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£600+ electricity deficit! british gas
feeling really stressed out as i'm not sure where to go with this one. basically we have live in our flat for 3 years now and have paid £68 a month for at least the past 2 years. now this is a lot, but we have economy 7 and just thought it was that. we submitted regular meter readings and when it was reassessed our…
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Best place to get good value low energy lightbulbs?
Looking to setup my new flat with these so will need quite a few. Anybody know the best place to get them or of any good offers?
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Free Energy Saving Lightbulbs For London British Gas Customers
What's the deal? British Gas is giving away free 'Make It Greener' packs to all customers living in the London area which include energy saving lightbulbs. How to grab your pack Simply go its site Make It Greener Now and fill in your details.
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help gas disconnection
we got a bill for £1000 in debit in jan, after numerous calls and in between our meter was read in march the meter reader was concerned that when he put our reading in his machine it kept reading fault he wrote the reading down and told me to do so too which i did in my diary. with the time too a few days later we had a…
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All gas & Electrics DD terms the same?
I have found with npower that if you bounce a direct debit twice with them in one month they automatically cancel your DD, is the same system with all of these company's? I have now chosen to pay one by DD and one by card but the strange thing is that when they cancel my DD they bill me each month for at least £10 a month…
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Not my gas bill
I have a bit of a dilema and am wondering if there are any moneysavers out there that have come across this problem or can give me some advice. We have recently bought a house and have been renovating it for the last 2 months (completely gutting it and rebuilding most aspects). Previously the house was unoccupied (I have…
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Ball park figure - Gas & Elec for one person
I currently rent a flat where all the bills are included in the rent, but am thinking of moving in the next few months, and as most don't include bills, am trying to work out what sort of budget I'd be looking at. The last few years I've shared flats and last time I lived on my own I had a card meter so I really can't…
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Atlantic refunds
Atlantic wrote to me on the 23rd May, for both gas and electric, saying they had refunded my account. Nothing has appeared yet. Anyone have any idea how long they normally take?
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Help! Economy seven clock is wrong!
Hi, I have received a bill from my electricity supplier (powergen) and it's considerably higher than expected. £250 as opposed to usually being £130 ish per quarter. Thinking the meter readings must have been incorrect, i checked them to find they were okay. They were read by a meter reader on 29th May 2007. However, when…
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EDF any good?
Hi all, We are in the south and in April moved to new flat which has EDF supply. We pay £15 a month via DD as standard, they work out the 'real' bill when we tell EDF the readings. We have a washing machine, dishwasher, computer, flatscreen tv and only 1 energy saving lightbulb as the other lighting installed doesn't allow…
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Change Click Energy tariff and get charged "standard prices"!!
If you change from Click Energy 1 to Click Energy 2 they will charge you standard prices from the date of application, as reported by Andy in this forum. Our application to change from Click Energy 1 to Click Energy 2 was made 10 February 2007. We have been charged 32 days standard prices (from 10.02.07 to 11.03.07)...A…
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Rocketing electric bills !
Hi All can i have some advice please ? We pay our gas and electric to british gas , we have been paying £31 p/month for gas for months and months and £30 p/month for leccy for months and months and months , we got a letter from BG sayign they have reviewd our usage of elctricity and as a result our monthly bill needs to go…
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Would now be a good time to leave Equipower
Hi all, I have been checking the prices (energyhelpline) and British Gas have come out on top for me the last few times. I always thought Equipower were cheapest but I can save £140 p/a by swapping. Is now a good time? Does anyone know if Equipower will price drop? Is it a good idea to go to British Gas (they used to be…
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commercial gas & electricity
does anydoby know if there is an equivalent of uswitch with commmercial rates on? i am just wondering id we would get it cheaper together with D/D? we have offices and a warehouse so use a bit of electricty and gas central heating for the offices
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Free connection to gas mains?
Hello I have just moved into a new house which is part of a small close of about 30 house none of which are connected to gas, all the streets around us are, so I have no idea why we're not. I have spoken to a few people, and some have said if the whole street, or at least the whole of my row say they want a connection we…
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A tad high?
I'm with Powergen and have been doing monthly meter readings for both gas and electricity. Last month's leccy reading was 74849 (1 May) and this month's reading (today) is 153 units higher at 75002. The gas difference was only about 30 units for the same period and I've gotten into the habit of switching off sockets and/or…
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Electric off peak heating?
Hi, Just looking at a new flat and it has Electric off peak heating, can anybody tell me what this is and is there a benefit to having it. Tried goggle but still not sure :confused: It seems to be an energy saving device but i've never heard of it before?
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Boss of british gas
I am trying to help a friend who is having a terrible time with british gas. She was with british gas at her previous house and moved 18 months ago and decided to make that the time to check out other utility companies etc. Her new house had a different supplyer who seemed to be cheaper and decided to stay with them. She…
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Gas Compensation
Hi all, I was wondering if someone could help myself and my neighbours. Since last Thursday we have had our gas supply connection cut off owing to work which British Gas said they had to do. Each property was supplied with a small fan heater and a hot plate and told the work would be finished within two days. We've finally…
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£91 one off charge?
Hi, We are with Npower, who have this morning said that the charge of £45 a month isnt enough and whacked us with a one off charge of £91. My mum has gone mad saying its to do with the amount of electricity we use with the computers being on all the time, is it? Or is it just them being unscrupulous, we are a family of 5…
