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Compare, help please
I'm looking for cheaper Electricity than British Gas for prepay. Been using the compare sites and notices a fault I think. I put in I use £60.00 a month for Lecy, it says i spend around £100 per month. My use is £15.00 per week, therefore £60.00 per month. Add the £1.80 a week charge thats £12.60 per month. Therefore in…
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First Large Gas Billed Advice Needed Please
Hi Moved into my first 2 bed room Masionette over the summer. Just had my second quarter gas bill. Came to £178.13 for the 22nd Sep - 22 December 92 Days £1.94 a day. Usage was 5260.33 KWH which was converted from 470 units. In your opnion is this quite high or pretty normal? We have gas hob and gas heating for water and…
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Combi boiler help
Our old Myson Midas combi has finally bit the dust I think,refuses to light pilot light and making hideous clicking noises. Cant get anyone out to look at it till New year,so have decided to bite the bullet and get a new combi fitted,British Gas seem to have a deal on at moment,so got them coming on Wedenesday,think we'll…
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Flexicare300 & annual servicing
Has anyone been able to get British Gas to fulfil the terms of their contract IN FULL? Boiler service fine but anything else had to be a callout because minor fault repair was refused (and hence £50 charge would apply)....ironically, the same engineer would come back and repair said fault! My understanding of my £15 per…
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E7 v Standard rate
Just done comparison site review and had a bit of a surprise. Based on my annual consumption of 16944 units pa for an all electric home, the results mean I will be staying on E7 as opposed to my original plan of wireless controlled panel heaters. From comparison site cheapest E7 Scott Power online energy saver12 total cost…
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Revised bill from EDF
Hi MoneySavingExperts, I've just recently recieved my first bill from EDF based on estimated meter readings which are well over what I have actually used. Today, I have phoned EDF and got through to their automated system, where I submitted my actual meter readings. However, how do I request a revised bill? I have tried…
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New house - Gas & Elec on pre-pay meters - npower won't let us change..
Hi, I'm looking for some current advice.. My girlfriend and I have recently purchased our own home (Sept 2010) having lived together in rented accommodation for the past 3 years... We've always paid for Gas and Electricity via DD, and have never been late with a single payment (neither of us have any bad credit at all…
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Beware of Scottish Power Telephone Sales Personel Offering New Fixed/Capped Contract.
In November I switched from Scottish Powers Fixed Price Energy Online 2011 package to another provider saving a progected £90 a year. Yesterday afternoon I was called out of the blue by a Scottish Power rep who offered me their new fixed until December 2012 price package. He informed me of the rates for gas and electricity…
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Scottish Power contract renewal -watch out
Dear Forum, I am existing SP customer and my Online Energy Saver (OES) 8 contract came to an end recently, just as they increased their prices. They offered an automatic extension to their OES8 (DEC 2010) which saw my annual cost jump by about £200 pa Time for comparison I thought, there must be cheaper. Eventually I…
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£80 for 1 months Gas - this right?
Hello. I recently moved home, and immediately changed from the existing supplier to the supplier I was with at my old address, The process took about 1 month - from 6th November to 8th December. I've just had my 'final' bill from the original supplier of the property, and they're after almost £80 for the 1 months' usage.…
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Switching electricity suppliers?
Hi all Having finally woken up to the fact that I am paying too much for my electricity (I am on bottled gas), I am hoping to get some advice on switching from British Gas. To begin with, I am on the absolute bog-standard tariff, as below: Standard Electricity Tariff ( After 10 December 2010) Price per kilowatt hour (kWh)…
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Electricty Monitors
Hi all, Just plugged in my Npower electricity monitor. Have a laptop charging, one phone charging and a plasma TV on. (Plus our smoke alarm, clock on cooker, and boiler on standby) We're running at 0.355 kW/H which is much lower than I thought. Any tips on how to know what an average reading should be (I know it's how long…
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British Gas Price rises
I am on BG Websaver 8 and received an email notifying me of the price rise taking place on 10 December. So, on 10 December I took meter readings for gas and electricity and submitted them online. A few days late I received an email saying that my bill was ready to view. This showed an estimated reading made on the 9th…
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EDF getting me into arrears
I switched to EDF a few months ago and since the last company I was with, trapped me into being unable to switch suppliers, by getting me into a few hundred pounds worth of arrears and vowing to myself I wouldn't fall for the same thing twice, I have sent EDF meter readings each month since joining. Warning bells started…
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NPower Break In!!!!
Hi All New poster here, two days ago Npower broke into my house to perform a gas meter safety check whilst me and my wife were in work, this check had already been completed 4 months ago by npower contractor. Npower drilled the locks on my back door, entered the house, checked the meter and left new keys posted thorough…
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Can anyone understand their electricity bill from npower?
My latest bill from npower is the most confusing bill I have ever received. Nowhere on the bill does it state when the price is going up or what it is going up to. The table showing how my payment for the next 12 months has been calculated shows 10 levels of pricing. When I rang npower to ask for an explanation, they…
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Gas Charges Rebate (N-Power)
Afternoon Everyone I hope we're all enjoying the festive period. I had a search before I posted this topic so I didn't waste peoples time but I've either missed an earlier post or there aren't any posts covering this issue. N-Power wrote to me at the start of November to advise me that they would like to issue me with a…
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Gas/Wet Under Floor Heating (UFH) - expensive to run ?
I'm going to rent a flat, about 50 sqm area which has underfloor heating. The agent wasn't sure if it was electric or gas, but since the flat has a boiler she believed it was gas wet heating and will confirm me later. In the mean time, I wanted to check whats the running cost of Gas UFH and it seems thats about 15-40%…
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Room Thermostat not working
Hi, I have also posted this thread in diy, but have posted here aswell as was not sure where to place it. Hi, Hoping someone can help / advise me. It appears my room thermostat situated in hallway is not working correctly, does not matter what the temperture of hallway is always clicks below 10 in the same place at all…
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Solar power the gritty
Ok, so I'm sorry, but I cant read through the 85 pages of the solar power thread, but I would like to get solar power and the ? £800/year government payment. I have a south facing roof. I have two questions - 1. How do I make sure I get the governments £800 per year? and 2, Which company installs the panels cheapest?…