Duel fuel what should i be paying!!

bevmcomp

Can anybody help please, me and my partner working through the day and only use the heating from 7 - 9pm (2 hours)and at 17Degress on the heating dial 7 days a week also i use the cooker once a day 7 days a week.
I am with British gas and paying £49 gas and £39 electric a month on direct debit, At this moment in time can anybody explain why my gas bill is £224 for this quarter and i hardly ever use it.
I have a valliant combi boiler.

Is it cheaper to run the heating through the day on a low setting.
Any feed back would be really appricated.

matelodave

No one can tell you what you should be paying unless they know what tariff you are on, how many kwh you've used, whether the readings are actual or estimates and whether your bill includes any arrears.

Have you actually checked the bill against your meter readings to see if its based on actual readings or estimates. The size of your house and amount of heating used is irrelevant if the bill is based on a series of estimates.

However that said, you've just had a moderately cold winter and most people will use 70-80% of their gas during the winter and the other 20% in the summer so £224 for a winter quarter doesn't sound excessive

You really have to sit down and work it out yourself by finding a previous actual reading and hopefully a bill to go with it. Subtracting that reading from your latest actual reading will enable you to work out how many kwh you've used., Multiply the number of kwh by the cost per kwh, add on the standing charge and work out how much you've actually used.

Check whether there were any arrears or credits on your previous bill add or subtract them from the total and that will then show you how much you should have paid. You can then check to see if what you are actually paying covers it.

If you wait for quarterly bills to pop through the door it's too late to do anything about your consumption as you've already used it. A closer monitoring of your meters every month monthly or even weekly will allow you to check what you are using and whether you are paying enough to cover it.