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