Gas / electricity charges

[syl]

What's your gas / electricity bill?

I've just got mine for the first time since moving into this house:

£300 for gas
£150 for electricity

Those bills are for the quarter.

I'm paying £150 a month for gas/electricity!

It was £86 per month at the last place.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

That is hideously high. Did you read the meter when you moved in or just trust someones guess? If it is an estimate then check the current readings against the readings when you moved in (really hope you took them). Could just be the last occupants were growing dubious substances under sodium lamps while having the windows open to disguise the smell and the heating on full blast to keep warm with the windows open .

All the best

Keith
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[JonB]

Agreed, that is horribly high. We are heating an old victorian 6 bedroom house for £130 a quarter on gas.
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[syl]

They read the meter before we moved in and they read the meter before sending the bill (they being British Gas).

I expected a higher bill as:

1) This house is older (I guess its less well insulated)
2) This house is bigger
3) This house has a much larger surface area (less of cube)
4) My wife isn't working anymore (so in the house more)
5) The last place used a "payment plan" with the same in the winter as the summer (so it was averaged out). This bill is for the winter.

I wasn't expecting it to be so high, but to be fair I hadn't realised that I was paying £86 in the previous place. I guess in that context it isn't so bad.

I doubt the last lot had been up to anything in the house - She was an OAP (now deceased), needed a stair lift and had several hundred acres of land in her farm next door, with dozens of outbuildings and greenhouses if she wanted to grow anything.
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[JayA]

Check your meter read yourself and compare it with the bill, also check how far out it is with the opening read from when you moved in.
I work for scottish&southern in customer relations and you wont believe how many meter men all over the country get a meter read wrong or assign it to the wrong address.
Also jump on a price fix tariff and pay by direct debit if you want to save money...with oil $100 a barrel and the gas market all over the place .. well... you saw whats happened with NPower.
Ill get off my soap box now..
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[leiba1]

British Gas have just upped my monthly bill from £75 to £189 for a two bedroom maisonette. (This is before the recently announced price increase). Adding on my other bills, which are a damn sight less, that leaves me with around £15 a week for silly things like food.

[JonB]

Have any of you managed to avoid the uswitch.com advert?

Switching is so easy, you don't have to do a thing apart from select a provider. Could save you over £100 a year.

My parents were with British Gas for 10+years and they saved £375 a year by switching electricity and gas supplier.
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