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1 bed flat - can anyone give me some average bill costs?
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It's a pretty big a bed flat.... Just wanted some idea of what people pay per month for gas and electricity.
We want to set up a DD and have been quoted £40 a month for electiricity and £45 for gas. Our old place was smaller (and had meters) the lekky sounds about right, just not sure about gas.
2 of us live there and both work full time!
We want to set up a DD and have been quoted £40 a month for electiricity and £45 for gas. Our old place was smaller (and had meters) the lekky sounds about right, just not sure about gas.
2 of us live there and both work full time!
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Sounds a bit excessive your end to me!
Not sure if my location has any bearing? I am central London...
but to give you an idea mine works out at about £50 a month, would probably be less but i don't have double glazing so i'm heating half the street as well as the flat!
Also avoid estimated readings by trying to get an online account where you can enter your own readings regularly.
2 bed flat with two of us home all day most days.
at this time of year about £22/£25 per week gas and electric.
Gas for heating and water only.
Double glazed all round.
Not to mention all the interest they earn on the money from those over inflated direct debits.
I have a two bed semi, suppliers B/Gas and Southern, I pay about £10 a week electric and about £15 on gas. The electric is a bit cheaper in milder/warmer months and the gas is just a couple of quid for running the boiler for hot water.
Take into account things like immersion heaters, kettle, washing machine, tumble dryer and cooker, for bumping up the cost of your electric.
If you have large rooms your gas quote could be about right. How many rads do you have? I have 5 and my yearly gas bill works out to about £350, give or take a few quid.
I didn't think about the negatives of DD!! We just didn't want to get stung with a big bill in a few months time
We have 5 rads too - so £45 a month seems incredibly excessive!!!
I have overpaid electricity before (ended up witha £300 rebate when I left a previous property) so I know you get it back .... eventually!!
Thanks for the advice everyone.... I am going to check it out...
We have since moved in said bog standard semi and have been told by British Gas that around here a 3 bed semis costs between £700 and £1,200 a year (£13 - £23 a week) for gas and electric, depending on usage (i.e if heating is on constant or just particular times of the day).
my boiler is brand new and im in credit with both im with edf
Any average cost figures in 2014?
Oddly we still live in the same place and still pay the same as we did 4 years ago.
I think to be honest we were paying an "overestimation" to begin with and that kept the costs down overall.
We recently changed energy suppliers based and based on usage (not estimations) we still pay this amount.
I am confused here, why would DD make the bills bigger ? I use DD to make the payment but give a monthly reading, check if your plan allows this.
Over time this will disappear anyway as smart meters get introduced.
As for OP, gas bill sounds a bit high but if you want to know for your area most suppliers have tools on their website allow you to compare your bill to similar properties in your area.
I pay £33 a month. I'm ridiculously sensible about turning everything off though.
two bedroom flat in central London with one occupant, gas central heating and hot water, but I'm in most of the time and have heating on during the day and evening in winter
previous bill for oct to dec was about 345 quid
so I reckon 100 pounds a month during the winter
A few years ago was more like 25
From my experience, no that doesn't really have any bearing or impact, so no is my answer to the issue of location.