to hate the GREEDY, ROBBING BASTARDS that masquerade as southern electric

[MistyMountainHop]

i have had my heating on for approx a 1 - 2 hours a day since last thursday evening. we have had one bath or shower each a day (4 of us)

this privilege has cost us £10 in gas (we have a prepayment meter) £10 for 4 days gas, no more than 8 hours of heating and a few baths is fucking ridiculous in my book

the electric costs us £10 a week every week anyway regardless of season so we are used to being fleeced for that. but when it gets even colder i dread to think what the gas is going to cost us :(

and we have checked we are on the "right tariff" etc, not paying for someone elses debt etc. and i don't want to switch to quarterly billing because i actually prefer to "pay as we go" as the tiny difference in cost is outweighed by not receiving a whopping bill every quarter IYSWIM. and there is no point changing suppliers as they're all the bloody same.

AIBU to think that heat and light is a basic human right in the developed world? and to actually hate these profiteering arseholes? i bet the CEO of southern electric doesn't have to wonder whether he can afford to put his heating on or not

I'm on a meter and eon are brilliant. £10 electric and about £5 gas a week and I have heating on quite a bit and gas oven

I'm with southern electric on meters too. Your eke tic is about same as me...... But at your gas!!!

we are with SE too and on a meter, its costing us £15 a week and we haven't had our heaters on yet.
We rung to check and its as it should be apparently- 'such is life'.
We will not be able afford heating this year our HA just changed our heaters to massive energy draining storage heaters.
I even considered one of those adult babygrow things in primark yesterday, couldn't bring myself to take it to the till though - what if someone saw me, the shame of it

We're with them for gas and electric too, both on meters. Almost 3 months ago they recalculated our monthly direct debit on their new prices, as we'd racked up a fair bit of credit with them which they had to pay back. Just had my 2nd letter in as many weeks saying they are putting our direct debit up again to cover the new prices! I had to call them up and argue the toss with them before they would finally "agree" not to put it up, like they were doing me a big favour. [grr] Cheeky buggars!

So no, YANBU at all!

I even considered one of those adult babygrow things in primark yesterday, couldn't bring myself to take it to the till though - what if someone saw me, the shame of it

lol

i want one too :o

tiaras thats brilliant, i wonder how easy it is to swap?

my house is a small 3 bed double glazed semi, think its 60's, old council house dunno if that makes any difference?

Knackered - a friend of mine who's been on incapacity benefit for years lives in rented accommodation with storage heaters, because the heaters use the economy 7 tariff (overnight electricity seems to be about half price) they are really affordable to run. Hopefully your HA can set it up for you to get the economy 7 meter fitted.

The only problem with the storage heaters is that they like to roast you at 4am!