Am I paying too much for gas?

Trever

For the past 3 months I paid £125 for gas. I only live in a one bedroom flat and I don't have it that hot either!

Does this sound just right or too much?

torbrex

Trever wrote: »

For the past 3 months I paid £125 for gas. I only live in a one bedroom flat and I don't have it that hot either!

Does this sound just right or too much?

Depends on other usage eg. hot water and cooking and you say that you don't have it too hot but is the heating on all day or just morning/evening?

KTF

What are the Kw usage figures. Basing it on the amount paid is meaningless.

macman

Probably on all night too, if the OP is posting at 4.11am...
Give us your actual kWh usage figures and current tariff, and meaningful advice can be given. Your monthly DD level tells us nothing about your actual usage. For all we know you have debt on the account, and much of your DD is going to recover that.

Meadows

All depends on what you use gas for - cooking and heating or just heating.
How efficient you boiler is.
How much you have your heating on and the temperature of the room. You don't need it on at night and during the day you can add warmer layers rather than up the heating (or have the heating on at all).
What tariff you are on.

Trever

I'm with scottish hydro electric.

Cooker is electric. Central heating is gas and hot water is gas (I have an "instant" hot water boiler"). The boiler and radiators are only about 3 years old the council replace them for you every 15 years.

Date/tariff/units used past 3 months
31-Dec-2012 General Domestic 2033

Heating is on all the time in winter months but it's on a thermostat which is turned down at night.

edit: The thermostat is usually at 18C during the evening at 15C at night/daytime.

Wywth

Check for yourself by following this advice

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/you-switch-gas-electricity

Turn the heating off altogether when not at home and at night ... and buy yourself an extra blanket if necessary.

Antispam

What temp do you keep your heating one. Around 18-20c is perfectly acceptable temperature at home. Maybe have heating turned off an hour before you go to bed. I tend to just turn heating on/off myself rather than rely on it coming on. I tend to keep it around 18c during day if I am at home and 19-19.5c at night unless its really cold

HappyMJ

It was 9 degrees in the house when I got up this morning. Yes it's cool but I'm not sitting down for long mainly running about jumping in and out of shower, quick breakfast with my hands over the toaster to keep warm then leaving for work. No need to have the heating on overnight when you are asleep. Save a fortune.

I have electric blanket and under the covers it's very warm and toasty. Had the thermometer under the covers ages ago to see what the temperature was and it was about 30 degrees with my body heat contributing most of the heat. The room was in the low teens.

torbrex

Trever wrote: »

I'm with scottish hydro electric.

Cooker is electric. Central heating is gas and hot water is gas (I have an "instant" hot water boiler"). The boiler and radiators are only about 3 years old the council replace them for you every 15 years.

Date/tariff/units used past 3 months
31-Dec-2012 General Domestic 2033

Heating is on all the time in winter months but it's on a thermostat which is turned down at night.

In that case it sounds about right, you have your heating on more than I do (same tariff, same company) but use about the same as I do, I have a gas hob.

slipthru

The only way to know if it's right is to post your yearly usage. Plus is that a monthly DD. Seems very high for a 1 bedroom flat to me.