Last seen: Aug 5, 2025
Perhaps in fairness, I should add that sometimes, the annual service every 18 months or so, would be carried out by a ‘proper’, competent and keen ser...
@adamk I understand that to service a gas boiler, a competent service engineer should allocate at least an hour; I had a BG service contract and they ...
@arundalep I think I’ll be giving IOF a go come the milder weather… Regards, Toodles.
@andris Maybe left hand and right hand - though usually Octopus are more consistent than this! They have certainly informed me that without an EV, I c...
@andris Just checked the OE website and they To join Octopus Go you need to... Be an Octopus Energy customer If you're not with us...
@adrian OE seem to require you to have an EV to take advantage of their EV tariffs (spoilsports😉) I have written to them twice and they have c...
@njt Yes, I think that the OE deal is what others should be levelling down to; it seems reasonable and realistic to me. Toodles.
@editor No, I don’t think you are being cynical Mars, just realistic! We don’t have glycol to check but, I don’t know that with my poor vision, I woul...
I have now written to OE for clarification on the algorithm used for the charge / discharge levels and how this affects the ability to ‘save’ the sola...
@morgan ‘They’ do rather appear to have a grasp of our ‘short and curlies’ don’t they? I really feel that a pound a day for an engineer to make a ~60 ...
@adrian I think that the company might argue that if the pump isn’t ‘serviced’ so the mechanism may be checked for wear and tear with a view to carryi...
@morgan I think my Daikin engineer is based in Weybridge, or at least that is where the service office is based - I suppose the engineer may be ‘attac...
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