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| Ann | Mar 3 2011, 07:54 PM Post #21 |
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Ahh the same as here then pam we have gass for the heating here as hydro its to expensiff |
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| charlie | Mar 3 2011, 07:56 PM Post #22 |
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£386 Kathleen!! that's dear, are you all electric ? I asume that's quarterly. |
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| Pam | Mar 3 2011, 07:58 PM Post #23 |
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we were on monthly up until mid Jan but because of what happened with hubby we had to go on quaterly for now but we were in credit by £190 so expected about another £150 to what we had already paid not this |
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| Ann | Mar 3 2011, 07:59 PM Post #24 |
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yours sound like double what we pay |
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| Pam | Mar 3 2011, 08:04 PM Post #25 |
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there is something wron Ann i am sure of it, but if we are wrong and they test the meter then we have to pay them £90 :wall: |
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| Ann | Mar 3 2011, 09:25 PM Post #26 |
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yah that seems way to mutch ;) |
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| Deleted User | Mar 4 2011, 02:25 AM Post #27 |
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The way it's going now we'll all be doing what Pam and I have done. When it was really really cold a month or two ago, I tried to cut down on my heating and wore thick jumpers and cardigans in the house, and put a blanket over my knees to keep warm. I favvered Nanook of the North! :E Folk shouldn't have to do that but, to be fair, my central heating isn't brilliant and I only switch it on when I come home from work at 5 p.m. so it takes a couple of hours to warm up from scratch. I do feel the cold badly because I'm very small and yet, when I get into bed, within five minutes or so I'm as warm as toast. I feel so sad for old folk though that die of hypothermia in their own homes through cold. Why is that? I'm classed as an old folk now on a pension, but still luckily able to work to bring in a few extra pounds a week, but I will NOT be cold in my own home, even if I have to go into debt doing it. For goodness sake! This is the 21st century and if the old people mean so little to government, then we have little future. I don't mean this for me, because I do manage, but there are some old folk out there that have a meagre pension and they CAN'T manage. I consider myself lucky, even though I'm far from living the high life on my income. I run a car (not cheap) and I still have a mortgage to pay for. I am a smoker (not cheap)! Last October I started to rid myself of things I didn't actually obsessively need like my mobile phone for example. It was only £11 a month, but that helped and yes, against all odds, I can survive without it! :E I got rid of my Cable TV package 'cos I never watch telly - another £10 a month, and quite a few other bits and bats. It may not seem like much in the big plan of things, but every penny does help. By cutting out all unnecessary things I've ended up saving £90 a month. That's a lot of money for me. :nod: |
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| Super Bee | Mar 4 2011, 10:44 AM Post #28 |
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As most of you know, I've not lived in the UK for a number of years. That changed a couple of years ago when I did live there for a few weeks, and as a result, had to pay some gas and electricity bills. I was totally shocked by the amounts due! After I had been back here a while, I compared prices. UK energy costs are roughly the same as in this country. Standing charges are (were) about 75% of ours. I know they have risen over there, but so have ours. Despite this, the bills for a mid-terraced house were roughly double what I pay for my house, taken over a calender year. If you take into consideration that I'm heating 3100+square feet in a worse climate, you bills are frightening! |
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| aitch | Mar 4 2011, 01:09 PM Post #29 |
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I pay for gas £45 by monthly direct debit, and £22 for electric, same system DD monthly that is roughly £550 for gas and £230 for electric:(( Edited by aitch, Mar 4 2011, 01:11 PM.
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| Ann | Mar 4 2011, 02:35 PM Post #30 |
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I do not have a oven here we cook on the turbo oven does averything and does not use lots of hydro we have gas radators here and all the windows are double glass as well as the doors are not wood there insultaed our bills we cant compilan at all |
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