The Maryhill Housing Association resident says his mental health has been destroyed with him left unable to even dry his own clothes because of fears over the cost
A Glasgow man has been forced to choose between heating his home or eating this winter after his energy bills jumped from £50 to almost £300 a month.
Speaking to the Daily Record Gary said: "It's so cold in my house that I can see my own breath, but I can't afford to put the heating on. Top news stories today He added: "They came and installed the new carbon heat source pumps which are meant to be more energy efficient and cost-effective and ever since then my bill has gone from £50 a month on the old system to easily £300 a month on this new one."Turner Heating Solutions, who installed the heat pumps, said we needed to get our meters changed too, but I've now made over 30 calls to Scottish Power.
"Then they are telling me the numbers are wrong on my current meter. But that's because it needs to get swapped to a new meter because of the heating system and they are not doing it."He continued: "t's really having a detrimental effect my health. I've had pneumonia in the past and I'm getting wheezy.
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