British Gas - Elec & Gas Bills are in.. Ouchieee

Alias_Omega

From November till now..

Your Gas Usage

Gas you used this period:

Meter Number: ***********Total cost: £ 178.52Total gas usage: 418 units

Detailed Usage:

20 Dec 2008 - actual 442
We read your meter 18 Feb 2009 - estimated 792
= 350 metric units over 61 days (estimated)
Gas units converted = 3941.08 kWh used over 61 days
Usage charge First 448.00 kWh x 6.862 p =
Next 3493.08 kWh x 3.434 p =
£ 30.74
£ 119.95

19 Feb 2009 - estimated 792
05 Mar 2009 - actual 860
We read your meter
= 68 metric units over 15 days (actual)
Gas units converted = 765.69 kWh used over 15 days
Usage charge First 110.00 kWh x 6.689 p =
Next 655.69 kWh x 3.122 p =
£ 7.36
£ 20.47

Total cost of gas used £ 178.52 Gas units are converted to Kilowatt hours using the following formula:
metric units
used calorific value volume correction to convert to kWh
gas used expressed in kWh

350x39.6394x1.0226400÷3.6=3941.08

The above conversion is based on your first meter read.

Alias_Omega

Electricity you've used this period

Total cost of electricity used £172.45

20 Dec 2008 - actual
05 Mar 2009 - actual

3784
5336
= 1552 metric units over 76 days (actual)

First 104 kWh x 22.859p =
Next 1448 kWh x 10.268p =
£23.77

£148.68

Alias_Omega

In short,

3 bedroom end terrace house, gas boiler used to heat house and provide hot water for bath / sinks.

electric shower
electric hob
electric oven

cold water dishwasher
washer
dryer (always on)

Reason due to high prices..

The heating is always on, the wife never turns if off and is always set on 18-20 degress with the comments 'im cold'.

Clothes always taken from washer into dryer, never hung out to dry.

Fire_Fox

Buy your wife a sweater and start taking some responsibility for the laundry?

p1tse

just had my quarter gas bill come in. two people in a small new build 4 bed semi, £222! electric was like £80

so £300+ for 3 months, that's £100/month. it must have been those cold winter nights

sickofusernames

Alias_Omega wrote: »

In short,

The heating is always on, the wife never turns if off and is always set on 18-20 degress with the comments 'im cold'.

Clothes always taken from washer into dryer, never hung out to dry.

Who pays the bills?

I constantly remind my missus to make sure she doesn't leave the heating on unecessarily or waste the hot water when she's washing up! Maybe when she has to pay the bills she'll be reminding me...

Oh, forgot to mention 81 days worth in a 3 bed semi :-
Gas - £276
Elec - £98

...and the house hasn't really been exceptionally warm during that time but considering we're both at home with our newborn I guess a high'ish bill is to be expected.

Alias_Omega

sickofusernames wrote: »

Who pays the bills?

Me..

But i can argue that we need the heating on, as we have a little one, he is now 16months old nearly.

Magentasue

Just wait until you have teenagers ... it can only get worse from now on. And, from distant memory, unless your toddler is not healthy and well, and you don't live in an exceptionally cold, damp house, is he not past the age of needing the heating on any more than the rest of us?

Fire_Fox

The recommended temperature for a baby's room is 16 to 18C if memory serves - not nearly so warm as many insist upon.

tobykim

When my kids were born late 70's we had no heating just a freezing cold bedroom they are both healthy so I don't think bedrooms need to be warm at all, unless anyone knows better, it was a bit of a nightmare having to get up in the middle of the night though as one was born in December but I don't think I'd have had it any different, we've only had heating put in about 4 years ago and already are getting spoilt, I'm sure we were better off without it