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Gas problem
Hi me and my family moved into a newly built Housing Association property about 3 years ago. Straight away I set all my accounts up for the property to pay monthly via direct debit. Now British Gas supply both gas and electric to the propert and arranged the electric payment plan with no problems, but when it came to the…
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Is there any truth in...
We (my partner, son and I) will be moving out of halls of residence, a family flat at the end of August back into a rent house. I have not paid a gas, electric or water bill in 3 years due to live there. My partner believes that when you move into a rent property and automatically take on the new utility bills you can not…
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Does any cashback site have standard gas/elec deals?
I normally use Quidco. Although they've got cashback incentives all the suppliers are only offering for paperless/online/direct debit. I just want a quarterly paper bill with option to pay by cheque. I'm fine with a direct debit after it's up and running. Does anyone know a cashback site where the suppliers are offering…
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BG Frontline Essential tariff
Just thought I would tell people BG are now accepting applications for the essentials tariff this year. There will be a 15% increase on gas since last year but elec will be dropping by 10% so if anyone is due to be on a social tariff enq now.
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Npower Excessive Bills And Blocking Account Transfer
I had an npower door sales man convince me moving to them would be cheaper I now find it was one of the biggest mistakes ever!:mad: At first I didn't get their bills, instead I would receive threatening letters. I got sent an estimated bill recently, challenged the bill, in the meanwhile got more threatening letters. Read…
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New Mover
Ok so next week I’m moving in to a rented house mid 70's build with my partner :j. I'm just after some advice on the Electrical side. As its bit of a mind field Ok so its a mid 70's early 80's house and only has electricity so it has storage heaters which i guess at the moment. It's a small 2 bed house with double glazing,…
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To pay or not to pay
Hi all, Currently living in rented accommodation and our supplier is Scottish Power, landlord doesn't want us to change supplier and as we'll be moving on pretty soon I can't really be bothered to anyway. Problem is this, I'm fundamentally opposed to paying any utility company via DD, I don't let anyone have direct access…
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Eon stay warm tariff is it good
I live at home with my mother who is 70 i have tried to reduce her bills and last year joined eon on their dual fuel stay warm tarrif which costs £85 a month for 12 months of the year,its a fixed amount every month so in theory you dont have to worry about huge bills coming in over the winter but im starting to wonder if…
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First Time In Own House - Advice Needed Please.
Hello. My boyfriend and I are getting our first (rented) house together at the beginning of July. I'm 20, and whilst I have paid "rent" to my parents for a while now I have not been responsible for my own bills before. The house we will be renting is a two bedroom terraced house. All the windows are double glazed. We have…
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Does anyone else have 2 meters and problems switching suppliers?
We have just moved into a flat that is all electric we also have night storage heaters. Our supplier is Npower but after searching around we found a better price plan decided to switch and this is where problems arise. We tried EDF first and they said they couldnt support our meters as we have 2 meters, now British Gas…
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* Electricity only suply help *
Hi I've just moved into a flat which runs everything on electricity only. I have the immercian heating/eco 7 with economy electric rates after midnight which is when i delay timer any appliances i can too. I changed the existing supplier to British Gas when i moved in march as there was a problem with the existing suply…
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Baffled by immersion heating/Eco 7!
Hi all, I've spent ages searching this board to find the answer to my question as I can see you get lots of duplicate threads with people asking the same things, but I can't find it anywhere! Please point me in the right direction if I'm just repeating a previous thread. My boyfriend and I have just moved into a 2 bed…
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Big Electricity Bill Scottish Power!
I'm with scottish power - energy online, so I have been putting my meter readings in every month, so I can keep on top of things, and don't end up with a huge bill. My average monthly spend for elec seems to have been around the £55 - £75, I have just returned from a week away and decided to put the readings in, and was…
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Massive Electricity Bill - npower
Hi all. Background: Moved into new place July 2006. Did uSwitch and they said npower was the cheapest, so went with them (ok, that's mistake number 1!). It is a small, 3 bedroom terraced house, all electric. Storage heaters, Economy 7 etc. Was told a new meter needed to be fitted, and after buying the house some electrical…
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Can anyone offer any advice on a £2100 gas & electricity bill!!!
In November i was approached by Southern Electric who said that i was paying too much for my gas and electricty, and based on my bills they could provide me with considerably cheaper utilities. I had been paying about £70 per month DD for both utilities, and they said they could reduce it to about £45. As a single mother…
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Help and advice really needed!!
Ok so here's the situation. My partner and I moved into our rented house (a tiny 1bed) on 9th January. We had signed things with the agents to use Southern Electric for gas and electric. I hadn't recieved anything for sometime and was a bit worried then recieved our first bills a few weeks ago. They were dated from 4th feb…
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Baxi Back Boiler
Hi all need some advice please, moved into my flat 2 years ago and it has gas central heating, with a baxi burmuda 12-16 kw boiler, with one 36x18 cylinder, and 6 radiators, i always knew that these boilers go on for ever as the one in my old house was 30 years old when i left, so my question is combi boilers are going to…
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National Grid Gas Connection Quote
Hi Currently have all electric and are having central heating put in. Requested an online quote from National Grid for the gas connection and they have come back with £612. Is this realistic, both our neighbours have gas and the length of land they would need to dig up is 4 meters and we have asked them to excavate and…
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Southern Electric charged me £1782 for 6 months in a small flat!
Hi there, I moved into my flat (which is a small 2 bedroom place) in December 2008 and have been told that in this time I have spent £1782 on electricity. This seems absurd considering that only 2 people live here and the place is usually empty. I did receive a letter from Southern Electric asking me to call up and give my…
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Anyone know what we should do?
Hello, I am looking for some advice really... Recently my husband and I switched energy suppliers from Southern Electric to Npower. We expected a final bill from SE, but when nothing was recieved we assumed we didn't owe anything once the account was closed. We recently recieved our new Npower gas bill and my husband…
