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Paying for Gas with pre-paid top up card
Hey, Is anyone paying for their gas with a per-paid top up card that they fill up at a pay point machine? I've just started rentig at a place and it is a little weird. Plus it seems to go down very quickly. Do you also have a problem topping up the card? I had to go to three different newsagents before I found one who…
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Could a leak in the system be driving up my gas bill?
I have a weird boiler which loses pressure and then sometimes randomly gains it based on whether I have turned on a radiator valve etc. I recently got a gas bill for £300 just for a quarter. Could this have sent the price up?
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Changing meters - U Switch are so wrong Beware
Please, if you have a prepayment meter and want it changing, read this before going to U Switch - it may help you I recently moved into a rented house for the first time. It had prepayment meters and British Gas were the suppliers. Within the first week or so it became apparent that they were costing me a lot of money, far…
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Can I escape Economy 7? Is it worth it?
I have a large family and I'm spending a lot on electricity, even though the heating and hot water are on gas. According to Southern Electric, last year we used 5369.94 kWh at the day rate and only 930.16 kWh at the night rate. Yesterday I used energyhelpline.com, who say I could save £200 a year by switching to…
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Economy 7 Storage Heaters, need advice!
Hi, We moved into a council house (3 bed) Dec 1st. The house has a total of 7 storage heaters that work on economy 7. We have only been using 5 on a low setting. We received a bill for 1 month Dec 1st - 31st of £344! We have been told the meter may or may not be running incorrectly but it cannot be checked for a couple of…
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MSE News: Eon becomes last of big six to hike energy prices
"Eon's prices will rocket by an average 8.7%, hitting four million users in the pocket..." Read the full story: Eon becomes last of big six to hike energy prices
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New boiler
Hi all, I've just woke up this morning to find the pressure in my boiler has gone. Added it via the normal means and it dropped again in half an hour. Had it fixed a few months ago and the guy said it was nearly 10 years old and was on its last legs anyway. On that occasion it was leaking and he just tightened everything…
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Am I paying too much for gas?
For the past 3 months I paid £125 for gas. I only live in a one bedroom flat and I don't have it that hot either! Does this sound just right or too much?
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How long for refund ?
Not sure if anyone will know but .... Have quite a big british gas credit and I would like a refund - I can't get through on the phone and wondered if anyone knew how long it takes them to refund the money once requested ? Thanks in advance :)
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JAN 2013 POLL: How Much Do You Spend Per Month On Electricty?
I also want a new poll so here it is!! (What d'your last slave die of???)
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Is it more cost effective to have radiator temp set to max on boiler?
I have a thermostatically controlled boiler whereby it has a sensor which senses the temperature and if it falls below a certain temperature the boiler switches on the radiators. Once the temperature increases and reaches the desired temperature the boiler turns the radiators off. On the boiler there is a min / max control…
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Npower withholding my refund of £928 since Oct 2012
I moved house on 28th September 2012 and cancelled my npower account. I was informed I was in credit £928.70!!!! I am still waiting for this refund despite numerous complaints to them. They even sent me an incorrect letter in November asking me to the £928.70 immediately which almost gave me a heart attack. I was told in…
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Loss of Electricity for 15 hours - no recourse unless 18 hours
Please could anyone advise me. Our electricity went off at 11pm last night, and back on at 2pm today . I have contacted Npower (supplier) who say nothing to do with them and transferred me to National Grid who say as it was less than 18 hours they do not pay compensation but will send a letter for my insurance company for…
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urgent safety warning about certain cookers and carbon monoxide
Please check the following link for an urgent safey warning issued regarding possible carbon monoxide issues with certain cookers Issued by the HSE http://www.hseni.gov.uk/gas_beko_safety_notice_uk.pdf
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After a little help re: gas and electric
Hiya, sorry ive been searching this site for ages to try and find an answer so hope im not repeating everything. My partner and i are just about to move into a housing association property, the tenancy starts on the 21st January, and it will be our first property (both of us have been living with parents) but i have no…
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7 degrees upstairs
I'm recently widowed, retired and live alone in a 4 bedroomed semi. I'm all electric with no gas at all. (immersion heater on normal tarrif of 12.97p per kwh but it isn't used much) I have 2 living rooms with electric fires and only switch on a fire in the room I'm using. I have one very old Heatstore storage heater (uses…
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want to switch but am trapped
We have been with Npower for a while, but I want to switch us. The problem is that apparently we are over £500 in arrears according to them. We pay by monthly DD and we were £200 in arrears last year, so they DOUBLED our monthly payments after we questioned it (their bills are so complicated). We have not used any more…
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Switching from electric to a gas boiler and heating
I have a 2 bedroom flat on the ground floor that has been build in 1991. The house had 3 storage heaters (2 for the living room and 1 for the hallway) and two small heaters for each bedroom. We replaced those with simple Dimplex heaters as the old heaters looked awful and the storage heaters made it a sauna in the morning.…
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Scottish Power used incorrect readings
Hi please can someone help. I have just been advised by SP that they have read my meters incorrectly and that they will be back-dating my bills to claim this back. This works out at £12,000! This does not seem right as they have admitted under-charging me and not including one of the readings as they should have done. This…
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A pleasent surprise
Scottishpower (already cheaper than British Gas) have REDUCED my DDM in the middle of winter when we have all our NSR on and two convectors on too and theyve frozen the tariff till june 2014 leaving BG was hard, they dont like to let go, my DDM is now 75% of what BG wanted readings are not estimates either
