Gas & Electricity

[Alan Harper's Tash]

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

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.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

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.

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.

 

[johnmc]

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.

Should get the £67 per month off the government to help offset the increased usage

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Should get the £67 per month off the government to help offset the increased usage

Which gives us an extra 3.5 hours of heating a month.

 

[When The Levee Breaks]

 

[Blue Maverick]

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.

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.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

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.

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.

 

[Blue Maverick]

 

[Blue Maverick]

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.

 

[blueinsa]

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Holy fuck.

Gas has doubled there!