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The table below gives an indication of what you would expect to pay for your Gas bills in the UK. We have tried to show you how the typical Gas bill varies with type and size of house.  To help us do this please submit your own utility pricing.

Below is a second table which gives an indication of how the average price of a gas bill per bedroom varies with different utility providers. For example if a property has 4 bedrooms and the annual gas bill is £1000 then the average price per bedroom would be £250.

If we forget about the outlying prices (highest and lowest) you can see that there is up to, based on our prices, £30-40 saving that could be made per bedroom of the house if you changed supplier. This data doesn't take into account variation in usage and the average is based upon all our data, rather than this weeks or months. 

Both the above tables of utility prices are based on Whatprice user surveys and give an indication only of the cost. There are many, many websites out there that will allow you to see how much you could save by changing supplier. These sites will let you see whether you can get a reduced gas bill.

Here are some links to external pages of companies that provide gas to our homes.  Some (most) of them allow you to switch supplier or at least get an online quote for your gas bill.

EON - Allows you to search for a quote for switching supplier to them of course!

British Gas - This is the main gas products page and lets you see their current offers.

Scottish Power - This is the gas and electricity offers site and here you can get a quote for switching gas supplier with them.

Npower - Here you can switch supplier or simply get a quote or view their gas discounts through paying by direct debit.

Southern Electric - Look at their prices or get a quote

EDF Energy -  From this page you can compare prices or switch suppliers

Giving all the hassle of searching through the individual companies for the best prices you can see why there are so many places to allegedly find the best deal. Here are some of the biggest.

BBC - Some background about switching suppliers from the 'trusted source' at the BBC

Uswitch - Switch everything from car insurance to your wife (well not yet but it will come...)

Simplyswitch - Some non-obvious graphical icons for a menu system but the same basic functionality

Moneysupermarket - Initially started out with loans and credit cards now branching out

SwitchwithWHICH - ooh catchy! Using their brand recognition to good advantage

Basically if you watch any adverts on TV for 5 minutes you will see a promotion for a company trying to get you to leave the company you've been with for many years to save £50 per year at the expense of some (plenty sometimes) of hassle in filling out forms and making sure the old company no longer bills you. I'm sure many people switch hassle free but I wasn't one of them.