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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
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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…
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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…
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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?
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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…
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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…
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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? :)
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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…
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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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Looking to change Electricity Supplier's
As the title says, I'm looking to change Electricity Supplier's from Scottish Power. I'm currently £60 per month. That is partly beacuse I underpaid around £200 last year. I hear about all these offer's of only paying £20 or £30 per month which would be an obvious saving of £30 or so per month, now my question is, are they…
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frequent power cuts complaint
I'm billed by BG for my electricty, which I think is supplied by southern electric? The problem is in the past month we've had numerous power cuts some lasting hours. One episode lasted over most of the weekend. I'd like to complain as its not good enough really. Who should I complain to?? :mad: thanks
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WATCH OUT! British Gas Door to Door Man quoting wrong info to get me to change over.
Please excuse if this is not quite correct as this is my first thread ive started. I would like to make people aware of what happened to me in the last few days though so hopefully it doesnt have to happen to anyone else. I had a British Gas man knock on my door wanting me to change over so i told him that just within the…
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Switching from Economy 9
Hi everyone. First post so I hope I'm not going over old ground with this... I'm on an Economy 9 electricity rate provided by London Energy. I think this rate is pretty rare and I'm not entirely sure of what the benefits are. There's no gas supply in my house so heating is by storage heaters and the water is heated up by…
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NPower online billing
I have just signed up for NPower for gas/leccy and I seem to remember that they mentioned something about online billing facilities. I've had a look at their site but can't see any links.
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Powergen Customers That Pay By Direct Debit
For all those of you who use Powergen and pay by direct debit just check your bills from sept 2004 to date. You should have recieved a letter last sept telling you that if you paid by direct debit you would get 3% off your bill.Having just checked mine for the last 2 bills is was given £2.50 off each bill when one should…
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Central heating grant?
Appoligies if this is the wrong part of the char forums for thia to be posyed. Please feel free to move me if ive put it in the wrong place. My friend told me today thats shes had central heatig put inot her own home and it was paid for or contributed to by a grant as she is on a low income. Can anyone please give me any…
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Just had my First Elecy bill in 10 months
Scittish power/Manweb have just billed me my first electric bill for 10 months after they forgot to bill me after I switched to them it has come to £288. How long should they give me to pay it? If they let me pay over 10 months I will be paying double for my electric over the next 10 months. I spent 25 minutes on the phone…
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EDF energy & Nectar points
I'm trying to work out whether if I sign up for nectar points I lose my discounts to EDF? I have just been on the website and there is a box about swapping something for 800 points but I can't make head nor tail of whether that is IT or whether you get so many points per useage etc. Anyone shed any light??? Link is edf…
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Computer electricity costs
Just as a matter of interest, how much electricity would a computer that is always switched on use per day?
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