Living The Good Life… Scrimping!
At first glance around our house we knew there were plenty of improvements that could be made to maximise our energy efficiency, despite not having a great deal of knowledge on the what and how.
The key consideration was how do you achieve these home improvements on a limited budget without borrowing any money on these government green schemes? Well first step was to work out where we stood.
These days we just don’t have the time to continually check the rates/tariffs of each of our suppliers, just imagine how much time it would take to check each and every one. Our suppliers are certainly not going to make it easy for us to keep tabs on their costs comparatively to their competitors that would just too helpful and considerate of them. No, no, we had to spend the time researching the in’s and out’s…that was until the dawn of price comparison websites!! Here are just a few of them:*
Aside from the government “re-assuring” us that they plan to change regulations to force the energy companies to put us all on the lowest tariff, it still does not help the underlying problem, the price per unit of energy for both gas and electric! It’s all very well putting us all on the lowest tariff, but if that is continually rising through inflation and market wholesale prices, where does it leave us? NO WHERE I hear you scream! Especially as prices are continually rising and will continue to do so, forcing ever more people into fuel poverty.
When we first started trying to seriously cut back on our monthly out goings, one of the first things…
