What is the average bill amount for a 1 bed flat?

Gerry1

You can save £159 annually by not having a TV licence: just make sure you never watch, download or record live TV as it is broadcast (on any channel or device) and never use the BBC iPlayer.
You don't have to tell TV Licensing, nor respond to their questions, nor let them enter your property (except in the unlikely event that they have a search warrant).
If they keep pestering you, tell them that you have withdrawn their Implied Right of Access.  For good measure you can add that as you are fully aware of the penalties for licence evasion, any further threats to send the boys round will be considered as harassment that will be dealt with under the Malicious Communications Act 1988.

KxMx

Ground floor one bed flat, electric cooker and shower, no bath, gas heating. 
I'm a low user of metered water at 24 m3 annually.
I pay £12 a month as water company offer me a 25% discount. 
For the winter gas hasn't gone over £25pw on the coldest weeks. I'm careful with heating but not afraid to put it on, timer kicks in twice a day and if very very cold I manually turn it on a third time. 

Electric use is steady currently at £10pw. Expecting it to start reducing soon with the clock change tomorrow. 

Worth nothing I don't pay by DD but on receipt of bill.
Once I have a years usage here I'm going to see what kind of DD payment my energy company offer me. 

MikeyPGT

KxMx said:

Ground floor one bed flat, electric cooker and shower, no bath, gas heating. 
I'm a low user of metered water at 24 m3 annually.
I pay £12 a month as water company offer me a 25% discount. 
For the winter gas hasn't gone over £25pw on the coldest weeks. I'm careful with heating but not afraid to put it on, timer kicks in twice a day and if very very cold I manually turn it on a third time. 

Electric use is steady currently at £10pw. Expecting it to start reducing soon with the clock change tomorrow. 

Worth nothing I don't pay by DD but on receipt of bill.
Once I have a years usage here I'm going to see what kind of DD payment my energy company offer me. 

Just wondering - how do you manage to keep your electric use that low?  I can only get to the £1.30 a day mark on the days when I'm out for the whole of the day from early morning to late evening and don't watch any television.  I do have a fridge freezer and a small chest freezer that run all day, but apart from that keep everything unplugged.  Saying that, my gas use is around 0.50p a day so swings and roundabouts I guess.

KxMx

MikeyPGT said:

KxMx said:

Ground floor one bed flat, electric cooker and shower, no bath, gas heating. 
I'm a low user of metered water at 24 m3 annually.
I pay £12 a month as water company offer me a 25% discount. 
For the winter gas hasn't gone over £25pw on the coldest weeks. I'm careful with heating but not afraid to put it on, timer kicks in twice a day and if very very cold I manually turn it on a third time. 

Electric use is steady currently at £10pw. Expecting it to start reducing soon with the clock change tomorrow. 

Worth nothing I don't pay by DD but on receipt of bill.
Once I have a years usage here I'm going to see what kind of DD payment my energy company offer me. 

Just wondering - how do you manage to keep your electric use that low?  I can only get to the £1.30 a day mark on the days when I'm out for the whole of the day from early morning to late evening and don't watch any television.  I do have a fridge freezer and a small chest freezer that run all day, but apart from that keep everything unplugged.  Saying that, my gas use is around 0.50p a day so swings and roundabouts I guess.

I just checked and my last 4 weeks were £10.00, £9.03, £9.54 and £9.24.

I'm not sure- just the way I live I suppose? I watch a few hours of tv in the evening only, one fridge/freezer, during winter I take four showers a week and do two loads of washing + 2 spin cycles, no tumble dryer, often use the hob/grill to cook in the evening. Once a week maybe I do some baking in the main oven during the day.
I do tend to nap for 2-3 hours in the afternoon so that probably has an impact on electricity use.

NeverendingDMP

Just to say you don't have to wait for an annual review with Step change to alter the amount you pay. It may be with careful budgeting you can continue that amount of dmp payment. Or you can ask for it to be reviewed and pay less per month

macman

The problem with your question is that we don't know how the proposed property is heated and hot watered. If it's main gas or E7 with NSH's and an immersion heater, the costs are similar. If it's all-electric and convectors, then it could be nearly 3 times more expensive.
2 expensive mobiles? So  why not sell the handsets and use the payment to subsidise the rest of your minimum term contract? Then switch to Plusnet SIM only or similar for about £6 per month. You can get a perfectly adequate budget smartphone for less than £100.

matt_drummer

Can you sell mobile telephones that you are still paying for?

I assume that they are under contract and belong to the phone company until paid for in full?

macman

matt_drummer said:

Can you sell mobile telephones that you are still paying for?

I assume that they are under contract and belong to the phone company until paid for in full?

matt_drummer said:

Can you sell mobile telephones that you are still paying for?

I assume that they are under contract and belong to the phone company until paid for in full?

No, they are yours to do as you wish with from day one. What you are paying for is the airtime. The supplier doesn't care what you do with the handset, as long as the monthly payment is made.

VimVim

I live in a one bed ground floor flat. I put £60 on gas and it’s not ran out before my next top up. 

I haven’t topped up electric since the £66 we got from the government and am in £200+ credit.
I live alone, 3 days in the office and cook often

matt_drummer

macman said:

matt_drummer said:

Can you sell mobile telephones that you are still paying for?

I assume that they are under contract and belong to the phone company until paid for in full?

matt_drummer said:

Can you sell mobile telephones that you are still paying for?

I assume that they are under contract and belong to the phone company until paid for in full?

No, they are yours to do as you wish with from day one. What you are paying for is the airtime. The supplier doesn't care what you do with the handset, as long as the monthly payment is made.

There is a big difference between a sim only contract and a contract with a phone with the same usage included.

Seeing as high end mobile telephones cost hundreds if not more than a thousand pounds I would have thought a large amount of the contract was for the cost of the phone.

I am pretty sure I can't sell my phone or change network until the contact comes to the end of its term or I pay them a lot of money.