Counting the cost.

[TheTreeWiseMen]

The era of cheap energy is over...

Wheres my end is nigh sandwich board...

 

Here.....use mine.

[Jason James Gairn]

two threads are converging.

[High Scale]

two threads are converging.

 

Funny, I never intended that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chortle.

[3dogs]

gas fire out log burner in. if it burns it goes on the fire, babies nappies give out alot of heat.lol:icon14:

[bob]

gas fire out log burner in. if it burns it goes on the fire, babies nappies give out alot of heat.lol:icon14:

 

you should try burning logs mate its a log burner not a sh1t stove

[Zenfordinner]

Might check to see if previous bills were estimates, if so they recalculate after a meter reading. That is when the numbers jump high.

 

I came back from a long holiday July 06 to recieve an electricity bill stating we had a debt of over £3,300, despite paying by DD every month. What a palava! They had not read the meter for ages, took a reading and readjusted months of bills to reach that sum.

 

I won't go into much detail, as it was extraordinarily tedious, but it took me six weeks to get them to decrease the debit. Last August, I noticed a debit on the bill that was much higher than I made it, asked the electricity company to readjust it. Bang! Suddenly they returned the previous debt, which had been reduced to under two hundred pounds, and we had nearly £3000 in debt again. Took me until last month to get it erased. Hours studying bills, hours convincing various customer service people it was incorrect, as they will not take your word for it-you have to prove it, and months of requesting yet another readjustment. We had a new meter installed August 06, which I thought would make it easy to fiqure out as the meter was pretty much at zero. Oh, no, never so simple. After three readjustments and ignoring my question as to why I had three different meter readings, by them, for the same meter on the same day, all increasingly higher. Finally, after threatening to go to Ofcom/ombudsman, a kind lady spend two months working on our case. Blamed the gent who reduced the original high debt, and said the initial readings were incorrect. Finally, she managed to wipe all but £430 off the debt, which was fair enough as the first years direct debit was really low.

 

I sincerely hope this is not the case with you, as it is a right tedious pain in the bottom to rectify.

 

I know of a few people who have had similar trouble with both gas and electricity companies.

 

rant over

[kevwrenn]

we had been running on estimated bills for a while, then they got in and read it properly, we shortly got a bill for nearly 3 grand..... turns out they had mis read it. got it sorted eventually with the correct figures and they ended up owing us a grand, that was a relief! as for burning nappies, i reckon it would be cheaper for me to buy in logs if i had to than to start breeding, just to provide fuel!