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Permissible gas meter location
I'm in the process of buying a house which currently has no gas connection. There is a live gas pipe capped off in a large walk-in cupboard under the stairs, which we want to convert to a downstairs toilet. The pipe is a good 30 cm away from the nearest wall, so I don't think there is any option of keeping it where it is.…
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Cheap Energy Club Calculator is wrong
My current deal (Yorkshire Variable): Gas: 25,000kW @ 2.14p/kWh = £535. Standing Charge: 16.73p/day = £61. Day Elec: 700kW @ 12.2p/kWh = £85. Night Elec: 3,500kW @ 7.85p/kWh = £275 Standing Charge: 20.88p/day = £76 Total: £1,032 Best offered deal from Cheap Energy club website (Shell): Gas: 25,000kW @ 2.59p/kWh = £647…
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Green Homes Grant - Battery Storage for Solar Power
Hi Everyone, I have been investigating the Green Homes Grant and wanting to see if anyone has found a way to get Energy Battery storage systems with this grant. Our home is only a few years old and built with Solar Panels on already. So I have all the main kit installed (Inverters etc) and also tap off solar energy to heat…
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Out Fox The Market
Out Fox The Market 18 months ago I
changed my power supplier to ‘out fox the market’. Yes they are the cheapest
but beware they kept my account in
credit well over £100 and when asked for some money back they just claimed that it was needed for when I got
higher useage. I final left out fox the market in October this year…
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Solar panels
Help required. I'm in process of selling my late mum's house n just found the solar panels are in my late brother's name, now passed to sister in law. According to my late mum, she paid for the panels. EDF basically say tough. Not their problem. In discussion with my solicitor n OFGEM at present. Any help would be…
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First House Energy Tips...
Hi, Me and my partner have been in our first house for almost 3 months now... Following a naive choice to use look after my bills for simplicity, we've had 2 months of hassle with the initial supplier claiming the supply back as an erroneous transfer continuously we are back onto the standard variable tariff with the…
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Shell energy Smart meter trial
I am currently with Shell Energy for our gas and electricity (switched in September). A couple of weeks ago I received an invitation email from Shell energy for Smart Meter trial if I can book an appointment of fitting before 18th of December. In return they offer "either a new Geo Trio + Heating smart thermostat for your…
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Symbio Energy - check your bills vs direct debits
I have recently left Symbio Energy and am awaiting my final bill.I decided to calculate what my final bill should be (based upon my closing reading) but also verify my billed usage against the direct debits that have been taken.To my surprise, the total direct debits taken up to an including my October bill, seem to be…
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Octopus Energy
Having given my exact energy use over the last year Octopus offered a very favourable at a reduced monthly payment. So I changed to them as my supplier. Just one month in and they are saying that as I estimated (!!!!) lower than my actual usage they have to double my monthly payment. Clearly they just offered low rates to…
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Issue with Bulb
In Oct 2018 I switched energy supplier to Bulb. They said they would sort the switch and needed nothing from me other than some basic information on my house to set a dd based on average usage for my circumstance which was done. In Jan 4th 2019 I provided my first meter readings to get accurate billing and since then have…
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Eon debt repayment fault
Hi all, hope this is in the right section. I have a gas account with Eon and was in debt with them in March 2017 for £980, a payment plan was setup for £5 per week to be taken from the pre-payment meter. I received correspondence to say that as of October 2020, the meter will be setup for £5 per week and the balance is…
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warm home discount
Martins money recommends me to switch to .scottishpower. Super Saver December 2021 B1 but when I checked about warm home discount if they do the WHD it says you have to be with them since july 2020 I was told I would only been shown warm home discount companies by the martin compare energy with bulb right right
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Tonik Energy transferred to Scottish Power but at what cost?
So Tonik Energy ceased trading on 10th October and Ofgem decided to move us over to Scottish Power. We were advised not to switch to another supplier until the transfer to Scottish Power was complete. Fast forward a month and we are finally allowed to know how much we are being charged for our Gas and Electric. I ran…
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Communication hub lost contact with E.ON ?
I moved to E.ON on 1st October and according to E.ON I still have to give manual meter readings. This is despite the HAN, WAN, SW and GAS lights flashing normally i.e. once fast with an interval of around 4 seconds. I am told that E.ON have sent a request to the DCC to receive a firmware update to allow E.ON to be able to…
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Boiler
Just had boiler fitted via EON installations. Not impressed still got leaks. They set water 60 far to hot put down to 48 . They set heating 75° is that the best setting. It's a worcester bosch 30i. Thanks guys
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What's an acceptable temperature to avoid putting on the heating? :) :)
Or asked differently: what have people set their thermostat to before the heating comes on?
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Safe to stop my direct debit ?
I'm just changing energy supplier and have a £235 credit with old supplier. New supplier will take payment upfront on 6th December , old supplier DD due to come out on 1st December. So rather than pay 2 lots of energy (especially with Xmas coming up) would there be any foreseeable problem canceling my DD at old supplier ?
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Energy company didn't inform next one of change of meter (Twice)
Hi, I am in a what feels like a bit of a unique situation as I haven't been able to find an answer from googling. I was originally with Scottish power and I requested them to install smart meters. They installed the electric one first but I swapped energy provider to Npower before they changed the gas meter. I never…
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Just had a new credit meter, can I switch suppliers straight away?
We moved into a house a few months ago that had pre-payment meters, we changed suppliers to the same one we were with at our old house but found out they were unable to change the meters to credit meters at the new one as they don't change meters. They suggested we swapped to one of the big six, change it and then come…
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Is it worth getting off a deemed energy tariff for 2 weeks before new provider takes over?
Hi, Ive recently moved into a new apartment and have switched (today) to British Gas Evolve. They should be taking over within 2 to 4 weeks. In the mean time, i'm on a deemed tariff with EON. Is it worth me switching to one of EONs cheaper energy plans for 2-4 weeks before british gas take over? Or will this just cause…
