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Moved into first home - utterly confused by electric
Hello all, Hope this is the right part of the forum for this! Completed on my first home last week, but only just starting to get moved in this week I'm totally confused about my electricity situation. Eon is the electricity supplier, and I believe a smart meter is fitted. The little portable screen was totally dead, and…
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24/7 Home Rescue. Its cover but not as you or me may know it.
24/7 Home Rescue like to quote that it's in the T&C whenever a person complains about their service. Ok then let's have a fair examination of them. I will start and others can add as and when. You will not be covered or able to call for service if your toilet is blocked.............if you have access to a second working…
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Heating Oil price per litre - EX VAT
I usually prefer to buy on-line, but ordered 800L of kerosene28 over the phone today. The rep told me the price is £0.5300 per litre, which seemed a bargain. The only other information I was given was "Total price £445.20". I would have like to be told at least "including VAT", to remind me. It's only £21, but it's like…
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Most efficient fuel for multi fuel stove?
We had a multi fuel stove fitted late winter last year and just burnt kiln dried wood on it for a month or so this year we will be using it properly to warm the house but what is the most efficient fuel to use? I got in touch with my local supplier and he gave me a price list and I haven't got a clue what's best to use:…
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British Gas Customer Services A Disgrace
Tried 3 times/3 no's with a wait of 35 - 59 mins on all. Unacceptable. Am querying a Late Payment Fee on an estimated bill issued at 28 days. As this is a rental property and tenants had vacated whilst I was on holiday, I didn't pay this bill as I wished to visit to check property and take a current reading and couldn't…
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Heat Logs
Hi everyone So the weather is on the change and ive already got my supply of logs in but looking at supplementing with some heat logs. I have tried a few over the last couple of years but looking to see if there are any I have missed. I have tried Fuel Express sold in Tesco pack of 12 burnt well, Hotties, were good but…
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1 Bedroom Flat Electric Bills
Hi all, We are supplied by Bulb and were quoted at £34 when we joined, but they have just asked us to put our monthly payments up to £104, which seems quite expensive. We are a couple in a ground floor, one bed flat. It has no central heating, so we use a halogen heater for a few hours every day (usually on the 400w…
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Cost of LPG from Flogas
I have a 1200 litre LPG tank owned by Flogas and have been their customer for about 10 years. I agreed to a new 2 year supply on 16/8/16 at a price of 41.5 ppl + VAT fixed for 1 year. Then, the year being completed, they increased the price to 48.8 ppl (reasonable!) on 9/9/17. However since then I have had increases to…
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Flogas 13kg butane
Hello. My dad has 2 gas cabinet heaters that use 13kg bottles. He uses 1 heater in the dining room as there is no c/h radiator in there over the winter months and the other heater in the lounge. I was talking to him the other day and he mentioned about connecting the cylinder and heaters up ready for the winter so i went…
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Hew House - Solid Fuel Cooker Lifestyle
We've moved house earlier this year into a 4 bed detached. Built in the 70's, the previous owners have done some improvements to it. It's the best insulated house I've lived in and there's a solid fuel Stanley cooker installed in the kitchen that also provides hot water and central heating. It's our first winter in the…
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Almost £3000 paid for gas never received!
I am at the end of my tether with both Toto and EDF. Here is a sad summary of the last 10 years of gross mismanagement of our energy account: In 2007, we switched from British Gas to EDF for our gas and electricity supplies and remained with EDF for 10 years. Over this period, our monthly direct debit payments started at…
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Eversmart Family Saver Tariff
A newbie here....! Has anyone had any exposure to the latest type of offer from Eversmart. They promise the cheapest fixed tariff on the market and they'll add 12% annual interest to your credit balance. But, the catch is you have to pay for 1 year of energy upfront. What would happen if the company went insolvent would…
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Electric heaters
I'm looking into using an electric heater in my living room instead of the multifuel stove. In the winter it costs me about £18 a week to run the solid fuel stove. That's taking into account the cost of the fuel, sweeping the chimney and buying lighting wood. I've been looking at modern electric heaters such as Fischer and…
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Installing a wood burner...
I am currently renovating my new house which is a 1960s semi. At some point it has had a gas fire but when we moved in the fireplace was just wallpapered over with an old piece of cardboard stuck over the hole. I used to have a 300 year old cottage with multi fuel stove which was amazing! So wondering now if I can install…
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Wood pellets
Hi, I'm looking at biomas alternatives - does anyone have a wood pellet fueled AGA or similar cooker / range - would love to know how good they are and approx running costs. Thanks
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British Gas
We have bought a progammable British Gas thermostat WPT1 to replace our non- programmable British Gas thermostat but unfortunately we cannot get it to communicate with our British Gas receiver BR2 at the boiler. British Gas have proved completely unhelpful. If any one has any advice it would be much appreciated.
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Modairflow Warm Air Heating
Hey all, I've recently moved into a new rental, hopefully the last until I buy, and it has a Johnson and Starley 25-32 MK3 air heater. I can't say I know much about them, other than that it's a good 0 degrees today and within 15 minutes of turning it on the house is earm. One problem I have is that the doors and windows…
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Does heating water via oil tank use more oil than just heating?
I live in a three bedroom semi detached house with oil fired heating. I’ve lived here for four years, and in all that time have used the immersion heater to heat my hot water, in the hope that it would save on precious, expensive heating oil! But now I’ve been told that if I set my hot water to come on at the same time as…
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Air Source Heat Pump - INSANE bills!
We moved into a newly renovated house that has an Air Source Heat Pump. We are really struggling with high bills and we aren’t sure why. Our heating has just been switched in today for the first time since the summer....it’s been on “frost” setting all summer. The hot water is on a timer. It is a cottage and most of the…
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CHEAP ENERGY CLUB worth it?
Hi, not been here for sometime. I joyned the so called Cheap Energy Club but I am disappionted. My current supplier quoted £655 per year for dual energy. Same deal from the Cheap Energy Club £748. Eco Prime Fixed 12 V2 Not worth bothering. Lot of you might think my energy bills are low BUT do you wear overcoat inside house…
