Hi, I have been in my house for 10 years now, I used to be on Staywarm but they offered a contract at £65 per month when I moved I thought this was too much and opted for a contract costing £50 or so per month.
A year ago I was being asked to pay £180 per month same house etc. It seems now to have dropped to less than £100 per month, I am currently debited for £80 pm but that sounds too good to be true.
I regularly check to see if I am with the right contract. My current contract is one arranged by the local council, they got 22,000 signatures and put the contract up for tender, it went to EON and as I was already with them I opted to change contracts with no exit fees payable as it was still an EON contract.
I went over to LED lighting 3 years ago, my first batch (27 GU 10 80 led bulbs, 2 watts each) had a high failure rate about 30%. Since then I have moved through the high power 3 / 4 leds per bulb (5 watts) and now favour SMD ones. No failures over last 9 months. I buy on the Internet. It took out 27x 50 watt halogen bulbs, so nearly 1.3 Kws less lighting. I also have 18 CFL bulbs, this was because the base fittings were not compatible.
I also took out all the dimmer switches as they were never used. But lighting in lumens is much the same. My dining room / kitchen has 10 GU 10's was 500 watts and is used a lot but now is just 30 watts with all lights on.
regards Roy