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Can I find out costs before I move in?
Hi Me and my husband are due to move into a house next month (renting) and am keen to start my budget planner before I move in so as not to be surprisewd by hidden or unexpected costs. I know the layout of the property (how many radiators etc) and even have the postcode. Is there anyway I can find out he estimated cost of…
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npower gas debt problems. any help plz
right, i owe npower £234 and have been having problems sorting it out. came home yesterday and found a letter from a company called meterplus, saying NOTICE OF INTENT TO APPLY FOR A WARRANTY OF ENTRY. the letter contained a number to ring which turned out to be npower. so i rang them today to sort it out but npower are…
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British gas payment problems and complaint
Dear all, My situation is the following and any advice is very welcome. I moved into a new house in September and used the British Gas house moving service to set up a new account in my new house. The house was supplied by Scottish Manweb, so it had to be switched first. After that, I didn't receive any correspondence from…
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British Gas Home Care
Is the Bristish gas home care worth having? They have 4 different types, although i think i would only be interested in the boiler care and maybe the rest of the system. Is it good value, or is there anything else out there that is better value?
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Pilot Light Problem
Hi guys, I've got an old boiler in my house which was fitted by the previous owners. A new problem has popped up recently. My baby girl accidentally turned off the electric supply to the boiler. When i turned on the supply and tried to light the pilot, it would not stay after holding the white button for 20 seconds. It…
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Utilita no longer providing Gas and Electricity supplies (merged)
I received a letter from Utilita about a week ago stating they were levying a one off £40 added to my DD payment this month, due to the high cost of providing Gas and Electricity. Now, this morning i get a letter saying that they are transfering our account to EFD energy because they "cannot continue to supporting our gas…
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Switching.. twice.
Hi all, Wondering if I could get a hand here. Moved into a property in October last year, and we received a fair electricity bill, but no gas one. I called a supplier up who checked for us who our supplier was. I then called them up, and they denied it! So we have had no bill for our gas from October through December last…
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Scottish Power announce price increases from 1st March 2006
Scottish Power have just announced price increases from 1st March this year, of 15% in their gas price & 8% in their electricity price. CLICK HERE-BBC NEWS
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Economy 7 - Troubles Ahead
I have economy 7 i am wondering before going into more detail what the rates on the white meter are for. What time of day do the rates R1 and R2 apply, which is the daytime and nighttime rate ! So far i have guessed that: R1 = Rate One R2 = Rate Two T = Total (R1+R2 = total ammount of units used together)
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Horrific gas usage...need some advice please.
Hello everyone I'm in a bit of a tizz with this so please bare with me. I'm with British Gas and have owed them quite a bit of money, over the last couple of years and the odd dispute I've managed to bring down my Gas bill from well over £200 to £40. This morning I got my gas bill and we had used £319 worth of gas from…
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Which Electricity Provider after ZEST?
I was a ZEST customer and never had any problems with the - plus the politest 'We've gone into administration letter' every received. I'm in the London area (SW19) and had a direct debit of £59.50 or £690 annual spend on Economy 7 with 40% low usage, 12547 units 5160 low/7387 high. I'be done the online comparison site…
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Gas & Elec bill confusion!
Help! I have two days off and decided to have a look at changing my gas & elec supplier. I am with Scottish Power for both, on a bog-standard tariff, and pay a fixed monthly payment - Elec £62.50 and Gas £26 per month. (I had been paying off arrears on the Elec). However, I got a letter in December saying they wanted £73…
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Powergen Age Concern
For the third time, the energy comparison sites have told me that Equigas/Equipower is cheaper than my present Age Concern Pre Dec 05 contract with Powergen (by £35pa) .And at nearenough the same price as Equigas is....wait for it.....Powergen Age Concern., presumably not the pre Dec O5 tariff, but another one. Rang them,…
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Help Where Do I Stand
I moved into my current Rented acomadation in june last year and the elctricity meter was a prepaid token machine. At first I thought that the bills would be high but it worked out that we had to put £20 in roughly every 2 months, which I thought was quite reasonable. Since then British Gas has changed our meter to a new…
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Advice please - water use and Economy 7
We have Economy 7 but I don't think we use it wisely enough. Our use of hot water during the day is limited to hand washing, maybe some cleaning, and the washing machine (which is maybe on for 0, 1 or 2 loads a day, it varies). Baths are rare. Both our dishwasher and shower have only cold water going in. The washing…
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converting from LPG too Electric Ct Heating
has anyone had any experience of this type of conversion. Now available - the all-new E-TechW wall-hung electric system boiler. This range features five models with outputs up to 36kW, and best of all the boiler combines all the elements required for an electric system into one single unit : a one-box solution which makes…
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I want to change suppliers, but moving house soon
Hi, I'm moving house in about 4-6 weeks time, but I would like to change gas and elec suppliers. Would it be best to wait until I moved house to do so, or does it not really matter?
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Letting Agencies in league with Utilities
My letting agency sent me a letter this morning proposing a transfer of all their properties' utilities to Southern Electricity. This is a move I was offered last year but rejected as I wasn't 100% confident of the savings and SE's door to door rep was unable to answer all my queries. Has anyone else had a similar…
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Can they do this? - Powergen Rant
I have been with powergen for a while - over the last few months they rang me asking to hike the direct debit amount right up to something like 110 from the previous 50 quid to cover repayment of an amount that had built up because of a previous admin error when setting the account up. After a couple of months of this…
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Powergen blocking change of supplier?
Just wondering if anyone else had the same problem. In the last couple of weeks applied to Scottish Power so that I can be rid of Powergen once and for all. Have received all the welcoming letters communication. On Thurs Powergen rang me and asked me to confirm that I was switching and why. Was glad to tell the guy how…
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