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The bill won't be £1 they will be paying £1 a month with the he rest of the bill coming from their surplus credit built up...
Electric bill - about 20,000 units out (I owe them) - How to settle?
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The bill won't be £1 they will be paying £1 a month with the he rest of the bill coming from their surplus credit built up...
well electricity as a whole comes to more than that... point is I've run up a surplus - the £1 is arbitrary.. presumably they could also charge me 0
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That only if the supplier has made no attempt at obtaining a reading, supplier has made attempts including writing to OP to ask for a meter reading. Back billing ONLY applies when supplier is at fault
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is the 20k units on top of the estimated reading your supplier has racked up in the mean time or simply 20k more than your last real reading.
If the later, then you probably don't owe that much. If you had a reading at 10k however many years ago and it's 30k now then you've been paying based on an estimate and it's unlikely to be insanely far off unless you changed your usage pattern significantly or moved in near to the first reading.
If you have to work in a conservatory, get new improved double glazing put in and make sure the floor is insulated. Conservatories will be colder but they don't have to be freezing or be incredibly expensive to fix.
I moved into a new place with a extension at the back with all crappy old double glazing, some blown but very thin. It gets significantly colder in there than anywhere else. It costs something like £40 per panel for, I forget the size, around 100x50cm panels. To replace the glazing all around would cost me around £400 + say £50 in some beading/caulking depending on how I do it, or maybe a grand or so if I have someone do it. Floor is probably the biggest heatloss, still need to get someone in to have a closer look but it appears to be not well if at all insulated, flooring on top of concrete so is cold in winter. Something the previous owners did that I would also have done is replace the glass roof with a normal roof which increases insulation massively and also gets rid of how stupidly loud conservatories can be in the rain.
If you're burning truly silly cash on heating then it will usually end up better to spend it upfront on making the place more insulated and it will also be consistently more comfortable to work in.
Another note, if you are doing business work at home you can claim tax relief against spending on extra heating usage for a home office, that kind of thing.
If the later, then you probably don't owe that much. If you had a reading at 10k however many years ago and it's 30k now then you've been paying based on an estimate and it's unlikely to be insanely far off unless you changed your usage pattern significantly or moved in near to the first reading.
If you have to work in a conservatory, get new improved double glazing put in and make sure the floor is insulated. Conservatories will be colder but they don't have to be freezing or be incredibly expensive to fix.
I moved into a new place with a extension at the back with all crappy old double glazing, some blown but very thin. It gets significantly colder in there than anywhere else. It costs something like £40 per panel for, I forget the size, around 100x50cm panels. To replace the glazing all around would cost me around £400 + say £50 in some beading/caulking depending on how I do it, or maybe a grand or so if I have someone do it. Floor is probably the biggest heatloss, still need to get someone in to have a closer look but it appears to be not well if at all insulated, flooring on top of concrete so is cold in winter. Something the previous owners did that I would also have done is replace the glass roof with a normal roof which increases insulation massively and also gets rid of how stupidly loud conservatories can be in the rain.
If you're burning truly silly cash on heating then it will usually end up better to spend it upfront on making the place more insulated and it will also be consistently more comfortable to work in.
Another note, if you are doing business work at home you can claim tax relief against spending on extra heating usage for a home office, that kind of thing.
Yup. Seen this before with someone that got caught, we ended up billing her for the electric she nicked a total of 24k. Silly cow.
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