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Moving in & moving out

I’ve just moved in. When will I receive a bill?

We hope you’re settling into your new home.

If you are the first occupier of the property, your energy supplier will provide us with your details once you complete on your new home, enabling us to set up your account. Upon account set up, you will receive a welcome email from us, which will include your scheme welcome e-brochure. This will explain who we are and how we will bill you for your heating and hot water. You can also find a copy of your brochure on your building’s microsite.

If you’re a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) customer, your welcome email will include your unique 19-digit account number (PAN), which you will need when topping up.

This information can also be found on our ‘Ways to pay’ page.

If you’ve been signed up for monthly billing by your energy supplier, you’ll receive your first bill from us after you’ve been in your home for more than a whole month. You’ll normally receive your new bill within the first week of every month after that.

If you’ve been in your home for two months or more and still haven’t received a bill from us, please contact your scheme specific contact number to make sure we have the right information about your home.

Please note, you may be charged a change of residency fee. If you are on PAYG billing, this fee will be added to your PAYG account. If you are on credit billing, this fee will be added to your first bill.

I’m moving out. What do I need to do?

Please notify us at the earliest opportunity when you are moving out of your property by completing our ‘Moving out' webform.

If you are a credit billed customer and we do not receive an accurate move out date, you may be charged incorrectly.

To make sure you only pay for what you have used, it’s important to give us a meter read taken on the date that your tenancy or lease agreement expires. You will then receive a final bill and account closure confirmation via email or post.

It’s easy to submit a final meter reading. You can do this either via:

Why hasn’t my ‘Change of Residency’ been processed?

If you have submitted a ‘Change of Residency’ form more than a month ago and your billing is still not correct, there could be a few reasons for this:

  1. There may be an issue with our remote connection to the energy meter in your home.
  2. We might only bill leaseholders at this property.
  3. We have not received authorisation to add you to the billing yet.
  4. There may be an outstanding balance on the account from a previous tenant which will need to be cleared by the landlord or managing agent.

Please get in touch so that we can perform any necessary checks for your account and ensure that our records are fully up to date.

I am a leaseholder. How do I register my tenants as the main contacts on my account?

If you are a leaseholder renting out your property, you will be the primary account holder and the initial account will be set up in your name.

You may prefer to nominate your tenants as authorised users on the account. This will allow us to bill them directly although you will continue to receive credit control reminders to help us ensure prompt payment from your tenants. If you would like to set up your tenants as authorised users, we require you to complete and send us a Moving in’ form. We will only be able to bill your tenants if your heat provider allows this at your scheme. To begin billing your tenants we will need to action a change of residency, which may result in an administration fee being charged to your account.

When a tenant moves out, any outstanding balance will be transferred to the primary account holder. It is then your responsibility to recover any debt from tenants as the leaseholder/landlord.

Why have I been charged a Change of Residency (COR) administration fee?

The COR administration fee covers the cost of setting up your account when you move into a property on a heat network where we are the metering & billing agent. This fee is sometimes covered by your heat supplier, but if it has been passed on to you, a £44.92 charge will have been added to your account. For more details, please see our COR fee policy.

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