Energy

[Dan]

We appear to be paying £170 a month on average for gas and electric. I think we're being ripped off. How does this compare to anybody else with a small 3-bed, 2 people?

I've not shopped around for a long time and I think it's caused this. So i'm going to shop around now. Who's got some good deals?

 

[Olz]

3 bed 3 storey end town house, new build so well insulated, energy efficient etc, we pay £30 gas £30 elec, on monthly direct debit as a set payment and we ended up being in credit after 1st year. 2 people.

 

[Dan]

Had a bill for 1400 in August, another for 900 in November, another for 1500 in Feb. lmfao.

It doesn't even add up to their estimates of 170 a month.

And they just tried to tie us in for another 12 months.

I've gone with british gas and they say our annual bill should be 1400ish.

I think our elec meter is wrong to be honest. Going to see if I can get them out to take a look at it.

 

[Olz]

Were with Scottish Power with an online tarriff, they were the cheapest for us, you just have to log in and do your meter readings every two or three months, they send you an email reminder and it literally takes 2 minutes.

 

[Dan]

Yeah I have the app for npower and was submitting the readings but I swear they're doing something dodgy with our account. We just called and they couldn't get their heads around it either. So I just said to them sod it, what's the final bill now then? Paid it. And went online and shifted.

We're in the wrong business bro. lol

 

[user123]

Our central heating isn't working right, will be fixed next week, hopefully, so the bills may be lower than usual, we are with npower, too, around the same as your, but it's detached, 4 bedroom, and we are at home nearly all the time... we actually got a rebate from them not long ago...

 

[Andy Allen]

were with e-on for gas and elecy, we pay £90 a month, 3 bed semi, me the wife, and 2 kids that dont know how to turn lights off.

i would say shop around £170 a month for 2 of you is very high.

 

[Olz]

We used to be with EON but they somehow managed to delete all out meter readings when we switched to scottish power, so they had no idea what they had charged us up to, and scottish power had no idea where to start charging us from. So EON said we'll work it out over a weeks reading, so for a week (in summer) we just didnt use anything but the very basics, we used a minute amount and gave them the reading and they then said they wouldnt do it on the reading we gave because it was summer and too low.

I stood on and told them i'd happily pay the bill, as soon as they told me what I owed, not an estimate, WHAT I HAD USED AND OWED, they couldnt and ended up sending us a rebate for the credit in the account, about £60, and Scottish power just started the bill from the meter reading on the day.

 

[hillhead]

I pay around £260 a month approx for electric, oil(central heating) and solid fuels for my Stanley stove.
My house has 5 bedrooms and plenty more rooms with minimum 6 of us but sis in law seems to have moved in quietly so 7 now!!!! Oops.

 

[DHTiling]

Pay a fortune.. around 150 a month for each.... 4 bed semi.

 

[widler]

can't you go on a compare site now for energy?

the wife sorts ours out,so i aint got a clue,i just hand over money and she spends

 

[doug boardley]

i think we're paying about £60 a month for leccy and gas combined, scottish power

 

[widler]

moneysupermarket.com/Energy

try this,its what the wife used,and she said it saved us a few quid,and she is as tight as a yorkshireman
cool,my letters are green,how on earth did that happen

 

[Scott]

Your sound like you are either running the street or on a prepayment or both!

We pay a little more than that since the upstairs was opened up but then its almost double the size. With the new build insulation and a new eco boiler its probably the same as we were paying with the old boiler with just the downstairs.

How high do you have you heating set Dan? The fact that you are on a PC most of the day and not moving around you may have it set higher? We have ours at 20C all day when its cold (for the kids) and the hot water consumption is massive as the tank is 250 litres but again its brand new and well insulated.

 

[aph257]

that sounds well OTT, ours is £120 for both in a 4 bed det with Scottish power online account.