estimated bills for new build flat!

Fahm

I know this is a silly question with no definitive answer as people will say theres lots of different factors but I was wondering if you guys could help me have a rough idea of how much I should expect my bills to be?

Info- 1 bed new build flat, On 2nd floor electric, no gas. I will be living there alone and only be in the flat in evenings and weekends (full time working) Are water bills included with electric?

Who would you suggest are the best providers for low usage?

Thank you!

ChumpusRex

Water bills are not usually included. In new builds, each flat must have a water meter, and you would need to tell the water company you have moved in.

You haven't specified how the property is heated. Is it storage heaters, or is it electric radiators? These have very different running costs. You also need to check whether you have economy 7 metering installed (common for all electric flats).

As you have electric heating and hot water, you will be a high or very high user of electricity (not a low user).

I've lived alone, and worked full-time, in all electric flats for a while, and typically I would use about 6000-9000 kWh per year (bear in mind that an average household uses about 3300 kWh of electricity) depending on the weather.

sbunny

The Domestic Energy Performance Certificate Register find expected energy usage for the flat.

https:// www. epcregister. com

Also try the Energy Saving trust for help assessing general usage based on number of bedrooms etc.
www. energysavingtrust. org. uk

Also ring up any energy supplier and they should be able to help. They have access to a annual usage for a property based on previous usage or what developer supplied when a connection made. Developers are often very poor at supplying a good prediction here and often a default value is used, but in some cases is based on same calculations as EPC.

PasturesNew

£100 for electricity, gas, water .... to put a simple figure on it.
£150 for the above including a "huge safety net because I'm new/scared/don't want to ever get into debt".