Your winter bill...

SuzieSue

My Scottish Power bill for 80 days between Nov and Feb was £130 for gas and £90 for electricity.

This is for a 3 bedroom modern detached house with 2 of us at home for all day 7 days a week (we both work from home). We have the thermostat set at 14 degrees during the day and 10 degrees at night. We use electric heaters for five minutes or so every couple of hours to heat up the room that we are in during the day.

penelopedee_2

About £85 a month for both Nov, Dec and Jan (gas and elec). Old 3 bed terrace, with open plan downstairs. DH home all day most days.

itzmee

We live in a 3 bed terraced house (2 adults and 2 children so out most of the day) - our bills were £99 for electric and £95 for gas with EDF from Oct - Jan. We only use gas for the combi boiler. During the night the heating was kept on but turned down to 16 deg. I was very happy at these bills especially as my electric bill usually costs around £140, but the meter was replaced in November and the very nice fitter 'lost' a few units off the old meter

My neighbour, who is with British Gas, used the same amount of gas units as I did and paid £300 for her bill!!

LittleMissAspie

Have been forgetting to take regular readings and to be honest with it being so cold I was scared to update our account but it turns out that September to March, ie the cold half of the year, we've spent £229.93 so I'm pretty happy with that. Approx £110 on gas plus £130 on electricity for six months.

It's a 2-bed mid-terrace and I am home 4 days a week although we try to keep the heating off during daytime and just have it on in the morning before getting up and in the evening when the temperature falls. Usually stick to 17 or 18 degrees as we are warm enough at that temperature. When it was VERY cold we kept it on 15 degrees overnight which I considered quite extravagant

diable

If you both work from home can you not off set some of the cost against your tax bill?

Swipe

3 bed detached bungalow. 2 air to air ASHPs and small 5KW stove. Winter bill end of Nov to end of Feb £106 electric and £64 coal (£40 of that used in December).

SuzieSue

diable wrote: »

If you both work from home can you not off set some of the cost against your tax bill?

No, we're both employed (not self-employed), so no we can't. I think you can claim a couple of pounds a month, but that's about it.

spinningsheep

Just updated my reads at weekend and braced for a massive debit balance and was VERY pleasantly surprised

Gas : Total cost of gas used £286.87

9872.36 used between DEC 4th and Feb 27th.

Account is now £86.08 in debt. been paying £50 a month.



Electricity: bills are quite screwed up with loads of estimated reads but back on top of it now, account is £186 in credit, been paying £89 a month DD and they now want £92 starting tmrw, not going to split hairs over £3.

zarazara

2 bed end terraced,electric is approx £25 a month and heating is ,per month,£75 wood,£35 coal,£40 oil.