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London energy - take the hint please
This is what I just sent London energy. Do you think they will take the hint? Regards X Dear Sir I have retained proof of posting of this letter. As you seem unable to hear very well, then clearly phoning you is ineffective and I have, this time, written it down. On the 30th of January I arranged to switch my electricity…
Sweb Help
I owe Sweb about £250 for gas......I only use a Gas Fire and won't need it for 6 months now. They have been sending threatening letters for months, telling me they will get someone to fit a meter etc etc.....no-one ever turns up when it's arranged! I even suggested dates........no reply and no-one turned up. I WANT this…
Econ 7 CLOCK WRONG!!
Hi, I have both gas & Elec with BG. We had a couple of power cuts recently ammounting to 4-6 hours I guess. Meter reader called 2 weeks ago and advised that we need an engineer to correct the clock on the elec meters as they were 12 HOURS OUT. No contact as yet! Can any one tell me what implication this has for the cost of…
London Energy 'online' price increase
Seems EDF Energy (London, SWEB and Seeboard Energy) have increased the 'online tariff' effective since 9th March. But supposedly only for new customers, will not effect existing 'online' customers. The concerning coincidence for us, is that they waited till the 9th March to switch us over to them. So now I'm concerned…
Going back to British Gas!!
A couple of months ago I used USwitch to find, and change to, another Gas & Electric supplier (I never got the £15 'carrot' for using their website). Since then the new supplier (Scottish Power) has put the prices up twice. Since the savings aren't that great (maybe £20/year), and Scottish Power don't seem to…
Staywarm Gives Us Another Price Rise
We live in London and have received a letter from Powergen Staywarm telling us the monthly direct debit will go up to £62.57 a month on June 1st. So in the last 2 years we have had price rises of nearly £20 per month. We live in a 2 bedroomed flat in Central London and the Staywarm price does not include hot water which…
Final demand off Atlantic.
I was with Atlantic for my gas and electric, finished with them in October 2004. When I finished with them, they said they owed me £128. It took until January this year to get the cheque. the wording on the letter attached to the cheque stated. In full and final settlement of your account. Today 30th of April I had a…
Economy7 ??
I'm sure this question has been asked before, but can anyone tell me if I am better with economy 7 or on the ordinary tarrif. During the past 12 months we used 1663 units economy 7 and 4415 daytime units Thanks
capped prices or not ?
are the power "capped price" offers worth considering ? scottish power are offering capped prices to april 2007 at cost of £2.50 per month any experiences / guidance ?
Gas BBQ from America
I am in a position to buy a excellent quality gas BBQ in America to bring back to UK but I had a thought (what with the Americans being different on many things such as electricity) - will UK gas containers fit in the American type BBQs? Do you know? The suppliers here have no idea! Thanks. Clive
Private consumer with industrial usage
I spend £2400 per annum on gas in a six bedroom house with a gas fired aga cooker. I have been told that I am on industrial usage levels and as such I used to get a reduction to reflect this. Apparently last September this facility was scrapped for residential customers. None of the internet sites accept this level of…
First time gas electricity and water
I have been going through the threds and there is much stuff about changing over to cheaper companys I have just moved into a new place is there any where where i can find the cheapest for first time utility users cheers michael
What is the average gas/eleccy bill
My combined gas and electricity bill comes to just under £75 a month. This is approx £25 gas and £50 elec. I checked I am using the cheapest supplier through the links on this website and only Npower works out cheaper by £21 a year but I recently switched from them due to the atrocious customer service. My central heating…
Npower Charging Extra Charges On Independent Gas Transportation Pipes
I live on a new development and am currently in the process of swithcing from SWEB to N Power for gas. N power have written to me today, informing me that they will be charging me a higher unit cost for gas, as the supply pipes are partly owned by an independent gas transportation company and that they have to pay…
Bristish Gas 3* Service Contract
We pay over £130 per year for the 3* Service Contract with British Gas. Does anyone know of a Service Contract that is cheaper and will cover our Gas Central Heating & Hot Water systems to the same standard?
Changing over from pre pay
Hi, I wonder if anybody can help me :think: Im currently on a pre pay meter for both electric and gas and have been since we moved here 6 yrs ago. I need to sort some stuff out as we are buying our house :T :T now, but this is going to leave me with a scarey big mortgage. Anyway i need so save some cash, but i dont know…
electric storage heaters
hello all i need advice! i've just bought a chalet in west wales (near St Davids, nice iawn) and its really quite chilly. apparently i need overnight storage heaters - are they a good idea? expensive? is there an alternative -i'd have loved a wood burner but dont think i can have one in mu aluminium framed chalet... all…
combi boiler and gas fire maintenance
hi,i was wodering if anyone knows of a company that does a yearly combi and gas fire mantenance programme also covering me incase of breakdowns etc.i've looked at british gas and also london energy who i'm with and they both do contracts costing approx £160-170 a year....does anyone know of someone cheaper? :)
british gas central heating care-pricing policy
having taken out british gas central heating care at £16.00 a month i was dismayed to find out that at least two people i knew were paying less than me(with similar systems) .Anybody else had this problem. i have now switched to Powergens central heating care @ £13.00 a month and when i informed BG of this they made no…
Cashback after switching supplier
I changed suppliers of both gas and electricity - one using energyhelpline.com/cashback and the other using saveonyourbills.co.uk/cashback. Over two months since I changed, I have not received any cashback and have not received a reply to an e-mails I've sent. Has anyone else used these services? How long did it take for…

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