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Help with approx £700 pcm electric bills

SublimeEnvy · 2021-05-19 19:45:40

Hi there, I live in a 3 bedroom home and I am being billed just under £5,000 of electricity for the last 167 days (November 2nd until now). I've been getting bills of around £400 per month which I felt was very high, but paid and now I've submitted meter readings they are telling me that I have been using nearly £700 per…

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Reed_Richards Posts: 5,420 Forumite

20 May 2021 at 7:55PM

SublimeEnvy said:

... it's a house that comes with my partners job and as its seasonal with partner not working November- May (usually until February but covid extended it) our employer asked that we covered the electric bills and council tax rather than charge us rent.

Average rents in Scotland are just under £700 pcm. If you are paying the same amount for electricity are you actually benefiting from not paying rent on this house when you might get another better one?

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