Octopus staggering energy price rise emails

keithgawler

As a further suggestion, I'm a recent (forced) convert to Octopus from Avro's failure. Thus far I'm impressed with how Octopus operate - though of course none of us like to pay high prices. It's worth looking at the tips in their Winter Workout scheme. These should help to save some £'s.

mickstatham

keithgawler said:

As a further suggestion, I'm a recent (forced) convert to Octopus from Avro's failure. Thus far I'm impressed with how Octopus operate - though of course none of us like to pay high prices. It's worth looking at the tips in their Winter Workout scheme. These should help to save some £'s.

Thanks Keith 👍

wild666

If the property has a combi boiler turn down the temperatures to 50 degrees for water and 55 degrees for heating and turn down the thermostat to between 18 and 20 degrees. My boiler is set at 46 for water and 50 for heating, which I rarely use. It takes longer to heat the place but I don't care as it's only on when the family are down.

worrywart_3

MWT said:

QrizB said:

25,600kWh or 33,400kWh are both quite large amounts of gas and disporportionate to her electricity use. Is your sister's house particularly large, draughty and/or poorly-insulated? Is there some other reason for her to be a high gas consumer but a low electricity one?

Can you check that Octopus aren't accidentally billing her for an imperial (cubic feet) meter by mistake?

It would be wonderful to discover that this was an imperial/metric mix-up, but her use looks a lot like my elderly father-in-law, and in his case at least it is simply living in a bungalow and keeping the thermostat high.

Same as my stepdad also
eldery and cooks on gas

savers_united

wild666 said:

If the property has a combi boiler turn down the temperatures to 50 degrees for water and 55 degrees for heating and turn down the thermostat to between 18 and 20 degrees. My boiler is set at 46 for water and 50 for heating, which I rarely use. It takes longer to heat the place but I don't care as it's only on when the family are down.

We did this as the new boiler was very easy adjust with the digital display, from my trial over a couple of weeks I found the house took too long to warm, so to compensate we were having the heating come on earlier which kind of defeats the object, instead having it set at 65 for heating allowed the boiler to still condense but radiator and room thermostat kicked in earlier and seems to be over the 2 weeks a more efficent way to run things. Come the spring I do reduce both hot water and heating down, 45 & 50 respectively until November when it's increased back to 55 & 65.