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Choosing the correct tariff - standing charge or no standing charge?
Hi everyone!!! I've just moved into a new flat and need to pick the correct tariff for electricity. I'm with Scottish Power and don't know if I can change supplier as we're only tenants and don't plan on staying here any longer than 6months to a year. I only have a rough estimate to our usage - 56 "Normal" rate electricity…
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Gas bill for standard 3 bed house?
I am looking to move out of rented and into a 1940's ex LA stye house, really good solid property with new GCH... I am currently paying over £100 in oil a month (very old draughty cottage with a very inefficient 36 yo boiler, I am not frivoulous with heating!), how much should I look to pay a month for gas? I have never…
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EDF - Problems with power outages
Hi I'm new to forum life, so please bear with me. I live in a small village and the property I have is all electric. From October 2009 the village has been plagued by a considerable number of power cuts, lasting between 12 & 24hrs in duration, last one was this weekiend in which the power was on an off all day on Sat and…
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help!
I am still under shock, just been to my edf account and found out that my electricity bill from 13/10/2009 to 19/02/2010 is £2.780. I have no idea how to check, please help. I am on economy 7 tariff, live in small 2 bedroom flat on my own, have electric storage heaters, I do not use them. My meter reader is total 00418,…
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Mistake in energy metre reading?
Hello We received an estimated bill for £290 Gas, £80 electric for the quarter. When we rung up to pay, they asked for a metre reading. When we gave them that the bill ballooned to £700 for gas £500 for electric For a quarter. Can this be right? Does anyone know how to appeal this or is that really the real cost? With…
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I think my useage seems excessive. What do you think?
Hi, I've lived in my house for 10 years now any my useage has always been around the same...but I have allways felt it was excessive but whoever I was with told me it seemed normal. Today a guy from Npower turned up at the door trying to persuade me to move he gave me a leaflet which showed the average comsuptions based on…
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British Gas OWL Monitor
Its cheaper to buy from Amazon at £22.50 than from british gas themselves. You can save £9.00 !
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£718 p/a to heat a 1bed flat?
Hi all, I live in a council flat with a communal boiler that heats my block. I received a new rent notification from the council today which informs me that the heating charges included in my rent are going up from £8.50 per week to £13.81. This seems like a pretty big jump to me (it only went up by £1.80 last year). Also,…
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electric shower or power shower from gas hot water tank?
I have been using a power shower from my gas heated hot water tank but the shower has packed up and I have had to have long luxurious relaxing baths :j while waiting on it being fixed. It may have to be replaced entirely so I have been thinking, I worked out that we spend about £200 per year on gas for heating the hot…
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Scottish Power (and others probably)
Hi guys, I'm on S&P's fairly long fixed to 2011 plan for gas and electric. I pay by monthly DD. Twice last year S&P sent me a letter indicating that they were going to increase the monthly DD ("But, don't worry you don't have to do anything!") But I did; in both cases I emailed them to state that I categorically refused…
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Gas leak
Hi I live in a housing association property, and as such have gas safety checks every year. Our most recent was on 16th Feb, where the plumber (?) advised that the pipe form the boiler into the attic was too short. He put it back into place, but said we would need it replacing. My OH has had to put it back at least 5 times…
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Free software for recording energy usage
Hi all, I've been looking around for some software which helps record gas and leccy usage, but have come up blank. I thought it would be good to start to record usage on a monthly basis to help with a number of things. 1. When changing providers it would be easier to calculate annual usage. 2. To use as a comparison with…
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Estimate issues
Does anyone know how companies work out an original estimate when they take over your gas? Last summer a man turned up on my doorstep asking if I would like some tips on how to reduce my gas and electric bills. I suffer from mental health problems, at this time I was confused and not taking things in properly so I let him…
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Heating options - help required
Standing charge 16.38p per day (£59.79 per year) Unit charge (pence per kWh) 8.274p I am new to electric heating, so can someone kindly explain the following please: My quote came up as £300 per year with the above details. Does standing charge means that this is what I pay per day regardless of how much I use? or not?…
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need help & advice please !
British gas closed our account with them 3 years ago, saying that it had been taken over by a company instead and they were sorry we were leaving. I called and wrote to them saying that we hadn't moved and wanted our account to stay the same, as it had been for the previous 7 years. Subsequently repeatedly told us they…
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Heating - longer but lower, or Higher temp and shorter??
Hi I have a question - is it cheaper to heat the house (GCH) switching it on for a few hours on full blast or keeping it on most day at very low. We are at home most of the time and especially this winter - it proved to be very cold without the heating being on longer than normal?
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Some advice on coin operated electricity meters
I've just moved into a studio flat in a big blog of similar studio flats where every studio has it's own coin meter. The problem is, it seems to be charging me an absolute fortune! I've read another thread on here saying that the landlord can't charge me more than he's paying but how do I work out what he's charging me…
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Quarterly Gas consumption -percentage
I get my gas bills in the middle of Nov, Feb, May, and Aug. I was looking at some old bills and found over the past couple of years I have used the following percentages: Mid Nov to mid Feb -- 42% Mid Feb to mid May -- 30% Mid May to mid Aug -- 10% Mid Aug to mid Nov -- 18% So if my pattern is typical?? someone with the UK…
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convecter heater running costs
I'll apologise for whats proberly a silly question.I have some wall mounted 500watt convecter heaters,I'm really pleased with them as they warm a room quickly.The control dail goes from 2 to 8.I pay 10p per k watt My silly question is if it was really cold and I turned the dail up full to num 8 would it still cost no more…
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Is there a Scottish Power tariff with no exit fees?
Currently on their Online Saver 6 scheme i think it is.....but want to take advantage of £100+ cashback offer with Npower! But Scottish Power charge £30-odd to leave on their tariff........anyone can help? Cheers! :D
