How much is your average monthly electric bill?

Frugalsod

coops024 wrote: »

Very intresting thread :rolleyes:

My Electricity bill is set at £92 a month :eek: but we dont have gas (electric only)

We try to be as energy efficant as possible. we have an LCD TV, only use the tumble dryer when its raining! (so alot recently :mad: ) and try to cook 2 meals at once in the oven

on the down side my PC is on 24/7 (it acts as a server) hallogen bulbs everywhere :mad: (these were there when we moved in and are all sunk into the cealing) and we drink alot of tea so the kettle is on about 10 times a day (but we only boil what we need) !

On the same subject (sort of ) does anyone know what appliances use the most electricity? for example is leaving the PC on all night worse than boiling the kettle 5 times ? or will leaving a light on all day be worse than having a sterio on standby all night ? If leaving my PC on 24/7 will have a huge impact on my bill then I may think about getting someone else to host for me ?

I am home day and night and I have replaced all the bulbs with LED bulbs so even lower than low energy bulbs. I have two computers on all day and one stays on 24/7 as well. Though I allow screens to sleep as that is where much of my usage goes.

As regards your halogen bulbs. You could replace them with LED, I rent so have swapped every light bulb out for LED. If and when I move I will be taking them all with me. Though the biggest usage is my fridge freezer. If do not open it for the day and go out the power usage halves.

Even so my electricity is around £40 a month and that includes all my cooking as well.

catandy

I'm electric only as well and work from home and average out at £80 per month, sometimes a bit more in winter when its really cold

Debtcrasher10

Hi

We have two people in our household (mainly in on evenings & weekends) & for both gas & electricity we are roughly 80 per month so just having one of your energy provisions at 82 per month does seem steep!

Maybe worth checking what tariff you are on & seeing if you can move to a lower tariff. Also double check your meter readings if you are getting estimated bills through as you could be getting over charged.

lilian1977

Gas and electric, 2 adults and a toddler (we leave an oil filled heater on in his room overnight during colder months) - £100 pcm for both. Really cross that it's this much!

Cycrow

i live on my own in a small flat and pay about £50/month (have no gas)
althou i never use the heating, even in the winter.

when i first moved it, it was costing me £120-150/month until i switched suppliers

Granariesgirl

Hi Everyone,

Here's my two pennorth.
We are 4 (of which 2 are school age rugrats) in a terraced house.
British Gas Dual Fuel at £73 pcm - this was an offer with our BG Homecare which gives us a £150 rebate if we stay with them for a year - on price comparison worked out cheaper than anyone else so we took it. :cool:
House insulation is pants & the wind whistles around the "double glazed" window frames in winter.
CH & HW with good new gas boiler, immersion heater when needed & we cook electric.

We are already considered to be low consumption household so I can't wait till we have the money to renovate & really make the place fuel efficient!

We cut leccy bills by:
Bought LED lights (Fleabay Chinese imports - some duds but still much cheaper than UK).
No unnecessary lights & chargers etc. on.
Regularly hoover dust off back of fridge thingy (can you tell I'm not technically minded? ) & defrost - about every 3 months.
Switch off fridge when absent for more than a week (nice neighbour turns it on before return). Ditto TV, hi-fi etc. - only TV programme recorder left on.
Tumble dryer used an absolute minimum (when it dies, no new one I hope).
Lid on any saucepans when cooking & try to multi-use oven (tho' not very good at this).
We cut gas bills by:
Using packing cases & bubble wrap from move to insulate loft over the meagre 10cm fibreglass stuff, also saving ourselves trips to dump.
Bought an electronic timer thermostat for GCH to replace the 1970's vintage one & an electronic timer for HW as well - saved loads by not having heating on unnecessarily & the house is loads more comfortable. Set thermostat to 18 deg C maxi in winter, down to 14 deg C at night (can always turn higher for an hour if really cold during day).
Heating goes down to 16 deg C when kids at school & we wear extra jumpers if at home.
Heating to no frost when away for more than 24hrs.
Use radiators to dry stuff when we can - we have a small "laundry room" so whack them on full blast there, put laundry on airers & close the door. Doing this is cheaper per kWh than using tumble dryer (OH good at this stuff).
Hope that the above info is of some use to anyone wishing to cut back their energy.

I can tell you that I had one hell of a shock coming from France where the electricity is dead cheap as it's all nuclear - nearly had a heart attack at my first bill here! One month here cost more than 3 months over there!! :eek:

System

£51 for gas and electric per month, pay the same all year round and never end up owing them money. One full year cost us £600, not bad really.

neverdespairgirl

We pay about £24 / month for electricity - large 3 bedroom flat in London, with 2 adults and an 8 year old. Gas heating, water and stove, so electricity bill is lower than it would otherwise be.

Deep_In_Debt

I live in a 2 up 2 down mid terrace on my own. Out at work all day so don't use much leccy even in Winter. I'm lucky enough to get heat from the neighbours who obviously have their leccy quite high so my house never really feels very cold. I'm paying £37pm and I don't have gas.

I use my washing machine once a week and don't have a drier. I don't use my cooker much as I tend to eat at work as it's heavily subsidised so cheap.

Never owe them money but they often owe me money!

The_Big_Egg

We got quoted £100 a month when we moved in based on usage of the previous tenants. Turns out the previous tenants were growing things *ahem* in the loft so we managed to get it down to £30 as we're not "green fingered" :rotfl: