How much is your gas bill monthly and how much is your electric bill monthly?

MikeR71

£80 a month for both and I have just broken even over the year, so no extras t pay. We live in a 3 bedroom detached house but were away quite a lot in winter last year so hardly used anything for 3 months or so.

pimento

Four bed detached.

Gas £41 a month
Electric £44 a month.

British Gas. I've been with them since 1984.

Two adults, son at university home in the summer. If we are cold, we put on a jumper.

~Chameleon~

Do we think energy prices are likely to rise again over the next 12mths? I need to change plan today but not sure whether to get a fixed tariff or the current cheapest (to me) which will cost £40 a year less assuming no price increase.

LittleMax

flashnazia wrote: »

How long is a piece of string?

It's difficult to compare usage without taking into account all the factors:

Where you live
what type of accommodation
State of insulation, windows etc
How many people in house
Etc

... and whether your monthly payments are artificially low to hook you in and you are about to face a big shock when they review your direct debit.

You often get people boasting about how low their bills are (not saying anyone is doing that on this thread) but they often forget to mention they live in a flat (that loses less heat) or that they are the types of people that are always hot or that they live down south in a sheltered area. I could go on.

I do find most of these threads pointless. Unless people detail their usage, knowing other people's monthly payments is meaningless.

I am always surprised when friends and collegues switch energy suppliers and tell me what a fantastic deal they have because their monthly payments have been reduced by £10 or £15. Yet when I ask them about their annual or monthly consumption they don't know it.

I always use my actual usage for a whole year when switching, otherwise I don't think you can compare properly.

~Chameleon~

LittleMax wrote: »

I always use my actual usage for a whole year when switching, otherwise I don't think you can compare properly.

Ditto! Surely, unless they've lived in a property less than 12mths, they can easily calculate whether their monthly DD matches their annual usage/expenditure. Not exactly rocket science

pimento

I couldn't tell you my annual usage without looking it up but I'm £40 something in credit with the gas and even with the electric.

Kev27

1 Bed Flat, Careful user

£13 Electric
£20 gas Winter months only

TIP: Always fill the kettle with the correct ammount for a cup of tea and no more! Fill tea cup with water then pour it into the empty kettle.

Faith177

3 bed mid-terrace 2 occupants 3 on occasion

On a pre-payment meter (due to an incident with British Gas I will NEVER have DD on utilites again)

Gas - £13
Electric - £30-40

Gas is so low as I hardly use it. Only gas items in my home are water heater and cooker.

For heat I use a Calor gas fire in the front room only and that is £35 roughly every 8 weeks (which I haven't included in the above)

LittleMax

pimento wrote: »

I couldn't tell you my annual usage without looking it up but I'm £40 something in credit with the gas and even with the electric.

We've just come out of the summer I would expect a monthly payer to be in credit. Anyone who was not in credit on their last bill is going to be in for a shock after the winter.

Wickedkitten

Well I just did our reading last night so two of us in a three bed semi on Economy 7 with Scottish Power, Direct Debit of £50 but we are in Credit by £52.

That includes all of our gadgets and cooking, and electric shower usage, the thing that probably makes it rather low is that we don’t have central heating so we don’t go round with shirtsleeves and the heating on when it starts to get a bit cold.