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It's not like BG to use sneaky broadband contract-style tactics like that is it? 🤥
We use Octopus and so does my mother. In both cases, we've found that Octopus' "recommended" amount is a slight overestimate, but that since it's easy...
It is indeed an imprecise line. I think keeping in mind what we're trying to achieve here by keeping the hub apolitical is a good yardstick. It's lik...
Hmm. I would disagree, @jamespa. A year or so ago, energy prices went wild. Whilst it had its roots in a political issue (sanctions applied against Ru...
🤔 That's why I turn autocorrupt off. That said, it drove my son mad when I asked him to message someone from my phone whilst I was driving sin...
I think you just defined the current system of democratic government as enacted in the UK. I believe Sir Winston Churchill was - perhaps erroneously -...
Just one very quick point before others start giving more expert opinions than I can... If you've paid for a report, you have a legal right t...
I agree with everything you've said, @toodles, and you're quite right that the heat pump installation to our house has immeasurably increased its valu...
I'm pretty sure the ASHP has made our house a little more desirable (with the inevitable effect on its value) since it's slightly (when considered on ...
Yup, absolutely. Note to self not to post whilst in a hurry; I was getting my acronyms mixed up, which is not an uncommon occurrence. Absolutely ...
Oops, talking at cross purposes. Everything in my post was using the term "offset" to mean offsets from UTC to get to a particular time zone, so an ...
From a purely technical point of view time offsets ought to be irrelevant since everyone should be using UTC. Whether they are or not is a separate qu...
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RE: Ecodan & MelCloud scheduling
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