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How do I understand my electricity meter?
I moved in to rented accommodation in the summer and have, unfortunately, got a pre payment meter. Whilst we haven't been spending that much on electricity we have started spending more due to having the heating on. I work from home and try not to put it on during the day, although it's tempting as we only have single…
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Immersion heater
I used to live in a 1 bedroom flat (working couple) and my electricity bills were around £75-80 a month. We had no gas then, just electricity. Does this sound high? Some of my colleagues thought so (its supposed to be around £20-30?) The flat was very well insulated and so I need not switch on the heating all winter, in…
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anyone using npower Sign online 14 electricity
is anyone using npower Sign online 14 electricity? is it good? it looks cheaper than british gas click energy 6 according to my calculation. annual standing charge (ex VAT) £55 which is equivalent to 15.8p per day (inc VAT) unit rate (inc VAT) 9.345 per kWh
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Are convector heaters effecient ?
Guys, We have a reasonably large house and struggle to keep 2 upstairs bedrooms up to a reasonable heat....could do with larger radiators really in these rooms. As an alternative are these little heaters any good ?…
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incompetent n power
Since April this year we have had no end of problems with Npower. First we had a £450ish bill from EDF which we had never heard of, after investigation it transpired that Npower had been billing us Incorrectly for the last 2 1/2 years for our electricity and that EDF where in actual fact our suppliers. Npower decided to do…
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Uswitch wine off available if new customer?
Hi I would like to take advantage of the wine offer and am looking to get a combined gas and electric supplier but I moving from a house where I dont currently pay the bills so will not be "swapping" but rather initiating a contract. Will I still get wine???:beer:
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Minimum term of contract?
Hi guys, moving into a flat next week and need to get a Gas and Electricity supplier. If I sign up to someone is there a minimum term of contract I must agree to or am I free to swap as I please as long as I provide a final meter reading? Is there any down sides to swapping after a short period of time? Thanks in advance…
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E-ON November price hike
Acccording to this site, E-ON's last increase was 22nd August.. not so! I changed tarriff in September to their EnergyOnline Extra Saver8. Now I've received their notification of increases effective from 1st November: gas up 43%/22% (primary/secondary units) and elec up 38%/3%... and this is when oil prices (to which we're…
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Sad......but true????
I have just moved into a new rented semi detached house. It has 2 bedrooms whereas my other rented place had three and so there are only 2 people at the new address, not 3. The third person I used to share with was there a lot but obviously used hot water to shower and gas to heat food on the hob. We were paying around £65…
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British Gas - insane direct debit amount?
Hi all, I recently moved into a rental, a 2-bedroom flat, with the girlfriend. It's had brand new heating installed and now an electric oven (used to be gas), so the heating is highly efficient. The existing gas supplier was British Gas, so to make things easy until we switch over to EDF dual fuel (8-10 weeks) I thought I…
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NPower first elec bill £130.00!! 1 person studio
I have just moved into a studio flat and received my first energy bill from NPower (who was also the provider for the previous tenant) The charge for 1 month (Oct to Nov) was £130.00! Which was way way more than I expected I have been so careful this month turning off electric when im not using it. The studio uses a…
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Stopped my direct debit?
I have been with powergen for about 4 years. Last night I changed to npower, used the link from this site, theirs was on top so picked that one. After I done that I went to my bank website, and stopped my direct debit to powergen. I am in credit with them £274. this is more than enough to pay all I owe them. Have I acted…
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Massive Elec Bill!! Help :(
Heres the info on me and my girlfriends elec bill. Its pretty much the total for the 6 months we have lived in the property since we moved in, since May till November of this year. The house Its 1 Bedroom, small semi-detached. We have masses of loft insulation!! We have a PC, TV, Oven, Fridge, Washing Machine, Hoover,…
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New renters, no existing gas or electricity provider.
Hi! I'm renting for the first time, and therefore haven't had any previous gas or electricty provider. I'm finding it difficult to find price comparisions for non-existing gas or electricity users, and was wondering if anyone can help, with comparision sites that don't require to know existing providers or just generally…
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Bg Click Energy 5
just had email saying british gas clickenergy 5 prices to rise by 42% for gas and electricity 21%. is clickenery 6 cheaper or are other online tarriffs cheaper or is it best to fix? thease comparrison sites are confusing. cheers adam.
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what am i doing wrong?
Hi can anyone help, I know Cardew etc are pretty good with this stuff.... I thought I knew how to convert gas units into Kwh but when I converted 177 units I came up with 5600 kwh now ive checked my bill (bg) and they have got less than 2000 (much happier with their calculation!!) but i need to know what i've done wrong…
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Need a new boiler
Hi Not sure if anyone will have any ideas, we are kind of stuck and not sure what to do. We are currently letting our property and have bg home care. Our boiler is 28yrs old (not long found this out!) and the tenants are not happy with it banging. So we called out bg and another local company for quotes bg want £3,300 ish…
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Equigas Prepayment Meters
Hi all, Just checked my gas meter which i normally top up monthly and noticed that my gas meter has not gone down at all!! Obviously i have used gas in the past few weeks, just spoke to my mum and she and a neighbours have not gone down either. Tried ringing the customer line but the waiting time is over 10 mins! Anyone…
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Electric Meter?
Hi I currently have a prepay electric meter on economy 7, my landlord has agreed to let me change the meter to a normal one. Recently I moved to ebico`s tariff with this being southern electric are these the best people to get to change the meter, any ideas etc? Cheers
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prices per unit
Hi Im currently looking into chnaging suppliers (with npower at the moment). I have been trying to comare by unit price, but am struggling as with my tariff with npower i have 2 changes - electric 14p for first 203 then 13.05p and for gas 7.49p and 2.48p Not sure how to compare when looking at other sites Thanks, Elsa
