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N Power want money from deceased relative.. am I liable?
Hi All, My Dear Mother passed away in Nov 2006, she lived in Leeds. In April 2008 I received a letter to my old address in Bournemouth but addressed to my mother saying NPower had mis calibrated the electric meter and she owed £700 but as a gesture of goodwill they would reduce it to £70. I rang and told them she was…
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Atlantic money back scheme
Hi I signed up with Atlantic for gas and elec 2 years ago on direct debit. When I joined I was promised that after 12 months I would get one month's payment credited back to my account, based on an average of the last 12 month's payments. A year later I duly got money back equivalent to a month's DD, but only on my elec.…
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Gas bill - is this good or bad??
We moved into this property in July. We have just finally (after calling and asking for it due to a mix up) gotten our first gas bill - it covers from end of July through last week. £122. Now we run our heater a lot (gas) as we have toddlers in the house - one of which seems perpetually cold. We had electric heater in our…
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New gas/electricity supplies
Hi, I'm looking to split an existing property into two. The property currently has gas and electricity supplies but I obviously need to add new supplies for the newly divided part of the house. Does anyone have any ballpark figures for what it costs to have new gas and electric supplies fitted..? Thanks
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This one is best for savings!!
I've found this great site for saving money on all my household bills, they do it differently to the comparison sites. They saved me over £400 a year on my gas & Elec. it's got to be worth a look!! The only thing is you have to take their survey, it's free and with no hidden costs. moneyhealth.com is the site. Happy…
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British Gas + DD
Hello, I'm moving in a new flat and didn't have a supplier before. I'm thinking to go with British Gas ClickEnergy 6 (internet payment + direct debit). Reading other articles, it seems i will have to check my monthly direct debit amount and call them to rectify the amount (and they may or may not do it). Any other advice?…
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heat with gas or elec
my boiler is now 16 years old , although it still seems to be going strong it is not as efficient as a new boiler i'm now thinking when the time comes whether to replace it with a new boiler or to go down the storage heater or similar route if anyone else is either in this situation or has been thru it i'd be interested to…
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New Boiler and Carbon Monixide Alarm
Hi. Just had a new boiler installed in the airing cupboard. Moved the Carbon Monoxide alarm in there with it and it goes off every time the boiler fires up. Moved the alarm just outside the cupboard door and left the door ajar.....alarm stays quiet. Is this normal, do I have a problem? Thanks, Mandy
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Gas switch time?
Hi, I am looking at changing energy suppliers, but the last time we done this, it took about 4 months, calls to old supplier to freeze account, calls to independant gas transporter and other lots of hassle to switch the gas over. Our gas meter is supplied by an independant gas transporter (IGT) and the old supplier said…
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Direct Debit Row Hits British Gas
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/consumer/bills/article.html?in_article_id=457230&in_page_id=510 Paper edition of Financial Mail On Sunday has a email address inviting people to detail their BG DD Hike grievances. :j
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Ebico - Southern Elect. Multiple Payment Options
Okay - seemingly odd question! I use Ebico and pay Ebico/SE via Direct Debit (I recently increased this). But can I also pay directly online (via Southern Electrics site) on top of my direct debit payments??
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British gas direct debit gone up over 100% in one month
just had a letter from b gas to say my d debit for my gas will increase from £38 per month up to £79!! I called to find out why and they said it was i am now on a new cycle for my account which changes annually.. That is despite the fact that just before the recent price hike i got my account onto the lowest tariff and so…
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A Bill for £5965 from EoN!!!!
OK, Just opened some post from 2 days ago and discovered my latest bill for Gas & Electricty is fir just under 6k!! Can't quite see what they have done wrong. The big chunk is for the gas and it appears that a meter reading has moved from 3 digits to 4 and then back to 3 or something like that... Anyway, too late to chase…
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Help! emergency!
I have a nephew who has a newly installed prepaid key meter for his electric. He has just phoned us because he has lost his key, what can he do? I don't even know if he has any emergency credit left as he has used about £13 of electricity in 4 days, I suspect not. I've looked online and some say the leccy will stay on til…
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Southern Electric
Is Southern Electric the same as SSE??? (Scottish Southern Energy?)
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Not accepting my monthly payment
Just off the phone with scot gas about my electricity bill, i owe about £379 and made a payment of £79 today. i said i can pay the rest each month by DD, they want £140 each month and i said i can only pay £77 each month, I was told that i will be dis-connected and legal proceedings against me for which i will be…
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Anyone received wriiten notification of Click 5 increase?
Still have not received written confirmation from BG, they only have until 5/12/08 to be within their 65 days. Has anyone received notification of click 5 increase (30/09/08) yet? cheers, scotti
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Help please with Scottish Power
Hi there, I'd appreciate some help from people that understand these confounded bills better than I do! In July this year we switched to Scottish Power Fixed Rate until August 2009. We have now received a letter from Scottish Power saying that our monthly DD will go up to £64 (from £42). I can understand this if we are…
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help needed with npower
Hi all i am on the online tarrif with npower and i have been paying £70 per month however i should have been paying more so last week changed my S.O to £30 per week. Now i have arrears of £800 approx now they are saying they going to put me on a prepayment meter and i have no choice in the matter. Apart from paying the…
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i want to change
at the moment we are with scottish hydro electric prepayment electric only meter..paying approx £35 per week (this works out same as everyone else on these meters in this area) but I was thinking of changing to a dry meter and paying by direct debit, i know other people who do this and they are paying much less than me..i…
