dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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Just got my quarterly bill through online
Gas - £52.98 
Electricity - £79.39
Gas is used for central heating and heating water for showers / washing up. The central heating hasnt been on, we only usually have 2 showers a day and wash up once a day 
Electricity really shocked me though, does my LCD telly and Xbox360 really use that much leccy 
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
Location: Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk
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Ive just read my meter, and used around 60quids worth :/ think its the daily use of the tuble dryer causing problem tho
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BYRON
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I pay £30 a month for each.
Im in credit on the electricity, although with the colder weather coming the gas bill is likely to shoot up.
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John
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Gas bill on it's own here for my mum and dad was £750 for the quarter, over what they pay by direct debit.
Something not right somewhere.
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
Just got my quarterly bill through online
Gas - £52.98
Electricity - £79.39
Is that bad? 
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BigSte
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Registered: 27th Aug 02
Location: Sheffield
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Gas bill on it's own here for my mum and dad was £750 for the quarter, over what they pay by direct debit.
Something not right somewhere.
that can't be right.......must have the gas on 24/7.......
moving to alternative energy sources such as solar power costs a lot of money and would take some time to recoup your costs against savings, but if your parents are honestly spending that then they should look into it very quickly
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
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Originally posted by loafofbrett
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Originally posted by dannymccann
Just got my quarterly bill through online
Gas - £52.98
Electricity - £79.39
Is that bad?
Well I rang my dad and he reckoned that sounds about right. I thought the gas was expensive considering we have probably 20 showers a week and wash up dishes once a day and no heating.
The electricity shocked me tbh (no pun you fools  ) we have a few things running 24/7 -
Burglar alarm
Wireless Telephones
Router
Fridge/Freezer
And then we have telly, laptop, PC, washing machine and obviously the oven and hobs. Try to be as efficient as possible but obviously the rises have affected them massively 
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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Id say 80 per quater for electric is pretty reasonable, i budget £30 a month for it
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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Thats cheap mate 
I saw the schools electricial bill the other day. I now turn 95% of the computers off at night
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dannymccann
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Ive just upped my DD to £30 a month for it, bought one of those energy monitors you plug in because the fridge doesnt half make a lot of noise so going to make sure its not on the blink.
I know what you mean pow, I work at Tesco, their electricity bill is like But then thats what you get for having a hot chicken counter in the middle of the fridge department
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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No idea what my parents bills are, I will take a keen interest when I start paying rent when I finish Uni & have a job.
Where I used to work, at 'Spar', a relatively large but small convenience store, the electricity bill was £15k/year dread to think what Tesco's is like.
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stubbsy05
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Leccy £12 a month DD
Gas £35 a month DD
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Think Mum and Dad spend about 1k a year on gas, £500 on electricity?
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cunningham
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Registered: 25th May 05
Location: Lochore, Fife
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203 quid for electricity for a 1/4 we dont have gas
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Kathryn W
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Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Widnes, Cheshire
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We got our first monthly bill in...
£12 electricity
£42 Gas
Not to bad considerin the heating was on permanantly when wefirst got the house for about 3-4 weeks,...
Set up a direct debit of £82..
Although just switched to npower so it may go up slightly...
Not bad though for 8 weeks worth...
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
Gas - £52.98
Electricity - £79.39
i thought gas/electricity would be more than that for 3 months worth?
gives me some hope that i'll move out next year now
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J da Silva
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Registered: 10th Apr 03
Location: The FACTory
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Wish I could swap bills with you Danny.
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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Originally posted by J da Silva
Wish I could swap bills with you Danny.
So im being tight then? 
I got one of them EcoEye enregy monitor thingies and spent the after noon going round the house. TV, PC and Xbox are the biggest culprits at like 150 - 200w while in use, so the cooker is a right bastard, everything else barely registers, like 1 - 10w in use
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J da Silva
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No it's not that, I have a big place, I'm playing it down a little bit actually.
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Gaz
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Registered: 24th Aug 03
Location: Widnes, Cheshire
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
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Originally posted by dannymccann
Gas - £52.98
Electricity - £79.39
i thought gas/electricity would be more than that for 3 months worth?
gives me some hope that i'll move out next year now
I thought that especially if im going to be paying £82 a month for both
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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Turn your Gas meter round so it faces the other way
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Originally posted by mattk
Turn your Gas meter round so it faces the other way
Eh?
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a_j_mair
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Registered: 23rd Jan 04
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gas is 30/month d/d
electric is 40/month dd
or the other way around
thats a 3 bed semi
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
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Originally posted by mattk
Turn your Gas meter round so it faces the other way
Eh?
if you turn your gas meter round the needle goes backwards and the numbers go backward. dont get too greedy and leave it reversed for ages otherwise you will end up with a number less than your lass reading and you will get caught
in fact dont get caught at all because they are very very very very heafty on it
even though there are 2 Corgi plumbers in our house we dont do it
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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Matt, if I had the slightest idea of what I was doing without the possibility of blowing something up I might of given it a go
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