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To be clear, my experience was very positive. The journey to evaluate options was the part that initially has more miss than hit. Since I was expec...
It seems I am seeing something similar to what you do, but with a Solis inverter (using CAN). It seems the inverter starts charging the battery even w...
I suspect a large percentage of insulation jobs were carried out under the ECO4 scheme, so perhaps this fits here. One thing I can add is that when...
Thank you for sharing and glad to hear you are happy and it works as you expected. I also have a Vaillant (gas boiler) and I agree the manuals tend...
@toodles There´s obviously a pattern here with VM being the last provider most of us had! Appalling when anyone just walks off without explainin...
@majordennisbloodnok It is not about being wrong or not. To some extent, there could be a commercial angle to not facilitating the use of third p...
I agree completely, but we see very little DIY on ASHP installations. As you are doing a very significant upgrade, you can consider disruptive work...
@editor It makes sense that installers are trying to reduce the overall cost of sales by using these approaches to re-risk and monetise. The free e...
@majordennisbloodnok I understand your point, I agree that should an ISP be taking that path of restricting access, that would be anti-competitive, et...
I had occasional problems with virgin but I found the service very reliable overall. My main problem was with the way they pushed to remove the rea...
You are I suspect "on the money" when you mention MCS: I asked for a PV quote. I stated exactly what I have and what we need. After being asked (and d...
I understand what you say.. And it seems that I had a similar experience to yours, but with VM! So I now have a router that takes a sim card, just i...
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