How much electricity bill?

[filthiestfis]

I have just been hit by my first electricity bill by EDEF and I think that it is a lot of money considering that we are 2 adults living in a flat, using Storage heaters and the bill is only for 10 from end of feb to beginning may.

So the bill comes to �258 for that period. Isn't this a lot of money? I think that we use our electricity reasonably and during the winter period did have the heater in our room on all night.

What do you reckon, as this is the first time that I am in charge of my utility bills (except for student days when we were on prepay) and I was expecting something around �150.

[paddywak]

I don't know what storage heaters cost to run but it does seem a lot for such a short time, we live in a 2 bedroom bungelow, with gas central heating and last year our gas & electic bills were only just over �800 for the year in total. Have you queried it? If the meter was not read when the previous people left you might be paying their bill

[filthiestfis]

We did move in on 31st january but bill is in landlord's name who graciously paid the previous bill up to 3rd week of february, so we are picking up from there.

Can you believe that the estimated reading bill was over �600 for this same period!

[paddywak]

when estimating bills these companies always over do it ther was a case in our local paper a few years ago were the estimate was like yours in the region of a �1000 while the actual bill was less then a � of that