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Uswitch 25 hours free electricity

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  • marcia_
    marcia_ Posts: 3,751 Forumite
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     What are you doing to earn £5+ ? 
  • goatfaced
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    I'm on £16ish already so it's definitely not capped at £5 per session. They're letting me know I'm getting near the cap. I'm not overusing anything, it's all been normal. The car doesn't usually need charging every week usually though. And they're paying me the variable rate while I'm on a cheap fix. 

  • masonic
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    marcia_ said:
     What are you doing to earn £5+ ? 
    Running electric heating I'd guess. I'll be doing some of that this weekend if the temperature remains at this level.
  • EssexHebridean
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    A cheerful £1.55 earned here last saturday. No complaints - it's all doing things that I would have done anyway, just at a slightly different time for the most part. 
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    Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
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  • tlcgrantham
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    marcia_ said:
     What are you doing to earn £5+ ? 
    Load shifting and  only using Electricity for all heating. I’ve also got limit my use as I’m also at £16+
  • QrizB
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    For anyone who's interested, my credit for the session on the 2nd has turned up.
    My total is now £9.86, so I've got headroom for the next two sessions :)
    N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.
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  • masonic
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    edited 20 November at 8:51PM
    It's shaping up to be a tough call between Sat vs Sun this week. I think I'll be leaving it until after 4 pm tomorrow to lock in. Sadly there could be little to no rate premium on offer for me this time, but I look forward to a toasty warm home after a few days hovering around 12C.
  • masonic
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    I think I'll be earning a little over £7 for this session, Fabric of the home warmed up to a tropical 21C from a chilly 10C first thing this morning, and a busy morning of batch cooking and laundry now completed. That should bring my total to £13, so no danger of overshooting next week.
  • EssexHebridean
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    I’ve currently got a batch cooked curry simmering, and the washing machine and DW are both running too. I’ll get another load through the WM and there’s my lunch to be dealt with yet, but I don’t think I’ll get much more than that out of my session today. 
    🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
    Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
    Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
    Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
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  • Yarrows
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    Dishwasher, 2 hot runs of the washing machine and accompanying dehumidifier laundry setting, thermostat to 21°, DHW on and a couple of showers, and a sterilisation/Legionnaires cycle (which I never normally run for various reasons but decided I might as well try to kill off any random bugs while it's free!).

    At the moment my pending cashback, not including this morning's session, has gone up to over £8. It looks like they changed the unit rate applied to my cashback to my supplier's SVT E7 peak rate instead of the SVT single rate and recalculated the previous sessions at some point in the past week. That suggests that they have figured out I'm on a multi rate tariff (although E7 will be the only one they know about) so I would hope that people on E7 who stuck with it might now be showing the right amount of cashback?
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