In a word, yes. Why don't you read your meter every month and only pay what you owe?
This has come up before. The reason most of us do DD is they gave you a better rate if you payed that way, as well as it spreading the cost evenly. Not sure if it's still true I will find out in July when my current fixed deal ends.
With some suppliers you can still pay by DD 'on bill' rather than by DD 'upfront'.
BG used to give the DD discount, but still charge DD on bill, Shell (my current supplier ) only seem to have a prepayment DD offering (unless I've missed an account setting somewhere) where you pay a fixed amount each month.
I've just discovered that my pay it all at once account with E DF has been changed to pay monthly since October without my knowledge. Recent bill, I'm £22 in credit . Amount seems reasonable so I suppose I'll leave it as it is for now.
I'd query it @B3. They shouldn't be able to just 'change' the payment method without consulting you. I decided I'd do the [requested] manual payment to Octopus yesterday. It's £93, but because the screen doesn't work well if you scroll [ as I discovered when submitting readings and wondering why the number was different ] the same thing happened with the amount I put in, and I didn't notice until I'd pressed go. They've now got £92.99. They can whistle....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Messing about in the front garden, I'm pretty sure I've identified this year's PITA weeds ( it seems to change every year). This year it's hairy bittercress and that weedy little allium😡 The worst thing about the allium is that I planted them myself. Many years ago a ' friend' have me a present of a selection box of mixed alliums. Suffice it to say, they are the only ones that survived and thrived past the first year.
We're on the edge of the town, @Lizzie27. The rowan trees on the boundary (originally 3 until the honey fungus struck) did a good job at screening the road and neighbours' houses.
We were very strict with ourselves when moving here. We'd have absolutely loved to live in the middle of nowhere, but knew that at our age we should choose the sensible option... so we're in a bungalow, half a mile from doctor/dentist/shops/library. Our children are relieved.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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I decided I'd do the [requested] manual payment to Octopus yesterday. It's £93, but because the screen doesn't work well if you scroll [ as I discovered when submitting readings and wondering why the number was different ] the same thing happened with the amount I put in, and I didn't notice until I'd pressed go.
They've now got £92.99.
They can whistle....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The worst thing about the allium is that I planted them myself. Many years ago a ' friend' have me a present of a selection box of mixed alliums. Suffice it to say, they are the only ones that survived and thrived past the first year.
Hadn't realized you had neighbours, for some reason I thought your new house was in the wilds of nowhere!
We were very strict with ourselves when moving here. We'd have absolutely loved to live in the middle of nowhere, but knew that at our age we should choose the sensible option... so we're in a bungalow, half a mile from doctor/dentist/shops/library. Our children are relieved.