How much does your house cost to heat?

[tink23]

I pay £130 a month for both. Ilive in a 2 bed terraced but mine haa gone that high cuz i missed a month paying so to cover it they upped my remaining payments

 

[baby_mama87]

I was paying £89 a month but got behind as I thought we were in credit! So now paying £120 per month it's 2 bed new build and is still bloody freezing! I need to get hold of the land lordas there no draft excluder or letterbox cover on the front door so the cold just comes straight in

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

I pay more than I need to in the summer to cover us for winter x

 

[pinklightbulb]

We put $60-70 AU a week on our pay-as-you-go meter Sometimes we go over so easily $300 a month if not more. In my state we have the highest power costs in the country.

When I was on normal billing I got a $1000 bill for three months living in a two-bedroom unit. It is seriously bullshit here.

 

[summer rain]

Hard to tell as we have electricity only and no gas but our electric bill is around £1100 a year. We looked into switching and apparently that's pretty cheap for our type of property and family size and switching would probably end up costing more xx

 

[sarahchops86]

12 ish a week on electric and £10 in gas in winter (does us more than a week though)so I'd say 90 total for a month (both are on meters) N.I is ridiculous for energy prices

 

[Pearls18]

We only pay £40 a month DD for gas and were £30 in credit before winter but imagine we will be in debit in January, it was this thread which made me realise we weren't paying a lot lol. Last winter we paid £60 a month and were £100 in credit when we left, we don't have our heating on much because we're all out in the week, but it feels like it's been on more this winter and higher temp, so will grit my teeth till January, it doesn't matter with DD though they just let you increase the payments, our electricity bill was MASSIVE last year due to a ridiculous system in the building we lived in, we're still in debit £83 coz of it but paying it off slowly, they haven't minded at all, we always pay our DD on time.

 

[Wriggley]

our direct debit for gas is £31 a month and the only gas we have is for central heating and hot water.

thats for a 2 up 2 down + bath room terrace house

 

[Natsku]

Heating is electric and I pay around 20 euros a month in the summer and been paying a bit over 40 a month now in the winter and thats with the heating full blast 24/7 (In the summer I had the radiators off but I used the floor heating in the bathroom when I showered) plus use the sauna a lot which uses a lot of electricity.
This is a one bedroom (60square metre) apartment and the building has a geothermic heating thingy which reduces costs.

 

[moomoo]

We pay £90 combined a month for electric & gas... Electric is always more than gas though!

This is for a standard 1970s 3 bed semi (it's very recently been insulated though)

 

[Pearls18]

We pay £90 combined a month for electric & gas... Electric is always more than gas though!

This is for a standard 1970s 3 bed semi (it's very recently been insulated though)

It's the same with us, we have a dryer though and always have appliances on so wonder if it's that.

 

[sam2eb]

About 25 quid a week on electric alone!

Our heating is oil and I reckon we spend about 700/800 a year on oil.

We live in a 3 bed terrace.

 

[RachA]

We've just had our bill through. Back in the summer we were paying £80 per month combined. They reduced it down to £57 in Sept and now they are advising us to reduced our payment down to £40 per month. OH will be calling them though as we don't want to pay as little as £40 otherwise by the time it comes to the end of winter we will owe a load of money so he will tell them we want to put it back up to around the £60 mark.

Over the winter i have the heating on pretty much all the time. I have a tumble dryer on sometimes but not all the time as i tend to dry my washing on the radiators. We have a gas oven and hot. A lot of our electrical items are on standby all the time and i never switch the plug switches to off on things like the kettle and toaster (apparently that uses a reasonable amount of electric if you leave them switched on and plugged in but i've never really bothered about that). Oh and i'll have a bath every other night and it's a full to the top bath. OH tends to bathe every other night too and again he has it full. The children bathe around about that too but they don't have as much water.

I think for what we do we actually pay a really reasonable amount - we are with E-on. Since being with them our bills have always been low. Prior to that we were with N-Power and they were rubbish. We had them when we were living in our 2 bed flat. They presented us with a bill for £6000 and when we queried it they told us it was a fair price for the size of property for a year!!!!! Needless to say we moved from them as they totally messed the bill up but would admit to it and were very insistent we pay it.

 

[~KACI~]

I have a prepayment meter for gas and after 7months of living here we have finally mastered what temp to have it so we can have on for more then a few hours without costing a fortune. We were spending £30 a week just to have it on for two hours a day. We are now spending £20 a week and can have it on for 5/6hrs a day. We have a 4bed/3reception rooms house and i think thats good

In my previous 2bed end terrace i was spending more and dreaded getting that winter bill in the new year. Pre-payment is definately the stress free way to do it!!

 

[Quackquack99]

i have a meter and i put £15 on a week and spend about half of that.

 

[lovehearts]

I have no idea yet as we have only been living in our current house a month or so. I am worried about it as our last property was a 2 bed new build apartment and we paid £70 a month for both and what we saved in the summer paid for our winter bills and that was the heating being on all the time.

We are having solar panels installed on our house so i am hoping that this will reduce the elec bill but im not sure how to reduce the gas bill.

I can believe how much people pay to run their homes!! Have any one you looked at renewable energies?

xx