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Pre-pay gas meter- amounts seem high
Currently seems to be costing about £25 - £30 per week in gas for a small two bedroom house. Is this normal? Any suggestions as to how to reduce?
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Best Economy 10 tariff?
Hi there, I'm having trouble finding any info on Economy 10 rates on price comparison sites (Uswitch etc) - seems they all only cover Economy 7. We are using E10 rather than E7 due to the fact that our house has electric underfloor heating (the 'storage' type installed in the concrete floors - so you need the daytime…
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MSE News: Post-Christmas chaos: know your rights and how to claim compensation
"A post-Christmas cold snap caused thousands of homes to lose electricity across the UK, while overrunning engineering works led to huge disruption to train services..." Read the full story: Post-Christmas chaos: know your rights and how to claim compensation Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the…
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Microwave clock & Cooker clock
Out of curiosity do the clocks on appliances use very much power? Thanks
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Will a solar panel heat one radiator?
We have just had a conservatory/utility room built on the side of our bungalow, 15' x 5'. It has no heating. Would it be practical to install a solar panel to heat one radiator in the room? The only other alternative is an electric heater of some sort which would be far to expensive to run. Thank you.
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Any good deals going?
I am a low energy user about 9900 gas and 2000 lecy (KWh). Thought i'd ask in case someone has all ready done the leg work.
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Immersion Heater (Gas or Electric) or Electric Shower
Hello, We are redoing our bathroom and dont have a combi boiler. Currently we heat our immersion heater up prior to showers/baths etc. We can do this via our GCH or via Electricity. We are considering an electric shower to save on the time/energy of continually switching our immersion on. It takes 10-15 minutes to heat the…
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Experience of switching to the smaller energy providers?
My fixed period with M & S energy is coming to an end. I have used Energy Club to do a comparison. The cheaper suggestions include First Utility and NPower which I choose to ignore due to personal experience and negative reviews. The other saver options are the smaller providers which I have never tried before so hesitate…
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Gas Useage???
Hi, just looking for a bit of advice on my energy useage. I live in a 4 bedroom detached house approx. 2000 square foot in size and have a new modern boiler and mega flow water tank. I have just monitored my gas useage for the last month and according to my meter I have used 267 cubic metres of gas. Does this sound right…
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Scottish Power the worst
It took them ages to transfer me. They lost my first reading. If you try to call them be prepared to stay waiting on the phone for hours before someone answers. All I can say is the are the current cheapest for me with no switching fee.
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Useage discrepancy high gas /low elec ?
Comparing my annual energy uesage from april to april with 2 suppliers i noticed that with my current supplier i used 33% more gas BUT 26% less electricity according to their figures -is this normal or is there something wrong with the figures ? I have a smart meter and my current supplier bills were higher from £90 of old…
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Condensation and mould issues in flat
Guys moved into my flat nearly 6 months ago. It's a split level ground floor flat the block has 3 floors. The issue is the bathroom has a spotlight which I think is also an extractor but it seems useless also the windows in the flat are very very old, they look like very old double glazing with woodern frames, the building…
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Prepaid Meter to Direct Debit
I have just done a application on here to Co-Op energy. So its direct debit, at the moment the house is on a prepaid meter as I have moved into this house just recently. But im wanting to know who changes the meters for gas and electric instead of prepaid meter, i want them out and i want the original meters in.
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Leaving Utility Warehouse but......
Firstly I'd like to say Hi (I have been a lurker for ages but have now registered yay!) I'm thinking of leaving UW after going onto a couple of comparison sites (this one included) and realise we can save nearly £500 a year! The only thing is... We have a mobile contract (24 month with a smart phone) with them. Would this…
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Despite claiming otherwise, E-ON haven't been taking meter readings...
We've been in our flat for over 2 years now, and when we moved in we quickly discovered that we don't have access to our electricitry meter: it is in a service cupboard that residents don't have access to. We immediately informed EON of this, and they told us its incredibly common, and not to worry as they would be sending…
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Cold bathroom making rest of house cold
I've recently moved into a rented house and I'm struggling with the heating. We have all the radiators on in the house (3 bed terrace with bathroom downstairs) and can get it to 18 after a couple of hours of the heating being on. As soon as it's switched off it drops to 16. The radiator in the bathroom is the one that has…
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lost gas card and electric key SSE
Hi please could someone advise me ? I currently have pre payment meters for gas/electric.my partner went out last night to top our key /card up before doing so he lost his wallet, with card/key and every penny we had in it. We are down to 40p emergency on electric and 90 p on gas emergency. We rang SSE for new card/key to…
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Warning re 24/7 Home Rescue
Dear all I just wanted to give some feed back on the terrible service we have had this Christmas from 24/7 Home Rescue. Firstly, they are not 24/7 - whist you can make a claim with the engineering company they outsource their work to, you can't actually speak to them directly because they are closed until 5 January 2015!…
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Help please !
hello all i am new to this site, but i seen alot of martin lewis on the tv lol anyways i have recently changed to utilita, which me personaly it is costing me alot of money compare to my current supplier (scottishpower) does anyone no the price or anything for helping me cancel this provider, i have the smart meters…
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Advice, sorting somthing out for someone else
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