expensive british gas queiry??

jamesey

hi just before i take the plunge for the websaver 5 tarrif i was currently paying £50 for gas per month and £50 for electric now ive given them a reading today and they say ive got to up my gas to £64 per month , does this seem a lot?? we hardly use the gas much and the electric im always turning stuff off
my mother in law has the heating on all day every day and her bills are not as much as that , whats going on.
my gas was 149.00 in debt back in oct 2009
and now its £165.98 in debt jan 2010 in that period ive used 5231.0 kwh from 00091 to 00556 on my meter???????

my electric from oct to jan
october bill £201.05 in debt to jan 2010 £155.06 , there keeping this at £50 per month starting in march , in that period ive used 1092.0 kwh meter reading was 36263 oct 2009 to 37355 in jan 2010
can anyone work out if this is ok or not , and what do you think about the websaver 5 tarrif;)

Tamara79

I couldnt tell you about your meter readings.. but if you have them I was advise you to put in your yearly consumption into a comparison site and see what offers they give you. I was with BG and was thinking about going onto the Websaver 5, but it turned out in the end to go with Scottish Power.. as the KHw per xxx quarter were at a cheper rate than BG... its sooo complicated but I think I have saved myself 33% off my annual bill!

JennyR68

go to http://www.imeasure.org.uk input your meter & tarrif details and enter your meter reads and it will work it out for you.

jamesey

yes ive tried to do it but its a bit hard , its not working it out for me.

JennyR68

Have you entered your tarrifs and put in 2 sets of meter readings? Put your original meter reads in an older date, last week would do. Then put todays reads in this weeks boxes. If you then go to the results page and scroll down it should tell you exactly what you have used and how much.

What's it doing?

SwanJon

jamesey wrote: »

hi just before i take the plunge for the websaver 5 tarrif

Remember Websaver has an exit fee - it might not change your mind, but you should be aware of it.
I've moved things around in your quote to help me understand

jamesey wrote: »

i was currently paying £50 for gas per month they say ive got to up my gas to £64 per month. we hardly use the gas much.
my mother in law has the heating on all day every day and her bills are not as much as that , whats going on.
my gas was 149.00 in debt back in oct 2009
and now its £165.98 in debt jan 2010 in that period ive used 5231.0 kwh from 00091 to 00556 on my meter???????

It is very difficult to compare bills between different houses - different patterns of use, different insulation etc, but here goes.
IN 3 months you have used 5231kWh at a cost of £164.98 (1st assumption - 3 payments of £50 made in this time). Average cost of 3.15p/kWh. Average cost per (winter) month £55 (obvioulsy this will be less in the summer). To pay this and clear the balance £64 is not unrealistic, and once the balance is clear it shoudl come back down again.
It looks like you have a metric meter where one unit on the meter (a cubic metre) is roughly 11.2 kWh.
You could look at some energy efficiency measures to see if you can bring your consumption down (don't heat rooms you are not in, or when you are not in, turn down the thermostat 1 or 2 degrees etc)

jamesey wrote: »

£50 for electric.im always turning stuff off
my electric from oct to jan
october bill £201.05 in debt to jan 2010 £155.06 , there keeping this at £50 per month starting in march , in that period ive used 1092.0 kwh meter reading was 36263 oct 2009 to 37355 in jan 2010
can anyone work out if this is ok or not , and what do you think about the websaver 5 tarrif;)

3 months and you've used £104, av cost 9.5p/kWh (Assumptions as above), £35/month. Again once the balance is clear your payments should drop.

PS - I work for British Gas