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Help with heating & hot-water options
Hello, I'm about to buy a 4 bed house (roughly 100 sq m) that has a gas boiler with a hot water tank & a cold water tank. This is quite dated & needs updating. I'm so confused with all the various options & would really appreciate some advice. I love underfloor heating but don't want to do the wet UFH installation (It's…
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Alternative Fuel Payment
Hello I just wanted to see what I could do about the alternative fuel payment of £200 as my heating is done through oil. I am with EDF for electricity and I have contacted them on chat last week and they said they weren't part of the scheme yet? Which I don't think is right? I rung them today and the advisor I spoke to…
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Alternative Fuel Payment
I live in a village with no mains gas and the majority here use heating oil and have received £200 AFPTwo people I know only use electric for their heating…one has received their £200 but the other hasn’t and when they contacted their electricity supplier they said they wouldn’t get it because they use electric.. one gets…
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Alternative Fuel Payment & Solar panels
Hi Everyone in my postcode has received the £200 AFP via their electricity supplier except us. We are with Octopus as are several of our neighbours. We are the only house with solar panels but we don’t use them for heating which is oil fired. Could the government be disqualifying us because of our panels? We’ve been with…
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Oil Combi Boilers
Hi, We currently have a Grant condensing oil boiler. There are a few inconveniences about the boiler. Firstly, it is in the cellar and would prefer it outside. Secondly, we have large cold water storage tanks and a hot water cylinder in a cupboard in the main bathroom taking up a lot of space. I was wondering about…
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Problems cashing alternative fuel voucher.
Has anyone been able to cash the vouchers if they have been sent them by post. If your bank isn't listed then you are supposed to use a Paypoint but what if there isn't one close that's viable? Any advice would be appreciated/
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Free govt boiler scheme
Hi. I'm on universal credit and unfit for work. I have an old gas back boiler fitted about 40 years ago. I was wondering if anyone had any info on the govt free boiler scheme any any good reliable companies?
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alternative fuel
hello I am with British gas and use oil fuel they have received my 200 pounds alt fuel payment. I am in credit already by 153 pounds and pay by DD 100 pounds a month which is adequate obviously for me as a single person I have asked when they are goung to put it in my bank but they say they don't have to? is this correct
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British gas AFP
Hi all, I've just received my £200 AFP today. I use LPG but British gas supply my electricity and the money has gone in my account as credit so it won't be paid to me. As far as I was aware the £200 is supposed to help me pay my horrendous gas bills, not to sit in British gas's bank account earning them interest. I can't…
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Alternative Fuel Payment
Hi I have not received my payment and according to the latest data my energy provider have completed all payments, I found a link to a website that holds postcodes for properties off the gas grid but my postcode is missing. I have raised this with ONS but they can't help. How do I apply for my AFP? I can't attached links…
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Alternative Fuel Payment
Anyone else having to chase this payment from an Energy Supplier? If GOV UK authorised these payments at the beginning of February, is it possible that these Companies are hoarding the money just like they are doing with the grossly over estimated Direct Debits?
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Gas disconnection rip off
I am all electric now and want to avoid the monthly standing order. Has anyone in the South East had any success in getting gas removed at a reasonable cost ? Octopus told me to get my network operator SGN to cap off the gas before they will take the meter away. SGN ( owned by the Toronto Teachers Pension Board ) want…
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Manual application date put back for Alternative Fuels Payment.
I noticed today that the information has changed on the .Govt webpage covering the £200 AFP https://www.gov.uk/get-help-energy-bills/alternative-fuels Not sure when it changed, but it previously said that f you weren't getting the automatic payment then manual applications would open towards the end of February. For those…
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Air pump, electric boiler or both!
We live in a 2 bed 1850 end terrace house with a current EPC rating of E. We have just had solar panels fitted and are looking to update our current oil heating system. Gas is not an option and we have been quoted £7500 to change our oil boiler to a combi, remove the water tank and move our oil tank outside (it is…
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Houseboat Offgrid Grants
My sister in law lives on a house boat she is off grid the goverment are saying they have a grant for people to claim to help with heating of £200, but when you go on the portal it asks for your address,my sister in law uses her mums address as a care of for her letters, you put that in and it says you cant get the…
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Households in NI, in park homes and those using alternative fuels will receive energy grants in 2023
If you live in Northern Ireland, or you're in Great Britain but you don't pay for your energy bills directly or you use alternative fuels, you'll receive your up to £600 energy support payment in early 2023, the Government has confirmed today. This will be paid automatically to those in Northern Ireland, though others in…
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£200 credit on energy bill for oil users
Hi I wonder if any of you can help 👍 My neighbours like ourselves are OVO electricity users and we both use oil for our central heating. Our neighbours have received a letter from OVO saying they will be credited £200 to supplement their oil usage, we have not received this letter so I rang OVO. They advised that the…
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LPG conversation
Does anyone know what the conversion is for LPG, litres to cubic meter,I'm getting conflicting calculations from 3.6 to 3.85 lts to a cubic m3
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Calor gas propane
Does anyone know what the conversion is for LPG, litres to cubic meter,I'm getting conflicting calculations from 3.6 to 3.85 let's to a cubic m3
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Alternative Fuel Payment - with Eon Next you can request they transfer it to your bank account :)
I'm with Eon Next for electricity and we pay by direct debit. The £200 payment was credited to our Eon account. I just got the usual email telling me my DD payment for next month, and it wasn't reduced at all (I was expecting zero for a few months or something while that £200 got used up). Logged in and they seemed to be…
