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pwergen gas and elec
Received a bill from Powergen on the 5th Sept changing our DD from £82 to £182:eek: because we have a balance of £562...god knows how:confused: Just phoned them to ask if they could reduce this DD amount to £130, but was told you have to clear it within 6 months or they could put me on a prepaid meter. After searching on…
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Economy 7....... is it worth it?
I use E7 every night to heat water through immersion and top up via boiler around 5pm, do about 5 washes overnight and charge phones etc overnight. Are we using enough to be worth it, currently around 20% of my usage. Would there be a benefit in not using immersion and heating water solely from boiler?
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British Gas offer
http://www.britishgas.co.uk/products-and-services/offers/Install/latest-offers.html thats the link to the offer, sorry, Kath
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British Gas offer
I am new here, so not sure how to pick up any replies to this question.... how godd/bad is this offer from British Gas to give a years supply of gas free to a customer who buys a new boiler? How competitive is the cost? Ta Kath in Scotland (could you email me the answers and how I can access the other answers, lol, ta!!)
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Bankruptcy...pre paid meter...but wife of bankrupt apparently responsible
Can anyone help. I have a client who's husband went bankrupt. He has just been released. He included in his B/R a large debt to his electricity supplier. His wife agreed that she should be the sole name on the account AFTER the bankrputcy. The electricity company agreed but insisted that a pre paid meter was installed. She…
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I now owe £0.00 to NPower
I had some great news today, rang NPower (via saynoto0870.com obviously)to ask them what state my energy account was in as I didn't want to wait for my quarterly statement, to be told, I am £94.00 in credit on my electric, and I owe £94.00 on my gas, so they have just transferred the balance over, I now owe £0.00!!…
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The moving of a gas meter
Hello there, Anyone know how much it would cost to move my gas meter ? its currently in my front room and i want to move it about 3 foot so its outside..(the other side of the wall) the other question is will they move any existing pipes connected to the meter ? (boiler, gas fire) or will i have to have those moves…
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TRANSCO replacing my gas pipe- who pays?
Hi evertone bit of a strange one this, Transco have been replacing the steel gas pipes outside my house with what looks like yellow plastic ones, most of the places where they have dug they have filled in apart from the bit round my house where they have left my gas pipe exposed (it is barriered) and they have marked with…
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is my electric meter faulty?
we have on of those digital meters and at the moment my meter says im on rate 2 which i understand is economy 7 i pushed the readings button and rate 2 is the only one that is going up i pushed the button again and the time said 07.53 and then 07.54 and i stood and watched it till it went 08.00 and it was still showing…
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Prepayment Meter Robbery
I have been on a gas and electricity prepayment meter for the past twelve years and moved house at the end of June. I closed my account the day before I left and Powergen confirmed on the phone that all was satisfactory and that I owed them nothing. Three months later Powergen contacted me to inform me that they were…
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Switching from nPower to Scottish Power - final bill question
Just asking a quick question on behalf of my dad. He is currently with nPower but today it finally looks like Scottish Power have got our details and so we will be switching to them soon. However he owes a reasonably big (£160 or so) debit balance but he will be paying this off inside a fortnight. Will this cause any…
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Gas reconnection - help!
Hello, We've recently moved into a new house only to find the gas supply has been disconnected According to the neighbours the gas supply was upgraded on our street in the summer when the house was vacant. It appears National Grid disconnected the supply but did not reconnect because the property was empty. Our vendor…
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Who owns my gas pipes?
A couple of weeks ago we were woken in the early morning by our CO2 monitor going off. I called the gas emergency number and the chap came and said it was the battery in the monitor and there was no leak. He also said that our gas pipes were old and he would put in a report to say they neeeded repalcing. He said at the…
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EDF Yearly Review Ripoff
I just had a yearly review statement from EDF which stated that my consumption had gone up so my direct debit had to increase accordingly. Checking the numbers against last year's review I noticed that they were reviewing 4 months' consumption versus 3 months' used for last year's calculation!! They backed off immediately…
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Isn't Uswitch a really flawed system ?
Not sure whether this has been discussed here before; but I feel the principles Uswitch applies that is supposed to help customers to effectively 'switch' utility suppliers is really flawed and needs some reconciliation. They ask you 3 key questions; - your post code - your current supplier; - you monthly/annual bill by…
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massive bill and i don't know wat to do!!!
hi all hope some clever wise person can help me out here, i've just become a single parent with 2 small babies and have been left with a massive gas and electric bill of over £600, i'm with scottish power and when i called to set up a payment plan to pay some of it off, they said that i couldn't as they were now going to…
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Question about switching provider on property just moved into
A mate and I moved into this house a couple of weeks ago. Last week we received a bill that was mainly usage from before we moved in, which we have passed on the the letting agency to pass back to the Landlord. Now I am back online here, I have checked for the best provider for my area and want to switch providers. My…
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no identification on new boiler ?
I had a serious flood from the bathroom which brought down the kitchen ceiling. The insurace company sent a firm out to do all the repairs. As the water burst was over my gas boiler I requested they send a gas firm to chech for water damage. This was done in May,2007 at the end of August 2007 the gas boilet weny haywire -…
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My capped Price Finishing Soon
Hi all, my capped Scottish Power deal is finishing at the end of the month. I have been using the comparison sites to find my next deal. They all point back to Scottish Power. I am a light user, & have been paying £54/month. Am owing a little under £50, to them, so I am expecting the price to co up a LITTLE! Everytime I…
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Resident on British Gas Business for dual fuel
I am a newby and wonder if someone can advise me on a problem with British Gas. I am self-employed and approx. 3 years ago, two British Gas representatives called at my office to convince me to switch to British Gas for the electricity at my office and I went along. They then convinced me to switch to Britsh Gas Business…
