Gas & Electricity

[Nellies left peg]

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.

Just be careful of condensation with no airflow in the house

 

[Blue Maverick]

Just be careful of condensation with no airflow in the house

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.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

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.

 

[tweety]

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.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

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

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