Keeping the house warm is costing a fortune

HappyMJ

BorgleBoo wrote: »

There seems to be a lot of incredulity as to my situation. I'm only telling you what I have observed.

The facts of the matter are my bills are running close to 50 quid a week, and that my house is still cold.

Why this should offend people so much is beyond me.

Now that I understand the way in which my tariff works then perhaps I can take steps to try and reduce my bill somewhat. Maybe I'll even rearrange the furniture to bring the panel heaters back online, although as I've said we found them expensive in the past.

None of that changes the fact that this house has a patently lousy heating system installed if every other heater comes with the warning "You can't use that one, it's too expensive". Something is wrong there.

I'm not even asking for it to be cheap. I'd gladly pay £150 a month in the winter if I could have a house that was 18C+ in every room.

But to pay £190 a month and still need to put 3 blankets on the kids beds - well I reckon someone somewhere is taking the mick.

We're only trying to offer help.....£50 a week for (63kWh times 7=441kWh) means you are paying about 11.33p/kWh. That is fairly normal. Gas cental heating uses about or more than 80kWh per day but it's much much cheaper at about 3.5-4p per kWh.

I'm not suprised by the level of your bills. Heating on 24/7 costs money and it's about right.

At this time of the year people on prepayment meters pay for most of their electric so paying £150+ per month does sound like a huge amount when it really isn't when spread over 12 months like direct debit.