Average monthly fuel bills?

Not really - we all have bathrooms, kitchens and living rooms and you just have an extra bedroom which (in my house anyway) isn't heated to living room temperature. We also probably a similar number of cookers, fridges, TVs and computers etc.

I'd have thought the amount of hot water you use is more relevant, as is the temperature you keep your house.

You house is only half the height, thus (roughly) half the perimiter surface area, thus a great deal less area to radiate heat. All other things equal, this house is double the volume with less than double the area of an equivilent sized bungalow, therefore mine should be slightly more efficient in that regard (volume:surface area ratio). But the fact is that a bungalow will have less living space that needs to be kept warm - we`ve got 3 bedrooms, the living room, kitchen, back room, bathroom sa well as a fairly large hall/landing area too.

Being up in the tundra region has an effect, of course. Down here in the balmy south we pay £43 each for gas and electricity. Incidentally I have found that turning the CH off during the day makes little or no difference to consumption of gas. When the outside temperature falls below zero and stays there during the day, I've also found that keeping the CH on 24/7 is cheaper than turning off at night.

This is for a 4-bed house of about 1800sq.ft. with a non-condensing boiler, but a good control system, with thermostatic valves on radiators, cavity wall insulation and double glazing.

My electricity is 35 a month and gas is 7 a month. Has been that for years - never in deficit, always in surplus. Occupancy is two adults no kids, two cats. Mid terrace house and on Economy 7. Recently worked out that 75% of electricity used annually is on Economy 7 rate. All the water heating is electric, but have warm air heating which only needs to be on for about 20 minutes and the whole house is toasty hot. Live in a timber frame house (with external brick walls) and even in winter the house is often too warm to turn on the central heating. Do most of dishwashing and laundry overnight on Economy 7. Hardly ever use the tumble dryer except for "smalls" - life's too short. Anything that can be put on a hanger is dried on a hanger - saves having to hang it out and saves on electricity (even if it would be Econ 7). One occupant works from home, so PC and two monitors on all day and then most of the evening/night when other occupant comes home.

I recently heard that LCDs and plasmas use more electricity than CRTs.

You don't get wet rot in the timbers for having a cold house, you get it because there is a leak.

Like many bungalows, I have a loft room.

Hmmmm.... You seem to think bungalows are just houses with the top floor missing. :-)

Obviously (well at least I thought it was obvious) bungalows tend to have a larger footprint than the "equivalent house" and that is because they have to fit the bedrooms in downstairs and while my place isn't massive it offers the same living space as a 2 bed house, just sprawled over a much larger plot of land.

In message , Ronald Raygun writes

The word is 'electricity'.

(which also happens to a song by that famous popular beat combo "Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band")

Don't you lot called it lecky?

Electricity happens to the song? And then what?

You're heating his house!

LCD's use far less juice than CRT's, especially computer monitors.