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Heating radiator question
Weve finally managed to get the landlady to fix the boiler - apparently we were right all along and it was a simple fix Though now its started getting really cold weve noticed the radiators in the living room arent working, weve mentioned it to the letting agent / landlady and she is adamant that the radiators were working…
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Heating Or Hot Water On?
After reading another thread I'm a bit confused about my gas central heating. It's a fairly new system with individual controls for water and heating. I just put the water on timer for one hour a day. Now I'm using the heating for 4-6 hrs a day on manual. My question is...do I still need to put the hot water on for an…
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Tesco's Energy Dusk till dawn LED night light or similar
Hi, Been looking into a way to have a more efficient way of lighting the kitchen when not in use. Say for instance... We sit in the living room and keep bobbing in and out of the kitchen for drinks/food etc and some ambient lighting is all that is needed to basically see where the cupboards are. Have looked into B&Q's…
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Duoheat vs Conventional
My mother has one 3.3kW E7 in the hall (24kW), could do with another after winter 2008. Elsewhere gas fires, not interested in GCH or warmup (solid floors down, partly up, differing ceiling & floor levels) and prefers the stable temperature of E7. Other similar houses have ironically ditched GCH at boiler failure re…
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Monitoring my gas use
Apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find the info on a search... I have just had a new boiler installed and would like to be able to monitor my gas use to see how using the heating in different ways and different temperatures affects my costs. I have an Owl monitor for my electric use and would like to…
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Tariff Charge Error
Help!! Our energy supplier has just informed us that we have been undercharged for our electricity for almost 3 years! Do they have the right to reclaim this money back????:mad:
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First Utility v Eon Fixed v4
Hi everyone I hope you can give me some advice as my husband is worried about doing this. Currently we pay £117 a month for gas and elec with Eon on their online energy saving plan. I called Uswitch yesterday who said we could save £37 a month if we switched to FU and Eon said we could change to their Fixed v4 tariff and…
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Boiler quote - any good?
Any boiler repairers out there? I have been quoted the following to fix my boiler, am I being ripped off? [FONT="]Parts[/FONT][FONT="] - £127 fan Wooster R25HE[/FONT] [FONT="]Labour[/FONT][FONT="] - £78.00[/FONT] [FONT="]Plus VAT [/FONT] [FONT="]Total £235.75 [/FONT]
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confused about thermostat
So I have 'off', 'auto', 'once', 'cont...' I have the setting as: morning - 7 to 9am evening - 9 to 10:30pm These settings come up on screen when I have it set to 'once', 'auto' just shows date. I have just felt some of the radiators and they are on, not high but on. Why is this should it be on 'auto'?
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knock on the door/change ?
Southern Electric rep just called (I am with Eon). "We have a printout here that shows you are using 'too much' electicity" CAN they get a print out of my consumption from a competitor ??
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Scottish Hydro Electric phone voucher??
Had a guy from SHE come round last week and I switched my BT phone line over to theirs, worked out at £1.50 a month cheaper and he gave me a voucher for £10 off my electric&gas per month. Iv yet to send it off but just wondering how this works? Do they just credit £10 to my account and therefor get my direct debit amount…
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Help with prepayment meter & debt
Hi there Hoping someone can help me here, I owe the gas and electric people £500 as I wasnt paying enough from the past year. I offered to pay £100 with my card and an extra £50 a month till it was paid but they said I wasnt allowed to do that and the only way to now clear the debt apart from paying it as a lump sum is to…
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EDF electricity prepayment meter
I have had a prepayment meter for my electricity since 30th October. When they said they were going to put it the advised it would take £12 per week for the debt that I have. However since my little key thingy arrived and it has been topped up twice there doesn't seen to be any charge for the debt. I am currently using…
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Help with changing from pre-payment
I hope someone can help. We are currently with Ebico and have PPMs for gas and electricity. There is no debt on the gas as we and a small amount on the electricity (about £22 which is being paid at £5 a week so nearly paid off) I have contacted Ebico who are happy to change us to a credit meter and set up a direct debit…
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HELP..prepaid gas costin me a fortune !
Hi I'm on prepaid ( cant change as i'm in private rented)...I'm end of terrace house, 3 beds. I put hot water/ heating on 2 hrs in the mornin & 4/5 hrs in the afternonn /evenin . I have kids so now its colder i put it on 3.30 so its warm when they get home. Its costin me £15 aweek ( my electric is £10 aweek) I need to know…
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metric and imperial meters such a vast difference
hi, i used 58 units of gas converted to 662kwh in january costing 30 but i have since moved home in oct and for last month i used 55 units/ 1718kwh costing 65. first home was metric meter second imperial meter. i was with npower in both homes. what i dont get is in second home i'm not cooking with gas as in first, i've got…
