The company is a humiliation to the
Uk . The customers service is in
South Africa ... they are con artists on the smart meter the bills are extremely ...
Expensive like a mortgage.
They should change there name from British Gas to South African gas
Rayhan ahmed
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The service Dyno Rod has provided is deficient as it failed on several occasions to diagnose a leak in my home over several months. Dyno Rod, reassured me that there was not a leak on numerous occasions despite my insistence and that of Essex water that their was a leak was in the house causing higher than average bills.
I then incurred massive damage to my property from and had to contact my home insurance to remove contents and repair.
The complaints liaison that British Gas/DynoRod provided was ineffective and took several months to investigate my complaint and on one occasion apologised for the delay because he was ill.
Their insurance is denying liability and his resolution was for my insurance contacting theirs to sort out and an offer of £200 which I refused. I intend to make their actions public and look at obtaining a fair resolution legally.
I have reported to the Ombudsman and taken advice from Which? Legal as I have had Looses of over £2000 which are:
Insurance Excess - over £600
Increase in insurance premiums
Inability to use rooms and living room to date
Inconvenience and time taken off work to deal with the results of the damage.
Please be aware that DynoRod/British Gas’s home emergency cover is quite happy to take premiums but their service is extremely poor and they do not accept responsibility when their failure to rectify a small problem causes massive amounts of damage.
Amir Savage
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Boiler and radiators fitted. Radiator pipes leaked in multiple places and called out to repair numerous times until all sorted. Came down this morning to find front room radiator called off wall, damaging a chair ...and leaking. Wasting another day sat around waiting for someone to fix it.
Steve
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Can never log on !!!! British Gas online is the same!! Truly pathetic
Michael Coulson
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Can never log on !!!! British Gas online is the same!! Truly pathetic
Michael Coulson
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MOST INCOMPETENT COMPANY i am now on day 12 on trying to sort out problems on top of problems with them. I moved to new home and signed up with them 18th Dec and then I received a bill days later for NOVEMBER??? How is that possible if i never signed up into end of Dec. They sent 2 idiots round to sort my gas and electricity as no power in the house. I waited from 7am to 6.20pm when they finally arrived. They changed the smart meter which had credit on to a key machine. Said they had topped it up the machine for me and if.i needed.more.credit.call.them back ??? I should of known from that sentence they were being tossers. Turns out them 2 idiots put me on emergency. Which i didnt realise until it had ran out when the gas safety company came to restore heating. They were not prepared to wait while we ran out to top up so now we have to wait for another appointment. I called for my refund and a rude THAPELO MLILO hung up on me i called again a nice lady tried to connect me but i was cut off so when called a 3rd time i was told after 30min in hold that there is something wrong with my meter
I said he was mistaken as i topped today he put me back on hold and came with he will top my meter
Erm no thank you send a cheque thats when he got snotty and replied well it will take 21 days bye
Sabrina
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After some years as a home care customer, I decided that on receiving a renewal quote of over £460 I would go elsewhere for my cover. On phoning to cancel my policy I was immediately offered an improved quote. Why wasn't I given this in the first instant ??
I had not had the included boiler service either within the term of the policy, this was scheduled for 2 days after my policy end date but I was informed it would still occur. Today I received a text cancelling my annual boiler service with a lame excuse that the Engineers were all very busy fixing broken down boilers. I would get a letter sometime to rebook.
Apparently BG have lost 850,000 customers this year. I became 850,001. They are never competitive on pricing, always amongst the most expensive & very poor service levels.
Remember the days of the "Fat Cats" nothing has changed
“In the winter our boiler broke down and we were told British Gas could not have someone around because they were too busy for the next three days. Apparently this happens in the winter because of high demand but that is exactly when you need your boiler so what is the point of homecare service agreements?
Now our plumbing has broken down, our kitchen has flooded but when I rang I was told that this was not an emergency and dyno rod would not be around for two days.When I enquired it comes across as a company with no real service standards defining emergency as being what they can cope with under the prevailing circumstances. Clearly advertising heavily putting on lots of customers but not staffing up to meet demand properly. Shame on you British Gas for this mediocrity.”
“Terrible customer service and impossible to get through to anyone when help is needed. When we switched to another provider they didn’t update their database and we continued to get charged - again impossible to get through to anyone and took weeks to sort out. Sent our final bill and our account was closed, so unable to pay it. Unable to get through to anyone (notice any trends here) to pay it for ages. Finally got our account reactivated so we could pay our bill. Good riddance - avoid.”
“Appalling company for Home Care and Customer Service. We moved from British Gas as energy suppliers some time ago but have stayed with them for home care - pay £80/month for water and pipe cover, repair cover for 2 kitchen appliances, plus central heating cover. In this time they have failed to mend appliances on almost every occasion they have been, or we couldn't arrange a visit.
They could not mend the heating/hot water, so we were without for several weeks, despite 6 visits, even though there was an obvious leak above the boiler FROM THE PUMP, that I had pointed out to the engineers - they told me our roof was leaking. Eventually one engineer sorted it.
We have a pipe leak they have never sorted - it has a tray underneath it to catch the water!
Now during COVID, they take your money but will not visit or refund.
I have finally had enough and cancelled. Just looking at other contracts, almost everyone else has a better review - go elsewhere until they up their game!”
“I was with British Gas from 2000 for 18 years on both gas & electric. I bought a second house in 2009 to renovating and switched that to British Gas too. In 2011, huge bills started arriving for both properties. I realised that the second property's bill was just an estimate and once I gave correct meter readings to BG, I was hundreds of pounds in credit. I then asked BG to use this credit to clear the bill on the first house, which they did. A few months later another massive bill arrived for the first house and BG took the money automatically. I then realised this was an estimate too! What followed was a campaign of months to get my money back and it was only because of my tenacious nature that I succeeded. I should have left then, but didn't. I sold the first house and went on monthly direct debits for the second. For the next few years a pattern emerged where I would pay £176 a month for about 9 months, then have a meter reading, be told I was over £1000 in deficit, and the bill would go up to £380 a month. The usage was the same, year in year out, so why can't BG estimate a correct monthly debit? I left BG fifteen months ago and have been paying £150 a month to my new company...its late May and I'm £500 in credit - figure that out.”
“Been a customer for over 30 years, I've always paid quarterly but have had 5 bills since the end of November. I live alone in a small house with the usual household appliances nothing high energy usage,and I only heat the living room not the whole house. I paid £323 at the end of February and then received another one for£519 at the end of April. I have never paid this amount even in the middle of winter, and I knew after this I was being mugged , lucky I don't do direct debit. I have had 4 phone conversations without any success,tried online nothing,and sent 3 letters no replies.To top it all looked online this morning and they have stuck me with another £54for13 days usage bringing my total bill for 5 months to£1116 for 5 months. Avoid this company like the plague.”
“Over £2600 in 12months gas and electric. 2 bed small house. Don't see how as all lighting is L.E.D also have a log burner running constantly. Decide to switch and saved £900 a year to start off. Then they have the nerve to say they will pass our details on to a debt collection agency over £252 shortly after leaving them. How can you be £463 in credit before you leave then end up owing them...... Suprise suprise.... disgusting behaviour excuse after excuse when questioned. Would not recommend to anyone unless you want to overpay by ridiculous amounts”
“Worst company I have ever come across. I have had nothing but issues since November 2018. Smart meter always messing up 2 people came round and cant fix so I go to update my readings and only let's me do it for gas and not electricity yet my usage is showing as seperate.. then when my bill came in they only counted the gas. No idea how much I owe them now but it's becoming a joke now. Then you go through customer service and it's like talking to a brick wall. Oh and also I booked in a boiler service and months ahead so on the actual day noone turned up they said they sent me a letter to cancel it. I could not believe it and it was 2 weeks before Christmas. They are an absolute joke.”
“The app is absolutely terrible.I was able to read my gas meter reading fine, but when I tried to put my electric meter in It said ring this number.
I spoke to a person online but he put 2 questions in at the same time so I only seen the second one which said ( let me check) the first one asked for my details but I did not see this until he ended chat.I was waiting for another chat to open up but it didn’t, but it did say leave a message on chat but I have recieved no reply and that was around a week ago.
The app obviously does not work that’s why the phone number came up.
I went onto British Gas on internet and logged in and I put both meter readings in without any problems.i have deleted the British Gas app as it rubbish and shall just go on the website in future.”
“Very bad customers service. Their app does't work and my account was registered with another email which i do not recognise at all.
Difficult to get in touch and to give my meter readings. I will wait my contract to finish and I will move away from them as soon as the contact expires.
I was thinking that they are good company but obviously they are not. avoid.”
“Have read some of these reviews, my experience was very similar , I ended up with 2 defaults on my credit file due to estimates , and brining miss informed by over seas call centre ! I logged a complaint and they wouldn’t removed from my credit report . I’ve since moved to igloo which have been great easy to use app and always got through to customer service easily .”
“Leak from hot water tank March 29. 6 Attempts to get through by phone, holding on for 20-25 minutes each time until line dropped out. Tried the online emergency service and was given a date for December 25, 2021. The next day I received an email saying that the 1st email was sent in error but still no time for an 'emergency engineer'. In desperation I managed to get a plumber through a friend to come out, in spite of lock down, on the afternoon of the 30th. The water tank was drained and things left secure. All of this was done remotely as I am trapped outside the country. As I will likely be able to travel soon I called British Gas, under my homecare contract, to come out and repair/replace. I was informed that I had to pay the £99 excess call out charge. I said this was unreasonable since I had already paid £140 to get someone out because BG was uncontactable and I didn't want to damage my flat and the flat below with leaking water. The BG rep remained firm. I asked to be put through to the complaints section the person at the end told me a £30 reduction was all that she would do because:
1. I did not try hard enough to contact them (my phone log will demonstrate otherwise) and people were getting through on the day (not this person).
2. "It was my decision to call another plumber to save the building from water damage".
I then asked to be transferred to contract cancellation. The rep duly declared the contract was cancelled and that I would receive an email notification to that effect. 3 days later no confirmation!! I tried to log into my account to see if there was a message but was locked out because "I had not been a British Gas customer for 6 months" !!!?? Interesting in that the contract was only cancelled 3 days ago?
My next step was to use my online banking facility to cancel my direct debit to British Gas for Homecare which I have just done.
My bank suggested I notify you of this - SO YOU ARE NOW NOTIFIED!
I will not spend any more hours with communication systems and corporate processes that do not work.”
“Leak from hot water tank March 29. 6 Attempts to get through by phone, holding on for 20-25 minutes each time until line dropped out. Tried the online emergency service and was given a date for December 25, 2021. The next day I received an email saying that the 1st email was sent in error but still no time for an 'emergency engineer'. In desperation I managed to get a plumber through a friend to come out, in spite of lock down, on the afternoon of the 30th. The water tank was drained and things left secure. All of this was done remotely as I am trapped outside the country. As I will likely be able to travel soon I called British Gas, under my homecare contract, to come out and repair/replace. I was informed that I had to pay the £99 excess call out charge. I said this was unreasonable since I had already paid £140 to get someone out because BG was uncontactable and I didn't want to damage my flat and the flat below with leaking water. The BG rep remained firm. I asked to be put through to the complaints section the person at the end told me a £30 reduction was all that she would do because:
1. I did not try hard enough to contact them (my phone log will demonstrate otherwise) and people were getting through on the day (not this person).
2. "It was my decision to call another plumber to save the building from water damage".
I then asked to be transferred to contract cancellation. The rep duly declared the contract was cancelled and that I would receive an email notification to that effect. 3 days later no confirmation!! I tried to log into my account to see if there was a message but was locked out because "I had not been a British Gas customer for 6 months" !!!?? Interesting in that the contract was only cancelled 3 days ago?
My next step was to use my online banking facility to cancel my direct debit to British Gas for Homecare which I have just done.
My bank suggested I notify you of this - SO YOU ARE NOW NOTIFIED!
I will not spend any more hours with communication systems and corporate processes that do not work.”
“Poor customer service staff kept hanging up on me and talking over me when I was trying to explain to them that I was having an issue with topping up basically I have not been able to top up my electricity via their app, online or in store I keep getting error messages on the app, online and on my receipt when I try to top up my key, and this is very frustrating because of the current pandemic. Staff is very rude also I removed gas prepayment from my british gas account last year because I only use electricity (because all my appliances are electric and so is my shower) then they put gas back on my account with out my knowledge even though this was supposed to have been removed since last year when I call them they give me the run around and it is very hard to get through to them I literally have to say I have a problem with my cooker even though I don’t on the phone in order to get through to someone otherwise the phone will give message about covid 19 vulnerable customers need help then it will cut. I have been saying I have problem with cooker so someone will pick up the phone then I tell them the real problem and I have to wait to be put through to the correct department and a lot of times they either cut the phone, do not solve the issue or are just plain rude.”
“Had a boiler overpressure issue, 1.2 raising to 2.6 when COLD over 2-3 days at which point it starts to leak internally. 1st engineer disconnected filling loop and there was a steady drip. Now I'm no plumber but if water is leaking past the filling loop taps when the taps are closed then it's not doing it's job. YET they DID NOT replace the loop/valves. they've been 3 times now to fit Schrader valve, heat exchanger and some black plastic thing the engineer said could have gone BUT NOT the loop/valves. Got them coming out for a 4th time as we now have a leak internally ALL the time (bucket underneath) coming from... *drumroll* ...the filling loop connection! I'm actually happy as this just proves the mains pressure is getting past the valves, let's hope the next engineer just swaps them out. I've had no issues getting a slot quickly so have to give 2 starts for that, if they had fixed the issue first time 5 but a bit annoyed that in 3 visits the obvious issue isn't being considered/resolved. I'm just so glad I've got Homecare Cover as it would have cost a small fortune otherwise.”
British Gas both supply and maintenance is a total rip off and they are scamming customers.
They state that they service and check your boiler with an annual service and they check that your central heating is in good working order.
This is totally untrue they don't check your central heating at all.
That makes it a scam because they falsely advertise it as part of the annual service.
Mine was supposedly checked and signed off by them however 3 valve leaks occurred in a very short time one the same leak twice causing considerable damage to a newly decorated kitchen.
They try to say they are not responsible, but the damage was caused by sheer incompetence of their lazy engineer who did not check the central heating system at all.
Their policy also states accidental damage is included.
I would like to know how they are checking a central heating system is in good working order without so much as turning it on and checking each radiator is hot and does not need bleeding.
This is false advertising by them and a scam to con people out of money.
Many people have stayed with them years because they think it is a hassle to change but it is very easy to change suppliers.
It’s actually very easy and can be done with a simple phone call to any other supplier.
British gas also is ripping people off on the cost of gas and electric.
Standing charges and unit charges are much cheaper with other suppliers there are now many.
Don’t think they treat loyal customers of many years any different because they do not
British gas is a rip off company who could not care less about their customers.
According to the press British gas are losing nearly 100000 customers a month as people wake up to better service and prices from other suppliers.
British Gas are totally useless and a waste of space .
My report now goes to the financial ombudsman .
My assessment of the situation is exactly what happened.
British Gas was given every opportunity to sort the situation out amicably and after dealing with them locally they failed to even respond to a complaint letter sent to head office.
The sheer arrogance of this company is unbelievable and don't be fooled by there false advertising.
My advice is keep clear of this scam company.
They also after 2 weeks still have not returned an overpayment of £160 if next week l still don't receive it l will issue county court debt proceedings against them.
I terminated both my accounts with them and changed suppliers on 25th March.
2weeks ago they said I would receive a cheque in 3 -5days MORE LIES!
I spoke to these incompetent fools again today they have not even processed my refund they just told me it will be another 10 days.
The way this company now operates is totally beyond belief.
What a totally ridiculous reply from British gas had the incompedent engineer tested the system to be be in a safe working condition as per British Gas advertising he would have found the leak but as he failed to check the system was in a safe working condition he did not find it .As previously stated how is BG checking a Central heating system properly without even switching it on ?lt is a ludicrous reply which by the way is also supposedly covered for accidental damage so either way British Gas are responsible.The amount of bad reviews this lousy company has just goes to prove how bad they really are.
Update now I am preparing documents for the financial ombudsman.
British gas still remains a garbage company full of ....
lying to try to justify the incompetence of its useless staff .British gas Still lying trying to cover up for their incompetent lazy staff.
Their the in the news again by a well known magazine for wholesale ripping customers off again!!!I still want to know how they are checking the safe working condition of the central heating without switching it on.Maybe it's done by magic as they cannot answer the question. Without any foundation they tried to blame the decorator who did not even touch the rad valves having painted all the rads in situ ,just more lies from this lousy rip off company.
What a bunch of lying fools how can you check the safety and efficency without turning on the sysyem total clowns?No wonder so many people are leaving this muppet company.My decorator never touched the valves.
QUOTE"however the annual service is designed to check your boiler and system is working safely and in line with the relevant laws and regulations, not a complete check over your system to identify any potential faults. "What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! check without switching it on fools!!!!!!!! !”
“Can't ever get through to them these days in chat or by phone. Still haven't given me my warm home discount and it's almost may FFS. Us vulnerable customers are screwed.”
“I cannot believe how bad they are I moved from eon who are bad to British Gas and all of a sudden I have used the same amount of power in 6 months as I did in a whole year with eon. I’m sure wholesale energy prices dropped dramatically before I changed. Oh and by new estimate for me for a 3. Bed semi is £1900 a year really !!!!!!!”
Disgusting company
I was charged a ridiculous amount for my gas and electric (£800 for 3 months) which was obviously an error as we used our open fire and log burner. However, when I questioned this they never told me the correct amount dispite 6 months of chasing them, they just wanted me to pay the bill which they could not tell me the amount. An example of this is that we received 4 different 'estimates' in 1 week, and when we asked as to the correct one, they gave a different amount! And I received a different amount every time I enquired. Ended up sneakily putting 2 defaults on my credit file and when I discovered this 3 years later and questioned it, they would only offer £20 as an 'apology' for their errors but Refuse to remove the 2 defaults (gas & electric)
I will never use this vile company ever again! And suggest that everyone avoids it like the plague!”
Disgusting company
I was charged a ridiculous amount for my gas and electric (£800 for 3 months) which was obviously an error as we used our open fire and log burner. However, when I questioned this they never told me the correct amount dispite 6 months of chasing them, they just wanted me to pay the bill which they could not tell me the amount. An example of this is that we received 4 different 'estimates' in 1 week, and when we asked as to the correct one, they gave a different amount! And I received a different amount every time I enquired. Ended up sneakily putting 2 defaults on my credit file and when I discovered this 3 years later and questioned it, they would only offer £20 as an 'apology' for their errors but Refuse to remove the 2 defaults (gas & electric)
I will never use this vile company ever again! And suggest that everyone avoids it like the plague!”
“I’m currently in credit with my gas and electric Total of £130. New bill not due untill 31st I’ve not even given them my recent meter readings. I kindly asked them to refund this amount as I’m unfortunately in a position due to the current circumstances where I have NO money for a food shop this upcoming week. I’m a full time Carer of my 2 disabled children and they say they are unable to refund MY money!! Absolutely disgusting!! Apparently if I add the recent meter readings they will process my bill early and see if it I still in credit. of course I won’t be what a ridiculous thing to say. I’ve told them I’ve maxed my credits cards and this is my only hope. They don’t give toss!! I would recommend British Gas to no one!!! Sorry if some of this makes no sense I’ve wrote it all in tears as I can’t stop crying. I HATE you British Gas!”
