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I’m keeping an open mind still. Our system is AC not hybrid so ‘just slapping another DC battery on” isn’t a possibility. Extra batteries aren’t alway...
Octopus now have a nice summary
We’ve got side hinged windows and no small openings in rooms that need it, so the the various bodges available to sash windows don’t work .So far I...
Unsurprisingly the Midea unit is out of stock! With Amazon anyway which is the link.
@ragtime27 some rooms in our house only have one place where a radiator could easily go and the (possibly) larger radiator for 45C might mean putting ...
I wasn’t sure reading your quote if I had correctly understood that they predicted you would be paying more in bills than at present. Then on p36 is i...
@ian33a Hi Ian, you may be pleasantly surprised surprised at how well your 15kWh battery does on the Cosy tariff. You just work it 2.5 cycles per day....
Vehicle to Grid is the further step and here is the IEA’s prediction on this
Thinking about this, we all bash MCS for their inadequate regulation (rightly so imho) but if a commercial company with a separate quality system depa...
@toodles in extreme frustration in identifying myself some years ago at the gov portal to pay my tax I reset everything and told them to send a new ...
MCS are a classic quality issue. In every company that I’ve worked for all had quality systems at the highest level. But at no point was the quality o...
Roll-out external awnings prevent the sun’heat getting in. This is one example Ours are manual roll out ones with a metal winding poll. We ha...
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