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Despite reservations, I found some time to respond to this consultation, largely on the grounds that I felt that it might be useful for them to have a...
@editor I’ve a strange feeling of Déjà vu, like I’ve been around this loop before. After trying to get any sense out of BDUK/DSIT regarding Gigabit ...
Finger trouble … I agree, somebody on the village Facebook site just posted with the familiar HP issues, I am trying to forward them to thi...
@editor Sound advice. I think the first thing should be to get a proper heat loss calculation. Then act on recommendations to reduce heat loss before ...
@transparent Don’t want to muddy the discussion on gas disconnection (although I guess I’ve already done that, though I was only intending to add th...
@irmartini Yes, I’ve found an Octopus blog about gas meter removal that says that they don’t charge and are effectively absorbing the costs and char...
@irmartini looks like OFGEM recognise there is an issue: No idea if there are any standing charge free gas suppliers. Octopus told me that the...
I don’t have any experience of gas disconnection, but I had the same issue with an electricity meter. Basically for historical reasons we have two ele...
@toodles , @ianmk13, as a former engineer and slightly obsessive detail person, that’s the approach I’m taking, researching everything and trying to u...
I think the topic of air infiltration and the requirement for careful detailing probably would merit a bespoke topic, if there isn’t one already. I ...
I've just realised that I've not provided an update on this, been rather busy. In summary, from my understanding: Octopus Energy confirmed that, at ...
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