Thread: British gas fixed rate 2011

Edit: Advice removed. Answer already given to poster following similar post yesterday when poster decided to ressurect 5 year old post.

Quote: Originally Posted by sonyhamster Having signed a 4 year deal with British Gas back in December 2006, I thought I was getting a good deal at 3.21p per unit at no standing charge. But then more recently I recieved a bill where they charged 99p per unit! Welcome to the forum. Presumably this is a business account?

You need to start dealing with this in writing by recorded delivery : never ever speak to debt collectors on the phone. Ask again for proof that this debt is yours, there may be template letters on a sticky on the Debt-free Wannabe board to help you do this. Debt collectors have to be able to prove debts or they are unenforceable - it's for them to liaise with SP. As others have said, get your bank statements together as you should have...

Helena is right, For a gas heated property where heating hasn't been used the gas readings make a lot of sense, however the electric readings are quite high, and something needs to be looked at. Take up Helena's offer of speaking with their energy efficiency team and seeing if that consumption can be cut back - in most cases large savings can be made without too drastic a change in lifestyle. In addition see if you cna take...

They should have two controls. One determines how much heat they store automatically during the off-peak hours. The second dial controls how slowly or quickly they release the stored heat over the following day. It depends on the model how this second dial is used. If you aren't at home during the day you obviously want to limit how much is released before you come home. Easiest thing to do is to google the make and model of the heaters...

Why don't you take your own meter reading and work out what you are actually using? Then you can negotiate a DD with them that reflects your real usage.

Quote: Originally Posted by Quentin Vinny claims to just be helpful when getting gullible friends to sign up to uw. If he's signing friends up to UWs' expensive energy products yes he is immoral but we don't know who he is actually signing up do we ? If he's signing up non-friends who approach him it's not his job to tell him that there are cheaper companies. Just the same as it's not the job of the person on the...

These appear to be dual storage and convector heaters, the storage part should be wire to a separate circuit and automatically controlled by a radio teleswitch, (assuming you are on an Economy 7 tarriff). The convector which would run on day rate electricity should be used sparingly.

Stick with the meters youve got.

You could always claim on the DD guarantee as the DD was out with the authority you had given to eon