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British Gas.... another one!
We have been with British gas for about 3/4 years, on a card meter for most of it because of a bill we were unable to pay (about £200), they set the meter to take the money weekly and we worked out it would take about a year to clear it. About a year and a half ago they changed the card meter to the key meter, then sent us…
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Changing From Economy 7 to Standard Rate
We are currently with British Gas (Dual Fuel) and want to switch to EBICo (Dual Fuel). Our house used to have Storage Heaters but we changed them to Radiators/Combi-Boiler a few years ago. My question is this: As our current meter has Day and Night Readings, would we be able to switch to the General tariff with EBICo (NOT…
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Current Scottish Power DUAL FUEL online customers; want to save £60 this year?
In an effort to encourage new customers to the “On Line” dual fuel gas and electric service, Scottish Power have implemented a new service from 9th Jan which offers an additional £60.00 discount on the original discount scheme. Whilst this seems to be intended for “New” customers (maybe for 1 year only) to the online…
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How do i get a prepayment removed for free?
How do i get a prepayment meter removed for free? tried u-swith to see which supplier's were cheapest, but had a warning saying couldn't switch until meters were changed
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Final Electricity bill
Hi, we moved into our new house on 1st December last year, and I immediately switched gas and electricity supplier to Npower via Uswitch. Whilst I took a meter reading for both the day we moved in, I subsequently lost the piece of paper. I have just had the final bill through from EDF, and the meter reading for the day we…
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Did Scottish Power trick me ??
I checked on u-switch and other sitess who I should transfer my energy supply to and they all came out the same ditch BG and get yourself down to Scottish Power and save yourself £254 into the bargain !! Wow I thought thats more than £20 per month, not to be sniffed at. You can imagine my suprise when all the paperwork…
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Switching- need advice please
I'm currently with BG, have been with them 3 months so have got the £53 credit promised to me. I've been on the comparison sites and done all the maths (I've created a spreadsheet that does it all for me) and i've found that the cheapest option is to have Ebico/Equigas for the gas, and Scottish Power Online for the…
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Important information RE compensation for supply disruption.
The regulator has ruled that compensation will not be paid for anyone whos supply was disrupted for less than 48 hours as a result of the recent bad weather.
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plug in economy 7 storage heaters..do they exist?
I have a loft conversion and it is freezing up there at the moment, all the insulation is new and up to standard but there is no heater up there. Does anyone know if there is such a thing as a plug in eco 7 heater available? Cheers :)
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Frickin gas board
Had a guy knock my door this morning asking if I us gas at all in my flat, which I do but only the cooker top and oven, anyways he said there was a small leak in the building but it was nothing to worry about, a couple hours later I get a card through the door saing that the gas will be switched off tomorrow morning from…
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Prepayment Card Meter Debt question
Hi My gas ran out two nights ago (at night) , i used emergency credit (only about £3 worth) since then. I proceeded to top it up tonight and when i was putting credit on the meter i had x.xx for emergency credit, and x.xx for debt, and x.xx for gas. The question is why am i paying debt? Is this debt for the night it ran…
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EDF are they still the cheapest
I with EDF engery online tariff in Yorkshire, when I do comparrison on all the switching sites, its says I am about £150 to £240 a year better off with EDF. is this right. Not totally sure they can still be the cheapest a year down the line from switching.
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clear or pearl bulb?
everytime i go to buy bulbs, i am split between clear or pearl. I dont really understand the difference between the two, apart from the cosmetics. Does anyone know? Is one better than the other in certain conditions? Is there any other bulb type as well? (amongst the non energy saving ones)
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Over Paying with Npower
Hi all, My mother has been with Npower for the last 18 months and in Ocober they pushed here DD for the gas and Electric, £80 per month for gas and £120 for gas, now I had a talk with them at the time and explained that she only uses the gas for heating and would be on for 6 moths a year as she has an oil Aga for water and…
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British Gas farce
Last August we moved house (and luckily utility supplier), in the old house we had pre payment meters for both gas and electricity so therefore were never in debt (twas impossible). I phoned up BG and told them we were moving and gave them the final readings. Yesterday I had an electricity bill for £500 electricity useage…
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So confused!!!!
With all this fuss going on about switching suppliers I found it really annoying and frustrating. In the end a friend of mine reccomended a gas and electricity comparison site to me and I found them to take a lot of the stress out of it all. The company is Money Angels UK - here's a link to their site…
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LPG v Dual fuel range cooker
Hi there I need to buy a new cooker and can't decide between dual fuel and lpg ( no natural gas here). Does anyone have an idea which would be cheaper to run ( or point me in the direction of a way to find out ) ? Cooker will be used every day for normal family meals. Any help will be greatly appreciated.Sorry if this is…
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Govt Energy Tax
Does anyone know what the rate of taxation is on traditional light bulbs compared to that imposed on energy saving bulbs?
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Is this Legal??
I had an account with SPower for G&E. The contract expired in December 06. I went on line through one of the many sites and signed up for Online Energy 2 because the rates and discount were OK etc. I failed to advise them that I was an existing customer whose contract had recently expired (Fixed price basis). I received an…
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you think you have it bad
check this out i was with npower and on a card meter-my choice @ the time couple years back now:confused: so british gas lying !!!!!!! rep cold calls @ my home invited in:mad: goes on to state what i can save with british gas:j so sign up then now one month later i can honestly state i have deposited£225.00 into my !!!!!!!…
