How much is your monthly electric and gas bill?
How much is your monthly electric and gas bill?
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dan1981

18,097 posts

228 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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Just looking for some comparisons as Scottish power have just put our direct debit back up after reducing it not long ago....

Its now £89.50 per month for gas and electric - 3 bed semi with gas fired central heating and water, gas hob and electric oven. 2 people who are out at work most of the day.

Cheers

Dan


ETA: We are also in credit - and the actual cost does seem to be around £65. They reduced the payment on the last bill and have now put it up - i guess just down to our "seasonal" usage.

Edited by dan1981 on Wednesday 17th December 21:03

andy400

11,647 posts

260 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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We're paying £81 for a four bedroom pad in similar circumstances. However, we always end up building credit so the actual cost is more like £60-65/month.

oobster

7,681 posts

240 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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Probably not that much of a comparison (2-bed mid-terrace, electric only, storage heaters, 2 adults and an 11-month baby at home pretty much all day every day) but our average quarterly bill from Scottish Power is £221.39

Marf

22,907 posts

270 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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£64 for both, 2 bed house.

Rob.

17,911 posts

247 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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I pay £43 for an all electric, 2 bed terrace.

Edit due to being a numpty and not knowing his outgoings!

Edited by Rob. on Wednesday 17th December 21:28

D14 AYS

3,696 posts

239 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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Gas and electric £120 a month (5 beds)rolleyes

Nolar Dog

8,786 posts

224 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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Again not a like-for-like comparison but I pay £110 per month on average for both.

2 bedroom flat with gas central heating (hardly ever on) and everything else electric.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

284 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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dan1981 said:
How much is your monthly electric and gas bill?
ELECTRICITY bill...

Electric bills make your fingers tingle...

Tyre_Tread

10,678 posts

245 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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Make sure your suppliers aren't financing their cashflow problems by increasing your monthly DD to far more that it needs to be to cover your usage.

Some of the suppliers have been publicly criticised for doing this.

Tried to shove my Gas DD up to £95 a month when we were already £200 in credit and using an average circa £50 per month.

Exoticaholic

1,087 posts

241 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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£40 for a two bedroom terraced house, with EDF.

Built up a credit of £157 on the gas bill - so expect an adjustment sometime.

LHDisbest

17,002 posts

216 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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I'm £50ish a month 1-bed new build, all electric. Like others in about £65pm in DD just to keep ahead of the game.

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welshbikerduck

1,448 posts

218 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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No idea, but we had a letter last week saying we were £700 in credit for gas and £300 for electricity. We had not had our meters read in the 2 years we lived at this house. I always thought we were always under estimated when the bills came in. So that was a pleasant surprise when we did get our meters read last week.

Tunku

7,703 posts

257 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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I haven't checked for a while, butn Mrs. Tunku reckons we are paying £200 a month for electricity and gas combined. ie. £200 a month for both. Looking at this thread, this seems a bit high for three people in a 4 bedroom modern semi.
Mind you, I do keep the caravan on the drive and have that plugged into the mains to make sure it's internal temperature is up to room temperature all year round.

GingerWizard

4,721 posts

227 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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at the moment i pay per 1/4 combined..... £389.93 3 dbl bedroomed georgian flat folkestone.... (its all about the big ass sash windows ya see!) it is ruining my cash flow.... frown

northandy

3,539 posts

250 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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Currently £130 a month leccy & gas... £70 a month on coal

3 bed terrace, double glazing, gas central heating, coal fire in the lounge...

SJobson

13,812 posts

293 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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£142 a month, 4 people, 1960s 4-bed detached with very large windows and stupid little airbrick vents in every room that can't easily be closed off. Modern houses are better insulated than 40yr old ones...

LotusACBC

2,591 posts

313 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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Well lets see. Enough where I could finance a Lotus Esprit. It cost me and my brother who live in a small house almost $650 a month

SeeFive

8,353 posts

262 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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About £200 a month gas and electric.

4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 5 receptions 12 year old fairly large family house. Gas heating and water, lots of computers, televisions and the usual electrical stuff. Water on all the time, people around all day so heating on most of the time in winter.

Guess that's not too bad.

jessica

6,321 posts

281 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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SeeFive said:
About £200 a month gas and electric.

4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 5 receptions 12 year old fairly large family house. Gas heating and water, lots of computers, televisions and the usual electrical stuff. Water on all the time, people around all day so heating on most of the time in winter.

Guess that's not too bad.
same here
both from diff providers
5 beds. 4 receps. 80 year old house here

Chr1sch

2,592 posts

222 months

Wednesday 17th December 2008
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We have an old 3 bedroom (1 is the loft conversion)victorian house, 2 of us, i work from home most of the time. £100 per month for both (Gas heating & water) Elec hob, oven etc.

I think we pay too much but we have a very old boiler which i imagine accounts for a lot