I just got a gas bill through this morning and I'm a bit suprised how high it is, £474 for 4 months of gas! Almost no one was in the house for a month of that too. There's 4 people living in this house, it's a small terrace, I was expecting a bill of up to about £200 or so, so it's a bit of a suprise, I'm curious as to how much everyone else pays per month?
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basmic said:Approx £30/month for gas, and £30/month for electricity.
Wow wish our bills were like that, we use about £15 of electric per week and £10 of gas. Despite the increasingly warm weather some people still insist it's freezing cold and put the heating on
£474 of gas over 4 months seems very high, but as always, lots of factors to take into account, no 2 households are the same.
That one seems about right tho, £177 for 3 months. Expensive week
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It's the reason we swicthed to payg on both meters. Im sure we pay a little more in the long run because of slighty higher charges, but not having another 2 bills drop on the mat is pretty nice. It also makes you more aware of your useage and you tend not to leave lights on and stuff like that.
Hamzter, who are you with for gas?
I woke up this morning and my parents were mad over their gas bill that they just received too. I think we're with EDF. My dad was complaining that we've never ever spent so much on gas before and that it must be wrong. It could be an error on the company's half? Or they hiked the prices. :/
I don't remember how much the bill is, but it certainly didn't sound right.
I woke up this morning and my parents were mad over their gas bill that they just received too. I think we're with EDF. My dad was complaining that we've never ever spent so much on gas before and that it must be wrong. It could be an error on the company's half? Or they hiked the prices. :/
I don't remember how much the bill is, but it certainly didn't sound right.
What do you use the gas for? Everything in our kitchen is electric, and the only thing gas is used for is hot water and central heating and my bill was ~£320 for the quarter. House of 6, but effectively five as one rarely washes 
I live on my own, in a 2 bedroom detached cottage, but often have lots of friends round using power/water.
Everything is electric bar the water and heating, those are kerosene which is supposed to be around the same cost to operate as gas.
Find electricity works out to ~£40pm, and Oil £25pm
That bill is clearly wrong somehow.
Everything is electric bar the water and heating, those are kerosene which is supposed to be around the same cost to operate as gas.
Find electricity works out to ~£40pm, and Oil £25pm
That bill is clearly wrong somehow.
We're with npower for both gas and leccy. It's a pain trying to pay the electricity at the moment, npower messed up the bills so my landlord gets the leccy and I get the gas, so whenever i call up to pay the electricity they refuse to tell me how much I owe them (stupid data protection), I have to call up the landlord to find out usually! Only here for another 2 months tho so not much point changing it all around.
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YoungBlood said:
Tis ok till they hike the price and not change the meters rate of charge, we just had a £200 elec bill from npower due to them not changing the meter when they rasied there prices!
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just take a meter reading and look on back of bill tells you how to work it out
just find out if its estimate or not
just find out if its estimate or not
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LizardKing said:
Well right now I would have thought the problem would be the meters not lowering the prices along with the recent price cuts in electricty and gas. I have just assumed that when you charge the key up it alters the rate you pay to the current rates. I have never queryed this though, maybe I should.
Am with Scottish Power, Online Energy Saver 2 - have been with Scottish Power for about 3 years now, and not really had any problems.YoungBlood said:Wow wish our bills were like that, we use about £15 of electric per week and £10 of gas. Despite the increasingly warm weather some people still insist it's freezing cold and put the heating on
£474 of gas over 4 months seems very high, but as always, lots of factors to take into account, no 2 households are the same.
I'm just waiting for the tight sods to lower their prices, as they told me would be happening soon - this was 2 months ago!
We got a £422 gas bill for november - end of january. Thats for 5 people living in a terrace house, gas from British Gas. We thought it was ridiculous, but checked out meter and all was working fine. The stupidly high price was because one of my housemates would have the heating on pretty much 24/7 during the winter, whereas the rest of us never really used it because our rooms were on the first and second floors and were always warmer (mine's in the loft and i never turned the radiator on and always had the window wide open throughout winter). Did any of your housemates put the heating on a lot? i think we worked out that it used about 5 times as much gas having the heating on.
basmic said:Am with Scottish Power, Online Energy Saver 2 - have been with Scottish Power for about 3 years now, and not really had any problems.
I'm just waiting for the tight sods to lower their prices, as they told me would be happening soon - this was 2 months ago!
They are lowering them but not by much and not until June. I think a few of the others are just going to drop their prices again when that happens.
I work for British Gas and though the management won't let us know until the day it's announced nationally I think we may see another drop over the next couple of months. Energy company's don't mind price drops in summer as the usage is low so bills are small anyway. That's why they waited until after winter to drop them. Make the profits for the year first. Summer's nearly always run at a loss.
Hamzter said:
Have you had your boiler serviced this year? That's what uses 90% of the gas in your average home. I'm not sure of the exact figure but I'm sure having it serviced annually can reduce the number of units you use by up to a third.
