FabSwingers.com forum: Gas bill. Wow.

By *asycouple1971 OP Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Just had our gas bill.

It was £430 for end of Sept to end of Dec. Same time last year we paid £270.

Abit of a shock coming so soon after Xmas. Had some money left aside to pay it as we knew it was going to be high.

Has yours increased as much?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Yes it has increased a lot but we knew it was coming so we weren't shocked

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ours is horrendous but was expecting it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My direct debits have just gone up to £283 + £125

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Mines knocking around a tenner a day if I turn it on.

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By *asycouple1971 OP Couple
over a year ago

midlands

We are both in jobs and have some savings but feel sorry for the people that will really struggle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not a competition I know, but £293 just for December!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I leave the heat off, I’d rather be cold than line their pockets.

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By *urt 500Man
over a year ago

Swansea

If this is an estimated bill,give them the exact reading and see if it lowers it

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By *el65Man
over a year ago

paisley

Get it checked out the estimates are a joke I was told I was using a lot more electric and gas than last year so putting my payment up when I checked my meter and last bills I was using less they trying to con everyone into paying more

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By *ightkitty4uWoman
over a year ago

Epsom

Mine was £24 a month D/D now £67 a month

Absolute joke

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By *cottish guy 555Man
over a year ago

London

Was paying £100 direct debit a month for both,now it's £250

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It can't go on like this. Facking ridiculous prices!

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By *ittleMissCaliWoman
over a year ago

all loved up

£13 a day for heating on 7-9 and 5 till 10 on 18degrees

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By *irthmasterCoolMan
over a year ago

Leeds

Mine gone from 40 amth to 90in less than 12mth

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

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Over £500 a month for gas and leccy. Scary and unsubstainable.

I know the cap increased Jan 1st too. I can only hope we are over the coldest spell and hope it will go down in the warmer months. My heating is on minimal anyway, dryer is banned (by me), so it's only showers, cooking and washing up. I do.use the economy cycle on the dishwasher.

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By *izzy.miss.lizzyCouple
over a year ago

Pembrokeshire

don't get me started on this one

they have about 5 or 6 hundred quid in credit, I'm on a quaterly DD, and they send me random red demands.

Confused dot com.

But I do put the boiler on now and again, for medical reasons.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Over £500 a month for gas and leccy. Scary and unsubstainable.

That's a ridiculous amount, unless you have a ginormous house with no windows - is that based on actual or estimated readings ?

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By *aughty but nice2020Couple
over a year ago

Liverpool

Our bills would come down if we weren’t all walking around naked!! Haha…..but that wouldn’t be as much fun!! xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know its expensive I was blown away, but im ok I can pay the bill and I have no aliments or machines that others who are ill depend on to be just able to survive and keep them in their homes and not hospital.

Man im lucky I do not need to choose between food and heat, its a small club we are in but its not my fault I can afford it.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

"Mines knocking around a tenner a day if I turn it on."

Me too and if I want to use it enough to have a really warm house more like £15-£20 a day

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

"I know its expensive I was blown away, but im ok I can pay the bill and I have no aliments or machines that others who are ill depend on to be just able to survive and keep them in their homes and not hospital.

Man im lucky I do not need to choose between food and heat, its a small club we are in but its not my fault I can afford it."

I was having this conversation recently too. With just interest rate rises and utilities my monthly costs increased £700. That’s not even adding on retail, food or diesel.

I’m lucky in that it just means £700 less into pension/savings but if this was 20 years ago earlier in my career when I had young kids I would have probably lost the house

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

I keep a weekly usage cost spreadsheet for gas and electric (won't have a smart meter). Doed not pay bill but helps plan finances. Mild weather means gas not as bad as it could be. I don't really feel the cold but fear for those that do.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It is forecast OFGEM will lower the price slightly in Summer (when we dont need it) in anticipation of another huge increase in October and next January. Lucky they are on our side or where would we be?!

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

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"Over £500 a month for gas and leccy. Scary and unsubstainable.

That's a ridiculous amount, unless you have a ginormous house with no windows - is that based on actual or estimated readings ?"

Actual not estimated, and a normal average house.

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By *oungalpha20Man
over a year ago

North West /Cumbria

I fell asleep with my heating still on for 8hrs. Dreading my bill coming through the post

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The cost of living is absolutely scandalous .

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Serious question, but what happens currently if people can't afford to pay? I'm lucky that I currenyly can but not that many years ago I wouldnt have heen able to and there must be plenty of people in that position now.

Are they being cut off? Threatened with debt collectors? Does anyone have first hand knowledge?

Its a terrible situation to be in and my heart goes out to anyone who is.

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By *hathappensnowCouple
over a year ago

Rotherham

£200 gas for December alone ! It was cold though

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By *oungalpha20Man
over a year ago

North West /Cumbria

"Serious question, but what happens currently if people can't afford to pay? I'm lucky that I currenyly can but not that many years ago I wouldnt have heen able to and there must be plenty of people in that position now.

Are they being cut off? Threatened with debt collectors? Does anyone have first hand knowledge?

Its a terrible situation to be in and my heart goes out to anyone who is.

If you're on monthly they come round and put metres in if you're in debt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was £697 for gas and electric just for December alone

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Are they being cut off? Threatened with debt collectors? Does anyone have first hand knowledge?

Its a terrible situation to be in and my heart goes out to anyone who is.

Nothing happens actually. With shell I have 2 accounts / 2 properties , one hasn’t been paid for over two years and one gets the odd £25 every 2-3 months. I have the money to pay but am refusing to pay and letting it earn interest.

They haven’t contacted me for payment at all. It’s impossible to cut supply in the uk. They have to apply to county county and win a case first then issue a warrant to install a pre-payment meter which then collects the debt by inflating the unit price , I’m not sure but I don’t think new warrants can be granted while unit prices are already so high and being capped

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Read in the paper last week that a guy had requested his meter get tested for accuracy.

Turns out his meter is running over 10% fast and he is getting all the cash he overpaid backdated and paid back.

its about 20 years of over payments because of a faulty meter.

Ive requested my meter gets tested and the earliest appointment is Monday 20th February. seems its a common things for meters to run fast and people over pay.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

"Read in the paper last week that a guy had requested his meter get tested for accuracy.

Turns out his meter is running over 10% fast and he is getting all the cash he overpaid backdated and paid back.

its about 20 years of over payments because of a faulty meter.

Ive requested my meter gets tested and the earliest appointment is Monday 20th February. seems its a common things for meters to run fast and people over pay."

that’s shocking!

I know a few that run slow , in the utilities sector it’s common for the executives to get engineers on ‘Saturday mornings’ to tap off supply before the meter to direct energy to heated pools, saunas etc

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By *aniplaytoo4011Man
over a year ago

BURY

It’s heartbreaking my combined gas and elec bill for Dec was £398.00 and I’m out at work all week. Let’s hope it’s the warmest winter on record

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ours was over £400 for December and that's with the log burner on most days, it's crap

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Lanson

I'm too scared to look!

Seriously tho I must look into it - last monthly DD I noticed was £129 - now considering I don't have any central heating of any sort - I don't even have any hot water - so I'm struggling to see how a WiFi router, fridge/freezer and a handful of kettle boils a day comes to £129!!!

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By *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton

I am on estimated monthly reading from EON.My bill for November was £249 but minus the £67 deduction from the government meant I payed £182.EON came and read the meters end of November and when my December bill arrived it was for a credit of roughly £189 and if they include the £67 from the government so no bill for December and possibly January as well with the credit I have.

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By *asycouple1971 OP Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Its tough for us.

We dont spend much and both have jobs.

Cant imagine what its like for the unemployed,on benefits,elderly and people that need medical equipment to live or maintain a half decent life.

As always the Tory doing nothing about it.

The other day I was at the local tip and saw a few hot tubs dumped in the skips. Must cost a bomb to run those now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm too scared to look!

Do you have any heating at all?

Is it a massive kettle?

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Lanson

"I'm too scared to look!

Do you have any heating at all?

Is it a massive kettle?

Heating is old school - a fire (which heats the water too)

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By *oungalpha20Man
over a year ago

North West /Cumbria

Bring back the copper wire. If you know you know

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