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electricapps
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Hi all,
I moved into a place in October 2009 and the landlord gave the latest esb readings into ESB. Every 2 months I have been paying the esb by direct debit. It was only about 100 euro every two months and came out regular as clockwork. Now, I moved to Bord Gais for my electricity over the Christmas and an ESB Networks guy came out to take a final reading.
Bill came in last week for 4,000 euro. That was a huge shock. Turns out the bill had been estimated all this time and I assumed the reading was being read at least twice a year as they are meant to come out 4 times a year or at least make contact.
Anyhow it turns out they never came out to take a reading. I was none the wiser as the bills were being paid and i was paying them what they asked me for.
So now i have been underpaying them. Fair enough I owe them the money for the units I used. But has there been a price hike for esb lately and if so when? and if so am I paying these rates at the new rate??!
Its really quite annoying as our night saving units are large as we do all the washing and heating on night saver electricity. We use electricity for everything no gas or oil here. So it works out to be 260 euro per month for esb for a couple in a three bed house. 6 storage heaters would be on during the night. The house seems well insulated but could the storage heaters be the problem here?
Also, are esb flexible with payment options? I have the money to pay it off but 4k to drop in one go is a huge wedge. Anyone any experience in this situation?
I've also checked appliances to see if there are problems and all seem fine.
Thanks in advance.
I moved into a place in October 2009 and the landlord gave the latest esb readings into ESB. Every 2 months I have been paying the esb by direct debit. It was only about 100 euro every two months and came out regular as clockwork. Now, I moved to Bord Gais for my electricity over the Christmas and an ESB Networks guy came out to take a final reading.
Bill came in last week for 4,000 euro. That was a huge shock. Turns out the bill had been estimated all this time and I assumed the reading was being read at least twice a year as they are meant to come out 4 times a year or at least make contact.
Anyhow it turns out they never came out to take a reading. I was none the wiser as the bills were being paid and i was paying them what they asked me for.
So now i have been underpaying them. Fair enough I owe them the money for the units I used. But has there been a price hike for esb lately and if so when? and if so am I paying these rates at the new rate??!
Its really quite annoying as our night saving units are large as we do all the washing and heating on night saver electricity. We use electricity for everything no gas or oil here. So it works out to be 260 euro per month for esb for a couple in a three bed house. 6 storage heaters would be on during the night. The house seems well insulated but could the storage heaters be the problem here?
Also, are esb flexible with payment options? I have the money to pay it off but 4k to drop in one go is a huge wedge. Anyone any experience in this situation?
I've also checked appliances to see if there are problems and all seem fine.
Thanks in advance.