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That's fair enough for you if you dont mind thinking about these things constantly! They drop in spring, they go up in winter, it averages out? Anyway the DD worked out £20/m cheaper, and I can switch away if i need to.
 
Kainz said:
I went with Octopus from British Gas back in September. The whole process was smooth sailing and I am paying £125 a month for both gas/elec under a fixed tariff. Wish I'd done this sooner tbh as I've been with BG for just over 10yrs... :o
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Hi, I'm new to this forum. I'm thinking of switching to Octopus as I read good reviews of them. I'm wondering whether you could give me a refferal? Thank you for your response.
 
Not wanting to screw people out of referrals but why switch to octopus? There are other providers that are cheaper and offer incentives via Quidco.
 
PiKe said:
No idea, they're actually more expensive than Avro, Pure Planet, Toto and Peoples Energy.
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For you maybe. You do know you get vastly different prices depending where you are on the country. Don't just presume everyone gets the same prices as you.
 
Are there that many examples of the price ranking of vendors swapping over different regions ?
I have done some analysis for relations (maybe we are all frugal) under different(OK southern) post-codes ,and choice remains similar,
albeit given personal usage with unit+standing components the sweet spot for everyone is different.
 
I'm in London and never saw Avro or People's Planet when I was looking at comparison websites in November. Octopus actually came out a lot cheaper than the rest for me.

I agree that it doesn't just come down to overall pricing and for me I try and look at how solid a company is and how long they've been around before I part into a contract. I'd been aware of bulb and octopus for a good while due to their marketing. Hadn't heard of the rest.
 
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ChrisD. said:
Really? I'm 4200kwh a year for gas.
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We used 1641kwh just throughout November.

Average UK values.

Low 8,000
Medium 12,000
High 17,000

So even my usage is under the Medium bracket. At the minute we have the livingroom set to 22c all day, dining room 20c.
Night time, main bedroom 18.5c and box room set to 22c.
 
22 all day? Wow.

I have my heating on for 30 minutes at 5.30am to take the chill out of the air and 30 minutes before I get home. It's only been set like that for about 2 weeks.

As soon as it starts getting warmer I'll turn it off. If it's cold I'll put a hoodie on.
 
Looks like I can't get my 2017 readings off British Gas now that I'm not with them. If I recall correctly our gas usage for 2017 came to something along the lines of 20,000kwh. That's on a 3 bedroom 1930's house that hardly has the best insulation in the first place. Mind you if I had my way it would be a lot less - the rest of the family rather than dress up warmly during winter just switch on the heating :rolleyes:

We do have one very large ineffecient 2metre long radiator in this house that hardly heats up at all. It is fairly new too so I need to address that bugger at some point.
 
Our front room is rubbish because it's got nothing underneath (drive under to carpark behind) and it's a double height ceiling, so even if the heating is on all day, it barely makes it to 20c when it's really cold outside.
 
Kermit said:
If you have ios get yourself https://grahamhaley.co.uk/meters/ App as you can then keep track of readings going forward independant of any supplier you happen to be ..
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OK you have to add the readings to it ? from your discourse I thought it communicated with supplier or smart meter .
what's their cut - the bonus referral that might have gone elsewhere ?


PiKe said:
Our front room is rubbish because it's got nothing underneath (drive under to carpark behind)
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thought you were potentially getting some delta floor insulation ... you raised it before - no ?
 
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