Outfoxthemarket charging £400 more than the OFGEM price Cap ?

Spoonie_Turtle

Phone / e-mail (slow) / Twitter. 

Their standard response on Twitter is that anyone is welcome to switch but they just want to have a chat first to make sure it's right for that person.  Being better off on their tariff is a pretty compelling reason

nurquhar

Qyburn said:

Have OFTM told you what rate you'll be paying after 1st October?

I have just seen the announcement for Oct prices, basically the same as EDF quote I got. 33.727p per kWh and 49.146p standing charge.

nurquhar

pochase said:

You saw that you need to phone them, and not contact them in any other way?

I could not find a number !

LindsayT

0808 164 1088 but you'll have to wait until Monday now.

FreeBear

nurquhar said: We live in a stone built farm house in the Peak National Park close to the highest village in England, additional insulation cannot be applied to the outside only the inside. Which basically means gutting the whole house and adding new dry lining with insulation on the inside and loose about 6-8" on all external walls. The cost of this would probably be easily £1-200k for the 4 bed 3 floor house. It's a non starter.

If you are using studwork infilled with fibreglass or sheeps wool, you would indeed lose that kind of space. But there are better materials that do not need to be as thick for the same amount of insulation performance. Celotex/Kingspan type boards, you'd only need ~75mm. Cork or woodfibre, ~100mm finished off with a lime plaster if you need to maintain breathability. Don't get hung up about the loss of floor space - You really won't notice it once the work has been done.

As for a budget, you are probably an order of magnitude out. I would have thought £10-20K would comfortably cover the cost. Doing the bulk of the work yourself would cut the cost even further.

Insulating the solid brick walls on my house (3 bed semi, upper half solid wall), and have spent under £500 on materials so far. Half way through doing a course on plastering, so can avoid having to call on expensive trades (the last plasterer did a pretty poor job).