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Mines at £200 pcm for a 3 bed house.
Two bed end terrace house on meters for gas and electric using roughly £1 each per day. Will never go back onto direct debit ever again
£100 pcm 3 bed, two adults two kids.
Letter through the box other day saying it'll be £110 soon.
£140 for a 4 bed house. Half of the house 1890`s stone built, the other half is cavity wall.
Currently £93 pcm for a 4 bed detached for gas & elec.
We've got an ancient boiler & draughty double glazing, so I think we could use less gas if we sorted this out.
Hoping to replace both at some point (double glazing first) and that should help with the gas side of things.
£170, 4/5 bed modern detached in windy west of Scotland
3 bed house that had meters when we moved in - spent ages trying to weight up whether paying to have them removed was a good idea. Then realised it was great for showing my teenagers how much electricity and gas they wasted. So the meters stayed, they kids learnt to embrace jumpers and using less energy
Gas and electric rarely goes over £80 a month in the depths of winter and in the summer it's far less.
Wouldn't go back to direct debit here either
About $2600(Oz) per year for electric on the old house, bugger all insulation and single glazed but did have solar hot water. So about £125/month.
Not sure what the new one will be...
two bed victorian mid terrace, crap insulation, crap doors, draughty chimneys, old boiler, some single glazing and the double is 20mm panels.
£60 pcm
just switched but was approx £70 a month for 2 bed flat.
Had a house with Meter previously and wad easy over £100 a month and the house was not even heated properly but litteraly couldn't afford topping the gas up anymore, running out of gas half way through Xmas dinner was not ideal either...
paying monthly worked out much cheaper for me
i dont get why folk do direct debit, you end up paying over the odds and its a bugger to get your brass back off em. i just give em readings every quarter. 3 bed semi, about £150 in autumn and winter and £50-£75 in spring/ summer for combined gas/ elec bills. Gonna go up in may (locked in with BG till then).
£740 pa (£60pm) for electricity only. Big converted barn - 2010 minimum+ insulation standards. And that includes running the company from home on a big computer that has to be on 18+hours a day so 1/3rd of the elec bills go through the company.
Fired up the central heating (i.e. on top of the wood burner) for the first time this season today. But it's wood powered (my own wood) so heating costs are nominally £0, but If Im honest and tot up costs of saws, fuel, etc its about £250 a year.
Electric is a meter roughly quid a day. Heating and hot water is oil fired and I spend around 75 ish a month. Wood for thefire I get more than I can burn for free now. So hoping to bring oil bill down
Wer'e paying £117 a month by DD & are currently £280 in credit going off the last bill.
3 bed detached, 3 people including a 25 yr old who doesn't pay the ****in bills!
£86 a month, co-op energy, so getting dividend as well on that, and that's for a three bedroom house, gas central heating. You also get extra divvy for submitting a meter reading once a month, in the past 18 months it's been hassle free.
looks like I'm near the top end 🙁 must be due to the high amount of renewable's our state run elect corp provide...
[i]i dont get why folk do direct debit, you end up paying over the odds and its a bugger to get your brass back off em.[/i]
Because we get a better deal, and I've never had a problem with DD's in the +25yrs I've owned houses.
Averages over the year:
Gas £0
Electricity £50
Oil £200
Firewood £50
Detached ex-Mill in Scotland.
IIRC, tariffs are cheaper if you pay monthly [b]and[/b] you get a further discount if you pay by DD.
[b]scotroutes[/b] - Member
IIRC, tariffs are cheaper if you pay monthly and you get a further discount if you pay by DD.
The energy companies use the "discount" word to massively surcharge those that pay quarterly by cheque, something like 20%.
Two properties - £350 for 5 bedroomed house, £90 for 2 bedroomed flat.
Around £270 per month here 🙁
7 bedroom Victorian with no cavities or loft to insulate.
£70 per month for gas and electric. 1960's 3 bed semi, 15 ish year old back boiler, work from home all day.
Gas & electric £225 per month here. Family of 5, 4 bed detached 70s house.
£120 a month 4 bed new build, 2 adults 2 kids
£70pm for gas which is looking like a bit too much. I reckon it'll settle around £60pm, probably less once once we get the log burner working.
£50pm for electric. I reckon that'll come down once they take a reading cos the solar panels have added loads in.
4 bedroomed house.
£96pcm for gas and electric fixed for two years. Actual usage is electricity pretty much £22/23 per month all year. Gas ranges from £15 in summer to £150 in winter. Average seems about right..
3 bedroom semi, much extended downstairs.
I don't do direct debit either, just pay for what i use now and pay bits off on my debit card every so often
>£200pm 🙁
Extended 1600's farm cottage (cider farm) with lots of bodges, leaky single glazing, damp and a knackered gas heating system.
We are moving shortly though to somewhere that has just been freshly renovated with PVC double glazing, new oil heating and a log burner so it will be interesting to see how much less it costs to run.
£25 gas and £25 electric by direct debit for a two bed miners cottage with no dishwasher or tumble dryer and the heating doesn't come on until the starts getting bellow zero outside, and I am in credit by £30. 😀
The telly and computer is enough to heat the front room on all the but the coldest days. I only really put the heating on when the girlfriend stays.
Careful if you change suppliers - we left Southern Electric last year to take advantage of a dual fuel deal elsewhere. The other night, going through our statements, we discovered that the new company hadn't taken the steps to tell SE that we were leaving.
We've been paying double for our electric for over a year - the DDs to SE hadn't been stopped (the new company had assued us we didn't have to do any of this and that a final payment would be taken and the DD stopped).
So now I'm fighting with Southern Electric to get a years worth of 'leccy refunded. Barstewards of the first order.
Slightly OT, but we also found that Orange / EE have been charging us for two lots of phone and broadband since we went on to fiber-optic - there's another pile of cash we need refunded. Check those statements folks...
£200 per month for leccy, then coal on top in an old stone farmhouse with a Mrs who thinks anything under 26C is unsurvivable by humans.
£150 pm Gas (LPG) and £60 electricity, 3 bed house, 6 years old.
£60 a month for a 3 bed semi cottage, built 1820 or so.
3.5m3 of Logs for burner £180. Heating hasn't been on yet in any significant way, laundry and dishwasher always on overnight.
£35 on electric, £65 on gas. About £50 on logs from November to March.
Shower from the combi boiler with 2 sons who think 15-20 minute showers are normal. Good loft insulation, no cavity in the walls, no double glazing and crap doors. Can't replace because of the conservation zone. Haven't put the gad heating on yet, wood burner started just over a week ago.
1908 3 bed semi.
About £100 pcm for 3 bed room Victorian terrace (9" solid walls). IIRC £60 gas, £40 electric or thereabouts. We probably use £140 of coal over the winter each year as well, which means the CH isn't used much in the evenings unless its really cold.
we are a 25 quid DD and still in credit.
interestingly im monitoring the house with an energy meter atm just to get an idea of where savings can be made.
we use about 60pence a day on a week day and 1.20 on a weekend ( we do alot of cooking on the weekend)
oil - looks like about 30-35 a month - might be less this year , spent last year trying to get to grips with the system and how to set it up best.
wood - 25 a month.
£41 a month for both from Npower and I've just checked my account - seems I'm £89 in credit as well!
I do have a lot of jumpers though.
oil - looks like about 30-35 a month - might be less this year , spent last year trying to get to grips with the system and how to set it up best.
Impressively low!
heatings set to come on at 4.30am for 1 hour
lots of insulation and well fitted blinds(cheers bruneep)/heavy curtain combo
wood burner used at night/weekends - plus eco fan and high level room vents let the heat about the house.
when you take into consideration i pay for fire wood its not that impressive - how ever i couldnt keep the house as warm as i do with just the oil heating for the price we do - i burn alot of scrap wood as well - removed over a kg of steel(nails , hinges , handles ,screws) from the grate on saturday during a stove clean/service of moving parts.
I've got enough scrap wood / pallets left over from the workshop build, to keep us going this winter and the next. Shame we have open fires as 85% of the heat just goes up the chimney!
Maria Miller - £2,011 on electricity
Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi - £5,822.27
[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10423252/340-MPs-claim-200000-on-expenses-for-energy-bills.html ]340 MPs claim £200,000 on expenses for energy bills [/url]
Hope that helps 🙂
no gas, 3 bed semi
use about £70-£80 a month on electric, but we have a couple of countryside expenses: running a sewage treatment thingummy 24/7, and we have no gas so use an immersion in the HWC.
we'll probably spend about £600 - £800 on solid fuel (logs & coal) over this winter I think.
£90odd per month for a family of 4 in a 90's 3 bed semi. Wife is constantly whinging about the cold though so it'd be cheaper if I got rid of her. Bought her a slanket a couple of years ago, that brought the bill down a bit.
With a trendy eco-green-engery-supplier: i.e. I've not hunted around for the cheapest
1970 mid terrace 3 bed house that's mostly windows!! (3.2m x 2m in living room combined with the front door is one whole wall with the excepetion of a column between the two!)
South Coastal climate
I'm LED lamped all over the place, predominantly single bulb in each room with exception of bathroom and kitchen i.e. not-multi-kw per room downlighters,
45cm loft insulation,
A-grade double glazing.
During winter heating House maintained at 18.5-19.5C monitored with thermometers and not the heating thermostat which actually reads 15.5deg! Heatin is timed off when we're at work and also midnight-6am
Gravity fed gas boiler on open system (is that correct terminology, i.e not combi or pressurised)
Average over the year £65 per month all in, worst bill last winter was about £105 in a month.
BUT - I pay by quarterly billing, I don't like to have a monthly DD as you usually end up giving the utility company an interest free loan for the majority of the year by being in credit with them!
EDIT probably spend £2 a month on IKEA Glimmer 100 packs of nightlight candles. 5 or 6 or 7 on a bit of stone on a coffee table together kind of give a subliminial cozy fire effect.
effing £2500 per annum
3 bed 1950s detached house.
and the house is never tropical.
🙁
effing £2500 per annum
3 bed 1950s detached house.
and the house is never tropical.
Either you have no insulation at all and the windows don't close properly, or possibly half your street is coming off your gas meter?
£22 electric and £28 Gas pcm
Pay by DD to ensure a better price from the supplier.
Plus no nasty big bill in March after the winter. Normally fluctuates between me owing them and them owing me over the year.
No heating on before work as I am up and out in 15 mins, then in the evening I run the CH 15mins on and 15 off on the clockwork segment timer .
£85 per month combined DD with OVO energy, Build up a nice credit in summer to use for winter heating payments.
3 Bed detached and very exposed on 3 sides of the house so it gets quite a bit of wind chill.
£150pm combined; 5 bed extended victorian semi with 2'+ sandstone walls, 18-20c depending on where you are in the house. Think the main loss is from heating the open hall which extends over all 3 floors but that's there the thermostat is. No point moving it as half the residents were 'born in a field' and are as easy to train as adolescent gibbons....
Having scrutininzed my bill(s)
Its £1800 per annum.
A more palatable £150 pcm.
£183 per month for gas and electric with Eon for a 4 bedroom modern house.
Eon have an online app that allows you to compare your household electricity and gas consumption against other similar Eon houses in the area.
My electricity is the same as others, but my gas is well above for all months, which puzzles me.
£100 per month combined.
2 bedroom victorian end-of-terrace. Has double glazing but lots of drafts and minimal loft insulation (hoping to improve on those soon). No cavity wall insulation of course.
Some of you are paying a fortune!!
I've just worked out that in the last 30 days we have used £196 of gas which scared the hell out of me. That's heating and cooking but then it is winter and that's from actual readings so now trying to figure out the likely spend over the course of the year! Missing having neighbours attached to me for the first time since moving!
Timely thread resurrection.
We've just submitted our electric and gas meter readings. Now bear in mind we have solar panels and have been using a multi-fuel stove all winter which essentially keeps the central heating off in the evening.
The electricity dd has come back at £9 per month.
Gas is £30 per month although I expect that to come down once we've got through winter and submit another reading. To be fair we've spent about £50 on dry logs and another £38 on 100kg of coal to supplement the wood we have in the store.
That's for a well insulated 4 bed 1960's house.
£27pm electricity (should drop, PV panels installed in December). Approx. £150 per year wood (for log burning boiler and stove, bought by lorry load with a neighbour). Approx £60 per year wood pellets (boiler converted to pellets in summer to work with solar hot water). So the bills look tiny in comparison to most others - until you consider the capital investment, and that we live in a modern well insulated house (SAP rating of 94.).
I pay $185 USD a month here in New Mexico, USA (natural gas and electricity) for a 3BR house. Bill is set up for a 12 month period and each year is adjusted based on last years usage and projected costs of natural gas and electricity generating costs. When they make the annual adjustment, it usually only varies maybe $10-15 either way. Here in the desert, cooling in summer costs almost as much as heating in winter.
Being so mild this winter, and using the stove every night, we've cut the LPG bill in half to 250 quid/month.
Electricity ticks along at £49/month.
One bedroom flat no gas £80 per month on electric
With a large log burner (central heating only goes on for 10-ish hours per year) and free wood we pay £50 for gas and leccy. We're already waiting for a cheque back as this appears to be too much!
we've also got solar pv now although we'll have to see how that effects the bill.
Modern, insulated house with double glazing and solar water. Oh and an outdoor hot tub set to 40 degrees. Works out on av about $450 a month. Blimey.
Last qtr bill ready-£711.00 !!
3 Bed detached house with a wife that loves being 24-25 degrees all the time,
I'm off to buy a locking box for the thermostat and her some thermal undergarments
Gas averages out at £120 per month. This is mainly down to the missus wanting to live in tropical conditions.
Electric is £35 a month.
We are with Ecotricity so paying a bit over the odds. 1930s 4 bed semi.
Just checked my first bill since moving house - 4 bed detached.
£76.26 for 31 days electricity
£58.59 for 31 days gas
I am actually quite pleasantly surprised (given that this is over winter when usage will be at its highest) we have space heaters on 24 hours a day in a converted built-in wardrobe (to mimic an airing cupboard), electric underfloor heating in our en-suite and my wife uses the tumble dryer lots.
£100 combined for Gas and Elec in a 1911 3 bed terrace. It's not particularly well insulated (no cavity wall insulation, floorboards downstairs etc.) and the Mrs is at home all day everyday at the moment with the kid.
She complains it's cold in the day, I bought her a onesie for Christmas.
She complains it's cold in the day, I bought her a onesie for Christmas.
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