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Help with costing utilites!
Hi there, I am after some very rough figures on utility bills for a small commercial property. I have viewed the property once and have yet to get specific details from the agent but am trying to piece together some rough costings. 1000sqr ft shop to be used as a Physiotherapy clinic. So far i can see a small sink and…
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Cheaper Energy Club.
I've recently joined the club to see if I can find a cheaper energy supplier. Presently I'm with British Gas (Online Energy) and pay approximately £420 - £450 a year for both gas and electric, by direct debit. I think what I am paying now is quite low compared to many. However, when I fed my details in to the Cheap Energy…
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economy 7 blunder
I received a call a few weeks back and was asked by the agent at British Gas wether I was on the correct tariff as my economy 7 readings implied that I wasn't consuming 40% of my energy during nights. Not having a degree in energy billing I acted dumb and asked for clarification. Basically unless you have an immersion…
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Immersion heater or Combi Boiler?
Hi, I've just bought my first flat and it would be great to get some advice on heating systems? The flat has an old immersion heater, along with a nice Gas stove that heats up the wee flat in no time. But! - it doesn't have a plumbed in shower. Wondering if cheaper in the long run to save up and install a combi boiler and…
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Economy 7 times strange happenings
Hi all I have been looking at my meter a bit more closely this week as Npower seem to be having a problem with my bills and have written to me saying that my meter reading was wrong at switchover from british gas last October. I had ton's of problems back then but I thought it was all sorted out. Anyway that's the…
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Help! I Think I've been getting my 2 rate readings mixed up!
Hi everyone, I am with British Gas, and enter my meter readings online, I have a 2rate meter but only a single display. It's always on 2 and I'm sure I read that 2 is the day and 1 is night, but I've just had another look online and it's the other way round? So which is day and which is night? If I've been getting them…
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E.on lied to me about warm home discount?? :mad:
Hello! I moved into my rented property on the 3rd december 2012! I phoned E.on to sign up for them to supply me both my electric and gas! The call went great and was all done and sorted in about 10 mins! Towards the end of the phone call I asked the man if I could also sign up for the warm home discount scheme as I had…
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Boiler gas pipe location from meter - outside house?
Hi all, As a follow on to my last posting about the boiler quote I've been advised a pipe will need to run from the gas meter in the outside cupboard across the wall at the front of the house and over the front window and into a new hole in the wall in the kitchen. Is that normal? It just sounds like it would look quite…
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EON chasing for a bill I don't owe!
Not sure if this is right place to post this. Basically I have a business unit, took it over 4th April, contacted utilities providor and signed up to a business contract, told would take a month to switch and I would get a final bill for standard pricing Gets final bill of nearly £300 saying had used over 1000 units of…
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EDF, moving house can't keep fix
To cut a long story short, I took out the EDF Blue price promise May 2014 before last winter. I believed that it was a tariff that I could transfer when moving house, but now they tell me that if they are the current supplier at my new house they can transfer, but because they are taking over from British Gas they have to…
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Npower... very confused
After years of trouble free service from npower why have they done this... Obviously I'll give them a call but thought I'd share this to see if anyone else has this issue. Basically npower bill twice a year but you pay a DD monthly with the idea that you build up a credit for winter... I've just had my February to August…
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Diary of my Electricity/Gas transfer N Power
I thought it would be a good idea to keep a diary on how my transfer to N Power goes and keep it updated as times goes on. Not much to report at moment only to advise my cooling off period finished yesterday. Now waiting for the next stage to kick in.
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About to move to a house with E7... Switch to 1yr or 3 yr fix?
Hi all! In two weeks I will complete on my house purchase that has only electricity!! So is currently on economy 7 with British Gas. In my current rented house I am on a blue price fix with EDF, and have always had dual fuel. I am worried a bit about the cost of E7 with storage heaters and will take some time getting used…
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Huge switch ( energy helpline.com) cash back problem!
We followed advice from best switch deals on Martin Lewis advice email, and switched to British gas as we has pre payment meters and the offer looked great £90 cash back when you switch, so we switched through huge switch ( energy helpline.com )and all went smoothly, we were promised £65 after 6-8 weeks of going live, then…
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Confused about switching gas and electric companies.
Hi. I would like some advice on switching gas and electric companies, very confused at the moment. We moved into a rented property that has a British gas pre payment meter and are currently waiting for First Utility to take over and put a standard meter in. Looking at some comparison sites, N Power usualy comes out…
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Problems Switching from Glide
Hi, I have recently moved in to a rented property and the previous tenants were with Glide energy. We have chosen to switch to Co-Operative energy as their prices are much better. We've been hit with the bill from the last 2 months from Glide which is about £49.32. This seemed like a lot, seeing as we'd barely been in the…
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switching gas or electric providers
Hi All Is there any easy switching guides when switching gas or energy providers? In the main I just want to know is there any easy benchmarks of knowing when it will be safe to change from older provider to new without avoiding unnecessary charges? I know for mobile phone contracts you just need to know when your minimum…
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British Gas final bill...8 months after moving
British Gas claiming I owe them money for a property I moved out from in January. It started at £35/month d.d. which shot up to £120 around December. It was electric heating so I didn't grumble too much at the time especially knowing we'd be moving out soon anyway. Last week I noticed the direct debit still on my online…
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Clarification needed on energy offers
I've joined the cheap energy club so that I can switch my gas and electric to a cheaper fixed option. I just want confirmation that when it says on the right hand side of the quote for example "plus £30 cash back after 3 months" if this is included in the calculated saving on the left hand side. Checking out the additional…
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Energy 'volcano to erupt' with 10 per cent price hikes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/household-bills/10232886/Energy-volcano-to-erupt-with-10-per-cent-price-hikes.html I'm so glad I've just fixed until Feb '15
