Advice welcomerd on both company and meter changes?

Lunamia

Hi, I have been reading up on the forum but my head is in a muddle, hoping some generous souls can point me in the right direction!

We have recently moved house, at our last home we were on prepayment meters with British Gas and EDF. We have bought a place in a different town, a 4 bed property and moved in last month.
Luckily we are now in a position where we don't need prepayment meters but the new property has them..yes, I should have checked but I made the assumption that there would be ordinary meters.

The supplier for both gas and electric are SSE and I did ask them about changing the meters over and was quoted £104 for both. The property is a large one (4 bed) and we will probably be better off without the prepayment meters but I don't really want to shell out £104 seeing as I didn't have them put it in the first place.

There are 3 of us here, all adults so we don't have massive usage of electric, we do seem to be using quite a bit of gas for heating though.

So really my questions are, would I be better off changing to ordinary meters (I know nothing about tariffs etc having used prepayment for many years), if so would it make more sense to switch to a different company and then ask for the meters to be replaced as there are no problems with previous debt?

Lastly, should we wait until all the price raises have been announced before considering anything?

Any advice would be welcome, I don't really know where to start.

Thanks.

slipthru

You could ask another energy company if they would be willing to change the meters for free if you move to them of course.

Can you ask your current supplier what the people who lived there before, yearly usage was? as a rough guide for you to put into comparison sites.

Wail

How long do you plan to be in the house?

My advice would be to drive a hard bargain with the suppliers offering the cheaper fixed tarriffs and ask them if they will exchange the meters for free.