Acliff

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• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 5 hours

  

  What about those hanging beads in Asian restaurant doorways?

• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 10 hours

  

  I contacted British Gas for my mum, to upgrade her to smart meters, appointments available to change both the gas and electric over within 3 weeks.
  I have no idea what UW are playing at.
  We did use the cashback card thing that they offered quite a bit, but Octopus should save us tonnes of money with the provision on EV/solar tariffs.

• Weight loss accountability/support 2023 edition

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• Weight loss accountability/support 2023 edition

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 12 hours

  

  Something to note is that if you’re supplementing creatine as part of your strength routines, that can add some pounds in retained water.

• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 2 hours

  

  Fair point, and they are writing to his new address.

  Plenty of annoying CCJs I have seen on people’s reports from gyms and energy suppliers where letters and court summons were sent to a previous address and not picked up.

• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 3 hours

  

  Can't they register a CCJ, which does show up on credit searches?

• Electric combi boilers / solar panels / eco heating solutions

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 6 hours

  

  People with solar panels might already know this, but Octopus energy is offering very high purchase rates for exported electricity.
  15p/kwh flat rate, or an agile variable rate that ranges from 12p-33p/kwh.

  If you had a battery, you could combine that with their intelligent octopus tariff where its 10p/kwh purchase for 6 hours at night, and you could tactically charge your battery to full at night, and discharge it at the peak rate between 4-7pm with some left for night time use.

• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 6 hours

  

  Spent a couple of hours at the weekend with a selection of draught excluding foam strips and pile strips of various depths and magnetic door closures to reduce gaps under pocket doors and garage doors.
  How much energy we're now saving is hard to estimate, but the difference in the feel of cold is massive.

  Also put a vent cowl over the air bricks exhausting from the kitchen hood, also has made a difference in draught and wind noise.

• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 6 hours

  

  Switch to Octopus due to better provision of tariffs for solar export and EV charging on Saturday.
  Called yesterday (Monday) as requested by them to ask about updating the meters to gen 2 and replacing the faulty meter.
  Got an engineer coming to replace both meters on Monday 30th Jan.

  Very impressed, but also livid at my previous supplier (utility warehouse) for being fucking useless.

• Weight loss accountability/support 2023 edition

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 7 hours

  

  3/1/23 - 73.1kg
  9/1/23 - 71.6kg
  16/01/23 - 71.0kg
  24/01/23 - 70.1kg

  Diet hasn't been very strict over the last 2 weeks, but been exercising quite a bit.

  Might have been roped into a 'friendly' kickboxing fight at 68kg on Sunday, oops.