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Heating timer... dilemma
Hi everyone, Which do you think would be cheapest: to have our gas central heating on continuously for an hour or two in the morning and evening to heat up the house or to have it on intermittently (on for 15 minutes, off for 15 minutes alternating) for a longer period of time? It is a big 6 bedroom student house and we…
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Monthly Utility Bills quick question :)
I've just moved into my brothers house on temp. basis until february. It is a 3 bed-room house he lives in with his girlfriend. He said he'd go through his bills to work out a fair payment a month so i can cover my share of the bills and what not. (gas, water & electricity). He's come back and said that I'd need to pay…
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Erroneous Gas Transfer
Hi, can anyone offer any advice please? We've lived in our house for 10 years, in that time I've changed gas & electricity suppliers 3 times. The latest change was to Eon who have discovered that my neighbour's gas meter and my gas meter's registration numbers were inverted when registered 11 years ago after the houses…
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Changing from PrePayment Meters to Normal
Hi all, We have been with British Gas for our Elec and Gas for 1 year now with prepayment members for both due to moving into the flat a year ago and the last person had them fitted. Does anyone know any supplier who will fit normal meters and change to direct debit instead of prepayment ones without paying a charge…
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Advice needed, Threats to cut off.
Hello I was wondering if anyone can give me any advice. I moved into a new build in april, right away I got hold of a payment card with southern electric and paid money in weekly. My statements from the company show i've paid £90 infront and I felt I was doing well. In may I got a bill asigned to a company, they are the…
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combind utility bills
I currently pay my utility bills through utility warehouse. That is- gas £63.00 a month electric £58.00 a month and combined phone and broadband £32.00 a month (most land line calls are free) with tax the combined amount is £168. a month. Am i getting a good deal as it is hard to do a comparison with it all combined ?
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Changing Suppliers.
Im currently with NPower and words cannot describe how much i hate the lying thieving toads. Ive been waiting for a large cheque to come from them before i switched but today i realised how much i ned to change when i put £20 onto my meter and the stupid thing took £16 of it for " debt ". We have no debt on the meter and…
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EDF new customer bonus - switching date?
Hi all Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, I have done a couple of searches and not found the answer yet, so excuse me if this has been covered. We're currently on BG Websaver 4 which will end on 10th December - if we do nothing we'd be shunted on to BG standard tariff. However we've already been on this for…
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Electricity usage?
We are a family of six in a three bed end terrace with a loft room. According to SWALEC, we are using £80-£120 of electricity per month, and have built up arrears of £500 as our dd was too low. Please can I ask, is such a high usage normal? I admit to using the washing machine two or three times a day (on the economy…
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Help needed! meter mistakes and backdated bills
I moved out of a flat in August and attempted to pay my final bills. I gave the electricity company a meter reading and they sent me a bill for £80 ish which I paid. They then told me that the meter they had been reading from all along wasn't mine and that they needed to find out the real meter reading and rebill me for…
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Can you calculate my electric/gas usage please?
I've had the newsletters from Martin urging people to switch suppliers. I haven't lived in this property for 12 months yet so I'm unable to calculate my annual usage to compare on the comparison websites. But, I have photos of my usage from March to November of this year. Can someone please tell me how many kw's I've used…
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Leaving cooker door open after use?
Hello I have a built in hotpoint cooker that came with my newbuild house. i was thinking of leaving the door open after use to heat the house....can anyone see any reason why i shouldnt keep the door open after use? will the heat damage the outside of the cooker or the door seals etc?? thanks nathan
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E.ON Final bills!!
I moved out of a property in 2009. I gave E.ON my meter reading the day i moved out. My fianl bill was sent to my new address, it was higher that expected, when I questioned this I was told it was because the two previous bills had been estimated. I arranged to pay the £591.77 bill by installments, which I finished paying…
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meter confusion!
Hi could really use some advice: When I moved into my flat 3.5 years ago the landlord told me that since it was a conversion (from 1 big flat to 2 smaller flats) that my flat didn't have an electricity meter yet as my supply still hooked into the office downstairs (the supplier was EDF) and he would arrange the meter to be…
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British Gas price rise
I received the letter yesterday informing me of the British Gas price increase starting in 34 days time, this is not enough time to switch suppliers, at the bottom of the letter it said to phone if you wish to terminate your contract and avoid these changes. I do intend to move supplier, so I called them and was subjected…
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Advise On Switching?
Hi just had an email from 'Scottish Power' the deal is 'Online Fixed Price Energy 2011' seemingly the deal ends 28th February 2011. Present Electricity rates are 9.942p per kWh (day) & 4.986p per kWh (night) should I switch now? or wait until it ends? The cheapest plan is 'OVO' who I have never heard of? & their…
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Would I be wrong in switching to British Gas?
Hi, we have just moved into a rented house. Comes complete with gas and electric prepayment meters, yay! Both are with EON, have been told by landlord we can change to normal meters if we wish but that the prepayment meters are the same price as most standard tariffs (True or not, they are WELL expensive!) Gas for four and…
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Scottish Power Online Energy Saver 11
Perhaps the SP company rep could answer this one for me please? I'm currently with SP for electricity only (we have no gas here) on the Fixed Price 2011 tariff (fixed till end of Feb 2011). As an existing SP customer, can I switch (now) to the Online Energy Saver 11 tariff or is this for "new customers only"? I have online…
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First time switch - contract?
I am new to this switching game! If you switch is there likely to be a contract lenght of say one year? Or if I switch now will I be free to make another switch anytime in the future? Thanks.
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My Eon deals finishes 01/12/10 - When can change
Hi, MY Eon Fixonline v3 expires on the 1/12/10 and I want to know when I can change my utilities provider and get a capped deal before the price hikes. There is a £30 fine if I move before that date but as Martin says it can take up to 2 months for it to go through. I don't want the fine but I don't want to leave it until…
