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Gas Safety Checks
Not sure whether anyone could help me on this. I know it's not about money saving, but a lot of you seem very clued up when it comes to G&E providers, so hopefully someone can help. A bit of background first (it's long I'm afraid) my mum has been threatened with a warrant for entry for her gas provider to carry out a Gas…
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New supplier forgot to change my account, now old supplier wants to bill us
Wonder if anyone can advise us...... 8 months ago we switched our gas to supplier A - and left supplier A to tell supplier B that we wanted supplier A to supply our gas. However we have never received a bill for our gas from either supplier A or supplier B. So eventually we rang supplier A to tell them this - and it turns…
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Independant Gas Transporters
I have bought a new house, and been living here for over 3 years. All this time, I have been paying Scottish Power an extra 10.96p a day because we have an independant gas transporter to deliver our gas (not Transco). I am currently searching for cheaper gas and electricity, but I'm not sure if the quotes I'm getting…
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taking liberties - BG
OH just bought a house, and I enquired by email with BG if our account was with them. That was the last I heard of it. Went to the house today and there was a letter from them saying an account had been set up in my name. I did not even want it in my name, let alone with them! I wanted to go with some one more…
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Incorrect time on electrcity metre
Anyone had a situation, where after a total powercut i,e to my house and about half of the city, the time on the elec meter is now wrong and affecting when heating is on etc. I am on domestic economy, and the timer on my "old style" metre is now wrong, therefore I am probably paying for daytime when night and night usage…
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Switched today and saving £186 per year!!!
Woohoo! Thanks to the link on this site I found out I was paying far too much for my gas and electric (my latest electric bill was £375 for the quarter). I have switched from Atlantic - who used to be really cheap- to npower. Very pleased with myself! Also, was a t a wedding fayre today (working) and instead of buying the…
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Problems with Powergen/MPAS
Hi there! I was wondering if anybody could be of assistance to me? Four years in July this year I moved into my flat. I tried to set up a direct debit agreement with powergen for my gas & electric. The direct debit arrrangement was fine for the gas but they couldn't set up my electric direct debit as in their words "my…
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Problems after power cuts on Friday night
I have got several appliances no longer working after power cuts on Friday/Saturday. Anyone in a simialr position?
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Switching sites showing wrong elec area prices
beware switching sites. In order to try and find current BG elec prices I went on 2 switch sites to see if any still had current tariffs. Entered postcode to discover that ukpower showing tariff for london area (which is incorrect ) and energyhelpline shows seeboard(elec). Note seeboard area prices are quite a bit cheaper.
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EBICO Please read this!!!
Hi folks, just thought i'd tell you my story & it'll hopefully help somebody else? Joined Ebico April 2006 (supply started May 2006), Southern elec are my suppliers. My Gas bill has got out of control-£5 per day for a 3 bed semi, brand new combi boiler, gas cooker etc etc (yes i know prices have gone through the roof!), so…
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Clever BG.
BG lost millions when customers flew the coup over the last couple of years so how can they recoup some of that loss? The answer, lets create a fixed price plan till whenever and push it out to everyone. So the customer thinks wow my price is fixed and going on how the prices have increased this year im going to save a…
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Help with my electric consumption please
We moved house on 7th Dec the elec reading then was 19969 and today it is 21225 Each unit costs me 18p so I make that a bill of £226.88p:eek: Is this right? Its only a 2 bed house. Were out during the day. Little tumble drier use but do do 3 wash loads a week. We lived only a mile away before in the same size house with a…
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gas in your area?
can anyone tell me how to find out if there is gas already in your street? thanks!
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Electricity! How Much a Month?
Hi there just signed up so this is my first post. Moving into my first Flat next week with my girlfriend and was wondering if anyone can give me a guild line on the electricity bill each month or an average so i can budget for it. there is no gas so its electric heating but will try not to use it much! any answers welcome,…
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British Gas Fines for leaving
I heard a rumour via a BBC news source that British Gas were not going to charge any cancellation fee for leaving any of their price fix deals anymore. Anyone know if there is any truth in this rumour?
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british gas fixed till 2009 - thr truth
we were with british gas initially, and read this site and use Uswitch to find a cheaper provider. We switched, but actually found it wasn't any cheaper. Then out of the blue we get a call from Britich gas asking us to go back adn they would assure us our rates will not go up before 2009, and that we should sign up - they…
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Anyone used Severn Trent for gas and electric?
Was looking at our water provider's website and it said they could save us £100 on our gas and electric so rang up and got a quote and they've reduced our monthly DD from £65.50 to £58 and have switched over the phone (Have to wait for the confirmation pack to come through..) as got a bit swept up in the whole thing…
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cant register new build house with british gas
I moved into my new build property last oct and was provided gas and elec with british gas. When i moved in i gave meter readings and and details for them to set up an account in my name. I intended to switch to another supplier as i dont want my fuel supplied by british gas. i have recieved several bills for elec…
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Overcharging
Hi, I am after a little advice, I have come back from uni to find that Lloyds TSB who supply my elderly father's electricity have overcharged him roughly 2,500 pounds over 2005/6. The payments went out on direct debit (he has no idea how much money is in his accounts). The original fault was not theirs, an incorrect…
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Gas Consumption: Does it sound right?
Morning All, I've just received my latest Gas bill and was wondering whether my recent consumption sounds right? In the past 15 weeks my gas consumption has been a little over 24,000 kwh which means my bill is going to be around £650 for this period (I'm with Powergen on their EnergyOnline tariff). I worked this out by…
