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Cost of bills in a newer house

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PermanentlyTired03 · 23/06/2022 10:40

I'm looking at moving to a 4bed detached house built 2019 from a 2 bed 1900 terrace.
Can anyone say what kind of prices their gas and electric is in a newer house? It's quite leap price wise for the mortgage and I'm thinking about maintenance charges and houses a larger home might make the whole thing unaffordable. Really need to move though as we've totally run out of space. It's like living in a storage unit with toddlers 🤣🫣

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stressingmum · 23/06/2022 10:45

I guess it depends on some factors like does it have solar panels and how many people will be in the house.

In most newer builds everything is generally more energy efficient but also everything on a meter including water.

The other factor is service charges.

I have a 2016 house 3 bed detached and currently pay £126 a month for both energies but also have 3 solar panels.

2 adults 1 child in the home. Water is £48 a month.

Council Tax always appears to be higher as well because the houses weren't built when council tax bands set.

PermanentlyTired03 · 23/06/2022 10:54

No solar panels, there will be 2 adults, and 1 child. Maintenance is £360 a year. EA is finding out council tax cost for me.
It's a gorgeous house in a perfect location but I'm worried we'll pay the bills and then cant afford a life!

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majorquimby · 23/06/2022 10:56

2017 build 4 bed detached here. We currently pay £110 for gas/elec, but we are on a fixed tariff that we started just before all the price madness kicked off. I looked a few weeks ago and it showed we would be paying £170-80 on current standard variable for our usage. We have the hot water / heating on from 6am-8am daily, and heating on again 5 - 10pm (when it's cold enough obvs). I run the washing machine maybe 4 or 5 times a week, tumble dry only occasionally, dishwasher daily, and we both shower daily, sometimes twice (no DCs). I WFH full time, and DH has a hobby that involves a lot of plugged in equipment!. 2 of the bedrooms we leave unheated (one is tiny and doesn't really need it, the other one the radiator is behind the headboard so is a bit pointless), and I have switched off the heated towel rails in the bathrooms as they get too warm.

What really helps I think is we have dual zone heating - so we can have upstairs and downstairs on separately / at different times depending on what we need, it's really handy, and upstairs really only ever goes on when it's v cold. Also we have a double oven and as there's only two of us we just use the small top one 99% of the time rather than the big fan oven.

Hugasauras · 23/06/2022 11:01

We are in a four-bed detached house that is less than 10 years old. We pay around £180 a month for gas and electricity at the moment. Dishwasher on daily, tumble dryer on every couple of days during winter and a bit less over summer. We both WFH, me part-time, DH full-time. Hot water goes on for a couple of hours a day and that gives us plenty. Heating automatically kicks in when temp drops below a certain point - we usually have it active for a couple of hours in the morning and then the evenings during winter.

KarrotKake · 23/06/2022 11:18

Our fuel bills remained static moving from a (large) 2 bed terrace to a 4 bed newbuild (bit older than yours).
Council tax much higher - if you have the address, you should be able to get the Council tax band - Google it to find the website.
Water lower, as we went from unmetered to metered.

PlanBea · 23/06/2022 11:24

No panels, 2 adults and a baby, and our 4 bed detached new build bills are about £100/month. We have the tumble dryer on every day 😬but our gas bill is really low as we're south facing and get loads of sun

Georgyporky · 23/06/2022 11:33

I moved from a 1930s 3-bed detached bungalow to a 20 year-old 3-bed semi & my g&e bills almost halved !
Modern houses are properly insulated - floors, walls, windows, loft.

PermanentlyTired03 · 23/06/2022 16:45

Thank you everyone that makes me feel much better!

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