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margaretclare

missile wrote: »

We switched to EDF Blue +Price Promise April 2014 and pay £73 per month dual fuel for 3 bed home. This is more than we use and currently we are £218.44 in credit.

How much are your bills?

We don't get bills.

However, we've just received a communication from E-on which says that they are increasing their prices in 2013.

According to what we currently use, that would be £910 over the year. Taking into account the increases, that will be £979 over the following year, or £81.58 a month.

We recently looked at all their other deals and decided that the tariff we're on works best for us. Some of the others give Tesco vouchers rather than a discount, and we're not interested in that.

zygurat789

missile wrote: »

We switched to EDF Blue +Price Promise April 2014 and pay £73 per month dual fuel for 3 bed home. This is more than we use and currently we are £218.44 in credit.

How much are your bills?

You should take your surplus cash now, if not sooner, that way although you pay them the same annually you will be in a position of owing them for longer than they owe you and by this time next year you will again be straight.
After all they are a trading company not a bank.

missile

zygurat789 wrote: »

You should take your surplus cash now, .

I expect the credit will be consumed over the winter period. £73 per month is less than I was paying my previous supplier - BG.

zygurat789

missile wrote: »

I expect the credit will be consumed over the winter period. £73 per month is less than I was paying my previous supplier - BG.

But that's not the point. This is, after all, a moneysaving site.

missile

zygurat789 wrote: »

But that's not the point. This is, after all, a moneysaving site.

Thanks for your advice.

meercatsunited

our DD is £56 per month for gas and electric and meters read quarterly by us.

we have cavity wall insulation, double loft insulation done free, double glazing. new boiler fitted this year because old back boiler died. fitted a log burner and had loads of wood from trees previously felled, when its lit the heating is off and all the house is warm.

seven-day-weekend

We're having a log burner installed soon, in the dining room, if we leave all the doors open it should heat all the house. We'll have to buy wood though, although we can scavenge. It will give my husband an excuse to buy another chainsaw (he sold his last one before we left Spain).

zygurat789

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

We're having a log burner installed soon, in the dining room, if we leave all the doors open it should heat all the house. We'll have to buy wood though, although we can scavenge. It will give my husband an excuse to buy another chainsaw (he sold his last one before we left Spain).

These things badly effect me and I don't have asthma, anyone who does may suffer life threatening effects.

pstuart

I can't understand why a closed off wood burner can cause breathing difficulties, having said that my wife has coughing fits when in a friends cottage ( they use a combination of mainly wood and some coal).

Never got this with open coal fires (showing my age again!).

seven-day-weekend

We are having the chimney professionally assessed, lined if necessary and the stove fitted to comply with the latest building regulations, so it should not cause a problem. There is also a CO alarm comes with it (as part of the regs) and seeing as we already have two in the house, it should not cause anyone a problem. We had one in our house in Spain and it was great.

We want it as a form of alternative heat tho the gas central heating. Greener and sustainable too. We used to cook stews and curries on top of the one in Spain, so alternative cooking too!

We're thinking of this one but will ask the guy when he comes to do the assessment which one he recommends for our fireplace (he does not supply stoves so no axe to grind).

http://www.stovesareus.co.uk/brands/brands-a-to-f/aga-stoves/aga-little-wenlock-classic-multifuel-woodburning-stove.html