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New oven surprise
Two weeks ago our 9 year old bog-standard Whirlpool built-in fan oven decided to die on us, so after a lot of research online, we replaced it with a basic fan oven made by Stoves. Having lived with this thing for a couple of weeks now, we're still being amazed by the difference in electricity consumption. It's obviously…
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Is electric central heating a bad thing to have?
Hi My other half and I are currently house hunting for our first place together and we saw a flat we really like at the weekend. The only thing is that it has an electric central heating system and no gas supply into the building. This is the third place like this that we've come across on our hunt and we're not sure if it…
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Central heating plumbed to hot water?
We had a new combined boiler fitted last year. With the weather warming up it has only been the last few weeks that the heating had been off for prolonged periods. Gradually we have noticed that the front room radiator is still warm, we have switched it to winter mode, set a low temperature but still had a warm radiator.…
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Are SSE having a laugh..??!!
Hi all! We got our quarterly bill yesterday from SSE. We only get our electric through them and British Gas provide our gas. Our last bill in December was £279.82, which isn't bad for three months. This bill is £423!! We use an electric heater (2000kw max, but usually on 750) for around 6 hours a day. We have two laptops…
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Obfuscatory Lunacy of Ofgem (or is it just Ovo's?)
For some insane reason Ofgem has decided that discounts must be included in quoted unit prices and daily standing charges. Have a look at the "All our plans" results table after asking Ovo for a quote. All there is is a list of incomprehensible numbers down the right hand side - no clear indication of any discounts…
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Somebody needs to stop Npower
I am at my wits end with Npower. Same as everyone else, left after 10 months with no bill and diabolical CS. Then shocked with HUGE final bill. Disputed the bill to be met with a brick wall saying it is correct. Then got a phonecall to admit the bill was wrong and now they have put my account on hold. Hurrah I…
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Identity Cloning
Wondered if anybody can offer me any help. About 4 weeks ago I received a bunch of Electricity bills from British Gas for a company set up in my name over six years ago. I have no knowledge or involvement in this company and phoned their customer service department to be told someone would call me and ask various questions…
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Energy bill of £175 per month??
Im with EDF, and sent last month 1-st of march readings, now sent again on 1-st of april, and got back a bill of £105 Gas and £60 elec + 5% vat. totalling at £175. Is it really possible to use £100 worth on heating or is something off? As gas is used only on heating the house (3bed half semi). Electric might be ok, as we…
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Boiler - combi, system or electric?
Hi there I've moved into a 2 up 2 down house recently with an old style gravity hot water system and a 11 year old Baxi boiler which I was thinking about replacing with a combi in order to reclaim the space being used by the hot water cylinder which is in a corner of the living room. I'm a little reluctant though when the…
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Switching Engergy Supplier seems to be costing me dearly
Hi I am at present transferring from First Utility to Ovo to save money or so I thought. My tariff with First Utility came to an end on 31st March. I was paying £115 pm by direct debit. After that it would be their standard rate. Ovo are taking over my account today. Last week I had a letter from First Utility saying that…
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Flow Energy - New provider
I got a message from cheapenergyclub, that I could save £9/year with FlowEnergy (dual fuel) with no cancellation fees (fixed tarriff) £9/year isn't much, but for a click it wasn't bad :D Though I then decided against it, purely because I have a Santander 123 account, which gives 2% cashback ie: £55/month = £1.10/month…
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Boiler - ideal logic + versus baxi platinum
Hi, after some friendly advice if possible. I'm looking at replacing our old boiler. 2 makes I've had mentioned are the ideal logic plus - 7 yr warranty, and the baxi platinum -10 yr warranty. Anyone had good/bad experiences? Thanks in advance for any help given.
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any tarriffs out there with zero standing charge?
I'm renovating a couple of homes which are probably going to be empty for 6-12 months. There is very little or no gas/elec usage because of this. I do not want to be paying standing charge on something when I will either not make any use out of (i.e. no gas usage at the moment). So basically I want to know are there any…
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MSE News: EDF to launch fixed energy tariff for prepaid customers
"EDF has announced it'll become the second of the big six energy suppliers to offer a fixed tariff for prepaid customers" Read the full story: EDF to launch fixed energy tariff for prepaid customers Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply. If you aren’t sure how it all works, read our…
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Help: New Combi Boiler Prices - Manchester??
Hello, I'm new to this but wondering if anyone could give me some advice please re 'reasonable' costs I should expect to have a replacement boiler. I've a 25 Yr old+ conventional boiler (Maxol Homewarm 600) that has just died. I knew it was old when I bought my property so knew this day would come I suppose! British Gas…
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What % of my gas bill is hot water?
Ok I have a condensing system(conventional) boiler and I heat water twice a day for about 2 hours in the morning and about 3 hours at night(kids baths). Heating on 2 hours morning and 4 hours at night. What % of my gas bill is for hot water? Looking at getting solar/thermal because of the new Renewable Heating Incentive @…
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Cheap energy club - wrong calculations
I have just received an e-mail alert to advise me I can save money on my current Scottish power dual fuel tarrif. Trouble is the calculation is wrong, my spread sheet and that of U-Switch show my annual energy usage is over £120pa less than that shown by Moneysaving experts, Cheap Energy Club. Not a good advert of your…
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Energy Saving Club ! <--
Hi there just a very quick question. With the 'newish' switch service, MSE energy saving club for gas electric etc. How many times can you access that service a year? Say 10 months down the line, you use it again, will you still be entitled to that £30 cashback? Say with the likes of the others, it has a year duration…
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Boiler insurance-REPLACEMENT boiler cover included
Hi all, forgive me where no doubt there are previous threads on this-but on a quick search-i cannot find any answers to my specific query. obviousy there are a myriad of companies offering boiler service plans/breakdown cover, but at same time only a limited number who include replacement boiler cover-new for old in the…
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Trouble with Npower
Hi wondering if i could get some help please i am so frustrated. i moved into my current address just over a year ago and Npower supply the gas and electric to my address the electric is monthly DD and the gas is a prepayment meter. Problems so far it took them from march 2013 till feb 2014 to finally switch the accounts…
