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Coal fire VS Storage heaters?
Moving into a council property which at present has a coal fire with a back boiler and radiators. We have heard that it may be possible to get storage heaters installed. Was told about some kind of scheme. Anyway, with our only current heating of a coal fire what do you guys suggest? Look into getting storage heaters…
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BG, maybe not so bad after all?
I used several of the switch web sites and was surprised that they gave differing results. I then noticed an article claiming U switch (and possibly others?) are biased in favour of those suppliers who give them biggest reward. I did my own sums and found BGas came out cheaper, see https://www.house.co.uk Please note: 2 x…
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Cost of Appliances
Hi, I have just moved in to a cottage with no gas, and I am trying to avoid really high electricity bills by working out how much certain appliances cost to run per hour. I am sure that a couple of years ago I did a very similar thing, you input the cost per unit of electricity and then the rating of the appliance i.e…
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atlantic gas and electric
hi there everyone, this morning i have switched from BG to atlantic using uswitch.com. BG hav sent a letter this morning telling me my gas monthly payments hav gone up from £43 to £88. so in temper i have switched to atlantic. my gas and electric are both in debit, will there b any probs changing and are atlantic ok?…
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NPower - can I switch?
I used USwitch to change my gas and elecric supplier 3 months ago. The cheapest was NPower at 31.50 for elec and 33.00 for gas a month. Now they have changed monthly payments to 42.50 and 54.00. This seems huge increase in such a short time, especially when they had all my meter readings for last year before giving me…
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Letter from Uswitch
I Work for a Utilites company and came across a letter from Uswitch the barebones of the letter were Dear client If you pay us X amounts of pounds we can arrange for you to pop up as one of the cheapest when people do a search on our web site. Is this allowed?
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House.co.uk still not working?
Does anyone know when the house site should be up and running again.Changed supplier and still waiting for final bill from BG.Wanted to see if they had updated my account online.
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British Gas Voucher for 2 free energy saving light bulbs
just stumbled across the back of last thursdays London Lite newspaper (freebie given out across London, especially tube n busses) and there was a voucher ffrom British Gas offering their customers 2 free energy saving light bulbs. so for anyone who might still have the copy lying around and is with british gas, simply cut…
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information needed please for my brother
my brother has an apartment in spain but he only uses the place when he goes over there. what he is wanting to know is can he set up an account over here to pay his bills in spain. at the minute if he runs out of electicity/gas when he is in england he has to fly over to spain and sort it out. :beer:
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British Gas Complaint
Hi This is my first post in this forum. Sorry if I have asked a repeated questions, search didn't come up with much result. A friend of mine has changed her gas supplier from British Gas. Normally their annual gas is around £3700. After moving away from British Gas they sent a last annual invoice for £6800. I have called…
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New Meter / Faulty Meter
I have been living at same hose for a blooming 18+years and the meters been here even longer! I have the old clock style electricity meter and I belive its faulty or well I would like to get it changed anyway as its a pain to read. SO can any one help how I go about doing this?
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any discount this yr
don`t know if you remember but last year my mum applied and was able to get reductons off her gas bill, I can`t for the life of me remember the contact nmber or department. does anyone here remember this? and has it been done this year? thanks
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Keeping lights on or off?
I can't find any related threads so i'll start this one. Is it cheaper to keep downstairs lights on? For example if i keep the kitchen hallway and living room lights on until i go to bed, would it be cheaper then turning each light on when i need to?
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Scottish and Souther price increase
Scottish and Southern increase their prices on January 1st so now is a good time to switch to another company if you are a customer.
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If changing suppliers, don't miss your anniversary discount.
Just a word of warning if you are changing suppliers. It has just taken me since August to change from NPower for my gas and electric. It was actually changed on 26th October. First payment went out 26th November. I didn't realise it would take so long, or I would have waited until this month - my aniversary month to…
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Can I switch supplier whilst in debt
Hi, I am currently with scottish power, and I have always paid quarterly in arrears and have been a customer since 2002 and I must admit I don't normally pay the bill in full so over the years my arears have risen to be quite high. I have just paid half of the o/s balance and I have asked to go onto a dd payment scheme,…
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New Utilities
I will be soon (it better be bloody soon :) ) be moving in to my own house for the first time. It's a 2 bedroom house with just 3 other rooms other than the bedrooms. Basically after reading all the boards there is obvious savings to be made from switching but there seems to be no sites telling you the best deals when your…
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£10 to help Transco to do what they should
Just heard on the radio that bills will rise by £10 a year to allow Transco to upgrade/ repair the network. When are these b*****y compaines going to pay for the upgrading work out of THIER profits, instead of taking it out of the Great British public pocket. I getting fed up with the "well, take it out of the peoples…
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My british gas electric bill
Hi all I pay £40 per month direct debit for my electric bill, which they put up without telling me from £25. My query is that I have received my statement and it is £149.37 in credit, can I ask for the money back and /or ask for my monthly payments to be lowered? thanx
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British Gas ARGGGGGH what to do next?
Hi all, We got an estimated bill for £196, which i knew was way over because it was for 2.5 months and they were summer months so we hadn't even had the heating on. so i took a proper meter reading, and it turns our it had been estimated more than double what we had actually used.So i called someone at BG, explained and…
