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How much do you pay roughly and how often?
Reason i ask is since we moved in 7 months ago we haven't had a bill and after much being passed around we finally got powergen to find out that they have cocked up and will be sending us an estimated bill for 7 months.
I am just wondering how much roughly to expect the bill to be. I know you can't tell me exactly but if i knew averages i culd at least get an idea. I forget what we paid in old houses!
Reason i ask is since we moved in 7 months ago we haven't had a bill and after much being passed around we finally got powergen to find out that they have cocked up and will be sending us an estimated bill for 7 months.
I am just wondering how much roughly to expect the bill to be. I know you can't tell me exactly but if i knew averages i culd at least get an idea. I forget what we paid in old houses!
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At that rate, it would be around four hundred quid, but I reckon it'd be rather crap of them to expect immediate payment.
Is it true that it cost 50p to boil a kettle. My old dear yelled this at me the other day- now I'm paranoid about making a cup of tea...
Plus my cooker is electric
yep, there are two adults. we have gas central heating, but the house warms up really quickly, so we don't need it on for long unless it's really chilly, and because we're out all day in the week, even in the winter we only really have it on for a couple of hours in the evening.
we don't make a massive effort to keep bills down, apart from stuff like not leaving lights on, and we don't have a tumble drier, which saves a bit.
we're with powergen, and on some kind of special online rate, which saves us a bit more money :thumb:
We do know both readings but told powergen (for several reasons)that we didn't have the reading for when we moved in, but you know if they estimate the wrong way we will find them
We don't have a tumble dryer or anything but the cooker is electric. Only gas we have is for the heating and water.
I hope its not that much. I think in the old house we paid £25 a month for electric so the other half says. ETA but that was with a different supplier.
Bloody hell, did you not think to call them?
I didn't read your post properly - the 4 hundred would be both electricity and gas, so you could halve it.
Well our quarterly gas just came in at £70 which i thought wasn't bad as the heatings been on loads until recently.
You nearly gave me a heart attack at £400 lol
I also wouldn't chase utility bills that hard either. I'm still waiting for a utility bill for the old flat we left six months ago- I've chased it three times, I'm not chasing it again, mostly because I despise nPower.
The only reason we are chasing is the money we have for it won't be there for long and well i don't want a huge bill even further down the line and not be able to pay it.
Bearing in mind that, AFAIK, they have a statutory requirement to bill promptly and correctly.
ETA: a long time is two years at present, and will drop to one year from 2007, if the supplier is at fault fior the non-production of a bill.
I am in a fully electric flat and live alone. But you know what boys are like leaving the lights / pc / tv etc on
We aren't that good (i say we i mean Chris) at switching things off either.
This year I'm in halls again so no bills
Tumbles driers are really though!
I used the MoneySavingExpert article to have a read then used the Energyhelpine switching link on it and switched mine, saved over £100 a year and got £12.50 cash back, result!
Time to Switch!