Number bedrooms v. occupation 1 March 2019 at 4:24PM in LPG, heating oil, solid & other fuels 2 replies 670 views

jezzerc

We had intended to down size but ended up upsizing to a five bedroom house.! All sorts of reason for this but actually we are happy with the house. However, for heating and lighting there are only 2 of us using one bedroom + bathroom, drawing room and kitchen.

I am about to either renew with our energy supplier or shop around for a better deal. Clearly if I begin a quote stating 5 bedrooms then the monthly payments are considerably higher than if I stated the number of rooms actually using power.

Practically this makes sense but how would an anergy supplier see this?

Any comments or experiences appreciated.

Thanks
Jezzerc

Cardew

Welcome to the forum.


You do not need to quote the number of bedrooms.



Just go to a comparison website and estimate i.e. guess the annual kWh consumption for gas and electricity. Then use permutations of that consumption to find a pattern of the cheapest tariff. The UK annual average consumption is approx 13,000kWh gas and 3,000kWh electricity



There are many other factors, other than size, that will determine your consumption - standard of insulation, how long you spend in the house, how warm you like rooms, baths or showers etc.

J_B

Can't you tell what you used in the last 12 months from your previous bills and enter that into the sites???