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which is more economical to keep me warm?
I only work a few days a week at the moment so I am at home most of the time, mainly spending my time in the living room I am wondering what would be more ecomical: - heat the living room with the gas fire for most of the day - having the gas central heating on for most of the day It is a second floor flat. No-one lives…
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EBICo - as good as it seems?
Evening all, I'm currently renovating my first house, and am nearing completion so I will be moving in in the next month or two. The previous owners were using BG for both gas and elec, so we just carried on using them. I've been looking around at various discussions and comparison sites, and one message that seems to be…
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WARNING - moneysupermarket NOT paying repeat CASHBACK
Thought I'd better post here as I'm now very annoyed that I have been conned into switching with moneysupermarket.com after the inducement of another £30 cashback. I switched with them at the end of last year to EDF and finally received my cashback 6 months later (after pestering them). I then switched again to Scottish…
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Switching in Northern Ireland
Following the recent articles on switching I explored the options in Northern Ireland. None of the comparison sites appear to cover this region. It is hard to imagine there is only one supplier. Any advice or comments are welcome.
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How do I work out how much things cost to run?
Hello I'm really sorry if this question has been asked before or if I'm just being silly, but I am tying to work out how much a heater wil cost to run. In the Argos cataloge there is an 800watt oil filled heater. Our electric costs 12.13p per unit for the first 182 in day rate. Ids 1 unit 1Kw? If it is can I just work it…
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doing my head in!best deal!
time to get the best deal,but been on 3 of them comparrison sites now, putting in £40 per mnth for gas & £40 mnth for elc which is approx what i pay this time of yr,im on a pre paid meter currently with b/g for my elec & southern elec for my gas,anyway all 3 sites come up with different ans but the ones that come up the…
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Thinking about changing to e-on BUT
Hi, I have had a roller coaster of a ride with Scottish power, mainly due to the amount their computer system whants to set my dd at. This has been going on for 18 months and as a result I ended up in arrears very dull.Anyway I am now on their on-line dual tariff which according to u switch and my usage last yr I should…
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'Moving' Supply Utility Pipes
Hi everyoneWe are having a drive built and our gardener has discovered that the electricity (and water) pipes need to moved. In fact they are at an angle and need to be 'dropped'. The supplier (United Utilities) has sent me a 'budget quote' of £763.90 to drop the electricity pipes. (the water pipe was discovered later) I…
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cheapest Gas/Electric Prepayment meter tariff
Hi, sorry if this has been addressed already, I am a student sharing a house with a mate, and we are with B.gas on Prepayment meters for both Electric and Gas. We use the central heating for about 2 hours in the morning and about 3 hours in the evening. we have 2 pc's on for about and 1-2 hours a day, with us being at…
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also posted in DFW united utilities trust fund
hi not sure if this is the right place to post my friend has been using this site that was given to her by some one else apparently the small grants offered can be applied for by any one with debts within united ultilities and also gas and electrick there is a criteria an referee's are needed but apparently it not that…
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Does anyone use LPG in their home?
Good evening :) I have just moved house and we have an LPG tank for heating and cooking. We moved about a month ago and we have to use Flogas as our suppliers. It costs about £800 to fill the tank up :eek: Does anyone else use LPG and how much does you bill work out a month? THanks :)
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Cant work it out, which is best overall
i thought i was reasonably clued up, but i just cant get my head around the best utility provider and would value any input. Currently i take Gas, elec, phone & broadband all via Utilities warehouse (telecom plus). The main tie in that causes me confusion is the fact that i get broadband, ALL landline calls 7 days a week…
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British Gas Click tariffs
I had an email from BG yesterday telling me that the latest Click tariff is 4 which is cheaper than the Click tariff I am on which is 1. Apparently it is easy to change so that is what I intend to do.
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Want to change suppliers, but put off by reviews
I know I really should have done this a good while ago, but I have just bought Martin's Money Diet book, and am spurred into changing my gas and electricity suppliers. We live in London (well Kent, but in a London Borough) and are currently with EDF for both gas and electricity on their standard rate. I have so far put our…
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New Home, Prepayment Meter in Place, What to do?
Hi there, Hope someone can help, can't use phone at present to contact anyone. We have just moved into a new house and it has a prepayment electricity meter (Scottish and Southern), with about £6.00 on it. We have a bit of work to do and don't want this to run out on us! Now how do we go about adding more credit? I was…
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Absolutley fuming with British Gas!!! I'm so angry!
I've not been with them long, transferred over with a promise of lower DD's (was £71pm with scottish power) to £55 for dual gas and electricity....he worked out all my usage, meter readings etc and i was happy with the payment. Just gone online to check my statement as i got paid today and checked my DD list (purely by…
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Powergen part pymt of bill?
Hi all, Hope this is the right place to ask..I moved to Powergen from British Gas 8 months ago (best move I ever made) Each bill I have had I have been able to pay within a month of receiving it... However, today the man came to read my meters, and I am like erm eeekkk its due soon, have just checked my account online and…
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Calor gas regulator
Hello, can anyone help us please, we have two calor gas bottles 47 kg. We used to just change them over when one was empty with a spanner, this was a bit difficult for the lady of the house so we had a regulator changeover put on, so all you need to do is tighten the empty one and open the full one. Before we had this…
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Npower Online 8 - unhappy :(
Months ago I checked out prices on gas and electric and found I could make a good saving by moving to Npowers Online 8 tariff from my supplier, I had earlier wanted to go to BG Click but could not have it as I had a twin dial meter. Npower were OK about this type of meter and I signe up. They have had my supply now for 2…
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powergen or british gas
i have a key meter and the other day someone from british gas called and said that british gas would work out cheaper than powergen so i decided to change over, ive now had a worrying phone call from powergen telling me im going to be paying £3.50 week more than i would with them, does anyone have any advice, thanks in…