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Mrs. C has been expressing concern over our combined gas and electricity monthly bill. I think she mentioned £140 per month for a 4 bed det.
Thought I'd do a quick poll on here to get some comparison prices. So, what do you pay?
3 bed end of row semi on top of a hill with full exposure
in winter 90-100 quid a month for oil and 25 quid DD for electricity. and 30 quid a month in logs
in summer(ie from end of march onwards) its 25 quid for electricity and the oil barely moves as its only used for heating water then
Around £60/month dual fuel (gas/eleccy), 3 bed link detached.
(In the Surrey riviera)
It's about 1.2k per year. Detached bungalow with attic converted. All brick etc.
Just changed from EON to Coop which 'should' save me £175 on existing consumption which is set to drop hopefully as we finally have curtains going in the room of doom.
3 bed Victorian terrace, solid walls, only insulation is in the loft. Heated to 19-20C in mornings and evenings. Costs £55 / month in gas.
As an annual average we go through 15kWh of elec a day. But we do work from home and run the main computer from 08:00-24:00 everyday.
All low energy bulbs in the house and A rated appliances otherwise
Summer 11kWh a day, Winter 17kWh a day.
So, £550 a year.
But a third of that is probably working from home costs.
£60/month DD for gas/electric. £100 load of logs lasts us a couple of months or so.
1800's terraced cottage.
4 bed house with 2 adults and 3 young children and we pay £183 a month at the moment but this should drop to around £150 a month soon once the debit balance is cleared.
£50/mth dual-fuel for 50 year old 3 bed detached here. LED GU10 bulbs, cavity wall insulation installed. Roof insulation is not enough but that is being sorted in next couple of weeks.
4 bed detached house with 2 adults and we pay £58 per month for dual fuel. All our bulbs are low energy, got lots of insulation in loft and in the last year got a new condensing boiler with weather compensation that works a treat.
£140 combined per month.
[s]Similar to allthepies, we pay £65/month all in on a 3 bed semi, but I think that may come down again.
No dishwasher or dryer, new combo boiler, 90% low energy and LED lighting though. 🙂
Sounds like gas/elec costs there not greatly different than here in New Mexico USA.
We pay $213 USD/month for gas & elec. for 3 BR house --varies year to year a bit depending on natural gas prices. We could cut that by a bit if I wasn't working at home and could cut thermostat down during the day.
Curious, what do you pay for water in your homes? Ours runs about $18 USD in winter months and about $40 USD in the summer. Likely going to go up due to the scarcity of said commodity here the past couple of years.
4 bed victorian semi, condensing gas boiler, double glazed, energy bulbs, occupied all day (so heating on from 7am to 10pm) = £180/month on elec/gas over last 3 months.
Modern 4 bed detached west of Scotland - £170 a month combined DD. We like a warm house 🙂
Despite it being in my interest to sell lots of renewable / more efficient boilers I still think one of the biggest influences we could all make is using our energy way more effectively.
So many house I go in the owners don't seem to care about how they use the thermostat. If we could get everybody to use that simple device properly we would save a huge amount of energy.
Big 4 bed house, Scotland and exposed(!), £220 a month on electric 'Total Control, Total Heat' scam supply that we cannot change supplier from. 😕
4 bed detached, two adults and three kids £185 per month for power and gas
...though my 16yo son's 30 minute showers each morning don't help! Pishing away both gas and water ... (£110 per month on water too fwiw)
£60 a month for electricity and heating, using an air source heat pump for hot water and heating. I've also got a multi fuel inset stove fitted and i guess this costs me £40 a month in fuel. All in a 1 bed semi detached council (now housing association) bungalow/sw scotland, it'd be a lot warmer/less draughty if i didn't have bare floorboards but i don't like carpets and i can't afford a decent engineered wood floor, i'm too much of a snob for laminate flooring 😉 .
The thermostat for the radiators which work off the air source system is set to 14 degrees, i tend to use the stove to heat the house when i get home after work.
use that simple device properly
Definitely does make a difference. We use a programmable thermostat and it drops house temperature from 10PM until 5:30AM, then resets for a daytime temperature.
£74 a month gas/electric, 2 bed semi
Some surprising numbers, especially:
[i](£110 per month on water too fwiw) [/i]
When we had a meter (no Scotland so rates), it was £11 pcm... With no attempt to save water - how the hell do you manage to is 10x as much?
And, £50-60pcm gas/electric bills - are you folk never in?
For us:
Large 3-bed mill in Scotland; £300 oil, £100 logs and £50 electric - per month.
Live fairly quietly here, £73 a month gas and elec and we've been keeping an eye on this for a couple of years so it's fairly close to the annual average.
House is a 3 bed semi. Just got DG windows in so maybe the bill will come down a wee bit after a while.
I'm reasonably content with it.
120pm duel for a 5 bed detached, fairly well insulated, house. Bit of a cold spot in the valley in the winter. Got high pressure h/w tank(no combi) and newish boiler. Not too bad. Water rates however....
We put away £40 a week to cover both, just had the bill come in and its £484 for the quarter ! ..
3 bed mid terrace, loft insulated but heatings on alot of the time and the kids computers on all the time !
2 bed end terraced. £113pcm for both.
Think I'm keeping the house too warm 😐
4 bed semi with part of it a giant underground heat sync, and an outdated boiler was paying £94/mon averaged over the whole year for gas and elec combined
Electric only flat, £40pcm. Well insulated new build, 2 of us in flat.
Is the majority of heating for homes there boiler/hot water?
The majority here is gas/forced air. Our house is set in 2 heating/cooling zones, so have 2 gas/forced air furnaces and 2 evaporative coolers for summer.
What saves me on winter gas cost is the amount of solar gain in winter through lots of windows/skylights---keeps most of the house at 68-70F, even if it is 15F outside--except on totally cloudy days (which isn't the norm).
Coyote, i work for a renewable energy company and regularly visit people who think there bills are too high!
£140 a month for a combined bill is a fair amount for on grid gas!
the average house i visit similar to yours and on grid gas, has a bill of around £110.
get yourself a heat pump, or air to water system... or even PV :p,
b r - you should really be looking at some kind of biomass thang for your heating if you're paying £300 a month for oil.
[i]b r - you should really be looking at some kind of biomass thang for your heating if you're paying £300 a month for oil. [/i]
Its the AGA - so heating half the house, hot water for the towel rads in a couple of rooms and all cooking. Works out at 12 litres per day @ £0.70pl. Turn it down any further, and no roast potatoes 🙂
The National Average is over £100 per month for gas and elec now
I pay £78, 4 bed house 4 people, there is someone in every day so at the moment heating is on a lot, I am anal about energy saving :-|. It is a well insulated new build and all the lights are low watt LED etc etc
Monthly dual fuel bill of £150 for a 3 storey detached bungalow with a hungry Aga to feed!
Yes BR my water bill is doing my head in. Metered. Four of us take the normal 2, 3, 4 minute showers. Then my muppet son does the 20-30 minute shower each morning. As I say that's a lot of water AND gas for one person.
3 storey detached bungalow
Er, so it costs you an extra 50 quid per storey that you shouldn't have 😳
1 Bedroom Apartment (bedroom and kitchen/living room) at the moment:
£35 electric (full electric- heating and appliances)
£21 water
Not bad considering we (Me and the other half) are students so the heater, tv, oven & computer is always on at the moment. Toasty flat!
We consume around 250e/year electricity for a family of three in a small house. Wood provides the heat which would cost about 150e a year if I didn't fix my neighbour's bikes. I don't work so I'm in a lot.
I don't work so I'm in a lot.
Have you taken into account how much hot air a human can produce?
5bed victorian semi.. dual fuel monthly payment is about £150
Yup, about 40W, a lot more when I'm logged onto STW obviously.
£85 p/m for a 2 bed flat. Top floor, outer corner, a heating system from the 20s and apparently no insulation in the walls or ceiling.
Before that about £60 for a 2/3 bed semi, much more up to date though.
ska 49 - are you using the oven to supliment your heating then if its always on 😀
Just had my quarterly gas bill (one bed flat), £300 - I probably shouldn't have the heating on at 24c all the time...
Fuzzy - you have proved my point
just saw your point bear I agree
my neighbour exclaimed that living where we do is expensive - she uses 2 full tanks (1100litres) of oil to heat the house every year.
its nearly 1 year i have been in my house (mid feb moved in) and ill not even have used A tank.
difference is my house is set to stay at 14 degrees except for between 4.30 and 6 where it comes on to raise the temperature to 19 for us getting up and at 4pm till 5pm where it lifts from 14 to 16 degrees so its not baltic when we get in - then the fire is lit and the heating stays off from then.
theirs is on perminantly in winter and judging by the state of their roof havign no snow and mine having loads - they have no insulation.
£80 per month gas
£75 per month electric
5 bedroom semi
2 adults and a 5 yr old
loft insulation, cavity wall insulation, double glazing
I'm always moaning about lights being left on and the heating being on but Mrs H is half trinidian and says its in her genes and must be warm at all times! 🙄