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Thanks for these ballpark figures @rob-of-york 😊 Always helps to know whether the train of thought is worth digging deeper into or just scrub ...
Hi James, some good food for thought so thank you for that! It certainly doesn't hurt to get a quote from Octopus! We are not going to be in a positio...
... And that's being generous! I'll tell you a little story about the build quality we have been witnessing from our house, which is literally acro...
Thanks! 👍 the A2W and A2A maintenance figures are worth knowing. And yes, an A2W system just doesn't add up cost wise for me... I don't see ...
I totally concur... People are little more than 'justification machines'. We decide a position and then find points and/or 'facts' to back that positi...
The £15K quote was for an A2W system with rads upgraded and was not including the BUS grant (so about £7,500 I think it was still to pay post BUS gran...
From my experience of buying a new build... The worse decision of my life! Assume that everything is borked/broken/sabotaged or incompetently installe...
I strongly suspect this is the case, especially with large sites that have had their plans drawn up years ago and are still projected to take another ...
At least they are mandated now! A bit late in the day in my opinion - as the wide-scale gas refit and new gas infrastructure is going ahead in our are...
Hi James, More good points here: Part and parcel of the problem is the 'for profit' energy market designed and run in the post-Thatcherism era... ...
Hi James, Thanks for your input here! But.... And I am coming to agree with you here @jamespa... I'm coming at this from a desire...
@rob-of-york Hi Rob,Interesting points you have raise here! Thank you! I definitely need to tread carefully here as it could turn out to be an expensi...
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