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Post by elstoof on Nov 22, 2022 18:00:00 GMT
All my guitar necks needed some relief added after keeping the heating off for so long into autumn this year, proper humid until the temperature finally dropped into the “nope” region
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Post by EMarkM on Nov 22, 2022 18:39:59 GMT
Wait, you don't rub your tatties with olive oil and salt before you bake them? Blimey...  Leaving the oil to the last ten minutes of baking results in a less leathery texture. The brine does all the hard work from the beginning.  |
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Post by dogbot on Nov 22, 2022 18:49:49 GMT
Wait, you don't rub your tatties with olive oil and salt before you bake them? Blimey... Leaving the oil to the last ten minutes of baking results in a less leathery texture. The brine does all the hard work from the beginning. Interesting. I shall give it a go. 👍🏻 |
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Post by zagibu on Nov 22, 2022 23:40:26 GMT
Although I have no idea how much 5 minutes in the microwave costs to be fair. Microwaves usually have between 600 and 1200 W draw, so 0.05 or 0.1 kWh of leccy. |
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Post by Nitrous on Nov 23, 2022 23:18:14 GMT
Nice email from Octopus Energy
We recommend an update to your payments
We recommend typical monthly payments of £140.66, reduced to £73.66 for the Energy Bill Support Scheme and you don't need to do anything.
Wonderful... Going up from £109 something.
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Post by nexus6 on Nov 23, 2022 23:35:23 GMT
Yeah humidity is relative (in the way hotter air can hold more moisture, so the same amount of water at a higher temp means lower humidity). Main source of moisture is outside where it is cold. If you heat the air up inside then humidity decreases. If you don't hear it up, humidity is higher and you can have damp issues. Exactky. We’re not using the central heating as much and notice it in the condensation on the windows in the morning at the moment. A d that’s with good windows with performance than sees the condensation on the outside! |
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Post by Tomo on Nov 24, 2022 0:13:10 GMT
We still haven't put the heating on. I did suggest we just test it out the other day, as we've moved into a temporary flat. To my surprise, my partner said nope... "don't break the seal".
It's been noticeably colder in London this week though. I can see our game of chicken ending once December hits. Ugh.
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Post by Duffman5 on Nov 24, 2022 6:58:53 GMT
Nice email from Octopus Energy We recommend an update to your payments We recommend typical monthly payments of £140.66, reduced to £73.66 for the Energy Bill Support Scheme and you don't need to do anything. Wonderful... Going up from £109 something. We are currently paying £202 (Octopus) once the support scheme ends this will be £270 odd. Robbing cunts! we can afford it, but who the feck wants to. I was gutted when we had to put it up to £140 a month before all this kicked off. I keep watching the heart braking stories of families with severely disabled children that require a lot of leccy and heat to survive! and how they can not afford it/will not be able to afford it. In our rich country it is a feckin disgrace. |
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Nov 24, 2022 7:22:02 GMT
Ofgem has raised the price cap to £4279 from January which equates to 67p/kwh for electric and 17p/kwh for gas. Luckily the government currently pays the shortfall of anything above £2500 but we'll pay indirectly no doubt.
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Post by dfunked on Nov 24, 2022 8:09:00 GMT
For now they do, anyway... It's so fucking depressing. Read an article about a scheme where GPs can prescribe heating to people with conditions that need it on to stay alive*. They'll then get a subsidy for it. How did we get to this point...
*AKA being a human.
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Post by askew on Nov 24, 2022 8:40:05 GMT
How long until they’re prescribing the workhouse?
“It were better in the Victorian days” says Fred, a 49 year-old bank teller from Swindon.
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Post by Dougs on Nov 25, 2022 6:31:40 GMT
Ofgem has raised the price cap to £4279 from January which equates to 67p/kwh for electric and 17p/kwh for gas. Luckily the government currently pays the shortfall of anything above £2500 but we'll pay indirectly no doubt. If they didn't though, it's just not affordable. It has to be punted into the long grass and paid for through taxation. £400 a month for an average home just wouldn't be affordable. It's such a shit show and a massive failure of energy policy in Europe |
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Post by elstoof on Nov 25, 2022 7:29:40 GMT
Had to get the old body shop hemp hand cream out this week, with the heating on low it’s quite literally chapping
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Post by Frog on Nov 25, 2022 7:47:37 GMT
Still not put the heating on. We only have 2 storage heaters in the house and one of them is fucked. No point in putting the downstairs one on as the puppy keeps wanting the back door open to go out. I'm very thankful I live down south!
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Post by dogbot on Nov 25, 2022 8:10:04 GMT
We've been having ours on. Part of the agreement that allowed me to drag the Mrs back to Britain was a warm house.
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Post by Frog on Nov 25, 2022 8:16:40 GMT
We are mid terraced as well which helps a bit as there isn't too much in the way of external wall. Don't get me wrong it gets cold but it's manageable.
Do often think about fucking off somewhere warmer, the Mrs can do her job from anywhere in the world and it would be a decent wage to live off in a lot of countries. If I did that though you could guarantee she would be made redundant as soon as we got there!
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Post by dogbot on Nov 25, 2022 8:19:07 GMT
We've talked about going and spending the winter in Dominica, especially now there's a house there. We'd only need a broadband connection.
Unfortunately, we couldn't take the animals, schools aren't great and healthcare is pretty terrible.
One day, perhaps.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2022 8:54:13 GMT
Fucking bulb keep trying to male my direct debit stupidly cheap which is pissing me off.
Bill last month was 130, I have 120 credit on the account. So they changed my direct debit from 100 to 35. Even with the 67 government credit that means I will be underpaying by 30 a month and that is without me putting heating on.
They did the same 2 months ago and dropped it to 20 that time...
I don't know how their systems are working but I keep getting this and it is very annoying.
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Post by mrpon on Nov 25, 2022 9:01:15 GMT
Give them an up to date reading, ask for the credit to be reimbursed then get them to recalculate the payments.
No drama.
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Post by dfunked on Nov 25, 2022 9:24:20 GMT
The issue is you should have a decent bit of credit built up to get you through the winter without going into the red. Some suppliers overestimate and you end up hundreds in credit, and some keep adjusting down like Ryan's so you won't have enough to cover it and will have a surprise bill in a few months.
In an ideal world you'd end the winter at 0 balance and then build up a bit of credit over the warmer months, but that seems an impossible ask sometimes.
Octopus seem fairly decent at forecasting usage fwiw, but will probably fall to shit given how much they're growing.
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Post by zagibu on Nov 25, 2022 9:26:57 GMT
as the puppy keeps wanting the back door open to go out Lol, what the fuck, dude? |
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Post by elstoof on Nov 25, 2022 9:30:16 GMT
A few years back I built up too much credit with British Gas, they dropped my DD down to £1 a month. I thought nothing of it until a year later they sent a bill for 2 grand, and demanded immediate payment. If that happened now I’d probably have to sell the house
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Post by Vortex on Nov 25, 2022 9:35:47 GMT
A few years back I built up too much credit with British Gas, they dropped my DD down to £1 a month. I thought nothing of it until a year later they sent a bill for 2 grand, and demanded immediate payment. If that happened now I’d probably have to sell the house Ha! That's worse than when EDF dropped mine to a tenner. I naively assumed they'd put i back up when required, but the fuckers never did until I realised later when we were well in debit. Ah well, six months or so of double payments and it was all sorted. I don't like to think what that would be like now, although we'd probably manage. Why are they all so useless? It can only be woeful algorithm-based decisions on bills I assume/hope. |
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Post by Frog on Nov 25, 2022 9:48:19 GMT
as the puppy keeps wanting the back door open to go out Lol, what the fuck, dude? Am I supposed to let it piss and shit in the house? |
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Post by Dougs on Nov 25, 2022 9:50:56 GMT
£260 for the last month - £30-40 leccy increase due to having the heated dryer on a few times a week and £80 increase for gas. Motherfuckers.
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Nov 25, 2022 9:54:57 GMT
EON fucked about with my DD. I set it to £200 a month and they said that's too much and set it to £140. Weeks later they said that's not enough and put it back up. In the end I told them to just bill me for what I've used in the month and take that via DD. Clueless they are  |
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Post by zagibu on Nov 25, 2022 10:24:57 GMT
Am I supposed to let it piss and shit in the house? Ah, might have been a misunderstanding, then. It sounded like you kept your back door constantly open. |
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Post by Frog on Nov 25, 2022 11:02:42 GMT
AHH no, bugger that. They just have small bladders so keep needing to go out.
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Post by Psiloc on Nov 30, 2022 16:42:20 GMT
Just had a £500 water bill for 6 months.
I've ended up doing some investigation over the past hour and the meter has gone up by 0.04 cubic metres. The wife says she quickly washed her hands during that time and that's it.
I've got a leak somewhere right? It's a vented hot water system
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Post by henroben on Nov 30, 2022 17:03:02 GMT
Just had a £500 water bill for 6 months. I've ended up doing some investigation over the past hour and the meter has gone up by 0.04 cubic metres. The wife says she quickly washed her hands during that time and that's it. I've got a leak somewhere right? It's a vented hot water system That's 40 litres of water isn't it? That seems like a lot just to wash your hands... does sound like a leak. |
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