Last seen: Aug 28, 2025
I’ve just read a few articles about electricity wholesale prices and it’s looking like there’ll be another 20-30% increase in October. What’s the stra...
@suzer, we have a dual fuel one in the master bathroom. It was a hassle to get the electric connected to it, so we never did hook it up. In hindsight ...
An interesting conversation. We have two towel rails connected to the central heating. Oddly enough, they are always hotter (significantly hotter) tha...
This could be an interesting development. Good be good and not so good. Whenever energy bosses say it’s good for customers that immediately makes me t...
@batalto, I'll check them out. I think I saw a while back that there was a manufacturer (they may have been British) that were producing salt water ba...
@phil-i, there's some good information above. I will add that the few people I've interacted with that have Grant ASHPs, they've all had very good sup...
@julianc, that is crazy and this is something that a lot of people are struggling with. I get about 5-6 emails a week from homeowners that have turned...
We sat down and chatted to Aimee Clarke and Mubeen Hafeji from Octopus Energy to find out how they’re going to try and install air source heat pumps i...
@pauldavies83, we're on the same tariff as you. We're on NW/Mersey tariff. Dave Pearson, who we interviewed last year, speaks about this in this vid...
@pauldavies83, it'll probably be down to population density and the "ease" of getting electricity to these homes. We're in the West Midlands/Welsh bor...
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