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Moving Gas and Electric for the 1st time
Hi all Can you please help me decide something. I have live in a 2 bedroom coach house in Swindon for the last 6 years and have been with EDF for the duration who supply my Gas and Electric. For a number of reasons i would like to now move away from them, but unsure where and what to move to. I would consider myself as a…
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Should I heat the water at a higher temp?
I wondered if I should set the hot water stat a bit higher to say 65c - the system is unvented and the tank a megaflo. It stays warm and I wondered if having it hotter so when we use our mixer showers we use less hot water and more cold feed. Does this make sense with the idea of saving gas? All things considered, being an…
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EON heatwise
i have just bought a flat with 1 night storage heater and also have a gas condensing boiler with hot water rads in all rooms. Eon tell me that to get out of their 'heatwise' metering (in my view something of a rip off) i will have to have this night storage 'system' rewired. can any one tell me me why? i understand that i…
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Final Bill
Hey Guys, This is the first time I am posting on this forum, and hope someone can give me some advice! I have just moved into a 2 bedroom terraced home - and at the point of moving in, I grabbed the Scottish Power 2014 fix. The house was supplied by BG previously, and from today both gas and electricity is now provided by…
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Comparison Sites - are they accurate?
I've put the same data into 3 different comparison sites to find out the best energy tariff. They generally rank the best deals in the same order but the amount of savings vary considerably. Eg. Which? comparison = £222.70 saving with EON tariff Moneysupermarket = £431.16 saving with EON tariff U Switch = £363 saving with…
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Which way to go?
I have done an energy comparison with a view to switching supplier and it turns out that the best deal for me is with my current supplier but on a different tariff. So do I just carry on switching through the energy comparison site (getting £15 in process) and the new tariff. Or do I phone up the supplier and asked to…
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Low cost roof insulation
Fibreglass or Rockwool rolls of insulation have been available at DIY stores for £5 or less. I need to top up my roof . Homebase are not stocking any roof insulation and Wickes have disposed of all (but for one rather expensive product). B&Q have some but at around £30 a roll - this makes insulating rather expensive! Has…
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just checking my reasoning re: thermostat
Hi all, I just wanted to check my reasoning on a central heating issue. Our thermostat is in the hall where we have a massive (about 7 foot long!) radiator. In fact the biggest rad in the house. We have double glazed front door so it is not drafty. Therefore the hall tends to be the hottest part of the house when the rad…
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confused with EDF switch
I was supposed to be switched to EDF from 8 November (electricity), 16 November (gas).. I was about to give EDF my meter readings the day after tomorrow.. But today I logged in t my edf sife and noticed this. The date pushed to 5 December?? I'm not sure how to understand this. For 3 weeks the website was saying that…
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cheapest
Im with britishgas and would like to know if i can save money. any ideas who to switch to without any fees?
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Is anyone else having a problem putting DOB in aut system with Eon?
Hi, Eon have changed their security questions, and when using the automated system, instead of asking for post code, they ask for date of birth. Well, no matter which way I say it, or put it in using the key pad, it won't accept it! I pay my bills with my debit card, and I had to pay by being put on hold, and waiting,…
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Edf
Advice please. We moved house five weeks ago and put in our final readings to EDF. We received a final bill and were given a refund of over £200. We proceeded to transfer over to EDF at the new house. Just over a week ago we had an message from our bank to say we had gone overdrawan by £500. I went on internet banking to…
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EDF Energy
Not sure if anyone can help with this but i will fire away, i have recently sold my property and a offered had been accepted on a new property. I contact EDF with my final meter readings but made them aware that i would not be moving into the new property untill approx 4 weeks time. In this 4 weeks time everything possible…
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Wrong meter reading for a year
Hi everyone, For the past year I have been supplying British Gas with the readings from meter "x" as when I first moved in British Gas confirmed that of the 3 possible meters (x, y & z) the reading on "x" related to my flat. A year on & after having a gas engineer come & perform the yearly landlords gas certificate check…
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EON and British Gas final bill
Hi folks, I moved home and took a dual fuel EDF deal, I closed my previous accounts with EON for Electricity and British Gas for Gas - their final bill showed me a £100 credit (yay!). Do you know how long it would take for them approximately to refund me? Their websites are not so clear on this... thanks!
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Huge npower bill
We have been having major issues with npower. We got a bill in may saying we owed them £3484.67 in back dated electricity dating back to oct 2010. We immediately realised this must be wrong, initial contact with npower they told us no this bill was defo right and we had to pay! I rang back a few days later and said I…
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Electricity night reading not increasing?
Hi I've noticed the last 6 months or so when taking my electricity meter readings that the night reading hasn't increased at all, obviously the day reading has. I've just recently changed my electric package to the Scottish Power Online Fixed Price Energy April 2014 (No Standing Charge) Can anyone explain why this is…
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Shared Bill ? My Rights
Hi Everyone, i am new to the forum and i hope i am posting in the right place. My son shared a student house last year at uni, he is one of three people named on the gas and electricity bill from e.on. although there were four in the house. My son and two of his friends payed their share of every bill online (so have a…
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E7 Storage Heaters & E7 Water Heating - General Information Overload
meggapost Night Storage Radiators Comprise of a combination of both a storage component and a direct acting component, with the storage heating forming the base load and direct acting heating forming the 'boost' requirement. As a general rule all rooms must be well insulated for night store systems to work reasonably well.…
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First Utility -advice required please
I annually receive a duel fuel discount circa £200 paid to me by cheque every December from First Utility, however they have withdrawn it this year due to an "outstanding debt". My problem started about 1 year ago where my gas meter had stopped "clicking", I immediately advised FU who sent an engineer who travelled approx…
