How much is your gas bill?

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We had a smart meter put in on Monday which I now hugely regret. Since it’s been put in our usage (as measured by the meter) is up 5x. Which I think is insane and a fault with the meter. The energy company tell me that the meter is fine and probably my old meter was broken. So for Monday to Wednesday we’ve been charged £13.92 for gas. For context last month we paid £10

3 bed detached house. The heating has been on for four hours a day in total since this cold snap began on Monday. Four us us having short showers daily. Combi boiler. Currently costing £9-£10 in gas each day.

Mine has been around £35 this week. I'm keeping the temperature around 19-20 during the day and 16-18 at night. I don't think that's particularly high for such a cold week.

Yes, sounds like you are just getting accurate readings now. It's something I would have put off as long as possible if there was the slightest chance I was being undercharged. Let the rich do their bit for the wider community not the rest of us who are already struggling!

The average gas price, so 3 bed semi, for the cold snap is £10 a day if on all day. We’re in a 5 bed detached and have had the heating on for a hour in the morning and a couple of hours early evening and then off all night, thermostat no higher than 16, and it’s been between £5-£7.50 every day this week.

This is my first time paying gas bills (previously we were in flat which were all electric) so I didn’t know I was underpaying

I’m in a 3 bed newish build, I’ve gone from paying £12 per month to the last bill £24 for the month, just turned the heating on (gas) this month so dreading the next bill.

Just gas was £150 last month. Already on £52 for the first 9 day of Dec. 3 bed semi.

btw we have thermostat on 19 in my baby's room, and only her room gets this warm, the rest of the house is about 16-17

I'm in a well insulated apartment and use between 14 and 22kwh a day according to my bill if that helps
Electric is 5kwh a day

We use an average of 36kWh of gas a week when the heating is off, and we are just heating hot water into a pressurised tank system on a schedule. That costs us about £5 per week including standing charge on our tariff depending on the calorific value of the gas at that time.

Once the heating goes on though, that will go up to an average of 175kwh per week which is around £18.50 including standing charge per week.

We use half of our total gas usage across the year for heating hot water, and the other half of it in a 12-14 week period on heating the house. We are very very low users of gas as it is, at about 1/3 of the average "low" use of gas for UK households.

Surely it makes no difference what the outside temp is as to what you set your thermostat at?

Apologies... I misunderstood your post!

And now I've quoted myself 🙄

The bloke who fitted our smart meter wasn't very smart as he hasn't hooked it up to our internet meaning that the correct price per unit cannot isn't used.

We're waiting for another person to come out and sort the cock up. Perhaps this happened to you too.

That’s where I am as well.
Ten days £48 running it at 17 degrees.
It’s turned down to 14 degrees now just enough to stop the pipes freezing and to make it warmer than outside.
Im 58 years old and have worked since I was 16 full time.
I was hoping to cut a few hours down next year.. that’s not going to happen 🙁
I down know how anyone on benefits is managing, its an dreadful situation

It’s costing us an absolute fortune in gas and we’re definitely not toasty. Just to take the chill off. Thermostat set to 17.5 which I override most of the time and turn down because it would be on 24/7. I think it’s costing over £2 an hour to have the heat on.

Thanks everyone :) we’re up to about £52 this month. So sounds much more ‘normal’. Can’t believe we only paid £10 for gas last month 😂

had a nice chat with my mum and she said the bills always catch up with you and a quick google found forum threads where energy companies have dropped massive bills based on estimates on people who unknowingly had broken meters for months or years. We’re generally low users (2, maybe 3 hours a day to 18degrees) so that would be extra annoying.

£10 doesn’t sound right. I have a smart metre. I live in a bungalow. We are out all day and still use £3 a day and we are on a good tariff from before this all started. I would say u were underpaying. Gutting. But to be honest they may have found out and charged for it later

It is important to take a wider view on energy usage through the year and look at averages over longer periods for comparison. It would be useful to look at a whole 12 months of last year and check all the readings were actual ones too before coming to conclusion of a faulty meter. Could have been more a billing issue.
It is often missed though that it takes much more energy to get your house during this cold snap when comparing to last month when it was really quite warm for the time of year.

If the meter was however faulty and your supplier hasn't raised it before the meter was changed, you're extremely unlikely to be back billed and accountable because they can't evidence it. Your old meter has already gone. Your circumstances may have changed the use of current gas and they can't evidence that for billing without your agreement.

Definitely keep monitoring it every couple of weeks and like other have said, make sure all the unit rates are correct on the smart meter display

I'm in a 1930s semi and was using around £10 a day for a few hours per day at 18 degrees and the last few days £14 per day for more hours, around 7 hours. I don't put it on overnight. It does include hot water and gas hob. These are figures shown on my smart meter.

There are 2 of us in a 3 bedroomed semi. I'm at home all day. Our gas is averaging at £60 a Week. I'm not going to sit here and be cold all day, so the heating is on for 12 hours a day.

£50 this week for gas in a 1 bed flat here.

I think I've read that heating accounts for about 80% of your annual gas use
My EPC reckons sufficiently heating my flat should use 8000kwh a year of energy; in current gas prices that's £820 a year, but heaviest over three or four months and non existant for about six months.

Hot water should use about 2000, so £204 a year but spread out evenly.

^my heating use this winter is going to be higher due to health probs and needing 21/18° mininum temperatures. In the last ten years I've lived in a cold home and used about 3300kwh a year of gas.

My October gas usage cost £87
My November gas usage cost £127
Hot water on 1 hour per day. Heating on 6-10am and 5-10pm at 18⁰C - 4 bed detached in Scotland

Sounds like your meter was faulty before and now you are getting truer readings