Ok here is the story, I'm a bloke living alone and have done for the past 2.5 years in my 2 bedroom flat.
In terms of gas usage I have 1 bath every day (I got a Wocester Bosch Combi boiler to heat water), I never cook with gas hardly, I do washing up though with hot water almost every night. The central heating was on last year for 3 months for about 4-5 hours per night (4 radiators) - its been off since start of Feb.
I terms of electricity usuage, I almost constantly charge up 4xAAA batteries, I have a laptop on most nights 8pm-midnight, I sometimes use the big 63" plasma TV say on average 2 hours per night (if that), I have roughtly 2-3 light bulbs on every night from around 7pm to midnight and the various Wii and Virgin V+ on Standby most of the time.
My British Gas ELECTRICITY bill is £91 per month.
My British Gas GAS bill is £34 per month but they wrote me a letter stating that they want to increase it to £85 per month - a real cheek as I signed something which would cap the price some time ago, now they are claiming its not the price that they are changing its to re-adjust how much I've used.
I've not had a meter reading in over 1.2 years done by them, I did my last meter reading online.
I'm wondering is this is because somehow they mis-calculated how much I was using when I moved in 2.4 years ago or something.
Question is do you think for a bloke living alone in a 2 bedroom flat is £90 quid or so per month for Gas and another £90 quid or so for electricity is a fair deal ? or do you think they have mis-calculated badly ? how much is yours ?
These are hard times rat fans and penny pinching is the way forward !
In terms of gas usage I have 1 bath every day (I got a Wocester Bosch Combi boiler to heat water), I never cook with gas hardly, I do washing up though with hot water almost every night. The central heating was on last year for 3 months for about 4-5 hours per night (4 radiators) - its been off since start of Feb.
I terms of electricity usuage, I almost constantly charge up 4xAAA batteries, I have a laptop on most nights 8pm-midnight, I sometimes use the big 63" plasma TV say on average 2 hours per night (if that), I have roughtly 2-3 light bulbs on every night from around 7pm to midnight and the various Wii and Virgin V+ on Standby most of the time.
My British Gas ELECTRICITY bill is £91 per month.
My British Gas GAS bill is £34 per month but they wrote me a letter stating that they want to increase it to £85 per month - a real cheek as I signed something which would cap the price some time ago, now they are claiming its not the price that they are changing its to re-adjust how much I've used.
I've not had a meter reading in over 1.2 years done by them, I did my last meter reading online.
I'm wondering is this is because somehow they mis-calculated how much I was using when I moved in 2.4 years ago or something.
Question is do you think for a bloke living alone in a 2 bedroom flat is £90 quid or so per month for Gas and another £90 quid or so for electricity is a fair deal ? or do you think they have mis-calculated badly ? how much is yours ?
These are hard times rat fans and penny pinching is the way forward !
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