What is the average electric bill for a 2 bedroom house?

Littlemiss-lotsofdebt

Hi everyone

Excuse my ignorance on this but I have no idea what an average bill is for a 2 bedroomed semi, and wondered whether you could advise? We're currently paying £45.00 per month to NPower and this seems expensive to me, especially as our heating is gas powered!

Admittedly, my OH is a complete nightmare and has to have every lightbulb burning in the house...............

Ken68

Depends a lot, Little.., on the different appliances.something here..

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=72789

cupid_s

I pay about £55 and my heating and cooker is gas. But I do have five 100W spotlights on for 14 hours a day every day and four 25 watt striplights on for the same period. So £45 does seem expensive in comparison.

emilyt

We pay £325.00 every quarter (13 weeks). There are 4 of us living in the house My DH and myself and my 2 DD's who are 18 and 20. We do use a lot of appliances. 3 computers 4 telelvisions. Washer dryer dishwasher showers everyday and also all the other smaller electrical items.

OverlandLandy

£27 pcm for me.

It did drop when I put in cavity wall & attic space Insulation!

Smiley_Mum

I'm all electric, storage heating, no gas at all for a two bed place. Just managed to cut my bill by half, cutting down on tumble drier usage. It's working out at about £10.50 a week at the moment, but is slowly creeping up as I have the heating on more. I just have a large storage heater on in the lounge mid heat. No other heaters on yet, and use energy saving bulbs throughout the house and energy saving tube in the kitchen. I'm reckoning that once the Winter sets in, we'll be using about £15 a week, so around £65 a month. Use slow cooker a lot and just run immersion once in morning for about 1 hour. It's the TD that ups the bill and I try to limit it's use.

I recently had a sales person from NPower call me to try and convert me to their service but as he was giving me the figures over the phone and I sat and worked things out, even with the cash back, it worked out a lot more expensive than who I'm with at the moment. Have you tried USwitch to see if you can get a better deal.

Terrylw1

I think you need to check whether you are paying estimates 1st. Estimates will potentially cause an overpayment on your DD's. get readings to them each quarter and make sure they amend your bill.

Be worth then using an online comparison site to see what you could be saving.

daveyjp

Last quarter bill £35, winter quarters are about £70, so about £200 a year (less than half your current useage!).

This is using low energy bulbs in all lights, turning stuff off when not in use (I don't need a microwave to tell me what time it is!), we do use the tumble dryer for all our washing, all year round.

Littlemiss-lotsofdebt

Thanks guys, some good suggestions there. I've already starting replacing normal bulbs with low energy ones and we don't have either a tumble dryer or dishwasher (if only!).