dont forget to check your tarriff, most give you half price after a certain amount of units so over winter its not as bad as you would think
Unfortunately I never really paid attention to our heating bills, parents are numptys and have been throwing money away on a stupid airmiles plan with ok normal prices, but no "b" plan prices which are significantly lower and being a family who all use computers a lot, aswell as a fairly poorly insulated house our bills EASILY go into that B plan price range and we could be making a huge saving on a better plan.
Its well worth using some price checkers to compare your annual usage costs on different companies and plans, a simple move to a A/B plan will save us around £400-500 a year, one phone call. N-power have a really good deal for high power users that will save us closer to £900, but those prices will only be valid to March 2011, still plenty and at that point we can move to a similarly decent A/b plan, a new plan they have up, or move somewhere else.
Considering our crap boiler, the N-power £800 back total for getting a new boiler installed + £1k saving on that single plan will basically pay for an entire new A efficiency boiler within a single year, after that we'll be saving a lot each year and have working central heating to boot.
Remember guys and gals, don't let your Thermostatic valves get screwed by leaving them closed all the time, we now have 3 radiators that barely work, and one that simply won't turn on at all because the pins are entirely or almost completely stuck with no amount of oil/tinkering is releasing. The boiler being replaced is perfect really as our system seems to need a flush, which you basically need anyway, and we need new valves on several radiators which again as the system needs emptying when installing a new boiler, its perfect timing.
check out some of the links on moneysaving expert, if you sign up to new plans with a different company through them you can get up to £90 cashback aswell, might be worth it.
