Graham & Brenda Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 I'm sure there must be something in the archives but I'm not having any success with the advanced search so....My EDF/GDF bill arrived today and the gas looks a bit high for the amount we've used it. We've not been in the house long enough to get a trend so I wondered if anyone has a feel for the relative prices of gas and electricity compared with current (no pun intended!) UK prices. Thanks, Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_87300 Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 is the bill showing actual meter readings of what has been used betwen 2 dates or is it an estimated usage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moorejw Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 As in UK EDF/GDF only actually read your meter once or twice a year and they use the history of usage at your property to estimate in between. They seem to take no notice of a change in ownership until you have been there long enough to create your own history. When we first moved to France our house had previously been a holiday home and we had tiny bills, but they caught up with us eventually!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IAN_S Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 I have no idea how EDF compares with UK , not really relevant to us here, but I see that UK gas prices are going up sometime in the future.I did notice from my last EDF bill that the cost per kWh had actually gone down minutely. I think my problem is that the house leaks heat like a sieve! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham & Brenda Posted September 10, 2004 Author Share Posted September 10, 2004 Sorry, I should have said it was an actual reading. I know some people track these things quite carefully and I am trying to compare with UK prices to get my budget updated now that we are here (16) permanently. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letrangere Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 Graham, IMHO you can't compare like for like. Used to cost us twice as much to heat and light a 95sqm apartment in Paris as it did a 4 b/r detached house in England. I still get shivvers up my spine at the thought of opening an EDF bill. Val2 once posted something terribly useful about the importance of fully insulating your French home and it's something we're going to take good notice off when we move back. Few people on the Forum ever admit this but everyone we know in France has a cold house in the winter despite paying through the nose for utilities. M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 I suspect that for a well insulated home here or in the UK that it is more expensive here, probably because the abonnements are so high. Mine are over 100 euros a year for gas and relatively cheap for electricity because I have EJP, but still over a 100 euros a year and would be far more for the 18KW's we have if we weren't on EJP, probably double that. We upped ours to 18KW's as I got sick to death of tripping out if I tried to use various machines etc in the house at the same time. Both our bills come to over 1200 euros a year and there are just two of us here now, they used to be around 1000ff a month when the kids were here and bills have gone up since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battypuss Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 Oh God, we have our bill coming next month. Thank you for cheering me up! Will sell one kid and set the other one as the little match girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham & Brenda Posted September 10, 2004 Author Share Posted September 10, 2004 Thanks everyone - I get the message!!I've done the insulation ready for winter, so I guess I'll just have to up the budget a bit. (I've also been down to EDF with my list of appliances to make sure we are on the correct tariff - a good tip that I picked up on this site). Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 The EDF will actually come out and check exactly what you need for less than 20 euros, (around here at least) and you could end up saving that quite quickly by having the right abonnement etc. You do need the right one, I have tried to live with things tripping all the time and it terrible. However, each abonnement has it's own tarif, which you can check on the EDF website and the abonnements are not cheap. I would dearly love to get my electricity bill down even more, but I don't know how I could now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 we posted messages about our electricity prices sometime ago and our abbonement of 52.50 euros per month! It turns out that we are on 3 phase electricity and we are now arranging for it to be changed to single phase with a low abbonement which, hopefully, will justify the 650 euros to get it changed. The electrician has to fit a new consumer unit so is fitting an "intellegent" unit that will prevent the system tripping. Once the house is up and running the appliance thermostats should mean that all appliances can be on, However, if you arrived at the house, turned everything on, it would trip, but the consumer unit will turn say 2 heaters off for 10 minutes then switch them back on thus reducing the load in turn. The work should be starting about now so we will have to wait and see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juswundrin Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 I take it the E650 is your electrician's bill for the consumer unit; EDF don't charge, in normal circumstances, to switch from 3-phase to monophase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Yes, Replacing the 3 (why?) existing fuse boxes with a new one and getting edf in to check it etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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