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heating 1 room, cheaper using central heating or oil filled heater?
Hi, we have a 4 month old baby and when its cold and night she wakes up, we live in a 3 bedroom semi, will it be cheaper for me to switch on the central heating and powering all the radiators or just use a oil filled heater to regulate the room temperature, the heater is a 1 or 2 kw and the room size is 13 feet x 12.5…
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E on Letter received
Has anyone else had this letter,i received a letter yesterday advising i was going to receive A HIGH GAS BILL in capitals across the top of the letter , they gave me 7 days to re read the meter and call them to discuss.On receipt panic kicked in and i went and read the meter and called the number,i waited some 8/10 minutes…
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Gas & Electricity Prepay vs Billed
Am currently on prepay meter but have heard it works out much more expensive than bill. Is it cheaper and worth it? with british gas for both gas and leccy
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Received letter to say meter needs changing..do I need to watch out for anything?
Received a letter from Southern Electric (not our gas/elec supplier) to say our electricity meter needs changing and that an engineer will be in our neighbourhood at some point and will just change it. The electricity will be disconnected for a short period. It goes on to say we don't need to be here if the meter is…
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Moving to Scottish Power, problems
This is my first switch, I know! In March chose to go to SP with their OES 13. All was well, but BG still asking for gas reading and not sending final bill set alarm bells off. Thursday sorted that SP had taken neighbours gas meter point ref as mine. So I had to sign up again with SP now on OES 14 which seems to be…
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Pre-payment meter advice
Hi all, I'm moving house this next week into a property with pre-payment gas and electric meters. We're currently on normal meters and have never used pre-payment type so was after some advice with them. I've requested a home move with my supplier (British Gas) and they are taking over the supply from e.on in late july…
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Gas & Electricity - big 6 or small supplier?
I have been looking at my bills and something needs to be done as they are getting too high. So I have been having a look on the comparison sites, but they only seem to cover the Big6? I don't see any of the smaller suppliers on there. So it is going to be quite a slog comparing prices. Has anyone here got a list of all…
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Early Termination Fees
I decided to switch my electricity supply to NPower from EDF and I have just received the introductory letter from NPower. Npower say that my contract with them starts on 9/6/11 but it will take another 5 to 6 weeks to sort out. I am under contract with EDF until 30/6/11 and face a £25 Early Termination Fee if I change…
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Switching from Eon Fixed Online 8 to EDF Fixed S@ver 2
After a lot of confusion, head-scratching & complicated spreadsheets, I've opted to switch to EDF. God this is hard work! Who ever thought competition was a good thing? It's another full-time job to sort it all! Just house & car insurance to sort now... So far as I can understand it, it is _impossible_ to have a…
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Scottish Power - extremely dodgy practices going on!
Can the Scottish Power rep please explain why they have moved the qualifying date for the Online Energy Reward from 7th June to 31st July? When I signed up, it said I qualified for the reward if I stayed on the tariff until 7th June 2011. The email I recently got about price changes states that to qualify for the reward I…
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How did SP arrive at the average of 19% and 10%?
Please could I request that someone could explain how SP have arrived at these figures as many people are quoting increases far higher than the afore mentioned amounts.
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EDF paperwork + cooling off period
Going through Moneysupermarket (Martin's link) last Sunday, I decided to switch from Eon Saveonline3 to EDF Fixed 2014. giving me 12 'cooling off' days to mull it over as it will be 24% increase for me:eek: However, I am still waiting for the paperwork to come through. Am I correct in thinking the 12 days start from when I…
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My SP electricity standing charge going up by 83.06%, yes 83.06%
I put that in the thread title in case any of the media are looking in. It just isn't true that, as (say) the BBC reported, SP electricity bills are rising "by 10%". I wish. And I can't do anything to reduce the standing charge so will have to try to switch. B*st*rds.
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Price Comparison for First Home?
I may be being stupid here, but how do you get quotes from price comparison sites for your first home? Just rented a flat and moving out of my parents' house, so obviously their energy usage in a three-bedroom house will bear no relation to mine so there's no point putting in the figures from their bills. But without this,…
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Another question for the Scottish Power rep here
Is there an e-mail address at Scottish Power - I just want to say to them: please quote me for moving to a Premier Plus package (from Standard on-line) which (I see from someone else's post on this forum) is much cheaper than mine even after the price increases. I don't want to be made to wait on an 0845 number forever to…
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british gas payment in advance
I'm with British Gas and las year paid a year in advance for gas as it was a cheaper tariff. They have sent me a bill for this years gas in advance but when came to pay on phone they are telling me that this method has been stopped. When I asked why they had sent me the bill they couldnt really answer and said it was a…
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help - working out gas and elec bill
Hi can anyone help... I moved 5 months ago, I have the readings from when I moved in for gas and elec and I want to work out roughly how much I will owe. I cant enter the readings online, its not letting me for some reason, and when I called edf they have an automated message saying there is maintenance and they are…
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advise on utilities and reducing bills
We ate with Scottish power at present but with a pre pay electric meter. I would like to reduce costs and looking for some advice. Firstly we are paying £71 a month direct debit which over the year is slightly more than what we use. However we are round £450 in credit at present as the boiler broke for a while. Ideally we…
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How to get small final bill when leaving EON?
I am leaving EON SaveOnline2 (Dual Fuel) for an EDF fixed. Have been told to take readings close to the end of the 12 day cooling off period and create a bill before they freeze the online account. That way the final bill, that is not at a reduced rate, will be small. Does this generated bill have to be paid immediately…
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EDF which tariff is best?
We are changing from prepayment meters to DD and are with EDF, i have been looking online to see which tariff is best and being new to all this was wondering which would be the best to switch too?? We have been on the standard tariff with the prepayment meters and the meters are being changed on the 29th June. I have read…
