The Fast-Track: Moving House with Utility Warehouse
Gas, electricity, broadband & phone. Here’s an easy step-by-step guide to manage moving house with Utility Warehouse as your supplier
Moving in or out. Easy switching. And taking your services with you. Our team has put together a quick guide to moving house with Utility Warehouse as your home energy, gas, electric or broadband internet supplier.
Now, just as important as picking a good removal company, it’s always best to notify your energy supplier before you move – see the full guide to moving house energy supplier. Whether you want to keep them or switch, Utility Warehouse has a dedicated home moving team, with options for moving house and taking them with you, signing up as a new customer or requesting your final bill. Here’s how it works:
Moving house with Utility Warehouse
1. MOVING AND TAKING UTILITY WAREHOUSE WITH YOU
If Utility Warehouse is your current supplier, you’ll have to notify them at least 28 days in advance that you’re moving – don’t worry, they have a dedicated team to help you with that. And then you’ll need to decide whether you’re taking them with you as your supplier.
Here’s how to do it:
Step 1: Notify Utility Warehouse that you’re moving
Contact Utility Warehouse on 0333 777 0777 or by filling in the online form (marked “moving home”) on their website’s contacts page. You’ll need to do this at least 21 days in advance of your move to take your landline and broadband services to your new address. Your energy services might take even longer to activate (depending on whether Utility Warehouse is already active at the new address), so maybe plan to notify them at least 28 days ahead of your move.
Step 2: Give them all the necessary info about your move
The Utility Warehouse home-movers team will need to know: The new address you’re moving to and when you’re moving in. The date you’re moving out of your current address and, for energy supply, your closing meter readings – here’s how to read your smart meter and non-smart meter.
2. MOVING INTO A HOUSE WITH UTILITY WAREHOUSE – NEW CUSTOMER
As a new customer, activating your Utility Warehouse service is super easy – especially if your new home is already supplied.
Step 1: Contact Utility Warehouse to join
Phone their dedicated new customer’s line at 0333 777 3212, or join online. Now, Utility Warehouse works with partners, which help service their customers. If you’re joining through a partner, they’ll actually help get you set up. If not, just tick the “I’m not with a partner” option and you’ll be able to register yourself for their services.
Step 2: Choose your service
Next, you just choose your bundle of services and supply Utility Warehouse with the necessary details about yourself, and they’ll get you set up in your new home.
3. MOVING OUT AND CLOSING YOUR UTILITY WAREHOUSE ACCOUNT
Although they’ll gladly negotiate products and prices to keep you on board, if you really want to move without your service the best way is to actually contact your new suppliers and have them arrange the switch for you. Note: It can take up to 21 days to switch your energy supply, so Utility Warehouse will need your meter readings, so they can run an interim account for the duration of the switching period and send you a final bill to close it off.
NB CONTACTS FOR MOVING HOUSE WITH UTILITY WAREHOUSE
Customers phone: 0333 777 0777
New customer phone: 0333 777 3212
Online contact form
Note: Utility Warehouse doesn’t currently have a live chat function online
Additional info
IS UTILITY WAREHOUSE REALLY CHEAPER?
Yes, it can be. See Utility Warehouse works on a bundle system, where the more services you take with them the less you pay for each comparatively – and you get certain rewards. However, the individual services on their own might cost the same or sometimes even more than with other suppliers. It’s really once you start bundling them that you start seeing the competitive prices.
CAN YOU MAKE MONEY WITH UTILITY WAREHOUSE?
Yes. Utility Warehouse has a partners programme – see here – where you can join (for a fee) to bring in new clients for them and earn money based on your performance. Like anything, though, how much you earn depends on how much time and effort you put into it. So it’s up to you to decide if the amount you could earn is worthwhile for you.
Note: We are definitely NOT partners of Utility Warehouse. Biggles will never recommend any specific energy supplier to you. We just want to supply you with information to help make your home move easier and simpler.
IS UTILITY WAREHOUSE THE CHEAPEST FOR GAS AND ELECTRICITY?
Often, yes, but the amount of savings depends on your bundle. Just taking energy supply with Utility Warehouse is normally around 0.5% cheaper than the top 6 competitors in the industry. If you add broadband and a landline, your energy is 2.5% cheaper. And if you add mobile, it could be up to 5% cheaper. (That’s just the energy, though, there are no guarantees your internet or phone charges will be cheaper than competitors.)
WHERE IS UTILITY WAREHOUSE BASED?
The only available information is that Utility Warehouse is based in London, UK.
HOW DO I LEAVE UTILITY WAREHOUSE?
The simplest way is to contact your new supplier and ask them to help switch you over. Utility Warehouse will then send you a final bill to cover any interim services during the switching process.
PLUS: See how to switch more energy suppliers
Also see our complete guides to moving house electricity supply, moving home gas, , as well as moving house phone and moving house broadband supplier.
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