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EON bill - CRAZY amount
Hi All I was wondering if anybody has experienced anything similar. PLEASE help if you have... We moved in to our property February 4th 2020, prior to moving I made sure that I contacted bulb to switch over from my old address to this current new address. Bulb managed to complete the switch over on the 23rd of February…
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Another Con for Combi Boilers
Since getting a combi boiler I have had to disinfect my kitchen drain quite frequently with disinfection and boiling water boiled in an electric kettle as the water from my hot tap is not hot enough to kill all the germs and micro organisms leading to the drain being smelly. I never had do do this when the water from the…
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To good to be true solar claims?
Hi. I've just had a sales rep from a solar energy installer visit, and talk me through what they'll install and how much it'll cost me, which was £11,500!!. This system will have a total 4.8kW of panels, 2.4kW SE facing, 2.4kW SW facing. A smart battery (I forget the make) of around 5kWh storage capacity. An inverter, and…
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EDF not so smart meter
At the beginning of this year we had SMETS2 meters fitted by EDF. The engineer was unable to complete the task as they wouldn't connect. He didn't leave the in house display with us. Over 6 months on we are still in the same position so we have to do manual readings. All the mobile networks have reasonable signals here. Do…
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Storage Heaters without Economy 7
Hi Everyone, I currently have storage heaters as my only heating and am on an old two rate meter called “twin heat A”. Essentially it’s on the cheap rate for 3.5 hours at night and 3.5 hours in the afternoon. In order to switch and get a dual rate from another provider I would need to replace the economy 7 meter though as…
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Hit with a £1000+ bill by Bulb
My mum recently called me in a panic as she's been charged over a £1000 by Bulb in one month and she is on a very low income. She has been paying £97 a month direct debit to them for a year or so based on their yearly estimate (calculated from the previous energy company's readings). They have asked for photos of the…
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Just switched and monthly cost has increased but on fixed rate???
Hello everyone, I am posting on behalf of my parents, they switched gas and electric supplier in March via uswitch and my Mum signed up to a 12 month fixed rate tariff, at the time she was priced in at around £53 per month, its just the 2 of them living in a bungalow and they are very particular with turning off…
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ENGIE Home to Octopus - forced change
Hi all, I was originally with ENGIE for energy but they sold up to Octopus. Since the change over the bills have been confusing and difficult to understand. When I put in a monthly ‘read’ this doesn’t appear to generate a bill, just an update on the account balance. Is this usual Octopus practice? Thanks!
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Combi Boiler Water Flow Rate Slow or Fast for Efficiency?
I have a combi boiler and when turning on the hot tap I have to let the water run for a while until the water runs hot. What would use the least amount of gas, turning the tap on and adjusting the flow so that the minimum amount of water (that switches on the boiler) flows and takes longer until the water gets hot, or…
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ScottishPower Excluding Current Customers from their Cheapest Tariffs
ScottishPower Excluding Current Customers from their Cheapest Tariffs The cheapest tariff I’ve found currently from ScottishPower is “Super Saver June 2021 B2”. However, if you do an energy comparison check and enter your own details as a ScottishPower customer you won’t see it listed, as it will be filtered out (totally…
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Forced into a supplier and rate i didn’t sign up to
* I moved into a property on 8th July 2019 and tried to switch the Energy supplier. I thought the switch was successful as payments from the new supplier were being taken from my bank account during the period July19 to October19 inclusive. * Unknown to me the previous tenants suppliers (Enstroga) blocked the switch,…
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Erroneous transfer advice
Hi, I'm a tenant of three years in a flat and am currently undergoing a second erroneous transfer. My initial energy provider lost my gas to another company 18 months of so ago to Spark energy while my landlord changed estate agents. This was eventually sorted and Tonik regained my gas and electric. More recently I got…
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Srorage Heaters vs Electric Radiators
Hi, I live in a small flat (owned) which only has electricity on Economy 7. I need to replace at least one of the three storage heaters but am wondering if this is the way forward for me. I am at home quite a lot during the daytime but, obviously, am finding the storage heaters run down by the afternoon. Is it feasible to…
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Storage heaters vs electric radiators
Hi, I live in a small flat (owned) which only has electricity on Economy 7. I need to replace at least one of the three storage heaters but am wondering if this is the way forward for me. I am at home quite a lot during the daytime but, obviously, am finding the storage heaters run down by the afternoon. Is it feasible to…
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I supply complaint
any suggestions as to how i can resolve a dispute with isupply. They ignore my letters and emails and have just handed the debt onto a collection agency. I changed supplier last December no problem and was paying by direct debit. In April the sent me a cheque because they said I had overpaid by being on the wrong tariff.…
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Solar Panels wholesale?
HelloI wanted to put a few solar panels on top of my new verandha and feed a nearby immersion heater with a newly matched (voltage?) elementWere do the installers go to buy their panels :)ThanksHarry
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Honeywell Evo home set up after reset
A few months ago we bought a house that turned out to have a nice Honeywell Evo home system installed. The previous owners didnt leave us any info on it, but I managed to get my head around the main bits (making sure the house was more less warm and we had hot water). Though there were still some parts that we couldn't…
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British Gas Fiasco
Sorry but this is really long winded and does not contain everything. I changed my payg meters to standard billing ones (dec19), fed up with overpaying tariffs and nagging sister. I set up my account with the energy club, Chose my deal, it didn’t go through (I tried a few more times), Fed up, I then tried another supplier,…
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Changing gas/electric supplier when moving to new rental.
This is the situation: Daughter moved from one rental to another with one month overlap. Old property was with British Gas. She used a concierge service to change her gas and electric to Octopus for the new address. Octopus contacted her after she moved in to say that previous supplier for the new address was blocking the…
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Impossible to get off Prepaid meter
This is going to be long so please stick with me: Background: GF now Wife moved into this property in 2014 I was in dead end job earning 17k a year & gf was working part time in bar when we moved into property prepaid meter suited us as gf was paid weekly so we always had money to top up out of her wage. in 2017 I took on…
