how much are you paying for GAS?HELP PLEASE!!!

VfM4meplse

OMG, £1/hr is far too expensive! Is this calculated correctly or am I just out of touch with the impact of the recurrent rises in gas prices? Either way I'm going to turn mine off now...!

Pssst

I just paid my latest gas bill. I use gas for heating and cooking. I pay on receipt of bill. It was £80

missk_ensington

I live in THE smallest 2 bed terrace ever to be built (was a 1 bed originally but bathroom was split to make 2nd bedroom) the whole house front door to back wall is only about 12 metres and about 6 metres wide - no exaggeration - whole surface area is less than 100m2!

Anyway, I moved in a few months ago and direct debit was set up for £40 gas and £28 for electric. After 3 months of estimated readings, and finally having given an actual reading I am £146 in debit with my gas, and £80 in debit with my electic. They have increased my DD now to £78 for gas and £55 a month for electric! I have solid stone walls, gas central heating, brand new double glazing - the whole house only has four 1m long radiators and one of them is switched off!! I live by myself with my 5 y/o son, have heating on for about 4-5 hours a day on a low temp, put washer on twice a week, dishwasher 5 times a week on an eco 25 minute cycle. Just seems like such a lot £130 a month for a house as small as mine.


PS. Does anyone know if its true that electric is cheaper in the middle of the night? does anyone know how much cheaper and between which times? I remember my mum always puttin the washer on at 1am when I was a kid cos she said it was cheap electric....is this true?

Magentasue

miss kensington Have you looked at comparison sites? From what you describe, you seem to be paying a lot. We are a family of six in a a three bed house paying £135 a month based on usage. Do you know your total gas and elec usage since you moved in (in kwh)?

Elec is often cheaper overnight in all elec houses with storage heaters because they are on an Economy 7 tariff where they pay more for daytime units and much less at night when their power hungry storage heaters and immersion heater are on. So, for most of us (including you), elec units are charged at a single rate day and night.

credit_crunch_victim

something must be seriously a miss here we use 3-4 m3 a day which works out on our tarrif at 11-00 a week
i have not taken into account that for about 5 months of the year we will not use the heating just gas for cooking and hot water
this works out at 4-00 less per week than we were paying on a ppm

missk_ensington

Magentasue wrote: »

miss kensington Have you looked at comparison sites? From what you describe, you seem to be paying a lot. We are a family of six in a a three bed house paying £135 a month based on usage. Do you know your total gas and elec usage since you moved in (in kwh)?

Elec is often cheaper overnight in all elec houses with storage heaters because they are on an Economy 7 tariff where they pay more for daytime units and much less at night when their power hungry storage heaters and immersion heater are on. So, for most of us (including you), elec units are charged at a single rate day and night.

Thanks, no I dont really understand understand the usage rates and how it works but I have become obsessed with keep checking the meter every few hours, and I seem to be using 5-6 units a day in electric (i.e it'd be on 6000 when I wake up and 6006 when I go to bed) but I cant check the gas (prob a good thing or I think Id become addicted to checking it). Although I admit I do like my house to always be warm (Im not one for sitting around in 3 jumpers) I tend to put it on for just 15 minutes, since it takes 3 minutes for radiator to be piping hot, but takes about 45 minutes for it to go cool after I switch it off, then I do it again an hour or two later. Dont know if Im saving any money, but it makes me feel like I am!

I have just changed supplier on Uswitch, although Martins info pages say it wont reduce what youre paying now, it will only protect against price rises, but if each unit is X pence cheaper I dont see how I wont save something?!?

I find it all so confusing! Why cant each supplier just publish a figure that says British Gas - 20p a unit, Eon 17p a unit, Tesco 15.5p a unit..... so that we could all easily understand who was cheapest. My bill always says something like "100 units @ 21p a unit, 35 units @ 11.4p a unit" - why is some of my power cheaper??

blaque*angel

scottish power found the missing payments!! they now say i owe them £9, i wonder why if i have a pre-payment meter. today is there last chance!! i've been on hold with them for 30 minutes, i'm going to speak to a manager if i do not hear anything positive regarding being charged 1 pound an hour i will switch to ebico...

squidge60

http://www.uswitch.com/

I_know_my_ABC_and_my_CMYK

Don't think this will be much use to you as I don't have a pre payment meter but my DD per month on gas is £68.00. Electricity is way through the roof.