Gas & Electricity

Hutchymcfc said:
Used the dryer last night as going on holiday roughly 4 quid to use with the new rates in October that’s for 1 use

gonna do the dish washer today
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Forget kettles, if people do want to save money over the winter than a new dryer is probably a far better way of saving money.

We bought one in June. Used it twice on really full loads and it cost us 30p (with a £400 outlay for the machine). 70% saving now per load.

It'll cost us 55p per load after October, whilst it’ll be £1.82 for you.

£1.27 saving per load adds up pretty quickly.

Our dishwasher is old, but the cost of a new one and the savings it makes means it isn’t as cost effective to replace that at the moment.
It is an expensive machine to run though at £0.55 per cycle currently, which will jump to about a pound in October.
 
Gray said:
Paid my energy company £90.35 on 15th march by DD on the 15th April they took £185.25 by DD without any prior notification. I emailed them and got no response so cancelled my DD and now pay by card.

They offered a summertime DD payment of £122 which I have ignored.

Bills Since:
  • May - £89.70
  • Jun - £93.69
  • Jul - £75.23
  • Aug - £81.00
If I had paid the DD amount of £122 thay would now have £148 of my money.

The whole thing is a national scandal.
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Whilst this is sensible if you only want to exactly pay for what you use, come through winter, you’ll have no sluice fund built up, (unless you’ve put money aside and collected the 0.1% interest on it.) and potentially have much higher monthly bills come November.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Whilst this is sensible if you only want to exactly pay for what you use, come through winter, you’ll have no sluice fund built up, (unless you’ve put money aside and collected the 0.1% interest on it.) and potentially have much higher monthly bills come November.
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Should get the £67 per month off the government to help offset the increased usage
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Forget kettles, if people do want to save money over the winter than a new dryer is probably a far better way of saving money.

We bought one in June. Used it twice on really full loads and it cost us 30p (with a £400 outlay for the machine). 70% saving now per load.

It'll cost us 55p per load after October, whilst it’ll be £1.82 for you.

£1.27 saving per load adds up pretty quickly.

Our dishwasher is old, but the cost of a new one and the savings it makes means it isn’t as cost effective to replace that at the moment.
It is an expensive machine to run though at £0.55 per cycle currently, which will jump to about a pound in October.
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Lots of new appliances are more energy efficient unfortunately most don’t have spare cash lying round now, I still can’t believe we are at this stage in the 21st century, still I suppose long as Rees Mogg can employ a 2 year old to sweep his chimneys soon we are ok.
 
Blue Maverick said:
Lots of new appliances are more energy efficient unfortunately most don’t have spare cash lying round now, I still can’t believe we are at this stage in the 21st century, still I suppose long as Rees Mogg can employ a 2 year old to sweep his chimneys soon we are ok.
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Can’t disagree with any of that. I only upgraded as we know we can’t afford to dry the washing on the radiators as much over the winter.

Hopefully some measures are announced in time to stop the country pretty much falling on its arse.
 
Just checked mine and these are the new rates with EDF! Says my direct debit will be £343, we currently pay £250 plus the £63 from the government, I’m in credit by about £350 so they can piss off if they try and increase my DD.
 
You can refuse to have your direct debits increased , i always do , they settle for a lot less than they quoted and it always covers it , sharks
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Forget kettles, if people do want to save money over the winter than a new dryer is probably a far better way of saving money.

We bought one in June. Used it twice on really full loads and it cost us 30p (with a £400 outlay for the machine). 70% saving now per load.

It'll cost us 55p per load after October, whilst it’ll be £1.82 for you.

£1.27 saving per load adds up pretty quickly.

Our dishwasher is old, but the cost of a new one and the savings it makes means it isn’t as cost effective to replace that at the moment.
It is an expensive machine to run though at £0.55 per cycle currently, which will jump to about a pound in October.
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Or better still, buy a maiden and do the washing up yourself, you'll save a fortune.
 
mancityvstoke said:
Doubling energy bills in October isn't going to work for most of us.

I cannot afford £6,000 a year on my own.
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I'd put any spare cash on it that it wont go up in October, it will be capped at the rate your paying today, Government know full well that shops will close and people will die
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
we can’t afford to dry the washing on the radiators as much over the winter.
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This is what worries me, two teenage boys who play sports 5 times a week and go through uniform and regular clothes like there is no tomorrow, coupled with mine and the wife's own daily clothes and work clothes how the bloody hell are we going to dry that lot through the wet, cold dark months?

Radiators will be on constantly seven days a week and we have no room for a tumble dryer, summer hasn't been too bad, weather has been mostly nice and dried every day on the line but we really are dreading winter.
 
marco said:
I'd put any spare cash on it that it wont go up in October, it will be capped at the rate your paying today, Government know full well that shops will close and people will die
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They tried to get me to fix at 60p electric and 20p gas.for months and I’ve held off so I’m still winking, just. Gas doubling is taking the piss, used fuck all since April and now just as we need it, boom.
 
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