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Energy bills this christmas!?
Hiya all, thanks for reading. Heres the situation. I changed energy firms to first utility in june/julyish this year. My bills were on average £30 for dual fuel. My baby came home in August ish and my bills rose (naturally) to around £35. In november i get a bill for £75, which i question. The advisor tells me that all the…
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District Heating Nightmare-Pay As You Go
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays Everyone Would someone be kind enough and help me understand the figures and charges, as I struggle to work them out please. I am struggling so much with not being able to afford gas. Its really depressing me. I need some help and advice as I am going out of my mind with worry and stress.…
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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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Do Briquettes Flame well?!!
Hi, Recently moved to house with a log burner. After hunting for logs and loosing count of suppliers , quality and price confusion, have seen on here a big mention of Verdo Briquettes. Im going to try some when I can get to a B&M however, does anyone know how well these burn, as in produce a flame? As shallow as it sounds…
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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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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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Heatingless, gasless flat...
Good morning! I've just bought my first flat, which is a two bed top floor corner in a small block. The windows are double glazed and massive and every room has an exterior wall. I'm pretty sure all the walls are cement (they've ruined my brother's drills either way). I've done everything I can insulation and draught wise…
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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 ?
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E-on
Sorry of posting in wrong place but please re-direct me. I am having a nightmare with this company and need some advice [
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Overpayment
I have over paid on my gas and electricity bill. When I enquired about this a few months ago my provider (British Gas) said that it was better to keep my account in credit in case I use more fuel over the winter months. I agreed to this but then realised my direct debits have recently decreased. I rang today and was told…
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Help!!! I hate my Stovax Stockton 5 MF
I wonder if anybody out there can help me? Recently had installed my stove by HETAS engineer. However we seemed to be burning logs very quickly, about 35 mins each, high jets of air coming in and no controls despite shutting everything down. HETAS guy has been back, and wood rate is now about 1 hour +, so that's great. He…
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British Gas direct debit increase
I have been paying British Gas £53 a month by Direct Debit for electric only, On the 22nd they sent me an email, which I only read today, advising me that my DD would be increasing from Feb to ....£1000 a month! :eek: I nearly died. Went to check my account and my last reading in sept was estimated at around 305788…
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LPG Newbie
Hello everyone, First time poster, my partner and I are looking at buying a house that uses LPG as there is no gas supply in the area. We have no experience with LPG and I'm looking for some idea what the costs may be like. The house is a 3 bed, medium-large, semi detached, we're roughly half way along the road but the…
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System was not flushed by new boiler installer.... now it doesn`t work, please help
Hello All, I received a new boiler in a government scheme. It was installed by Climate Energy Solutions less than 2 years ago. We had to fix it about 4 times now, twice in the last month and now it stopped working again. The last gas engineer has said that when it was installed the system was not flushed therefore the…
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Eco fan / thermometer question
Having just moved house we have a log burning stove. We remember when we viewed, the people had an eco fan on it and thermometer on the flue. We are now wondering if we too should buy one, but where do you start and how much would we need to pay as they seem to be quite a range. If you have one, or have changed yours,…
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Worth switching gas supplier?
Is it really worth switching gas supplier? I am with British Gas, and were I to switch I could save roughly £250 per year bringing the yearly gas bill down to about £400. This assumes the BG price per unit stays fixed. One concern is that the switchers give a more up to date price, but BG will in a month or two come down…
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nPower fined £26m
It seems that OFGEM have fined nPower £26m for their more recent failings... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35129788 Their reputation is in tatters anyway. They'll have to increase rates to cover the cost of this. Can/should they continue to be an energy supplier?
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I've gone Bio !
Well after 8 years of having my Charnwood Cove 2 I have had it disconnected and have gone Bio. I have gone for one of the free boiler deals and have to say from the way it's gone so far I am well impressed and should have done it years ago. We had a timber frame extension last year and running two stoves was killing us…
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LPG bottled v electricity for ovens/hobs
Can anyone tell me if cooking on bottled LPG is cheaper than electric? The nearest gas is too expensive to connect to plus I am trying to avoid the upfront costs of alternatives. For the moment bottled LPG or electric are the only options. :(
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£4647 for new British Gas boiler? are we being conned? please look at price breakdown
My elderly parents had a leak from their boiler which some cowboy gave them less than two years ago and so decided to call BG engineer out. Since he came on Fri 11th Dec, they have had no hot water or heating he convinced them to signed up for a new boiler on finance so end price would be 6.5k When Mum complained re no…
