively cold apartment than I did for a dual fuel three bedroomed house.

I will never again have only electricity.

2 bed modern flat my electricity bills are £140 per month. I believe gas costs are closer now to electric costs. I have Dimplex storage heaters which are supposed to cut cost of heating by 40%, but unfortunately this is not the case. I should have listened when I was told never buy all electric flat or storage heaters. BTW, I have not yet turned on my heating.

I have a modern 1 bedroom flat , which also has solar panels to help , my electric only flat costs £49 a month in summer (not had a winter yet) . But this also includes running an Aircon 2025 summer has been very hot , standing charge at 54p a day . My heating systems are heat pump and infrared heating system .