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hampshireblue
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The results are in: After a month of leaving the heating on rather than it going off at night, it has used about 80p per day more than it going off at night. I have it set at 21c. The whole place is far more comfortable, especially in the morning, as it's been ticking over all night.
Alan Harper's Tash
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gandalfthebrave
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Read your post a few weeks ago and it stuck in my mind.
We moved house a few weeks before Putin did his thing in Ukraine and energy bills went properly nuts. We have no kind of baseline to work from and the first Christmas in our house cost over a grand in gas and electric. We have been incredibly ginger with our electricity and central heating usage ever since as a result (and as a result of all other bills going through the roof too.)
Last winter and this winter so far, we have had the heating on for two scheduled hours a day, which hasn’t touched the sides as our new house is quite big.
Been properly fucking miserable for the last few winters, so have the mrs and kids. Carpets and surfaces so cold they feel wet to touch (they aren’t wet, just freezing.) Absolutely minging living in a cold house.
I had enough on the weekend, whacked the thermostat up to 19 degrees and spent the rest of the day thawing out with the family. The mrs went nuts because it cost nearly £20 to get up to temperature on Saturday. But ever since, we’ve been at £4-5/day to maintain the 19 degrees. Which isn’t too bad.
Glad I read your post and some other posts on this thread. Going to spend the summer looking for draughts and areas to improve like loft insulation. But for the rest of this winter we should be good at 19 degrees and £4-5/day.
Scottyboi
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Had my first bill from these from 18th of November to 31st of December has worked out at 683kwh used average cost 0.086p no one coming close to that I'm chuffed.
Uncle Wally One Ball
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Im fairly pleased, my monthly DD has been reduced by Ovo. May make me the only person ever to have had their energy bills reduced since covid. The cunts still owe me almost £400 mind. Looks like they are more concerned about their liability to me than me to them. Minor victories in life (insert thumbs up emoji here)
kaz7
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I switched to ovo a couple of months ago, on a one year fix and they just dropped my direct , just a fiver but still, edf never did that . If my boiler wasnt bust my bills would be higher but just electric being used works out as just over a pound a day
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December cost me £110, that’s with the heating on 24/7, yes it was a bit milder towards the end but it’s a no brainer to us, the heating just keeps topping itself up, the last couple of nights quite a bit due to it been Baltic outside and cost us £10! A small price to pay for been toasty. Loft insulation is easy pal and very cheap to yourself, we have a big insulated curtain for the front door, I’ve put draught excluders on doors with gaps on the bottoms, you can get a sticky foam for around doors as well to seal properly, check around windows for gaps in the seals and reseal it’s a piece of piss.
Nellies left peg
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They reduce your dd instead of refunding you the money they owe you . Ours was 130 per month and they wanted to reduce it to £70 as we are £350 in credit
Nellies left peg
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Just be careful of condensation with no airflow in the house
Blue Maverick
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There’s plenty mate, it’s still a draughty house and with the dogs in and out all the time it gets plenty of airflow.
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Close to £800 refund from Octopus, just before Christmas. Wasn't difficult. Put in the request, as it had flagged up the surplus on my account. Thought they might make adjustments to it but no, all done within a couple of weeks.
Just renewed with them on a fixed from February.
Just renewed with them on a fixed from February.
What I'm about to tell you will show how we are all ripped off for everything in the UK.
My wife's an Algerian and she's currently over there visiting family. We built a large house there many years ago and all the rooms have gas fires that are lit 24/7 from November to March because the location is very cold in the winter. The bill for that will be approximately £30.
On a side note LPG is 5p/l and diesel 10p/l, no council tax, no Vat, and income tax is low.
If they had golf courses I'd be over there in a flash.
My wife's an Algerian and she's currently over there visiting family. We built a large house there many years ago and all the rooms have gas fires that are lit 24/7 from November to March because the location is very cold in the winter. The bill for that will be approximately £30.
On a side note LPG is 5p/l and diesel 10p/l, no council tax, no Vat, and income tax is low.
If they had golf courses I'd be over there in a flash.
Uncle Wally One Ball
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Suits me either way. Did the same this time last year, I pulled 300 notes out and went to Benidorm on the piss with a lady for 4 nights. Will do the same in a week or so with this years overly charged bullshit. Use it as a savings scheme.
Top call to @Blue Maverick. Ive left my heating on low for weeks and weeks and they still owe me. I used to have it off for work and wotnot and crank it up when I got in. It hasnt been off since about mid November but constant on low on a thermostat about 15 when Im out and 18.5 when Im here. I do have a log burner though which will knock it off when it gets hot like, but still, thats the point and why I bought one. The logs cost mind but thats my choice. My house has been comfortable and I havent worried once about the bill for it. I hear the boiler kick in for 5 mins or so once an hour maybe. I used to watch it pump like fuck to warm the house from too cold. Love the idea of taking money back from the profiteering wankers, even though it was my money in the first place. Small wins in life
kaz7
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So glad i left edf for ovo, my direct debit was set at £65 a month on a years fix, they dropped it to £60, now they are saying i can drop it to £46 as i am only using elec as my boiler has been off for a couple of months. I wont drop it as i hope to have gas back on soon. I am not used to such good customer service
Elec is costing me £45 give or take a month which is not bad
at all
Elec is costing me £45 give or take a month which is not bad
at all
trueblue gio
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I have been monitoring my usage for a few years and I am down to the bare bones now. Living areas set at 18 degrees and everywhere else unheated. No gas in my flat (electric heating and hot water) but heating is also a nightmare due to double height ceilings and giant cold windows (converted cotton mill). Just as Covid hit I changed all the original panel heaters for oil filled ones as I was cold working from home. Lots of smart timers and thermostats to ensure only the minimum used. The heating months (in red) account for 75% of my annual consumption. I also forecast to the end of this year taking into account when I will be away and the flat empty.
Energy bills for a typical household will rise by more than £100 a year in April under regulator Ofgem's new cap - a higher than expected increase adding pressure on people's finances.
The 6.4% increase means a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will see their annual bill rise by £111 a year, or £9.25 a month, taking the total bill to £1,849 a year.
www.bbc.co.uk
Water is also going up from April.
The 6.4% increase means a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will see their annual bill rise by £111 a year, or £9.25 a month, taking the total bill to £1,849 a year.
Energy price cap: People should consider fixing bills, Ofgem says
Households should consider a fixed tariff, Ofgem says, as it announces another rise in the energy price cap.
www.bbc.co.uk
Water is also going up from April.
Water, cars and phones: The seven bills set to rise in April
A number of bill rises will come into force at the start of what some commentators have described as "awful April".
www.bbc.co.uk
jazzy
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So is council tax & road taxEnergy bills for a typical household will rise by more than £100 a year in April under regulator Ofgem's new cap - a higher than expected increase adding pressure on people's finances.
The 6.4% increase means a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will see their annual bill rise by £111 a year, or £9.25 a month, taking the total bill to £1,849 a year.
Energy price cap: People should consider fixing bills, Ofgem says
Households should consider a fixed tariff, Ofgem says, as it announces another rise in the energy price cap.
Water is also going up from April.