Typical energy costs for a 4 bed detached house

matelodave

freddie65 wrote: »

Hi

I'm with First Utility and have been paying £275 per month for dual fuel for about a year. When I first switched from B Gas I was paying £120 per month, they then said I wasn't paying enough so they increased to £275.

I've just had an email from them saying that my account has built up a deficit of £675 now (even though we are in summer) and they now want to increase my DD to £405 per month.

I'm completely at a loss with this and would really like to some help/advice.

House is 4 bed with 3 kids.

Sounds an absolute fortune for gas and electric???

It is an absolute fortune it's over £4000 a year whereas the average is about £1300-£1500 a year. Even £275 a month is over twice the national average and you've still managed to rack up arrears of £675. Something aint right.
Are you monitoring your consumption by reading your meters, are you checking your bills to make sure that they reflect your meter readings and that they aren't guesstimates.
It's not hard to work out how much you are using and how much you should be paying to cover the cost.
If you really are using that amount of energy then you need to have a long hard look at where it's all being used - is it high gas consumption or electricity. When is it being used - read your meters daily and keep a log to try and identify where its all going

haras_nosirrah

Just been on the phone to b gas again as got another increased direct debit letter and a letter from a debt collection agency saying our first two days of property ownership were not included and that is another £30. I pointed out that that equates to 465 a month at £15 a day and where are thy getting these readings. Has now been resolved and gave a meter reading and since 15th May which was last reading we have used £24 in energy. Their estimated reading was 4000 units astray

New direct debit of £146 set up and hopefully an end to the nonsense.