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Grant for air heating pump
Hello all. This is my first post and I'm hoping you can help. I think I'm going to need a new boiler soon and have seen a lot of adverts offering government grants to change from GCH to air pump heating. Has anyone any experience of these grants or heating systems? Thank you 😊
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Solar panels and meters
My supplier, British Gas, accused me of stealing because my meter was going backwards. Consequently they visited my property and changed my meter. My bills increased as time went on. As a result of their unfounded accusations I changed my supplier to M & S Energy. As we all know this past 18 months has not been easy and as…
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Pozitive energy PLC
Has anyone had dealings with this company? I recently moved into a property and the electric company was them. I changed to British Gas and my bill is £50 per month. Pozitive have now decided to send me a bill for the month before the changeover IT IS £500 Is this legal? I have not signed anything with them, the electric…
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Solar Panels
Just had a visit from Evergen solar about installing panels on the roof which when done will increase the value by approximately £28000 .Has any body else had figures like this it seems too good to be true.
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LPG
The team and Martin do fantastic work on our behalf re energy prices and advice - however for those of us without mains gas we are stuck with LPG (or oil or electric) - there are only a few LPG suppliers and they hold us to ransom increasing prices as and when they feel it necessary. Is there anything we can do to bring…
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Mis-selling problem
Hello all, I was a Green Network Energy customer. My account has now been automatically transferred to EDF. When I swapped my dual fuel account to GNE I did so based on their figure of £80 and some pence p.c.m., given the details of my previous bills and usage. It became apparent that I had accrued a large debt during the…
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SYMBIO EMAIL
I have recently received a very long email from Symbio. I have a lot of misgivings about it. This is a small excerpt. Will someone knowledgeable analyse its implications? We have therefore added functionality to our system which will allow a more familiar model. We detail the changes below but it is important we reiterate…
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Help - can Calor make us go on paying a tank standing charge if we install an Air Source Pump?
Hi, we are delighted that our landlord is looking to install an Air Source Pump as our Calor bulk bills are super high - but when we tried to cancel Calor we were told we'd have to still pay a standing charge on the tank ongoingly, if the supply wasn't be passed on to a new tenant. Surely there must be a way around this?…
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Switching from Economy 10 - a metering query
Hi all. Until recently, my Dad has been on the same "Storage Heater" tariff with SSE / Southern for many years. Although they didn't call it Economy 10, it was certainly characterised by having three meter readings to take - for Day use, Night use and a time-limited 'Storage Heaters' reading. < For clarity, as well as the…
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Being charged by two different companies for electric
Hi, im being charged by Scottish Power and British Gas for electric to the property i live in, both claim to supply us! Where do i stand? backstory: moved into a new build house Feb 2019, electric was supplied by Scottish Power, we were told by landlord to call all suppliers they listed to set up accounts etc with them.…
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Ebico and British Gas problems - which company is responsible and what is Ebico exactly?
I was an Ebico customer. Ebico went out of business and the account was taken over by British Gas. I had an unresolved dispute with Ebico about billing before they went out of business. There is now a further issue with regard to a final bill from Ebico which British Gas have charged me. Next, after my account has gone to…
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PFP Energy tariffs
I have signed up for PFP Energy Greem Energy Summer saver. MSE Cheap Energy Club showed PFP Green Variable S2 online as way cheaper than my current tariff, Bulb Vari-Fair. PFP told me that their Green Summer Saver tariff was the same price but online comparisons are not showing this...does anyone know if I have in fact…
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Electric oil-filled wall-mounted radiators
Hello all, I'm looking at replacing our old storage heaters for an alternative wall mounted radiators with 7 days timers and thermostats, oil filled would be ideal as we have found those were completely noiseless hence suitable for bedrooms. Storage heaters never worked for us and we have removed those at our previous…
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Central aircon with old ducting
Hi Just wondering if anybody has fitted an ASHP to work with 1970’s steel ducting? I’d like to replace my E10 electric warm air storage heater (10kw) and the ducting and vents are already in place. A suggestion was to fit a ducted inverter like this:…
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Ground source heat pump and the existing pipes!
Iam hearing alot these days about Government plans to phase out gas boilers in favour of the new boilers(what ever they call them). We have just completed a 3 years house refurbishment job which cost alot of money, tears and sweat and it included tiling the ground floor twice within 2 years (Cowboy builders messing up…
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Simbio Energy.
How can I change my tarriff from Simbio when it is not listed in the energy club? I am on Fair and Green variable renewal B5.2, and they are going to change me to Fair and green variable renewal B5.3 on 1st July, which is a steep 17.535 pence per KWH and 28 pence per day standing charge. I am trying to get a good…
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Oil fired boiler in Narnia
We have an oil fired boiler which has become increasingly cranky. The pump has been replaced, it's better, but we still have an intermitent fault. The house had an annex we let as an Airbnb, the boiler is located through a door in the back of the built in wardrobe so once we have a guest we cannot access it to press the…
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Energy Club's 'no exit fee' option does not work for PFP contracts
For several years I have used the Energy Club to to either find a good price or do the switch. Difficulties were rare until I tried PFP's 'Fixed - May 2022 - Green v1' a short while ago. The first problem was that PFP refused to honour their energy holiday promise and so I left after less than two months but PFP are now…
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What will happen to rural (off gas) heating options? What should I go for??
Advice please 🙂 - I am a single father of two young daughters. I work full time and don't qualify for any benefits / income support etc. Not wealthy but government aren't going to help me at all. We live in a small cottage in a rural location. We have no mains gas out here. We have a heating oil fired central heating…