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who is responsible for the box that houses electric meter?
Hi The box is coming away from the wall (to be honest i cant tell how it was actually held in the first place!) Is this my responsibility to sort or will the electricity company do this? Im concerned what may happen if the whole thing does indeed fall out
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Any recommendations for an electric heater.
Hi Could anyone recommend a 'cheapish :rolleyes: ' to run electric heater for a bedroom. Dont have central heating and the bedroom for my new grandson is cold. Like everyone else I am terrified of huge energy bills. TIA.
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British Gas Complaint
We have Brit Gas homecare 200. Sat 7:30am our boiler stopped working. Phoned straight away and they said an engineer would be out between then and 6pm. 2:30pm they phone and say nobody can come til Monday between 8am and 10am. Monday 8:45 am they turn up - take over an hour to diagnose the problem and then say they have to…
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How much clearance does a radiator need to work effectively?
We currently have one of the couches in front of the radiator in the living room, and have noticed this room takes the longest to heat up and is also the quickest to cool down. What gap should I leave between the radiator and couch?
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Cheapest
Who are the cheapest providers? Combined or seperate?
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how to work out gas usage
i've just got my revised bills after submitting meter readings: both 30.7.08 - 28.10.08 equipower standard electric: (currently 14.16p per kwh, was 11.65p before october) 406 units used total £51.29 after prompt payment easy to work out elec usage just times number of units by 14.16p and add vat @ 5% gas: (was 2.72p per…
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EON EnergyOnline Extra Saver 8 - has the price gone up?
Just though I'd check my EON account and the EnergyOnline Extra Saver 8 tarriff appears to have increased and is now the same price as most of the other products they offer : EnergyOnline Extra Saver 8 Electricity Normal units up to 900 kWhs 25.116 pence Normal units 10.6995 pence per kWh Gas Normal units up to 2680 kWhs…
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Saving Money
I recently appeared on the national six o clock news on BBC talking about my financial predicament you can see the interview here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7672581.stm I was invited by a member of my family to complete a survey with an organisation called MoneyHealth. They along with the Money Saving Expert have…
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Gas Bill Underpayment
This is long and complicated...please bear with me however. I live in a large townhouse which was converted into two maisonette style flats around 2000. I live in the upper part of the house and my neighbour lives downstairs. Last spring she noticed whilst reading her gas meter that it was clocking power despite her having…
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Email from Scottish Power - price rise
I pay £41.01 per month to Scottish power for Gas and Electric. About 3 months ago I got a letter from them, saying we have decreased the price now to £41.00 - a grand saving of 1p. Every 3 months I put in the new meter readings and it say show much I owe, and it takes it from my account. I overpay, so after paying the…
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Scot Power's strange arithmatic
If you are with Scot. Power I hope you keep your Bills Recently I went through the bills of a friend who before the latest rises, had, had a demand to increase D/Debits from £61.50 to £72.00, and having analised the bills for the last 3 years found that an increase of only 50pence was required which Scot. Power accepted as…
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measuring and benchmarking your energy use
I've been reading a few threads here about taking meter readings and trying to estimate what your energy use for a year might be from that. The best tools for measuring energy use are http://www.imeasure.org.uk/ and http://www.thecarbonaccount.com/ but in my opinion imeasure has better feedback. If you want to be *really*…
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Refund e-On
I have requested a refund from E-On for £150 my account is in credit by £230 they have said that they are going to keep it to cover my winter usage but I hopefully wont be using that much over the winter as I am in the process of having a wood burner fitted so how do I go about making them refund me. I am paying them by dd…
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most expensive bill ever !!!
well i got the shock of my life today, my electric bill arrived and it was a whopping £10967 for 3 months use !!!!!!! i rang to query it and was told it was correct. got to wait now for someone to come out and check the meter. in the mean time they said i need to pay the outstanding balance and if any money is due back…
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Consumer Focus Knowledge Base
http://www.consumerfocus.org.uk/en/content/cms/Energy_Help___Advice/Your_energy_question/Your_energy_question.aspx I spent weeks proof reading the info on this link before it was transferred to Consumer Focus so I hope people are using it before posting!!!
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token meters - gas
Always check yr meter for a battery low warning as soon as you see this msg or flashing symbol call your gas supplier to arrange to get battery replaced as it is a lot better than having it fail completely and been left with no gas until engineer comes out. This may sound stupid but we get 100's if not thousands of calls…
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cold calling
A bloke came to the door the other day to talk about electricity supplier. I don't want to change cos I can't be bothered with the hassle, however he said he was from 'the energy people' who 'oversee' energy suppliers and he had been told to call at my address as their system shows I am paying over the odds for my power.…
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disruption to mains gas supply
Hi This is my first time so be gentle with me. Because of incompetance when renewing my mains gas supply my supply was cut off for 56 hours. No hot water, no heating & no cooking appliances. The company carrying out the work have admitted liability and the problems have still not been completely resolved. They have now…
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Moving into a new build house
At the end of the month we will be moving into a brand new house from a much older less energy efficient one. I am wondering what to do about our gas & electric provider Eon. Should we should stick them for a year when we'll roughly know our running costs and then compare? And should we continue with our current direct…
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Confusion over electricity supplier
Changed from npower to eon in Sept. for gas and electric. However, npower have just sent me another bill for electricity ,and I didn't notice before but they took out two direct debits since I changed. Phoned them 4 times today. They insisted that they still supplied my electric. Eon gave me the number of the data base who…
