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Thrift question

  • 19-10-2012 4:25pm
    #1
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    I'm not sure that 'Consumer Issues' is the right forum for this - if there's a forum for personal finance, Mods, could you move this there? Sorry to trouble you.

    I'm dithering about whether I should change my gas and electricity bill to a different provider.

    Gas central heating was the cheapest method 20 years ago; however it is probably now relatively expensive. Academic question, as the boiler broke a few months ago and won't be replaced in the foreseeable future.

    So the only gas we're using is for cooking on the hob. This hob, again, is 20 years old. My gas bill is now around €50 per bill, which seems kind of pricey for cooking a bit of porridge and the evening spuds-and-veggies or stir-fry.

    I'm wondering whether it would be better value to buy an electric or ceramic or induction hob, and leave the gas behind altogether for the moment.

    Any advice gratefully received.


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  • #2
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    We're in the same boat, I only have 3 rads and the boiler broke. We've been using the immersion for hot water and so far its working out cheaper.

    I am paying €90 every 2 months for 1 hrs heating per night and hot water. Seems no point now. I have 2 oil heaters, they would do the same as the rads.


  • #3
    Qualitymark
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    Well, yes, but what I was wondering was about the hobs. Anyone done a comparison?


  • #4
    Cheshire Cat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭Cheshire Cat


    Could you convert your hob to work off bottled gas? A bottle of gas seems to last us forever and I would do an awful lot of cooking.


  • #5
    Qualitymark
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    Cheshire Cat wrote: »
    Could you convert your hob to work off bottled gas? A bottle of gas seems to last us forever and I would do an awful lot of cooking.

    I got the frighteners of bottled gas years ago when I worked with a safety officer who told me scary stories about kitchens blowing up. Really wouldn't be happy to use it. But thank you for the suggestion, Cheshire Cat.


  • #6
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    Gas is so much more controllable then electricity for cooking, I really couldn't give it up. During the summer where we're only using the hob (every day at least 1 or 2 hobs in use) our bimonthly bill is about 35 euro (I'm with Flogas). I think it's well worth switching and cannot see any downside to changing providers if they are cheaper.


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  • #7
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Moved to Plumbing & Heating - as that seems the most specific to your question

    dudara


  • #8
    DGOBS
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    Sorry, don't mind me asking, what has happened your gas boiler?


  • #9
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    DGOBS wrote: »
    Sorry, don't mind me asking, what has happened your gas boiler?

    Dunno. Just stopped working. I got a huuuuge gas bill a few months ago, 10 times the usual, and hastily switched the thing off. That was in spring. When I went to turn it on again nothing happened. Eventually I called someone to look at it and he said the motherboard was gone, but the boiler was also 20 years old and so really it was pointless (he said, dabbling his fingers through the rusted case) replacing the motherboard; instead, the whole thing should be replaced, and a blasht of some sort sent through the radiators, which I assume are now full of gunge after 20 years unblashted.


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