Heating bills

PostHeating bills by **Gario** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:43 pm

In January I used £81 in gas - that's for central heating and hot tap water. Does this seem a lot, a little or about right for a two-bedroom house in a winter month?

I also used £55 in electricity.

PostRe: Heating bills by **Lagamorph** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:45 pm

Seems quite a lot really. When I lived in a 2 bedroom I typically got away with £50/month and that covered my Gas and my electricity. I did live alone though.

PostRe: Heating bills by **Gario** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:51 pm

I live with my partner and because I work daytimes and he mostly works evenings there's normally someone at home all day, so we've had the heating on for many hours a day.

But the costs I've mentioned above are of course halved as far as I'm concerned as we split the bills. I'm not panicking at the moment - it's not like I'm going into lots of debt. My current balance even says I'm in credit.

PostRe: Heating bills by **Gario** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:53 pm

Speaking of bills in general, I fuckjng hate that I pay £29.75 a month for my internet!

PostRe: Heating bills by **Return_of_the_STAR** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 12:29 am

My DD for gas and electricity has just gone up to £161 a month for a 3 bed semi, with 3 people living in it. Not sure how I spend so much. Heating is usually set to 17c. Insulation is gooseberry fool, no cavity walls to insulate. Roof doesn't even have felt behind the tiles but it would cost a fortune to replace the roof.

PostRe: Heating bills by **Errkal** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:03 am

We go though about £60 a month in the winter on gas, now the heating is off we are on about £20 a month.

PostRe: Heating bills by **Lotus** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 11:02 am

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:My DD for gas and electricity has just gone up to £161 a month

Damn. I've just had my DD for the first quarter and it was £119 (that's me by myself in my own place though).

PostRe: Heating bills by **Lagamorph** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 12:23 pm

Christ. Are you people running a mass of Christmas lights all year round or something?

PostRe: Heating bills by **Gario** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:13 pm

Lagamorph wrote:Christ. Are you people running a mass of Christmas lights all year round or something?

I don't think electricity is the problem.

PostRe: Heating bills by **Errkal** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:28 pm

Lagamorph wrote:Christ. Are you people running a mass of Christmas lights all year round or something?

If your Christmas lights are gas powered you need need to update, LED is going knock your socks off.

PostRe: Heating bills by **Xeno** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:47 pm

Wear a strawberry floating jumper.

PostRe: Heating bills by **Mommy Christmas** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 11:53 am

Xeno wrote:Wear a strawberry floating jumper.

This is a good starting point. Also turn the rads off in the rooms you don't use so much. Keep doors closed too as there is nothing worse than pissing heat out the door or window unnecessarily.
Turn the thermostat down a degree or two too. You won't notice it that much if you follow the other steps that I gave you.

Finally, Man the strawberry float up. This winter has been mild, bordering on tropical. :roll:

PostRe: Heating bills by **Green Gecko** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:17 pm

At some point Spark Electric decided (notoriously) to ramp up our monthly DD from £40 to £160 a month for a 1 bed house (yup) and after updating our readings they are still charging us that. We just cancelled the direct debit because their own site says we're over £600 in credit so we don't owe them any payments.

Apparently they're assholes for refunding credit and it's happened to other people, just completely ludicrous estimations. Apparently they have some ridiculous rule where you cannot reduce your direct debit, on the phone they refuse to do it.

They've been investigated by watchdog etc before. You get signed up for them in the small print for tenancy agreements. I think they just sit on your account and wait to strawberry float you over and hope you don't notice. Minimum investment, minimal customer service, maximum revenue. Scammers , never use this company.

PostRe: Heating bills by **Denster** » Mon Apr 07, 2014 3:59 pm

Mine's £46. Two bedroom flat - all electric. 8-)

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