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

Antispam

Op cant take a reading as its shared gas ie a tank she appears to pay a proportion of the usage

RichTeaBiscuits

LPG Calor gas bottles are expensive but that's the cost of living in a lovely rural area.

I used up £40 bottle in a week just to heat up a room.

The only way to save money is perhaps switch everything to electrical so that you can figure out exact usage if you use energy meter. For example, buy a 2-ring hob and slow cooker, electric oil heating and wear lots of layers during the winter. My winter bill is less than £50

Sammyantha

Thanks all We're not on gas bottles. We're on LPG tank - big 2000 ltr thing in garden.

Hmm, re water on all day, perhaps that's what it is. As our own water and cooking is not gas we didn't even think about that. Wil lask downstairs neighbour.

gigglybug wrote: »

Did you gave the suppliers the starting reading or did a lettings agency/landlord do it?? I had this issue and it was because I was paying for energy used before I moved in!

Yes, exactly the same thing here! First £150 odd bill was for complete top up as last tenant had let the tank run down and then took it off the milk run (we understand why now!!). Landlord has promised to refund us this at the end of tenancy, but tbh i don't hold out much hope.

zarazara wrote: »

It sunds about right to me. ...£130 a month, thats oil,coal and wood

Yes but this is JUST gas heating alone. Two small radiators, on 3 hours per day.

RichTeaBiscuits wrote: »

The only way to save money is perhaps switch everything to electrical so that you can figure out exact usage if you use energy meter. For example, buy a 2-ring hob and slow cooker, electric oil heating and wear lots of layers during the winter. My winter bill is less than £50

Nice We have a slow cooker and hob and water are both on electric not gas. We already wear layers.. even now I am sitting with two fleeces and my fleece dressing gown on :rotfl:

Since I posted, we've found an old oil filled radiator out of the garage and have been using that. It'[s a pain in the butt only having heat in one room, and there's no easy way to dry washed clothes (oh did i also mention there's no washing line here!!!!!), but it's better than a £90 pmth gas bill. Now we have to figure out how to say to landlord we have no intention of paying any more gas bills since we have switched off the boiler and no longer use the heating:(

MrsTinks

Simply just ask him to disconnect the gas heaters and state you have obtained electric heaters and if he could please do a reading in the next 48 hours or so to correspond with your reading then you would appreciate a final bill for gas as it's simply easier to pay for your own heating through your electricity... I can't see that he should have an issue unless he lives in the other property and has been knowingly using loads and enjoying you paying for most of it...

dawyldthing

I agree with Mrstine, it sounds like the othe person has took the biscuit with the gas

charlie792

Im not sure its that out but I could be wrong...for December/Jan I was charged £83 for one months usage and that was on mains gas for a small flat with heating only on for a few hours a day, and for no-one to be in the property for a week over christmas!

Norman_Castle

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.

Stopping all of the draughts will help and can be very cheap or free.

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

How do you know they never use the heating?. Why don't they use it. How do they heat their home?