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Standing charges (npower)
Can someone give a better description than google for standing charges? I need a better understanding of these charges particularly with npower, if you are with npower your input would be well received. Ok I have just moved home, my previous electric bills were between £50 and £100 a month. I now have a letter from npower…
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How does one compare the energy market?
How does one compare the energy market? why is there 5% vat on both gas and electricity prices. Does the Government not realise that the high energy costs impact on all aspects of life - if you cannot afford to cook hot food or to keep warm during the winter month it snowballs on the NHS- no, I don't suppose they do as we…
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Cheap Energy Club switching time - help.
Hi Everyone, hope you can offer advice. I moved into a new house at the end of may, i used cheap energy club to try and switch from current supplier (Scottish Power, though i've never had a first bill of them i contacted them and they said if i switch they will generate a bill from meter readings supplied to new supplier…
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Switching supplier at a student house - less than 12 months rental left?
Hi all, I've signed up to the cheap energy club and it looks like my housemates and I could be saving about £24/month on bills. However, we've only got a 12 month rental (until June 2015) on this place and aren't guaranteed to renew for a second year. Would this present an issue for energy companies if we were to switch?…
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Anyone putting their heating on yet....
....or thinking about it? The weather this morning said that next week (or Sunday night) is going to be a good time to start putting the heating on. :D Obviously I will be holding off for as long as I can take the combined complaints of SWMBO and DD. :rotfl:
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How much energy credit is acceptable?
Hi I am £200 in credit with my dual fuel energy account. It's just before winter so I imagine It's a good idea to have some credit, but is this too much? We pay £90 a monthy DD, and give regular metre readings which were last given in July. Thanks
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Getting a refund from British Gas - do I stand a chance?
I have two questions, one's about how they work out the refund and the other is about whether I am likely to ever actually get it. 1. Moved in to new flat early April. Discovered unexpected pre-payment meter! Set up an account with British Gas, the incumbent supplier. 2. Account set-up took a few days, in the meantime I…
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British Gas, Credit check!
Hi, Before I do anymore I wonder if anyone else has been in the same boat? Ive purchased a repossessed house, the gas and electric meters are both prepay with British Gas. I called them today with the plan of getting regular meters installed. Not as easy as I assumed, first I needed a credit check - which I have failed!…
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is eon the cheapest
hi ive just moved in to a property where the supplier for both electric and gas is eon as im considering switching to scottish power who were the suppliers in my previous property but im hearing eon are a lot cheaper
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help: Energy Company Advice
Okay, this is going to sound strange, but patience :-) My partner recently started a new business and was in process of fixing a price with nPower. All fine and good. Last week she got a call from someone claiming to be from nPower, going through the whole process. Turns out they weren't from nPower at all and were from a…
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Eon won't supply me unless I pay £400 security deposit.
Hello, Like everyone else I am on the hunt for cheaper energy to switch in time for winter. I work for the nhs and one of the offer for nhs employees was a good cheap tariff with E.ON collective fixed 1 year. This would have saved us £221 for the year. I applied for it and printed out all the details. At no point was there…
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Moving to a new house need advice.
Hi I'm moving to a house where i will be responsible for the bill paying for the first time. Was looking for some advice on how to deal with the gas and electric. Do we sort it out before we move in, Or is there a grace period they keep the lights on for so we have a chance to work out who to go with..Its all new to me and…
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New boiler advice
Hi, We want to upgrade our old potterton flamingo to a combi to save space in our small bungalow by removing the hot water tank (and maybe get an extra kitchen cupboard by putting new combi in loft). Is the loft a good idea? Also, why do different plumbers recommend different boilers? The general feeling is Vaillant,…
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What type of heating system
Hi all, I'm looking for opinions on what to do with my heating system, to get the holy grail of cheap and easy to run as well as supplying good amounts of hot water reasonably quickly. Of course I realise there are likely to be compromises to some of these, but it's worth a try! Also, though I'm looking for ssomething…
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Combi pressure query
Morning, I had a new combi boiler installed in May. Had the heating on to test it at the time but hasn't been on since. Pressure was initially set at 1.5 Have been checking it periodically and it is currently at 1.1 As I said, we've only been using the hot water, not the heating; would this type of pressure fall be of any…
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Central heating, no thermostat
We live in a 1960 built semi which always seems cold, we have cavity wall and loft insulation, along with double glazing which is 12 years old. We have an instant hot water boiler and a boiler which runs the central heating, it's about 25 years old and had no thermostat in the hall way like my old house. So we just put it…
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which supplier ?
Won't credit check you for a gas/elec account ? Sick of being ripped off by pre pay meter but got shocking credit
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help i can't turn the heating on....
Hi all I've just moved house and I can't turn the heating on. I've downloaded a manual but I still don't have a clue. It's a vaillant ecotec plus 824. I think I need an idiots guide! 😂
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helping dad switch energy companies, please help
Hi, Im trying to help my dad switch energy companies but he is a bit confused and I struggling to understand what he needs. He says he has a white meter for his underfloor heating. I'm guessing that what he means is he has a meter for off peak energy and whether he uses is for underfloor heating or anything else is…
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British Gas
i need some advice i am fuming with British Gas basically we pay our bill when we get it on a 3 month basis, i get a reminder to give them a meter reading then get a bill in a couple of days, i did this in both april and july and received a bill saying we had some credit and there was nothing to pay bonus i thought, well…
