My electricity bill

moggins

PP is not the only one with horrendous bills I thought we were doing well now we have cut our bills down to £60 a month for electric and £40 per month for gas.

It used to be £79 per month for electric and £70 a month for gas. The trouble is that if I get even slightly cold all my joints freeze up and I am good for nothing

Penny-Pincher!!

I was undercharged last year and am making up that amount too:rolleyes: I think our leccy works to about £45-£50pm.

We have cut back alot, and I havent used the TD in over a month, so think this will reduce the electric a lot. The WM is used sometimes 3 times a day, DW...loads of other stuff.

I dont think its too bad TBH, we are at home 24/7.

PP
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Yorkielass

now you are making me feel bad - we (2 adults in a 2 bedroom flat with just electricity no gas) have had our first bill since moving in (last place had gas too and was a shared student house type thing with bills included in rent) and it's worked out at £70 a month.

We were shocked at the time but then we thought that we don't have a lot of say over the things like the inefficient (ie cheap) fridge freezer and washing machine. Also water heater isn't very energy saving, and the heaters are rubbish - thank goodness for my fleecy blanket.

We went around and changed all the bulbs to energy saving and even in bedside lights as soon as we moved in and do and not leave things on standby, turn off lights, only boil the amount of water we need, hardly every tumble dry things (never used it at our last place but it's not as easy to dry stuff here).

Hoping that next time it'll be less than that next time - but think that in a rented flat you have to be restricted by things like the washing machine provided, bad insulation etc.

Well done on getting yours down that low though.

GreenFingers_2

I must get some more Energy Saving light bulbs. I bought two last year but really need to do all the rooms. I will put it on my mega-huge 'to do' list but close to the top - lol. Thanks for the reminder.

Spendless

Mado wrote:

spare a thought for me... the kids afterschool nanny (only twice a week, phew...) comes from Uganda and doesn't seem to appreciate that 18C is a perfectly reasonnable temperature to set the thermostat at.
Results, twice a week when I come home the house is desperatly trying to reach 28C....

LOL- If you ever have to replace her you'll have to advertise for one from a cold country:D .
Lights are a bug bear of mine. DH never switches them off drives me nuts. One daytime last summer they all shut the front room curtains and turned the lights on . I opened them back up and introduced the family to the sun saying "look at that free light":rolleyes:

Ticklemouse

Mr TM can't turn a light off either. Frequently I'll find him reading by the light of a lamp, but nearly every other room is ablaze. He still tries to tell me it's cheaper to leave them on than turn them off adn on again - even if he won't be going into that room for hours :mad:

He also turns the heating up rather than put a jumper on - he says that's what heating is for! Luckily he doesn't feel the cold.And he (and his mum) overfill the kettle then have been known to boil it 4 times before they are ready to make the tea. They can't understand that you boil the kettle WHEN you're ready.Grrrrrr

Our leccy DD is around £50 pcm I think. I've stopped nearly all TD useage because I think when the full year is out with this supplier - we'll be in debt

Quasar

Ticklemouse, ordinary lightbulbs wear out mostly through the switching/on and off, so Mr TM may have a slight point there. However the low energy light bulbs do not suffer from this shortcoming and although more expensive that the normal ones, they do last a very long time.

I think Mr TM needs to get hooked on MSE. Who knows, he may even be converted to cheapskatery!

Mr_Proctalgia

I don't know if you will still find any but Morrisons have been doing Phillips CF bulbs both ES and BC @ 11 and 15 watt for 50P just lately. (I bought 14 of them and relamped the house!)

smokey112

Well done on that reduction

We pay £65 pm at the moment for our Electric - however this is under dispute with Scottish Power at the moment as we believe the night meter is faulty - we had to take readings for 7 days and it showed we where using approx 50 units per night :eek:

I estimated that at worst case we should be paying about £40 per month and as little as £35 pm

OH kids have a habit of leaving everylight on.

Ang
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Curry_Queen

Ticklemouse wrote:

Mr TM can't turn a light off either. Frequently I'll find him reading by the light of a lamp, but nearly every other room is ablaze. He still tries to tell me it's cheaper to leave them on than turn them off adn on again - even if he won't be going into that room for hours :mad:

I think it's a male thing ... <ducks the flying missiles coming from the direction of MATH and Squeaks et al>

Yesterday I overslept a bit and didn't get up until an hour after DS had left for school, only to find he'd left the back door wide open "so the cats could come back in" and the house lit up like a bleeding christmas tree!!! There was only my bedroom light that he hadn't left on! :rolleyes:

Of course the heating had switched off by then too and I think the garden was warmer than the house all morning :rotfl: