Stopping gas supply

rogerblack

Terrylw1 wrote: »

The issue is that the meter is "live" hence even if you don't use it, if your tariff includes standing charge, you still have to pay that.

However, if you "de-energise" the meter in some way, the supplier closes your billing account thus stopping the standing charge. For elec, you pull the fuse, for gas its clamping ir collaring.

Doing this may be quite insane.
In my case, switching to the appropriate supplier and having the gas line installed - but not used - has resulted in a 50 quid rebate.

It was not cheapest to have the gas meter disconnected in any way.

ic

Just sign up to a tariff with no-standing charge, and turn off the supply and the boiler. You won't use any gas, so won't have to pay anything. Any gas you do use will however be charged at the higher first-rate units (compensating for the fact there is no standing charge) - unless you're on a tariff like that of Ebicos which is perfect for low users. I'm sure disconnecting and then reconnecting the supply will come with costs and lead times, its always good to have a backup - what if the electricity supply is down, or an electric heater fails?

Farway

ic wrote: »

Just sign up to a tariff with no-standing charge, and turn off the supply and the boiler. You won't use any gas, so won't have to pay anything. Any gas you do use will however be charged at the higher first-rate units (compensating for the fact there is no standing charge) - unless you're on a tariff like that of Ebicos which is perfect for low users. I'm sure disconnecting and then reconnecting the supply will come with costs and lead times, its always good to have a backup - what if the electricity supply is down, or an electric heater fails?

Agree entirely with this, just change over to Ebico [Equigas], no standing charge, pay bill [zero] by quarterly direct debit, all without any hassle of disconnects plus you have an emergency standby

You may have to enter meter readings on line for a bit, just to stop "estimated" bills, but it is really painless

Terrylw1

rogerblack wrote: »

Doing this may be quite insane.
In my case, switching to the appropriate supplier and having the gas line installed - but not used - has resulted in a 50 quid rebate.

It was not cheapest to have the gas meter disconnected in any way.

Just staying the options.

It all depends on the charges the supplier passes on and how their billing system copes. Landlords have been doing it for many years, as have commercials. In my experience, the cost was never passed on to the customer but that may not be the case for all. The billing system is fine but in older systems its a vacant system, which isn't accurate in this case.