What's your monthly Gas and Electricity usage/bill?

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D0wnb0at@reddit

I’m from Yorkshire and also used to work in complaints for an energy company. So I know a thing or 2.

I pay about £150 for both per month for a 3 bed but I do live alone.

Your gas and electric is extremely high. There could be many factors why but I can narrow it down for you and help but I need more info.

1; do you have a smart meter. 2; did you take a reading when you first moved in?

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Zeeshmania@reddit (OP)

We don't have a smart meter.
I'll have to ask, I've never even thought about any of this before. I'm starting my first job in September and want to take over all the bills from my mum, so I'll have to find out.

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D0wnb0at@reddit

So. Energy companies will estimate your usage. If the past person didn’t give a reading before they moved out, you could be paying for their usage.

First, give a reading to your energy co. This could drop your bills significantly if you have never given one. 2nd, find out if your landlord took a reading when you moved in, most good landlords do, and provide this to your energy co.

90% of issues will be fixed by just that. You need to make sure you are only being charged for what you are using and estimates are shockingly bad so submit a read every month to make sure you are not being billed more than you should. And make sure you read the meter properly, cause giving wrong numbers can also screw your bills.

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Zeeshmania@reddit (OP)

What does a Smart Meter do? Is it worth getting one? Also, is a reading just the number on the machine?

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D0wnb0at@reddit

Smart meters will automatically tell the energy co exactly what you are using. So they will stop guessing your usage and getting it wrong. It’s MUCH MUCH better than old meters. They are also much less likely to go wrong .

Get them. They are free too.

And yes, a reading is just the number from the meter and if you give that to the energy co they will know how much you have used since the last reading. So can’t bill you accurately. Cause in between you telling them how much you have used, they just guess. And their guesses can be REALLY wrong. I’ve seen people complain about £20k bill for empty houses.

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Zeeshmania@reddit (OP)

I'll book a smart meter appointment, then, thanks!

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D0wnb0at@reddit

That will fix issues going forwards for sure. But you might have been over charged previously if readings were not correct. So find out if there was a meter reading when you first moved in. As that will fix the previous high bills.

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Zeeshmania@reddit (OP)

Just had a look at the meter, and the gas meter is reporting 5831 while Scottish Power's site says something like 7000. But the electricity meter says 65676 while the site says 48823. What should I do?

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SmashingK@reddit

Definitely need to get in touch with them and tell them there's a discrepancy. You should give them your actual readings and make sure they know you've recently moved in as you don't want them charging you for what you haven't used.

Also probably want to ask them to get someone out to check the meters.

I don't have smart meters. On the first of every month I log in on the octopus site and punch those numbers in myself. I'm averaging 140 quid for both a month in West Yorkshire.

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Zeeshmania@reddit (OP)

Problem is I haven't recently moved in, I've been here most of my life. Also, according to my calculations, we owe about 4 grand on the electricity since the estimate is so much lower than the real. Not sure about the gas but damn, that's one way to ruin my week haha.

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Sea-Climate6841@reddit

Your electricity reading are off by a considerable amount, and your supplier will always take the physical meter reading as fact over a smart meter reading in a discrepancy issue. The issue you have now, is by reporting the actual meter reading, SP will adjust your bill to account for the difference of ~17,000kWh which will be one hell of bill increase. You need to ask SP to send an engineer out to investigate for a shared supply…£300pm just for electricity on your property is extreme, even more so that the actual reading are 17,000kWh higher than their estimates. I’m almost certain you have a shared supply with a neighbour and they are either not paying/staying silent/SP are unaware.

Get an engineer to check the supply and confirm, but I’m pretty damn certain that’s your issue.

Also, do a visual check for any damage to the feeder lines after your meter, if they look tampered with/dodgy, there could be a chance that next door have tapped your supply.

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Zeeshmania@reddit (OP)

Thanks. The 300pm is for the gas, electricity is sat at around 100pm, which I can live with. I have a PC and a lot of electronics in my room, including underfloor heating.

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Future_You_2800@reddit

you sound like a good lad.

Speak with the gas company it may be your meter is out.

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D0wnb0at@reddit

This could be the issue, but it’s more likely the estimate reads are wring. Meters giving wrong reads are less than 1%. It’s why energy CO’s will charge £250 to test your meter to see if it’s running fast, cause 99% of the time they are fine and it’s a different issue.

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Polish_Shamrock@reddit

A local gas engineer would likley cost around £80 or less to pop out and bang their analyser on the meter and boiler for a basic gas check though.

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UnacceptableUse@reddit

Have you been submitting gas readings at all?

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Monkfish786@reddit

128 DD , 4 people , 3 bed.

Average bill in winter is £142 combined Average bill in summer is £78 combined

Currently as the Uk has a cold / hot / cold daily situation going on it’s around £118 a month.

End up with around £300-500 in credit by time winter rolls around.

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ThatThingInTheCorner@reddit

Are you living in a sauna?

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

Edwardian two-bed semi, roughly £100-110pcm right now (~£70 leccy, ~£45-50 gas)

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CaptMelonfish@reddit

Do you live next door to a Richard Richard, and Eddie hitler?

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

Thought they didn't know what gas was and they kept warm by making love?

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gash_dits_wafu@reddit

5 bed town house in the South East, with a family of 5, we spend ~£120 a month in total for both gas and electric.

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Dopeydaz@reddit

Ask anyone who knows me, everyone thinks my house is too hot. I don’t, I like it toasty. Large 4 bed in Edinburgh. Older built so not super insulated. Barely ever drops below 21 degrees but is often 22. My March usage.

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Jezbod@reddit

Er...am I doing something wrong? My Electric for March was 170 kWh and gas 913 kWh, total of £115.

2 bed "end of terrace" in North Yorkshire, kept at 16C. It has a couple of large south facing Velux windows, so it keeps warm on sunny days. Put a coat on if you're cold.

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Sea-Climate6841@reddit

Haha, I love the stereotypical Yaarkshire response…put on coat (but not big coat!) if thees cald

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Creepy_Radio_3084@reddit

Are you saying 6-700kwh gas usage per month over the last few months, or total?

Have you checked that your meter is not clocking up units when there is no gas usage (no appliances actually running - pilot lights use negligible gas).

Do you also have an immersion heater, or is hw on demand from the boiler?

What cooking and heating do you have?

Is your gas meter inside the property or outside? If outside, is it possible that there is a leak somewhere outside between the meter and the appliances?

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Sea-Climate6841@reddit

I can’t imagine any reputable, or registered engineer would fit an immersion to a 2 bed, 1 bath instead of a simple 600 combi, but I have also seen some mental shit in my life, so who knows really!

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StormySally@reddit

I live in a 2 bed, 1 bath flat and last month my combined gas and electric was around £366 for one month!!!

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Sea-Climate6841@reddit

You too, it appears, have an issue. Your bill should not be that high unless you’re running at 21° for 18 hours a day, and running three baths a day!

Same advice to OP: get a smart meter if you don’t already, and check for any shared supply lines to your neighbours properties. We had a shared supply in my last place and both us and the upstairs flat were double tapping the bill to BG, which they failed to refund any part of!

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Boulderfist_CH@reddit

I’m in Yorkshire. Live in a 4 bed house - around£60-£70 pm for electricity and £20-£25 for gas. I’d get smart meters installed if I were you.

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StormySally@reddit

I have a smart meter in the same size property and mine was £366 for 2 of us last month and we aren’t even using everything lots

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Difficult-Vacation-5@reddit

Why?

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MintberryCrunch____@reddit

How is your gas lower than elec?

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Lost-In-The-Wood5@reddit

I'm a very low user of energy, but your gas estimates are incredibly low! It costs £9/month just to have a gas meter, nevermind gas usage!

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GlumAd9856@reddit

I mean - that's at the very low end of typical use.

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Sea-Climate6841@reddit

I’ve only just received my first energy bill from e.on having moved in recently, however the previous owners left their bills from November to March - approximately £290 pm over the winter period for gas and electricity (Combo boiler, Baxi 800 for heating, gas range) for a 5 bed 2,400 sq ft house with no insulation at all anywhere (even loft), EPC E, they set the heating to 18° 24/7.

I’m expecting this to be around £90pm once insulation is installed throughout, and rads balanced properly.

£420 is a ridiculous amount for a 2 bed, regardless of insulation/PEC grade.

Do you have a smart meter? If not request one. Also double. Also check if nearby properties are running utilities through your meter, I have seen this in my last house where the upstairs flat and us were submitting the readings from the same meter thinking it was an individual supply, turns out it was a shared supply for all utilities (still don’t get refund from BG!).

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svecccc@reddit

With some of the answers in this thread, I think a lot of people are wrong or telling lies.

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theevildjinn@reddit

I live in Yorkshire too, in a 4 bed semi. My wife gets cold if the house is cooler than about 20 degrees, I'm convinced she's actually a reptile. Our thermostat is on 21 most of the time and our monthly dual fuel bill is £150, with Octopus.

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Cirias@reddit

I'm in a new build, only have the hot water on for 30 mins a day, heating only goes on when the winter months arrive and only then it's not on very much. 3 people in the house, I work from home. We pay 95 for electricity and about 60 for gas.

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Fun-Opportunity9656@reddit

Not about location or size of house.

What method do you use to heat your house? How often do you need to heat?

What is your energy efficiency?

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CreativeAdeptness477@reddit

1 bed flat "up north", EDF, no gas bill at all as it's not connected to the gas network, ~£70/month electric, but I do prefer a much cooler ambient temperature than most people so the heating doesn't get used much.

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Zeeshmania@reddit (OP)

So we MIGHT be £4,000 in debt...

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CurvePuzzleheaded361@reddit

£80 electricity and £130 gas. 2 bed house with 2 people but I am home most days so heating is on a lot.

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theNikolai@reddit

This is not right. I pay £150-170 in the winter, £100 in the summer. I'm on an 🐙 Go tariff, East Sussex, 3 beds new build, 2 people, underfloor heating set to 24° in all rooms at all times. We also charge an electric car once-ish a week overnight (cheep rates).

Check if your insulation is insulating properly and/or shop around for cheeper offers. You are paying way too much.

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GlumAd9856@reddit

I live in a 2 bed house in Yorkshire. WFH full time. I had the heating on mainly downstairs between 8am and 8pm at 18 degrees.

My gas bills were topping out at about £100 a month and electricity £60 during winter.

If you have the heating on high throughout the house all day, and have poor insulation then it could conceivably get that high. Especially if you have a power shower and other high-energy usage stuff.

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NovaTheRover@reddit

My bills usually 150-200 combined .. north Yorkshire.. Central heating on for an hour or 2 on a morning if cold.. usual electric use.. washing.. tumbler once or twice a week most things are l.e.d and on power packs like little lights etc .blow heaters for a quick blast of warm in a room if needed . not excessive but used to be 80 when we moved in 8 year back with the same use as now.. 3 bed terrace

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Zeeshmania@reddit (OP)

OK, the electricity I can understand, but why in the fuck is our Gas so high??? I really need to sort this out, I'm guessing it's the heating being turned on centrally but the radiators are all off individually???? Fucking hell...

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HorrorCollection69@reddit

1) Check the radiator pipes to see if they are hot from thermostats end

2) Check your boiler thermostat settings (might be on the whole time)

3) Honestly, I would check for gas leaks

4) Check if your provider is basically overcharging you to shit and change the provider

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D0wnb0at@reddit

Gas leaks are highly unlikely to raise the bill that much without you dying of gas poisoning. Small Gas leaks will usually cost a couple of pence per day, not hundreds a month. -ex complaint handler for an energy co. It’s most likely a billing issue from bad reads or no reads and bad estimates.

If it’s not a billing issue you would then look at doing an OFMAT to check if the gas meter is running fast.

If all that is fine then it’s something internal in the house which is making the bills high, won’t be a gas leak, but could be a faulty boiler

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Polish_Shamrock@reddit

The gas leak could be on an external pipe or off the meter outside.

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Tammer_Stern@reddit

What is your home thermostat set to?

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Additional-Switch912@reddit

£212 a month for gas and electric for 4 bed detached with a EPC of E which isn’t great for bills, approx 7000kwh gas and 12000kwh electric a year - we abuse air con in the summer months and I have to heat my tank in my van every day. I keep the heating on 24/7 at 19-20° but only heat the hot water tank for up to 1 hour a day which is enough for us and doesn’t cost a lot on the gas bill either. I’m also on Octopus Agile tariff so make the most of free/cheap periods or I’d be looking at about another £40 a month on a standard tariff

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Akash_nu@reddit

Gas and electricity together around £200 on average, a bit higher in winter and a bit lower in summer.

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princewinter@reddit

Also a 2 bed 1 bath house in Scotland. It's MAXIMUM 120 quid, if I have the heating on for maybe 3-4 hours a day in the winter.

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Jimmy90081@reddit

Eurgh.

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Scotster123@reddit

TL;DR: check you are not on a business tariff - mistakes happen.

Long version and reasons for saying this: Not sure if this helps, but we moved into a renovated church about 17 years ago (far less glamorous than it sounds) and we didn’t get a bill in for months. We spent the next 2 years trying to find out who our supplier was only to be told by every company we contacted that we weren’t connected to the grid or gas. We were.

Eventually, we were sent a bill for about £7k for 2 years and a demand to know who lived there before. We told them we didn’t know about previous owners, but spent the next 3 years fighting the charges. I noticed that there was a “green energy charge” on one statement and looked it up online, only to find it was only applicable to businesses.

I queried it and found that we were on a standard variable business tariff because the building had previously been a church. Once I sorted that all out, the bill came down to about £2.5k for “estimated” previous uncharged usage. I got them to knock another £1k of it as a gesture of goodwill with the threat of going Ofgem because of all the work they made us do to fix their mistake, and the fact that they couldn’t prove how much we were liable for.

It turned out that the renovation company had unofficially connected the house to the water, electricity and gas. The new owners had loved the fact that they didn’t pay any bills, so didn’t do anything about it. I also had to get the house listed with Royal Mail to be able to order stuff online. We rented the house from the new owners when they moved until they stopped paying the mortgage on it and some friendly bailiffs came to let us know. Fun times.

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CrowApprehensive204@reddit

I pay £65 a month for both but I'm hardly home and when I am the heating is on for one hour in the evening before my shower. Doesn't go on at all past the end of March

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No-Communication7375@reddit

2 bed semi new build 2021 , EPC B. Gas 10-15 and electricity 30-40 including standing charges etc .

No heating on all this month and just two of us as well as two cats

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Superb-Pudding-6532@reddit

That's a lot! 2 person, 3 bed house, west Sussex, £150 per month and about £100 in credit. I am proper tight with electricity and gas though 😂 my neighbour says my house looks abandoned 🤣🤣

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sharpied79@reddit

3 people, 5 bedroom detached Victorian House...

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Zeeshmania@reddit (OP)

What the hell is happening in my house...?

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sharpied79@reddit

Don't know. Do you have a smart meter?

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NatchezAndes@reddit

You could have neighbours tapping into your supply. That's commonplace in some areas. Definitely question it with your supplier

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PhysicsForeign1634@reddit

Have you checked in the loft for UV lights and cannabis plants? It's always the ones you least expect.

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Street-Persimmon8492@reddit

Is your heating and hot water set to continuous on your main control?

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Alert_Mine7067@reddit

My gas usage between December and February was around 5000kwh, so a month in winter would be around 1600kwh and electric was on average around 200kwh in them 3 months. That includes using a gas hob too.

For the month of March, as it got slightly warmer gas was around 1200 kWh.

I've recently changed electricity supplier, monthly bill to quarterly bill, so I've no information on recent usage.

I live alone and don't work from home, so I'm out of the house between 8 and 4.

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UnCommonSense99@reddit

4 bed detached house. Gas £100 per month in winter, £20 per month in summer. Electricity £100 per month all year round.

My house is really well insulated with modern double glazing. I set the heating thermostat to 17.5C and wear a warm jumper inside. If I hadn't insulated my walls and loft, and if I set the heating to 21C , my gas bill would double or treble

The electricity bill is mostly the kettle and fridge, the oven and two gaming PCs running all evening. My lights are LED and so consume almost nothing.

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spudlet89@reddit

Just bought a house with oil heating that we aren’t living in yet, so these are January’s figures from our rented 3 bed terrace, including the daily standing charges:

Electrity- 271 kWh £87.05

Gas- 2207 kWh £135.13

Honestly, I was quite unimpressed by how expensive January was but then again, I was a bit frivolous with the heating (open plan is too cold in Durham in the winter) so what did I expect?!

Your figures are wild even by comparison to my most expensive month of the year. Definitely contact them about a smart meter- makes billing easy and accurate. And also, you are an incredibly sweet, supportive son wanting to take on the bills for your mum and making plans this far ahead to make the transition easier. What a lad.

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yubnubster@reddit

It was £73 for gas and electricity, per month, but Octopus just said they've dropped it by £15.

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Yoguls@reddit

3 bedroom terraced house in north Yorkshire and I'm paying around £170 a month for gas and electric combined. Something is certainly off with your bill

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SCWavebird@reddit

I live in an extremely draughty old house in Scotland and ours is about £200 a month in the colder months for both. We don't have a smart meter (I don't want one) but I put my readings in every month online and pay straight away.

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itsfourinthemornin@reddit

Yorkshire too, 2bdr. £120 currently, could be less but I like to overpay a little Spring-Autumn for when colder weather hits. Probably at the most it hikes to £140-150 over winter. I'm not home half the week, but roommate is WFH and home 24/7.

Electric seems reasonable especially if your have a lot on the go and/or home all day (e.g. WFH) and/or regular, but the gas seems astronomical? I genuinely forget to knock mine off sometimes and still not hit those numbers, ever!

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RichardsonM24@reddit

£130-£170 this last 6 months, relatively large 3 bed mid-terrace. We have a toddler who has a bath every night, house never goes below 18°C.

We do have pensioners either side though.

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mister_meaner7@reddit

3 bed bungalow, 2 people. September until early May thermostat for the heating is set to 20 and isn’t moved again. With the thermostat controlling the heating it will run between 6 and 9 hours a day. Keeping it warm all winter. Plus our electricity usage I only pay £180 for both.

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UnacceptableUse@reddit

For December which is probably one of the most expensive months:

£110 / 634kWh Electricity £98 / 1409kWh Gas

This is for a 3 Bed semi-detached house

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lanky_doodle@reddit

£205 with Octopus. For both.

Currently at about £350 credit as it's starting to warm up a bit.

Been at £205 for years now so seems right.

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Digital-Dinosaur@reddit

4 bed, 2 adults 2 kids, both adults work from home.

£120 a month for gas and electric (total)

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Zeeshmania@reddit (OP)

Follow up question in case anyone knows - if I take over paying the electricity bill, will it affect my mum's Universal Credit payment? We could use all the help we can get..

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Crochet-panther@reddit

2 bed 1 bath semi detached in Yorkshire, living alone but work from home so heating on through day. Temp set at 18 in day, 16 at night with the occasional boost if needed.

Usage in Feb was 195kwh electric and 1072kwh gas, that’s I think my highest month this season. Just gone up to £109 fixed payment each month which is covering it across the year.

As others have said, check it’s based on an actual reading not an estimate. Check you haven’t had a new meter fitted as sometimes that can mess up readings. Check the settings on your heating and the temperatures on your boiler for hot water and heating water temp.

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Neat-Ostrich7135@reddit

4 bedroom house.

£80 pm gas, £80 pm month electricity.

The worst month for gas was £300, but in the summer we only use £20

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NatchezAndes@reddit

That cant be right. Im in a 3 bed, 2 bath, and I work from home so my heating is on most of the day. I'm £130pm in total for gas and electric. I've recently switched suppliers too, and both charged me the same pm, so it must be right.

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Green-Thought23@reddit

That’s seems crazy! I’m South Yorkshire/North Nottinghamshire. 3 bed semi detached with 1 bath. For added context, husband a tech guy (work and pleasure, everything ranging from extensive cctv, radios, loads of WiFi devices etc); 18 year old that constantly falls asleep with tvs and lights on, and 5 year old, she has lights and music on to go to sleep etc. We pay £120 electric and £80 gas per month, and that’s a midwinter month; we have solar panels so we try to use large appliances during bright sunny days. Ours was built in the 40s or 50s and is quite draughty but we’ve tried to minimise this where we can to save. Replaced doors, fitted draught tape to windows, resealed etc. recently replaced the boiler to a more efficient one; we also have a fixed tariff with our energy supplier. Not all changes are affordable for everyone and I understand that but some of the little things really make a difference.

Is your house a detached? Old terrace etc? What energy supplier and tariff are you on, might be worth looking into switching?

I think we are with E energy, and the smart meter and app have been useful in savings. We found that every time we used our “eco” electric shower (a massive spike would show on the in app usage graph); it was costing around £1-£2 per 30 minutes even with solar panels (anything up to 6-7 showers a day with husband having 2 jobs and myself and my son being chefs); it’s a lot to keep clean and hygienic, so we switched it out for one that runs on the hot water system instead. Hoping we will reduce the electric by making this switch.

Not sure if any of the above is useful but your bill definitely seems high for the size of house.

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SituationMundane5452@reddit

Family of 4, Yorkshire, 4 bedroom house, we pay £56 a month for electric and £12 a week for gas. Change your provider they are taking the piss.

Your not on a pay as you go meter are you? They are really bad. I lived in a house with one and I had it changed within months as it was costing a fortune

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BunBunIsland@reddit

How is your energy so cheap for a 4 bed?! Is everything cheaper in the north 😩 (crying in my small 2 bed in the south)

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Lunaspoona@reddit

Not cheaper, we are just tighter lol.

I live alone so never use the heating. I mostly have hot water bottles. I am so tight that I have a cheap kettle dedicated to my hot water bottles, and just chuck the water back in the kettle and reboil it instead of empty it and using fresh. Save heating and water costs!

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SituationMundane5452@reddit

Cheaper in the north definitely. We got a fixed price plan for 3 years so they can out the price up and blame trump and putin.

Compare the market and such websites are your friend

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Clamps55555@reddit

You need to know when you are spending the money and what you are getting out of it. No ping heating an empty house or keeping a house to warm of a night. What temp are you trying to keep the house at?

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Comprehensive-Tank92@reddit

Depth of winter about a hundred for ekectricity. Late Nov till mid Feb and 50 a month for gas.

Mid Feb till April about 50 for electricity and 20 for gas

Mid April - October about 40 for electricity and 5 for gas

October till late nov about 60 for electricity and 20 for gas per month.

I am really cautious and use electric pillows throws and blankets and a dehimidifier right up until the humidity starts to bite. Also only heat one room on low setting and try and shower at the gym.

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veryblocky@reddit

I live in a 1 bed flat on the top floor, and in the 2 and a half years I’ve been here I’ve used 10000 kWh of gas.

6009 kWh per month is insane.

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PettyAverage@reddit

First time buyer here who's recently had to try and get my head around the gas & electric bills too! We are in a 3 bed semi (well typical British 2 bed & a box room) Our gas bill has been all over the place since moving in at the start of September.. but at the height of the cold we were at about £100ish per month The electricity has been sat at around £50-£80 per month. To monitor What we are using when we first brought and moved in we would read both meters daily to understand our actual usage amounts.

Firstly look at how much the heating is on and the temperature its at. We set it lower (18-19° currently), and then over ride it for half an hour at 20-21° if we get cold. If there are hours you aren't home and the house is empty set it to something like 13° so you aren't paying and not benefiting from it.

Next check your thermostat.. is it calibrated and reading temperatures correctly or is the location causing the heating to come on more..? Ours is controlled by a remote, which if kept downstairs triggers the heating to come on a lot more than it does on the window ledge its on upstairs on the landing now!

Then have a look at the tariff you're on. We're on a fix with British Gas that was the best at the time when taking out the contract. Shop around using comparisons (and also look at switching through top cash back)

If you're still seeing high costs after the above, potentially look at a boiler service before considering replacement and check with your provider if they can inspect your meters aren't the issue.

Ours has been trial and error but hope this helps!

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Kamoebas@reddit

4 bed plus an EV to charge. 4 of us in the house.

200pm dual fuel.

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No-Blackberry-3945@reddit

Scotland: 5 bed, 2 adults, 2 electric cars, a newborn. G&E about £110 combined. Are you sure you're not looking at a quarterly bill?

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Proof-Order2666@reddit

We pay £130 a month 2 bed electric eater for shower and gas central heating. Check on your tariff l believe ours is around 22 for electricity and 7 for gas per kw

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Slackdarren@reddit

Harrogate here 2 bed 1 bath. Highest in winter £125 approx. Two of us home allday.

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Material_Machine822@reddit

150 per month on both

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Playful_Echidna_3465@reddit

About £160 a month on electric and £65 for gas.

2 bed apartment, fairly thermally efficient. EV charger is a good bulk of the electric cost (standard tariff, about 10Kwh a day)

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Creepy-Albatross-588@reddit

Combined about £180 in winter months but in summer about £100ish. There’s 4 of is in the house.

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No-Salt6819@reddit

That's a lot, you're paying twice our average monthly bill and we have 2 EVs! Your gas is insane, what does your cooker run on? The only gas thing we have is the boiler, so if you have a hob/oven on gas that goes a (very) small way to explaining it. Or maybe an Aga?

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No-Salt6819@reddit

Check out MSE's website on energy bill deals btw

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Oster-P@reddit

Yorkshire here, 2 bed, one bath. About £100pm for gas and electric. Was about £170 when my ex lived here.

This is with Octopus if that helps.

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Jenpot@reddit

Family of four, 3 bed detached, £250 per month for both gas and electric.

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necronomicoder@reddit

10 GBP gas and 120 GBP electric this month so far.

152 GBP Gas and 162.83 GBP electric in January (heater on 24/7 and boiler on scolding hot)

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Boboshady@reddit

Your electricity isn't super high - I pay more than that, though I do have a couple of teenagers with gaming PCs and the washing machine and dryer are pretty much always one.

Your gas, though, is 3x what I pay, and we have heating on a LOT plus an all gas range cooker which is used for a couple of hours a day. There's something wrong with your gas reading, or usage.

You need to turn off all of your gas appliances, then check your meter to see if it's still spinning...and if not, turn stuff back on one by one to see what's sucking that gas down.

It's so far over that I'd actually assume your meter is broken, or someone's tapped your supply.

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ILikeItWhatIsIt_1973@reddit

That's definitely a lot. I'm a single person in a three bed/two bath detached built in the 90s & mine has been about £150 a month over the winter, for gas and electric.

A lot depends on the type of house though tbh. If you live in an old Victorian place with single glazed windows, a 20 year old heating system, and a prepayment meter, it's going to cost a lot more than an energy efficient new build.

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rj_t2@reddit

2 people, semi-detached, built in 2001. Gas and electric combined is around £90-100 per month.

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Remarkable_Bet_4131@reddit

Ffs buy some jumpers bro, turn off all the radiators other than in room you sit in, buy an electric fan to heat just that room. What ever you do switch boiler on as a very last resort. It would probably be cheaper to burn money, like pablo had to, than turn the heating on.

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tiny_tina1979@reddit

£75 gas £60 electric based on accurate readings throughout the year. 3 bed semi, 2 people.

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Yippym@reddit

Do you have those fancy cooker where you need to permanently need them on, like those Central Heating Cooker? The amount you use seems very high, as a comparison our 4 bedroom consumed 1,100 last month. We only got a hot water tank (gas/electric) and combi boiler.

You may have a leak?

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Theratchetnclank@reddit

I live in a 3 bed terrace in yorkshire with little insulation with the thermostat set to 22'c and gas hob. My gas usage was 2074 kWh and £128 in feb. It's now around 800-1000 kWh and about £80 a month.

To use that amount of gas you either have the thermostat set to nuclear or you have a leak somewhere.

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imtheorangeycenter@reddit

Something is not right, unless you have a thermostat set to anything above 22 degrees, meaning boiler is running 24/7.

Do you?

For reference: 2 ppl in 5 bed detached, suddenly dropped to £310 pm from 410. But we absolutely smash the gas in winter from 0639 to 2300 (heating is off overnight, but set to 21 degrees otherwise)

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MrTrav15@reddit

So I just checked my gas usage for March with octopus energy. Just shy of 500kwh. For context I pay £100 per month for gas and £100 per month for electric and I’m currently £150 in credit. I have a 3 bed detached. I honestly am not sure why your usage is so high but I’d definitely be questioning it with your utility company.

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Sea-Still5427@reddit

What are the units on the meter?

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RedditMrJay@reddit

Quite large 2 bed new build.

MARCH 2026 120 kwh electric £45 600 kwh gas £43

Thermostats set to 20 downstairs and 18 in the bedroom

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DepressiveVortex@reddit

Too much. Public execution of energy company bosses may help this.

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CarpetPedals@reddit

We’re in a new-build 4 bed. We’ve used 5,330 kwh of gas and 779 kwh of leccy so far this calendar year.

Our electric usage isn’t that useful as we have an electric car with home charging, and solar panels.

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