Estimated Last Bill Scottish Power

wordsfan

I've recently moved house and my old property supplier was scottish power. Not by choice as they proved to be a nightmare. I called through to get my final payment details and its over £200 which even though I'd have 3 months to pay it in instalments, is pretty steep for me. Can anyone advise?

savemoney

Well assuming the bill is correct then they wont let you leave until you pay usually

Try checking the bill to see if the meter readings tally with your bills

KimYeovil

The meters were in your previous property. Part of the process of moving is to compare the meter readings with your last bill so that you can estimate how much your final bill will be. Paying this off, finding a deposit, hiring a removal van, buying new curtains, paying for a litre of zoflora and twenty brillo pads etc, etc are all parts of the procedure and costs of flitting.

If you didn't want a catch-up final bill at the same time as a whole lot of other costs then you were free to monitor your meters as you went along so you had no such backlog (or had budgeted for it.)

You have been given three or four months to pay it off interest and penalty free. What's the problem?

Identify the meters in your new property. Sit down for fifteen minutes and work out how to monitor your meters to estimate how much you are spending so you are not caught again in the future.

kjsmith7

KimYeovil wrote: »

The meters were in your previous property. Part of the process of moving is to compare the meter readings with your last bill so that you can estimate how much your final bill will be. Paying this off, finding a deposit, hiring a removal van, buying new curtains, paying for a litre of zoflora and twenty brillo pads etc, etc are all parts of the procedure and costs of flitting.

If you didn't want a catch-up final bill at the same time as a whole lot of other costs then you were free to monitor your meters as you went along so you had no such backlog (or had budgeted for it.)

You have been given three or four months to pay it off interest and penalty free. What's the problem?

Identify the meters in your new property. Sit down for fifteen minutes and work out how to monitor your meters to estimate how much you are spending so you are not caught again in the future.

OP - I think Kim's idea about monitoring meters is a good idea. You can buy energy monitors for electricity consumption to show you in £ how much you are using (roughly).

One way of looking at it (depending on your tariff) is 1kWh of electricity = 1 number on your meter (eg if your meter read 11111 and then it moved to 11112) = roughly 12p. Average usage in the UK is 9kWh a day.

For gas, if you have an imperial meter/it says 'ft3' on the front/it has 4 black digits and the rest are in red, then 1 unit/number on the meter works out as roughly 32kWh. The average cost of a gas kWh (depending on your tariff) could be around 3p, so 1 unit costs 96p.

If you have a metric meter/it says 'm3' on the front/it has 5 black digits and the rest are in red, then 1 unit/number on the meter works out as roughly 11kWh. If the average cost is 3p, 1 unit would cost 33p.