Energy tariffs

Did Eon offer you a better tariff than Octopus?

British Gas were the supplier to this house when we moved in and I immediately switched to eon. I did the meter readings the day we moved in, took photos, etc. Then British Gas a few weeks later were claiming we'd used hundreds of pounds of electric and a bit of gas from when we'd moved in and switched soon after... In fact for months they kept saying the initial reading was much lower than it was (it's a smart meter too). In the end eon sorted it but it was a few months before BG produced a correct 'final' bill for me to pay for the first few days in the house. I'd never go back to them.

I switched to eon from Octopus a while back when the deal on eon was better. I also fixed just before the prices shot up - around the time Martin Lewis was telling everyone not to go for a fixed deal. I was paying lower than many for 2 years and when the government gave us all help, some months I was paying very little.

Just retain all plugging in duties at all times. It's easier that way.

7p/kWh is good value. I have pretty much ceased charging away from home now unless I'm on the road as overnight charging is so cheap.

And the progress continues. The radiator installers started today. All the old iron is in a heap on the front lawn (might confuse the council recyclers, who collect the regular bins tomorrow) and there are temporary tubes connecting the supply pipes. Day 2 will be to flush the house pipes and test-fit the new radiators, after which we have a couple of weeks to patch-paint the walls (the new radiators are more see-through than the old) before they come back to commission the lot.

In between, we get the ZEB. Which is good, because we’ll need a working boiler to confirm that the new kit works. And then winter can come if it likes because we'll be ready.

Still some argumentsdiscussions to be had with MrsB1 about the colours to go behind the three showpiece copper radiators, but one thing at a time.

There’s only one — till the combi model comes along, which we don’t need.
www.tepeo.com/the-zeb/

Yes, that one. And, like him, I was drawn by its plug-and-play nature, making it suitable for homes like ours with less-than-state-of-the-art pipework.

Well, that was the idea. But it turns out the downstairs pipes were installed so badly back in the day that they’re not really usable at all any more. So we have some difficult choices to make and not much time to make them if we’re to get some heating back before the autumn. I’m favouring ditching piped heating altogether and going all-electric but we have a lot to discuss.

Last week was difficult, to put it mildly.