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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Ok....
so who has already spent a fortune on trying to keep warm ?
Energy cost are the biggest rip off since eve tried selling adam a "pair" .
And im a little disgruntled about it to be honest  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mines been about £40 per month for gas, and £20 for electric. More than normal but less than expected, but hey I am a tight arsed guy from yorkshire.
Check the meter reading is right also, may be over estimating you. Direct Debit people, watch out they are not taking to much out. They are slow to put it back! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i keep warm by working out.
rowing machine and lifting some weights and i dont feel the cold."
I shiver like a girl under a blanket. I don't do cold. Win the lottery and run off with a woman to a warm place.
*Cue dream sequence*
Side note, also check your rads are working/balanced properly, can really keep the house a lot warmer with less gas! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"i keep warm by working out.
rowing machine and lifting some weights and i dont feel the cold."
Oh thats reminded me........
Gotta get my bro to come and stick my "airstrider" together 
exercise here i come |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"wait until jan.
look at the bloody petrol prices now ffs!"
i seem to recal mr camarmoron saying in his manifesto that if petrol prices rose to a high level he would cut the tax on it to bring the price down.this will be proved to be yet another uturn from a party that couldnt beat a labour party that was dead on its feet. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"grrr! our central heating is on 24/7 at the mo - i dread to think what it's gonna cost"
Same here. My boiler is outside so the frostat has kicked in and it's on all the sodding time. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Working in the industry I can give everyone these tips
1 Have your gas and electric through the same supplier
2 Pay by monthly DD
3 Go on an internet tariff.
NEVER sign up to anyone on the doorstep or in a shopping center.
If you want the best tariff for you, ask your current supplier how many KWH you used in the last year and go on any price website to find the best deal for you.
Hope this helps. If you want to know anymore then drop me a message |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fuel bills is one of my bug bears too. Theyt jack the prices up when the cost of gas/oil rises but don't drop the price when the price of gas/oil drops. I'll happily wade through all the websites etc looking for the best deal and switch regularly if a better one is available.
We did this a few months ago and the deal we're on is still better than any new deal out there so we'll be staying with Sainsbury's for the foreseeable future. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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it costs me nearly £600 to get a full tank of LPG (LPG not being regulated et al) and it will last me approx 6-8 weeks in this weather.
the other week I paid my £600, to BP (who make a personal assurance that they never leave anyone with fuel for less than 8 hours) and was left for ten days without heat....with excuse after excuse for not delivering (one being the weather, though they managed to deliver to my neighbour!).
I had to buy 3 personal electric heaters @ £20 each...adding another £60 plus the cost of running them.
yup, fuel bills are ridiculous! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"im soooo glad i dont have gas any more stick to my coal fire cost me 45 quid for 2 bunkers filling and i get free wood so well lucky "
i'm getting one put in, but there is no way it would heat the whole of my home...but i figure if i lost fuel again, at least i'd have some resource! |
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"We're paying about £300 per month for gas and electric ... and no, we don't live in a mansion  "
Fekkin 'ell.... our monthly average for gas is £13.50 a week for gas, and about £10 a week leccy..... £95 quid total for the month.... and I think we can cut that with some improvements in insulation etc...... we must be doing summat right!!! |
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"We're paying about £300 per month for gas and electric ... and no, we don't live in a mansion "
If that is mains gas then you seriously need to get that restructured....I live in a large house and our bill is at least a third, maybe more cheaper than that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm all electric here so it's storage heaters and panel heaters. I pay £42 a month DD (I think lol) but that's for everything, lighting, hot water cooking etc.
Luckily it evens itself out over the year, generally the heating goes off around about March/April and doesn't come on again until November.
This year though I've had more heating on than usual (additional panel heaters), so I expect it to go up a bit although luckily EDF have promised to freeze (pun intended) their prices until march. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i wouldnt be without my coal fire its a pain cleaning out but nothing beats it when its lit im quite good now that i can keep it in for 3 / 4 days before it needs a compleate clean out , i just couldnt afford to have all storage heaters on |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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For people on benefits or on low income you can apply for a social tarriff for both electric and gas. This tarriff is not made available very often, you should contact your energy supplier to find out how much you can save |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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iv got a pay as you go meter and put £20 on friday and its gone already had to put another £20 on today just to last till friday its costing me far to much  |
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By *-and-KCouple
over a year ago
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We got a letter from NPower yesterday. It informed us that prices were going up by 5 1/4% in january, but for fairness sake they are bound by law to let us know that if we don't like it, we can change companies!!
Well hoopy fuckin do! Thats like saying out of the frying pan and into the fire. They are all money grabbing bastards, out to screw us for every penny they can get. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"iv got a pay as you go meter and put £20 on friday and its gone already had to put another £20 on today just to last till friday its costing me far to much "
I just recently exchanged my pay as you go gas meter for a normal meter as I had been paying £30-£40 a week in gas to heat my 3 bed terrace house. It's extortionate! Apparently they charge more for pay as you go gas! Hopefully I won't be paying out as much now! |
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