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£5 of leccy in three days?! WTF?

Pip said:
Because according to them, they don't let people on benefits have a normal meter. I thought 'fuck off' at the time and half heartedly challenged it, but I haven't really had a reason to get more vehement since.
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Are you on the Essentials Tariff?

Mind you, I think you might only be able to get it if you get both your gas and electric off British Gas.

Ebico's meant to be a good one to be on if you're on a low income
 
In a shared house I was in with 3 others we were going through £20 in less than a week, and all the heating was gas so it wasnt on that lol.
 
Gas, I seem to go through at a mental rate in winter but electricity is usually a lot slower to get used up. I reckon I probably spend about a fiver a week for a 2 bed house, so this sounds pretty mad to me.
 
My mean electricity consumption is about 9 units per day.
= £1.80 per day @20p per unit ("green" premium) I'm on Direct Debit.

It's mostly the TV, PC and a 9 watt lamp - plus the odd load of washing and one bath a fortnight.
 
I reckon we burn through about a tenner's worth of electricity on our prepay meter a week, maybe more if we're at home all day and the washing machine's busy.
 
Weeelll two engineers are coming round later apparently. I've got a feeling the gas will be easier to sort out than the electricity, because the first person I spoke to didn't think a leap of about £3 a week to £11 or £12 a week was significant :rolleyes:
My gas meter's always been triflin though, so maybe they'll replace it or something. Who knows?
 
5t3IIa said:
'Later'?

:(
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The gas is emergency, the electric's not :rolleyes:

Last time I got forthright with them (when I moved in in fact) about my electricity they sent some poor bugger round at about 9pm though, so I'm not feeling too pessimistic.
 
£5 in three days - nothing ! At one point I was putting on entire loads of credit and seeing it wiped out almost immediately and I still don't know why (this was gas btw but the priniciple is the same)

Our electric bill is now four times higher than it was when I moved in on prepayment 5 years ago (£5 a week to about £80 a month) I'm sure this isn't right, it's gas central heating and hot water here. Only an electric shower.

ETA: They can set prepayment meters deliberately higher to recoup a debt, make sure this hasn't happened, if you haven't already done so.
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
£50 a month? I wish

More like £20-£30 a week in the winter with the heating on :D


What a plonker. I meant gas. But when we didn't have the central heating and we were using fan heaters it shot up

sorry for scaring you!
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Yeah we get through about £20 gas in the winter - it's a total pain to have it always run out - and I don't even have all the radiators switched on either - only about half of them. And I don't have a gas fire anymore!
 
_angel_ said:
£5 in three days - nothing ! At one point I was putting on entire loads of credit and seeing it wiped out almost immediately and I still don't know why (this was gas btw but the priniciple is the same)

Our electric bill is now four times higher than it was when I moved in on prepayment 5 years ago (£5 a week to about £80 a month) I'm sure this isn't right, it's gas central heating and hot water here. Only an electric shower.

ETA: They can set prepayment meters deliberately higher to recoup a debt, make sure this hasn't happened, if you haven't already done so.
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Have you got to the bottom of it?
 
5t3IIa said:
Have you asked them _angel_?
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hmm they reckon they read the meter last time - which is news to me, never mind all the crap they gave me about not being able to come and read/ do work to my meter without me being present when I first moved in and didn't have an electricity supply for ten weeks!!
 
_angel_ said:
hmm they reckon they read the meter last time - which is news to me, never mind all the crap they gave me about not being able to come and read/ do work to my meter without me being present when I first moved in and didn't have an electricity supply for ten weeks!!
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Didn't have electricity for ten weeks? How did that happen?
 
*bump*

Admittedly I've not actually read the thread, but this seems the appropriate place to ask:

I had 80p left on my meter, so I've just put another £20 on.

The display's now showing £22.80 though.

-Huh?? :confused::D
 
Sunspots said:
*bump*

Admittedly I've not actually read the thread, but this seems the appropriate place to ask:

I had 80p left on my meter, so I've just put another £20 on.

The display's now showing £22.80 though.

-Huh?? :confused::D
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maybe you'd gone onto Emergency? :hmm:

er no, that would replace the emergency. erm... :confused:
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
maybe you'd gone onto Emergency? :hmm:

er no, that would replace the emergency. erm... :confused:
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No, for once, I actually topped up before I'd gone into the emergency fiver. Even if I had've gone into emergency though, the balance would've shown as less than £20 then?... :confused:

Still, if the display's correct, I'm a whole £2 up! Truly, these are the good times, eh... :D:cool:
 
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