Gigantic gas bill

maypole

My latest gas bill for a quarter -- £269!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We live in a three bedroom house, are not extravagant with the heating. Our boiler is over 25 years old but surely that can't make THAT much of a difference. Or have gas prices gone up so much? Our yearly consumtion would suggest we live in a mansion.

moonrakerz

Don't look at the price - look at the amount of gas that you have used and compare it with previous bills. Also make sure the "quarters" are the same length, give or take a day or two.

I don't think that figure is too unreasonable for a winter quarter, if that is for heat, hot water & cooking.

alwaysonthego_2

what is your normal winter bill. We live in a simular sized house and use gas for cooking, water and heating and ours is 120.00. Yours sounds alot of money check that they havent used estimated figures

Cardew

I tend to agree with moonrakerz above that £269 is not unreasonable for a winter quarter.

'3 bedrooms' is not really the criteria to judge consumption. You can get tiny modern mid-terrace houses that fit that description, and huge old(and badly insulated) detached houses that also have 3 bedrooms.

dc

You should live in our semi, last year equivelant quarter was £369, this year £275, cos milder and we had cavity wall insulation.
A new condensing boiler would lower that too, but at a cost.

dc

Mercenary

Ours was £185 (233 Units) this quarter for a medium size 4-bed detached with cavity wall and roof insulation, double-glazing and a 22 yr-old boiler. We're with Atlantic.
Room thermo usually set on 18 deg C but moved up to 19 or 20 for short periods of time if necessary.

iceicebaby

Were your previous bills estimated and were estmated as not enough and this bill is from an actual reading and so there was a shortfall to make up from previous estimated bills ??

If that makes sense!

maypole

Thanks all

I will check previous bills and see if they were estimated, they were quite high too, except for the summer one and we had been away for a month!

maybe need to change supplier.

Barson

Hello.

Yes, think about a new boiler. We had a new condensing boiler installed (to replace our glowworm) and it saved us some. Last year (Winter period) we spent 438 units, this year (with the new boiler) we spent 195.

I realise that we can't really compare years like for like, but i don't think it's a coincidence that we replaced the boiler and spent 243 fewer units...

cheers
Barzo.

moonrakerz

Barson wrote:

Yes, think about a new boiler.

Yes, think carefully - a new boiler will be more efficient but will set you back a lot of money and are very complex. They tend to go wrong more often and some have to be serviced twice a year.

If you can squeeze a few more years out of your old one, that may be the best bet.