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Please help, we have a huge electricity bill and need to know how to bring it down
Hi, We have just recieved a huge electricity bill and I really need some advice as to how we can run our house in a more efficient way. We live in a two bed, basement flat. We have five rooms and three of them have double glazing, the other two are hopfully being done soon. The flat is totaly run by electicity. We have…
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calculating gas/electric costs
Hi, Myself and my partner are looking into getting our first flat together however as we have both always stayed with family or in student accom with bills provided I am struggling to work out what to expect my gas and electric bills to come out and obviously monthly bill amounts will impact on how much we can spend on a…
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Key meters
I know paying for gas and electric are dearer if using a key meter, but can anyone give me a rough idea howmuch dearer. i am currently with British Gas for both Gas and Elec (standard tarrif), paid by monthly dd, They have just sent me my bill, for which the elec dd they are increasing from £50.00 pm to £56.00 (fair enough…
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Paying via DD
Hiya all Ive spoke to a lot of people they say to me "Never pay your bills by DD or avoid paying by DD" i.e utilities Council tax etc Does anyone know why? or do you guys agree with this?
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Should I switch from eon online extra saver 5
Am I correct in thinking that the comparison sites do not take into account the massive 20.7% discount i receive for managing online and paying by direct debit. Yes they show the discount in the tariff details, but not in the comparison table. So in effect they are comparing my current tariff before i receive my discounts.…
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Watch out for NPower
Switched Gas suppliers in April 08 and phoned in May to fix price. Recently got a letter informing me that the price had gone up! Loads of calls later and still not resolved, NPower are refusing to fix the price on the plan that I signed up to in April on the internet. Got proof that they verbally agreed to the fix in May,…
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Swalec, help finding unit price
Im a bit confused, I have been looking to try and find the unit price that I pay, on the swalec website there are about 20 different types of tarriffs. I have got a power meter and wish to add the price in to the unit so I can see how much I am spending on different appliances. Cant find any recent bills as the house is…
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British Gas Price Fix until 2012
Going by their 2012 fixed prices for my area and who I'm currently with my (current)electricity prices would have to rise by Tier1 129% & Tier2 56% and with respect to my (current) gas prices rises would have to be Tier1 56% & Tier2 28% May be worth staying put, what do people think?
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advice / help please re: comparison searches
Hi all, I hope you can clarify this query i have. I am currently looking in to changing to a capped/fixed tariff for my elec/gas. I have carried out comparisons on moneysupermarket, energyhelpline and simplyswitch. The best offer that i have received is going through moneysupermarket - they are saying that if i switch to…
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switch power
I am now considering switching to E.on protection 18, which ensures that if prices fall so does the price i pay. I am still nervous as to what i should expect in regards to bills from my previous companies ie. British gas and NPower can any one advise as to whether i will get large bill and what if its more than i can…
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How much debt can you carry over to new supplier?
I'm currently switching my electric from Southern Electric to Scottish Power and have been informed by SP today that SE have 'objected' to transferring my supply. No reason given in the letter. There is some debt with SE as I was paying regularly by direct debit on a fixed amount (based on estimates over a long period!). I…
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Gas cost question
My parents are pensioners with British Gas. I suggested to mom that she phone them and ask about the new social tariff. She was told that as she's capped, she couldn't switch to the social tariff. Is this right, as it seems wrong to me, she must be paying more than she has to?
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Check your EDF bills!
Hi all. I recently received my latest bil from EDF which ran from June - September and I understood this one less than the rest,so I rang them for a chat. I had capped on August 2nd,both gas and electric.I was told I was not capped at all! The guy told me that whoever had capped me pressed the wrong button on the drop down…
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How to make the most out of Economy 7 - What are your tips?
Hi all! I've just moved into a flat with an economy 7 meter installed. Do any of you have some tips on squeezing the most out of the cheap electricity (other than sleeping all day!)? So far we're using the electric shower and water heater in the mornings just before it switches over.....
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Safe to Switch to British Gas?
Hi. I have just discovered that my E-On bill is to rise by another whopping 20% (ish) through their sly removal of the Energy Online Extra Saver Plan. Switching sites are showing that I can now save a massive 300 quid with BG and 200 with Ebico. Just wondering what your advice might be as I've only been with E-On one year…
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Sourthern Electric - seperate bills for gas and electric
I'm with Southern Electric and I get my gas and electric through them, but both bills come separately and have different account numbers. Would it be cheaper if the bills came together and were on the same account, is that what the whole duel fuel thing is about? Thanks for helping a newb!
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economy 7 meters
hi, we have just got married and moved into our first place together, and it's also the first time we've had to pay/sort out bills. We have storage heaters and an economy 7 heater in our little 2 bed flat - does anyone have any idea of how much we might be looking at paying and who would give us the best value for money?…
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how much electric have we used?
We moved into a new house in May.Earlier this month we changed to BG on their click online tarriff and the supply was taken over by them on the 16th of this month. Our opening reading was 07832 taken yesterday, and our reading today was 07849 which by my reakoning means we have used 17 units. But we have one of those…
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edf misery
hi guys here again asking for help! edf misery i'm afraid to say switched supplier in june leaving edf behind, electricity swap over no problem, gas final bill was a total mess. they sent me an £18k final bill. obviously found this amusing, contacted them and they said they would re-calculate the bill and not debit the…
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two year old bill from n power
Feb 2006 was when i switched my gas and some greedy salesman decided although i was not interested he would switch my electric. When the DD went out i rang them and N power to get it put back. After much fuss and (under various acc no's ) DD paid I was back with N power. As i got overlapping bills and a shocker of a bill…
