[Closed] Gas & Electric Bills PCM for 2 People in 3 Bed House

I'm back in a flat now but my last place (such as yours) was circa £100 PCM

Ours is a fixed £115 a month for dual fuel. I work from home so I dunno if that bumps it up from what it would be your average out-of-the-house-all-day couple. I also live on the Isle of Wight so I guess my central heating gets used less than if I lived on the Isle of Skye.

Same as neil853

2 people, 2-bed semi
£70-80pm but we try to not use too much energy if we can help it

2 bed with 2.5 people is £90 fixed per month, bloody day light robbery imo.

Ours is £120 a month (for both) for 2 adults and 1 child in a 2.5 bed house.

Ours is about £60 a month. 2 people in a 3 bed house.

3 beds, 4 peeps, £90/month

2 people in 3 bed terraced house is about £60/month direct debit.

2.5 people, 3 bed semi - ~£60/month leccy and gas. (wood burner with free wood subsidises the gas bill substantially - only pay ~£10 per month for gas)

2 people, 3 bed semi, about £70/month

60 quid a month in total, two of us and a baby, decent sized 3 bed house and quite often work from home.

I fitted a remote wireless thermostat to the central heating, made a big difference in gas usage compared to just running it on a timer.

We're also terrace which I think makes it cheaper than a semi.

2 dudes, 2 bed flat, £70 for G&E. Was £120 and now they owe us about £500!

2 of us in a 2.5 bed terrace about £80 a month, I think.

Makes a huge difference if the house is empty all day (ie heating off) and also the insulation/build quality. I'd agree with above, £75-150 is the range

Was £120 and now they owe us about £500!

We had a similar situation and they (slightly grudgingly) refunded us, rather than using the deficit to offset future bills, which they wanted to do.

2 people, 2 bed end terrace, £70 per month.

2 guys sharing a 3 bed end terrace, was about £100pm.

We've just had another house built, so it's now a mid terrace and its about £80. We also had the wall insulation done which made a big difference. Expecting the G&E bill to go down even more once its fully built as all the tools are being run from our house.

& we have a lot of electronic gizmo's! 😀

2 people. 4 bed semi. £63 pm

Large 3 bed semi 2 adults 1 two year old. £80pm both avg temp when heating on 20.5

mines about £75/month, I'm on my ow, but its badly insulated.

3-Bed (one is more of a box room, my office), 2 guys, detached house, 1980s build, not very well insulated, has cavity walls dowstairs but tiles on the upstairs, rather than a second brick layer :o(.
I'm pretty interested to see how other people compare...

According to British Gas's on-line bill tracker thing, we use less gas (about 10%) than most, as I'm pretty stingy on the heating ;o).
However, we use more electricity (about 15%), I can only assume its because we both run quite high powered PC's, everything else in the house is low powered/energy saving...

Electricity (we pay $40 direct debit a month) appears to be a max of £150 a quarter, to no lower than £130.

Gas (We pay £41 direct debit a month, but usually have to pay a top up for winter) is more changeable, obviously, so for this year it is:
jan-march is £200, april-jun is £85, jul-sept is £70, oct-dec is £135...

1 bed house in woking mid 80's - 2 people + cat

all electric inc heating (no gas) - £59 a month - though that when up since our extra economy eco7 timer when mad.. must replace that to stop the ho****er tank cycling though the night..

We had a similar situation and they (slightly grudgingly) refunded us, rather than using the deficit to offset future bills, which they wanted to do.

Really? I just checked, £460... that could get a frame I spotted over there ---->

Never had a problem getting a refund when we've been in credit. THey do try to make our monthly payments lower but if you ring them and ask them HAVE to give you any credit back

Average - hard to tell without a pen and paper. summer - 20 for elec, 30 for gas. Winter 40 for elec, 60 for gas.

2 adults 2 kids in a three bed semi here , we pay £80 a month and they usually end up giving us a bit back after the new tax year has started. There's someone in nearly all day as I work full time mornings and MrsCarlos does part time in the afternoons we can split childcare for minicarlosmk2.

Last night I gave them some meter readings, which brought the excess down to ~£300. We'll probably swallow up another £100 of that over the course of the next three months, but they are sending me a cheque(!) for £150

2 people in 3 bed 1920s terraced house here

~£70 - £100pm in winter months
~£20 - £40pm in the summer

depending on how much we are in and the weather...

FWIW, I'm on a £90pm DD with British Gas for both leccy and gas and they normally end up owing me a few hundred by the end of the year.

On average: 2.5 people, 2 bed three story house, £65PCM for both.

This is an average across the year.

Two wood burners help keep the cost down but we run a storage heater 365 days a year in our office/cellar.

End terrace cottage.

We pay about £50 for gas and £59 for electricity from BG, and despite much measuring, uplugging and switching things off I have absolutely no idea where all that electricity goes as we use gas for heating. I suspect most of the rest of the street has tapped into our meter 😕 .

Apologies for resurrecting this but we are paying £200 PCM for gas alone (averaged through the year), however it is LPG. (+ £40 electric)

An older 3 bed cottage, but heating supplemented by log burners (2) at least 1 of which is on most evenings. The timer clock is on for 2.5 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening at 19c and set at a base level of 8c the rest of the time.

Only really two of us living there during the week, both out at work all day (trying to earn enough to pay the gas bill!)

Am I right in thinking this is too high - what can we do to reduce it? Are we just being too soft and having the heat up too high?

What insulation do you have, are you on the best tariff of have you just ignored it, how old is the boiler.

My guess is that all 3 could do with working on to bring it down.

Insulation - Big thick solid walls (so no wall insulation) and bedrooms under the eves - certainly an issue, but not an easy fix. Double glazing all round, but old units.

Tariff - yes the OH does keep an eye on that (I think - will check!).

Boiler - About 8 or 9 years I guess - does this count as old? Can we get it tested for efficiency? We have a service agreement with the installer, so I suppose this is something he might do...

Thanks.

Big thick solid walls (so no wall insulation)

Double glazing all round, but old units.

Just moved in and worked out our gas consumption for 1 week was £25 😯

I wish ours was as low as some of you lot but we live in a large 3 bed farmhouse with no double glazing and lots of leaky bits!

3 bed detached 2ppl - current DD is £81 pcm gas and lec but is usually lowered over the summer months (by npower).

We do have a multifuel burner in our main winter living room so that reduces how much we need to have the heating on unless it's absolutely brassic.

£50pcm here in a 1st floor maisonette on Scotland's east coast.

Jumpers mandatory 😛

We're about £100/month for both Gas (£61) & Elec (£39).

3 bed Victorian Terraced house, solid 9" brick walls, but have double glazing and a fair bit of loft insulation installed.

Apologies for resurrecting this but we are paying £200 PCM for gas alone (averaged through the year), however it is [b]LPG[/b].

The extra cost is presumably due to having to have it delivered by truck rather than piped? Impossible to say if that's too much without knowing how much you pay for it per cubic ft or btu of however it's measured and how much you use.

Thanks for the replies.

Apparently the LPG cost is about 40% higher than piped - so that explains a lot. Changing supplier isn't that easy as they own the tanks and kit, so the new supplier has to 'buy' these from the old supplier. However the three main LPG suppliers seem to have similar tariffs.

So if LPG accounts for 40% of the cost, it would equate to about £140 per month mains cost. It still seems high to me, but maybe not as bad as I had first thought.

3 bed terrace, 2 adults and 2 kids. we pay between £100 and £140 pcm for dual fuel. the price we pay varies depending on our consumption and the time of year. if we ahve overpaid which is normally the case we get the monthly payments down to less than £100. but on average its around the £120 mark.
the house by the way is a mid terrace, about 100 years old, insulated and double glazed...but i still think we're charged too much for our gas use as the only gas appliance is the boiler which is "a" rated and about 15months old....i get the feeling n power are taking me for a ride....

3 Bed Detached. 2 Adults 2 Kids £ 75PCM. Good windows, loft insulation and cavity wall insulation. Fitted a woodburner last year. Can get downstairs rooms up to about 25 degrees on its own. Not sure how much i'm gonna save cos spent £100 on wood so far this year and I reckon I'll need another load, but i reckon it would cost a damn site more to get rooms up to that temp with gas central heating.

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could give me some advice as to whether I am paying too much for my utility bills.
I live in central london in a 3 bed house, living room, 2 WC, kitchen. Each of us pays into our joint account £100 to pay for the bills below and occasional cleaning products (should not be more than £10per month max). We also like to keep a bit of a buffer to ensure there is some money in the accout.

Average Council tax = £99
Water=£24
Internet (we do not own TV)=£20
NPOWER (elec and gas) = £95 (electricity is about £75)

Am I contributing too much?? considering the above divided by 3 is about £80 per month per person?

thanks
Cosy