well i got my gas and lekkie bills

[kwak zzr]

my christmas quarter fuel bills are as follows -

gas - £324.45

lekkie - £233.21

WTF! = £557.66 FOR 3 MONTHS!

[dizzyblonde]

what have you been doing illuminating Blackpool, and heating the Antarctic?

[kwak zzr]

well? i think we are carefull.

[dizzyblonde]

I only pay about 30 quid a month for each on DD, and even then I'm such a tightwad I go out n check the meters when I get the statement to make sure I don't get caught out. My heating isn't on at the moment and I haven't had it on since the snow went. All my bulbs are energy ones.

[G]

My gas and electric went up from £59 a month to £100 a month in december.

I had been soft and put the heating on permanently though.

Its been off 80% of the time since getting the bill through the door lol

[Rai86]

Tell me bout it

Likkie: 395.67

Errrr they can get f**ked

Edit: Might i add - small one bed flat in the middle of a house!

[kwak zzr]

i use energy bulbs where possible but our heating is on 2hrs in the morning and 5hrs in the evening, the heating isnt on high it just takes the chill off the house.

[Ed]

Mrs and Miss Ed 'feel the cold'. The heating is on all the time. I go round the house switching it off, turning lights off, TV off standby, everything is left on. In fact I got so fed up with Sophie leaving her bedroom light on that I took the bulbs out.

[454697819]

Mrs and Miss Ed 'feel the cold'. The heating is on all the time. I go round the house switching it off, turning lights off, TV off standby, everything is left on. In fact I got so fed up with Sophie leaving her bedroom light on that I took the bulbs out.

bins..... bulbs... no sympathy for snow whatever next

[Ed]

Aye, I'm a harrrrrd man:takeabow:

[Warthog]

My DD is £25 for Electric and £47 for Gas a month. Gas is about right, and electric gets me a refund. £233 seems a lot for electric!

[shonadoll]

Have you got a tumble dryer on a lot? Ours broke recently, and it's not been fixed, saving us a fortune!

[kwak zzr]

its on as we speak! washers always on too cus of messy kids!

[Frank]

Mrs and Miss Ed 'feel the cold'. The heating is on all the time. I go round the house switching it off, turning lights off, TV off standby, everything is left on. In fact I got so fed up with Sophie leaving her bedroom light on that I took the bulbs out.
you tight git

















oh yes I took the fuse out

[Quiff Wichard]

ha ED thats funy- took the bulb out.. lol


well Ilive on my own,, mind you Ihave heating on high cos me dont like be cold.. my gas n leccy combined for last quarter is £285..

[mister c]

Haven't had my bills yet, but have been paying £55 for electric per month & a whopping £125 a month for gas. I live in a 2 up 2 down end of terrace. The only Gas appliance I have is a 4 year old combi boiler which heats the water & central heating. The heating is on for 4 hours a day. I have complained to British Gas, but they say it is normal & I can have my meter checked by an "independent adviser" for £70.
Going on the "comparison websites" it says that I am a "high" user. Something isnt right somewhere & I WILL get to the bottom of it :)

[CarlosSV650S]

Haven't had my bills yet, but have been paying £55 for electric per month & a whopping £125 a month for gas. I live in a 2 up 2 down end of terrace. The only Gas appliance I have is a 4 year old combi boiler which heats the water & central heating. The heating is on for 4 hours a day. I have complained to British Gas, but they say it is normal & I can have my meter checked by an "independent adviser" for £70.
Going on the "comparison websites" it says that I am a "high" user. Something isnt right somewhere & I WILL get to the bottom of it :)



sounds like your payin for all the block there m8 !!

[454697819]

Haven't had my bills yet, but have been paying £55 for electric per month & a whopping £125 a month for gas. I live in a 2 up 2 down end of terrace. The only Gas appliance I have is a 4 year old combi boiler which heats the water & central heating. The heating is on for 4 hours a day. I have complained to British Gas, but they say it is normal & I can have my meter checked by an "independent adviser" for £70.
Going on the "comparison websites" it says that I am a "high" user. Something isnt right somewhere & I WILL get to the bottom of it :)


I had the same thing so I told BG to FO they are the worst...

I ended up with Atlantic and couldnt reccomend them enough...

[nakedblue650]

5 bed detatched - gas £50 pm electric £60 pm.

Important thing to remember is that you maybe playing catch up for estimated readings prior to meter being read. Whatever you do dont let them dictate your payments - read your meters, submit figures, request new bill and work from there. So many people are paying 'up front' or are in credit but dont claw it back. They will try not to give the money back but are bound by the DD guarantee.
Imagine you had 10,000,000 customers and 2,000,000 of them are £100 in credit even at the crap interest rates it still represents a tidy income just for taking a feww quid too much each month.

nb650

[mister c]

sounds like your payin for all the block there m8 !!
That's what my mates say. When they tell me what they are paying it makes me sick.
I told British Gas what my friends were paying & I thought that there was a fault with mine, they said that they couldn't comment because every house is different :smt104

I had the same thing so I told BG to FO they are the worst...

I ended up with Atlantic and couldnt reccomend them enough...
I might start having a nosey around, then tell BG to FO myself. I want to find them to be wrong so that I can sue thier as$es for over charging me for so long.

5 bed detatched - gas £50 pm electric £60 pm.

Important thing to remember is that you maybe playing catch up for estimated readings prior to meter being read. Whatever you do dont let them dictate your payments - read your meters, submit figures, request new bill and work from there. So many people are paying 'up front' or are in credit but dont claw it back. They will try not to give the money back but are bound by the DD guarantee.
Imagine you had 10,000,000 customers and 2,000,000 of them are £100 in credit even at the crap interest rates it still represents a tidy income just for taking a feww quid too much each month.

nb650

I had a couple of estimated readings last year, but the last 2 or 3 have been readings that I have done myself.

[pegasus]

just got mine in as well, 2 bedroom end terrace with British Gas :-

Electricity £80.54
Gas £175.00

QUarterly Total £255.54

Seems reasonable.

[muffles]

That's what my mates say. When they tell me what they are paying it makes me sick.
I told British Gas what my friends were paying & I thought that there was a fault with mine, they said that they couldn't comment because every house is different :smt104


I might start having a nosey around, then tell BG to FO myself. I want to find them to be wrong so that I can sue thier as$es for over charging me for so long.



I had a couple of estimated readings last year, but the last 2 or 3 have been readings that I have done myself.

We've also only got gas on a boiler that heats water for hot water supply & radiators. Gas bill is quite high (I think £250+ last quarter) but the unit price has gone up a lot. I can't argue with the readings, that's for sure.

I might take a couple of days with the boiler completely off to see if the meter is going up still. If not, then I will look at how much gas the boiler *should* be consuming per hour at the settings I've got, and tally that back against the meter's readings.

It might be worth you trying something similar - BG prices (btw I am also with BG) aren't particularly high, they are actually not too bad. So you might just find yourself with the same trouble elsewhere!

[Luckypants]

Haven't had my bills yet, but have been paying £55 for electric per month & a whopping £125 a month for gas. I live in a 2 up 2 down end of terrace. The only Gas appliance I have is a 4 year old combi boiler which heats the water & central heating. The heating is on for 4 hours a day. I have complained to British Gas, but they say it is normal & I can have my meter checked by an "independent adviser" for £70.
Going on the "comparison websites" it says that I am a "high" user. Something isnt right somewhere & I WILL get to the bottom of it :)

Dude this was on BBC Watchdog a while back, where they are using the wrong unit of measure for your meter. Worth checking if you have a cubic foot meter and they charging you for a cubic metre meter! See this:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2009/01/are_you_paying_too_much_for_ga.html

HTH

[kwak zzr]

to top it all off i got home from work today to a £380 water bill :(

[pete m]

Ouch - that really smarts dont it ?:(

We were paying £60 per month DD for gas + elec, then at Xmas they put it up to £175 pm ....just like that...for a one bed flat....:confused:...so we did all the meter readings eytc, turned out the estimate was under :o....the bills have more than doubled over the last year, but yours is out of all proprtion.....

I wonder if the downstairs dole queue dweller is tapping into our supply, but its hard to prove....you may have an issue like that....

or your sons got a hydroponic grow in the cellar...;)