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Can I claim money back from SSE?
Hi everyone, I don't know if anyone has had a similar situation to this before, but I'll do my best to record what has happened: - I rented a small 1 bed flat in Bristol from Sept 2012-March 2013 by myself - I worked Mon-Fri 9-6; and was out of the house from 7.30am until 7pm weekdays - I was rarely about at the weekend…
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Underfloor without floor insulation
Hi Not sure if this thread should be here or in the DIY section? We are starting on a double storey rear extension to our house. We have been planning this for a while and have sourced the builders/plumbers etc. Throughout our planning was that we will have a wet underfloor heating on the ground floor and radiators on the…
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Worcester Combi 36CDi, how good is it?
I'm planning to change my conversional boiler to Combi boiler and my choice is the Worcester 36CDi Compact. I live in a 3 bedroom house semi detach. First, is this boiler adequate for my need? Hoe good is it? I choose it for the compact size. Secondly, "boiler r us" a worcester approved installer quoted £3,850 for the job…
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storage heaters prices
i have storage heaters in my rented accommodation and have tried various companys to get cheaper monthly payments but nobody will accomadate economy 10 heaters which are 20 years old..any advice welcome..
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Looking for advice on Huge Gas Estimate
Hi all, I am a student in Cornwall currently on British Gas Dual Energy, Fix and Fall November 2016. (1940- Flat, two Occupants, one bedroom) I am looking to swap to another supplier, so I submitted a reading too British Gas to see how my account there was doing, My bill seemed rather higher then what is has been…
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LPG heating costs extremely high -trying to find out why
Hi there, we moved into a three bedroom house out in a remote village back in Nov. we've got the heating running, using LPG no more than two hours max per day (and we're timing it!), the shower is electric and the bath rarely used. However we are going through a large canister every 8 days- that's about £212 roughly each…
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Anybody else had problems like this with ovo ?
the reason i am complaining to ovo and the ombudsman is because myself and my wife where getting annoyed and frustrated over a potential arrears build up because of our gas meters situation, Currently we are on benefits of employment and support allowance for my wife and youngest daughter(Pierre Robin Sequence, severe…
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Locating Bleed Valve on burner
So I have oil fired heating/hot water, recently my tank split, had some oil left in and powered up the boiler and it was working fine, now have a temporary tank fitted and due oil tomorrow, will I need to bleed the burner before powering up or will I only know when I try and boot it up? The other issue I've had is I've…
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gas and electricity v. electricity only
Hello, I am moving from a 1 bed flat to another. The one I'm moving from is purpose built, but poorly insulated (would have an EPC of D if had new windows with double glazing, but actual windows 25 years old and let in draughts and even rain at times so I guess it's an E). Electricity only, double tariff (cheaper at…
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Have oil heater, extension lead plug smells of burning - advice?
For about two years, we've had an oil heater which has been used quite a lot the last two weeks due to the cold spell. Today, I noticed the one plug extension cord was quite warm. I took everything out and the plug had like a "burning" sort of smell - say burnt plastic. What would you advise? I've a spare heater in my room…
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NPower "lost" initial meter reading
Hi everyone, first post... Been in dispute with NPower for almost 2 years for a massively inflated bill, back in Feb 2013 my partner moved into our house and ended up with NPower as supplier, she wanted prepayment meters so was told to run up a bill of £200 or there abouts, so she proceeded to do so, in October 2013 she…
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Homecare 400 and Gas supplier
Wrong sub-forum, will re-post.
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Moving gas meter
Hi all, We are going to build a bathroom under the stairs and we have been told that we would need to move the gas meter in order to have more room. We have been told that only SGN can do the job (we live in Hampshire). We have been quoted around £700 and we were wondering if these people are the only ones that can do it…
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Economy energy
What a company they forged my signature to obtain my gas and electric fortunately I responded quickly to a sorry you're leaving us from British gas who helped me sort this out. I've written a complaint to the ombudsman as I feel that this is fraud not sure if they will be of any help I've have never heard of economy energy…
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LPG heating
The house we are looking at buying is LPG gas however the property doesn't have its own tank, the whole estate runs of the same tank that is further down the round, therefore we can't swap supplier and have to pay whatever they charge. Does any one know anything about this or the cost of this Thanks
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British Gash - 50% off new boiler offer
Hi Looked for existing thread on this topic but cannot find. British Gas are offering 50% off a new boiler ending January 18th. https://www.britishgas.co.uk/products-and-services/boilers-and-central-heating/new-boilers.html I recently had a BG Smart Meter engineer visit to fit a new meter who mentioned this offer to me…
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NPower Risk of purchasing via 3rd Party websites
As a professional private buyer was interested what nPower customer text chat line have to say that purchasing energy via a third party website and not directly via themselves is a risk due to the switch service of the third party website. Any views?
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British Gas are chasing me for money after they made a mistake when I left them.
Help!!!! I'm new to this so any advice will be greatly appreciated I was a British Gas customer for many years and decided in November to switch to Eon who were cheaper I followed everything that was asked of me for both providers and when I closed by British Gas account they credited me with around £150 for both electric…
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Wood stove not heating our room
Hi - I'm hoping someone with experience of wood stoves will be able to advise on why our new stove is so rubbish at doing its job! It does take the edge off the cold, but it does not heat the room. Our room is approx 77 cubic metres. The installer chose a Eco Ideal Eco2 model, which has an output of 4 kw nominal…
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Run out of Kero
I know I shouldn't have let it happen but I have just run out of kerosene for the boiler and won't be able to re-order till monday morning......could I run it on diesel until a delivery on tues/weds without any real detrimental affect ?
