£90 per month Gas for a 1 bed flat!!!!!!????

Sammyantha

We moved into our new home at the beginning of November.

1 bed, very small (two main rooms) top floor flat in a barn conversion. Our heating runs off LPG Calor gas, water and cooking are on electric.

So far we have paid over £500 in gas charges Nov - Feb, that's 4 months!!!!!

We share gas with the downstairs flat on a gentleman's agreement set up by landlord. They pay 63% of the bill as they have a bigger floorplan, we pay the rest.

Downstairs never use the heating but their cooker and hot water are gas powered.

It's not possible to switch to any other form of service as we live in the middle of nowhere (everyone has gas tanks in the garden!), and calor are now over 59ppl :eek:

When we moved in originally landlord said gas would equate to roughly £35 per month. I now think he meant IF WE DIDN'T USE IT!!!!!!!! I have just spoken with him and said we were not expecting a monthly gas bill of around £90 for a 1 BEDROOM FLAT!!! He said well sorry but that's the cost of gas.

We have the heating on maybe 3 hours per day max, but during that very cold and snowy spell a month or so ago we had it on up to 8 hours some days otherwise we would have frozen:(

There is a gap around front barn style door which blows an absolute gale (covered now with heavy curtain but still lets lots of air in), and the windows are rotting at the corners, again letting the cold in. There is no double glazing.

I just want to know.. is this normal? really? £90 per month for a 1 bed flat, with heating on 3 hours per day?:(

Dreaming_2

edit: sorry, my comparison was for standard gas and electricity!