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electric wet central heating and tariffs!
I've just changed from white meter storage heaters to a Heatrae Sadia Electromax combi boiler giving me controlable central heating and hot water. Problem is I'm very confused as to what electricity tariff would be best for me. I am with Scottish Power and was on White Meter Comfort Plus. However, to cut a very long story…
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Switching dilemma
Currently with Scottish Power (Gas & Elec) on Online Fixed Price energy until the end of Feb 2011, with no penalty to leave. Current best rate (capped until 2012) seems to be with Scottish Power. However if I switch, not only will I be paying more than I currently am, but I won't get the discount advertised by the…
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British gas tariffs
can anybody tell me what "rate 1" means on the prepayment electric key meter please ? :think:
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British Gas Home Care Policy and Repair charges
I took out a British Gas Home Care 100 policy out around a month ago and had my first service booked in for Friday 9th June by the time the service date came round the boiler had developed a fault with the Gas Value. As the boiler was faulty on the date of the first service the engineer said that the repair would cost £230…
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E-On disputed bill, what can I do now?
Hello all, I wondered if anyone can please offer some advice on what my partner and I can do to resolve the bill Eon are currently disputing with themselves....I shall explain... My partner and I have been in the same apartment for a year and 3 months now. We have never had any problems with any previous bill. We received…
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British Gas Fiasco
Hi, We moved into a new build flat in Mar 2010. The plot numbers we were alloacted had changed during the handover, ie our plot 5 was later changed to Flat 7. Our Gas meters are under plot numbers, so instead of getting our flat's bill we were being billed for another flat's bill. We are trying to sort this problem with…
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At Cost Energy - Any Good?
Hi folks I know its been discussed regularly on this board, But thought you may be interested in my blog on the subject of At Cost Energy Martin PS please can you feedback in the link from the blog rather than this one.
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MASSIVE EDF PRICE HIKES (from August 2010)
This thread pertains to anyone on EDF Online Tariff Version 5 and possibly other online tariffs. If you have received the following letter from EDF please list your current tariff here so we know which are being affected. This letter from EDF Energy is a classic example of marketing misdirection. This technique involves…
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5 Digit reading or 6 digit, billed for £5000
Hi We have a commercial food business, and been there for 19 months. Paid all Britsh Gas electric bills upto date, and had a metre read man out at least 3 times. Then we get a bill for £5185.22, and previous bills showing we have paid. (with 5 digit readings). This large bill goes back to march 09, and in May 09 they have…
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advice on possible back billing of an unregistered electric meter
I posted recently about an unregistered electrcicity meter in the flat i was renting. (Long story short- no bill throughout my tennancy, i was told by previous tennants there was no bill and assumed was included in rent, turns out the flat was simply not being billed by supplier- am stil to work out exaclty why- but seemes…
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Is it worth switching if tarrif is only until Sept?
having completed an SOA recently and having some frightening reading I am working through all of the ways to save money. One of these was checking out my utility costs and from using tescon and confused I saw I would save approx £120pa by moving to NPower. :j When I read the more info section it said the rate given was…
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Ebico
http://www.ebico.co.uk/ anyone using them? what do you think?
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Wall mounted thermostats !
Does anyone know if you must have a wall mounted thermostat if your radiators are fitted with individual ones ?...............Just had a new regular condensing boiler fitted by british gas and the wall one was fitted with it. The reason i ask is that i want to heat the bathroom towel rail only yet they fitted a standard…
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need help with calculating bills please :)
hi, i need some help! my boyfriend is in the army and will shortly be moving to Catterick, as we are not yet married we can't live in married quarters but are really desperate to move in together, we have found a small one bed flat for around 350pm and are just wondering how much gas, electricity, council tax and any other…
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Advice on cheapest gas provider and tariff
Hi, after not using any gas at all since 31st may, i have checked my pre payment meter today and its teling me i am almost £17 in debt, on closer insection i am being charged a standing charge which i'm not supposed to be charged. I dont really understand the charges/ tariffs very well thats whey i've come on here for…
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unexplained rise in cost and usage?
Okay, so the deal is I currently live in a flat with 4 other people...we're all students, but the flats are leased by a construction company. Been here 3 years now, first year was great, but it's gone downhill from there. We are given £1,000 inclusive energy for the year - if costs exceed this, we have to make up the…
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NPOWER ripping me off - please help!
Hi all, This is my first post on here so I hope I'm in the right place :) Basically, Npower are trying to charge me for a bill of £518.74 for electricity at an old address - but for dates over a year after I moved out!! The house was a shared, rented house where I lived for just 3 months - April 2008 to end of June 2008.…
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Boiler broke and radiators leaking/corroded
HI everyone this is my first post and really need your help - My boiler which is 20 yrs old has finally gave in and requires replacing along with the leaky/rusty radiators. The problem is i have a good job but was made b/rupt a couple of years back and find it hard to get finance - what can i do as i need heating/hot water…
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Refund of credit balance
I am £250 in credit with my utility company. Am I, therefore, entitled to request a refund of the £250. I have checked their terms and conditions but can't find any reference to this.
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£30 a month actual spend on elec - reasonable?
We have gas central heating, gas cooker - electricity for all other main appliances, 3 bed house with 2 adults, 1 child - and we're spending as much on elec as on gas! Average spend for April, May and June was about £30 per month. Any ideas, anyone? How can we cut back?
