£200 a month for gas. £120 a month for electric. 4 bed detached, 1 bed annex with old person in, indoor heated swimming pool. I reckoned the pool took about £70-£80 per month to heat which looking at other people's figures seems about right.
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Utility Bills - How Much ?!!
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...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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DD is £160/month for gas and leccy. There's always someone in the (5 bed) house so heating and leccy is getting used all day long. Annual bill is about £2,000 for gas/electric.Comment
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12 or so months Eon cocked up the last meter reading they did. I read the meeter and submitted a reading that was way below the reading tehy took 4 months earlier. So our DD dropped to about £80 from £160. Since then it has slowly been going up. It's now at £126 a month for gas and electricity. The balance of the account is £845!! I think they have used the incorrect reading taken about this time last year as their guide for what we 'usually' use in winter to be. I'm obviously hoping that it will be somewhat lower.Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.
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£400 a month for mine Gas and Elec.
The second home is a bit less
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£50 per month for gas
£50 for elec
£16 for water (metered)
Obviously I don't live in a proper contractor's house, yet!It's about time I changed this sig...Comment
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£1200 a year for oil and £1000 a year for leccy. £2500 for council tax and £400 for water supply, and about £100 a time to empty the poo pit. The neighbour gets upset if it overflows.....
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