Collective buying of electricity/gas

[Phil Pascoe]

This has been raised before, but it's still worth mentioning. My fixed rate hasn't expired yet, but I had an email from the collective I buy through, so I checked it out. A change of supplier (electricity only, no gas here) and £170 off next years bill. I gave my neighbour the rate I will be paying, and she told me what hers was, then she said she couldn't be bothered to hunt around. I said I'd just saved £170 for 20 minutes on the phone - I've never eared £500 an hour! If I were paying the same rate as her it would be costing me £474 a year more, without allowing for my standing charge being lower than hers as well. Not exactly pence. This was The Great British Collective - I'm sure there are others as well. If you've never done it before, go for it - it's quite painless, just make sure you have details of your account and your consumption handy.

 

[acewoodturner]

I do my electricity and gas through the Money Saving Expert. Saving a fortune every year without all the legwork. Best thing I ever did. If I could only persuade my wife that fitting a woodburning stove in the house would save us another £500 plus a year and have a warmer house I would be really happy. I run a full time cabinet making business and plank all my own timber. I can also get as many old whisky casks as I want and they are brilliant in the workshop stove. She's nuts!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I've just had a stove fitted - brilliant, we had one in our last house. We've got the boiler for it but haven't had it fitted yet due to financial constraints, but that'll knock holes the electricity bill.

 

[Wildman]

I do my electricity and gas through the Money Saving Expert. Saving a fortune every year without all the legwork. Best thing I ever did. If I could only persuade my wife that fitting a woodburning stove in the house would save us another £500 plus a year and have a warmer house I would be really happy. I run a full time cabinet making business and plank all my own timber. I can also get as many old whisky casks as I want and they are brilliant in the workshop stove. She's nuts!

Mmmm whiskey flavored oak smoked fish and cheese you could do a nice sideline selling shavings for home smoking, they sell well on fleabay. and for that ~Idea that will make you a fortune there is no charge, just a few small bags of shavings a year to smoke my fish with, hee hee

 

[ChrisR]

Wood burners Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. :evil:

Just this last few minuets, I have had to close up all of our windows, because two doors down has stoked up his wood burner, dirty air polluting b!$$@y things.

Working out how to capture this pollution, then feed it back through his letter box. :twisted:

Take care.

Chris R.