Paphos People

Leccy Bill that is!! What did you think I meant?

Now I've got your attention, if you are in Cyprus, was it roughly what you expected. Ours was 255 Euros which disappeared out of our account on Friday as it's a standing order (I think).

Initially I was a bit peeved as it seemed quite expensive, so went round turning everything off (except SKY!!).

Then I thought about how it was compared to the UK. Because we had it set up, along with Gas, as a DD which was the same every month and smoothed out the payments over the year I guess you wouldn't pay much attention to consumption over the colder periods.

In conclusion then, as you don't have the option to spread the cost over the year in Cyprus, are you a bit more careful as you know it's a one off payment every two months? Any thoughts?

Like I said , a bit peeved at first, but when one of my neighbours told me, in a dead pan manner, that his was 600+ Euros I nearly P****d myself

Regards,

Ian

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I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy!!

That seems a tad big high.

Have you got a massive house, central heating, private pool etc?

Ours is something daft like 120 euros and that was for the summer months with a/c on full.

We don't have a private pool or Central heating though which will probably make a big difference.

Y

Hi all,

Didn't put too much info in did I!!

We don't have a massive house, but it is detached and we do have a pool. We don't have CH and use the A/C to keep warm as it's supposed to be more efficient. May invest in wood burner or other next year.

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I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy!!

It does sound quite a lot mind - how long a period is that for??

Out last bill was 61 Euros (ignore what Peppermint says - you can tell she doesn't pay the bills in our house! ) and I don't think we've ever had one more than that.

We don't have a private pool, but do use the aircon units quite a bit.

There's quite a big difference between €61 & €120 so who's pocketing the rest & not telling

Hi all
Paid my bill today - from 4.12.07 to 4.02.08 and it was 275.18..

Do I win a prize for having the biggest lecky bill????

x

Are you sure you're not lighting the whole street??

Check out the back of your house - make sure there's no funny wires heading off over the neighbours' fences....

Just looked at my leccy bill for December and January and I still think it was reasonable at 143euro as I had been counting on a lot more than that.

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"Your dog is your friend, your partner, your defender. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true until the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion"

Haha thought about that one CF but I've only got one neighbour and I checked there wasnt any wires going to theirs

I was expecting a biggy(ooh er missus) but not that bad.
Typing by candlelight now...

x

Mine from 16.11.07 to 17.01.08 was €111.27 = to £65.12 - I was shocked as I thought that was high for me!

Jean

Our Electric bill is usuaally about cyp£100. every two months, which doesn't include heating.

The normal fridge/cooking/lights etc. and swimming pool. Our central heating is diesel.

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Molly

Treat others as you want to be treated

Our normal bill is between CYP40-50 for 8 months of the year then four months normally twice that for the radiators. Our neighbour's electric bill is the same yet they don't live there, that is what the pool costs.

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"Your dog is your friend, your partner, your defender. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true until the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion"

Well I feel a bit of a numpty now! I thought CF was talking CYP pounds not euros on our last bill.

Listen to what he says!

Y

(I suppose this does mean that there's some shopping money to be had with that extra 60 odd euros!! - Hand it over Fantastic!)

Whether you are here or not Trish, it still costs quite a lot to run a pool in electricity.

I guess thats why ours is about the same throughout the year, cos of the running of the pool.

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Molly

Treat others as you want to be treated

I can't believe mine is so much smaller than everyone else's!

Are you all running loads of fancy applicances, or is it just the pools that whack the bills up??

I think Twosox has beat Piglet hands down.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

http://coecyp.blogspot.com

462?? Good grief you two, is it like Blackpool at yours then??

I thought mine was bad!


x

That is euro's tho, not Cyp....

Thats H I D having the oil heater on for 3 hours a night, 1 in the morning, hair dryer to warm the bed (thanks Peppermint), fish tank, TV's, lights, Sky, Pool on for 5hrs a day (due to flamin trees), laptop on every evening to use forum, cooker, fridge, washing machine, tumble dryer... I think thats it, oh yeah, lights, door bell, water system, elec heaters...

I'm sure the landlord used our power to fix his roof too

That's crazy! No wonder you keep having power cuts, you must be overloading the grid single-handedly!

Are you sure the dog isn't sticking the heating on and sitting watching telly every time you go out and leave her??

Funny you should say that, last night when I went to bed, I swear I put the tv on timer, so it would go off after 15mins but when Jackie got up this morning, the tv was on

OK I win...
740 euro
just from 4 dec to 4 feb
wish i didn't though...

no pool, 5 oil filled rads, 2 stay on low all night for the kids, one stays on in the day for the office, computer on all day, and only used the a/c about 3 times for heat for an hour. elec oven but i don't bake cakes and only roast once/twice a week.
so how come its so high?
lisa

Wow Lisa, that is very high

My bill for 13-11-07 to 14-01-08 is €145.90.

Wendy.

Lisa, the common denominator for you and Pete is the oil filled radiators. Do you think these are creating the expense?

Verity.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

http://coecyp.blogspot.com

You could be right Verity, but we didn't have our's on for that sort of time, 3 rads each on for 1 hours in the morning, 1 on for 1 hour at night, 1 on for 3 hours at night & 1 on for 30mins every 2 hours at night

So approx 7 hours in total a day thats a lot