We've just got a gas bill through for a quarter and we've used 25322kWh. We have the heating on a lot, and the house is pretty big and old, and detatched.

But does that seem a lot?

How many, cubic meters or kWhs do you use? Or whats the monthly cost?

 

That seems a lot

How much was the bill ?

Steve

 

3 bed semi detached house in very exposed / cold area, heating on all the time in winter. Only thing the gas is used for.

I pay about £40 a month.

Not sure if that helps / compares to what you use?

Si

 

we just had our quartely bill was 280 something mrs rang british gas up soon as it came to ask if this was right and we fixed the tarrif when the prices was climbing
robbing bastards

 

£753!

Also bear in mind the first £131 is on a rate of 7.5p per kWh, after that is goes to 2.5p. So you can understand why i'm concerned!

 

jesus can see why your concerned mate
if i got a bill like that i think i would just turn the fucker off

 

 

It does seem alot. Our last meter reading was about 104units. By the time the company had done their jiggery pokery with it, it turned into about 6000KW.

 

If you've used 25000kw in a quarter, there MUST be something wrong!

The national average is around 20000kw as far as I know and thats in a year!!! We're high at around 28000kw and I find that shocking.

Is there a chance that you're caught up in this Imperial meter conversion confusion?

 

i had this problem the other week, when i questioned it, i was below average for a 3bed semi.

worth checking out as the 1st girl who i spoke to fooked it all up completely, the secon girl converted it all over correctly and was correct.

 

plus check youve actually given them the correct readings too and what the start readings where.

its quite easy to calculate your own bills to see if they being cunts

 

check around your meter and boiler with a match, if you blow up, your bill was correct and you had a leak.

 

£40-60 a month we use, but im in all day with heating on

 

just got my gas bill in.£383.and electricity at £147.oh then a bt bill comes through the day for £98.never bloody ending so no car parts for a while

 

we used around £70 a month over the last few months, but the mrs and kids have been home all the while

before tht it was around £40 a month in the summer

 

we pay £40 gas and ours is a big old 4 bed house, heating is on for around 5hrs per day

Sarah

 

We pay a fixed rate of 30sommot a month, and we are currently £53 in credit after this latest bill. The electricity bill on the hand is quite big this time round.....so I went straight up stairs, got hold of the small convection heater that has been burning away for what seems like for ever and threw it in the bin.....evil little thing

 

electric heaters are nasty

 

Yeah I know this now.....missus is now moaning she's cold (central heating cranked up as well...bloody nesh woman) but her moaning is much cheaper than another electricity bill

 

Is the kw figure based on a true start and finish reading or is one of them estimated?

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2 bed bungalow, no double glazing, as landlord tight shit, and ours is £20 a MONTH, same for lecky, this just covers it, heater is combi boiler, cooker lecky.
tabetha

 

I've checked the readings and there correct.

I've checked with the boiler off and no leaks.

Also done a calculation from the bill to now and weve used a further 200 units. what i didnt vheck is if its imperial and they given us a metric reading. surely this must be the case.

The house is very old. what is the meter likely to read in. cubic feet? cubic yards weve still used a lot. but feet doesnt seem enough.

 

we live in a 2bed flat but my girlfriend is at home with our 15mth old daughter so the heating has been on most of the time and we have been getting through £80 a month on gas

 

Just checked with my son,

Old house, 1/2 of it built 1900, 3/8 built 1950, 1/8 built 2005.
4 beds, gas bill quarter to half way through Jan = £720.

3yr old condensing boiler. (A rated)
Partner at home all day with baby and 3 year old

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Could be similar to us then.

I've just checked the meter, and its imperial. The bills in metric, what is an imperial meter measured in? Cubic yards? Trying to work out the difference.

 

Cubic feet.

1st 4 dials from left only

http://www.utilita.co.uk/readmeters.pdf


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Surely that not right though, as that would mean we need to devide our bill by 35 (ish) Obviously not the price, but the usage. That would make us WELL under.

 

It turned out our meter is infact metric, so the bill looks to be correct.

Thankfully it seems to be going backwards at the moment so we shouldn't use as much in the future

 

you got some serious gas usage there fella

£720 a quarter for gas is fucking mental.

 

Tell me about it, think there must be a problem with the boiler or something.

 

Our last gas bill for 96 days was £480 in a 3 year old house and
we are out Mon-Fri from 7.30-6.00 even when we are here the heating is used
a max of 4hrs a day.
They increased the cost of gas here by about 30% but have now reduced
it back again.

Sean.............