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The Question IRL posted:I remember going into a hardware store once to get fireplace cleaning equipment for when I was living in an apartment in the city. They sold special balloons which were designed to inflate and stick in your chimney to reduce the draft when you are not using it, and be easy to remove if you decide to light a fire. You can't fool me, that's a sex thing. e: 66 also a sex thing
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Biggus Dickus posted:Minor heart attack this morning when Octopus emailed me to say my electric was going from 13p/5p to 26p flat rate. Then someone checked the computer and it turns out they had renewed me on my existing rates just before everything went nuts. Skill Builder on YT has a few vids on heat pumps, the good & bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhAKMAcmJFg No personal view on them, i just have a varied YT sub list. 
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I keep having the same conversation with boombers and its driving me insane. Boomer: *complains about government being corrupt, destroying the NHS, generally being poo poo* Me: Well maybe you should have voted for Corbyn Boomer: oh no, HE WoUldn't hAVE BEen any BEtTER FFS where did this thought terminating mantra come from and how did they all learn it together? Yes I know I do this to myself by engaging, but in my defense I'm an idiot
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Gort posted:I didn't really know much about heat pumps until a quick round of Googling a few minutes ago. It looks like: My problem with heat pumps is that no one in this country seems to understand how they're supposed to work? Heat pumps are basically just air conditioners in reverse - in fact they should be easy to switch into air conditioning mode for the summer. But that means that they should heat in the same way AC cools - the heating/cooling pipes attach to vents around the home and pump hot or cold air into the rooms. But from what I can see we're instead trying to retrofit heat pumps onto our traditional central heating systems, basically sticking heat pumps onto the boiler to heat it, and then pumping the hot water around the house. But this is the thing heat pumps are absolutely worst at, leading to slower heating, and completely removing the benefit of also having AC (which is getting more and more important every year). Heat pumps should be heating or cooling our houses directly, and then leaving heating a boiler to more traditional means (though you can get heat pump augmented in to make it more efficient). My boiler needs replacing and I looked into the possibilities of heat pumps, but the poo poo version had a state subsidy while the good version had absolutely nothing, even though it costs more. E: I'm getting my heat pump info from Technology Connections, btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Sep 23, 2021 |
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Gort posted:I didn't really know much about heat pumps until a quick round of Googling a few minutes ago. It looks like: Is also varies on the type of heat pump. Ground source is the gold standard, its incredibly efficient and costs a good 30-40% less to run...but installation can run to £20k... Air source is much cheaper but not as efficient. Still beats gas and electric though. Both are not suitable for all homes though, if you're in a flat for example none of them are an option.
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Gort posted:I didn't really know much about heat pumps until a quick round of Googling a few minutes ago. It looks like: In the case of condensing boilers that's because the colder the return flow is, the more efficient the condenser is, in the case of heat pumps its more simply because the water isn't as hot. The last time I did the maths it still didn't cost in on getting one for me (still cost about 1.1x as much as gas to run during the coldest part of the year taking their datasheet numbers as gospel) but that may change very soon. Ground to water are the most expensive but get an efficiency boost in very cold weather, air to water are still expensive, and air to air are the most affordable but you'll still need a way of getting hot water.
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Biggus Dickus posted:Minor heart attack this morning when Octopus emailed me to say my electric was going from 13p/5p to 26p flat rate. Then someone checked the computer and it turns out they had renewed me on my existing rates just before everything went nuts. I got an email through from Bulb 2 days ago saying that my electricity usage in my shop was higher than their assumed usage from my old provider and therefore I owed them £450 and my monthly payments needed to go up by £300. Needless to say, that was absolutely ludicrous and when I checked, they hadn't had a meter reading from the so called smart meters in 3 months since it was installed and somehow came to the insane conclusion that I would have used 4 times the energy I actually had done when you look at my meter. What the actual gently caress are they playing at with this poo poo? They didn't get a reading from their own equipment so they just make a random guess and charge according to that rather than contacting me and asking for me to check it? Needless to say, I had to contact the bastards and got my payments reduced back down and my account re-debited back into credit, but I am pretty angry with them
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ThomasPaine posted:What really sometimes makes me miserable is that this dominant ideology shouldn't be as completely ingrained as it is. Yeah, the simplified 'common sense' economic arguments seem superficially compelling to those who don't really think about the nature of money and the role of government etc, but they are completely full of holes and would be so, so easy to discredit for an aggressive, co-ordinated left-wing campaign that refused to pull its punches or apologise - Starmer-esque flipflopping around deeply neoliberal ideas of financial responsibility the like just reinforces that there is no alternative, and what's the point in triangulating your way into office if by the time you get there you're saying the same thing as the other guy, just looking a bit sad about it? The pandemic could have been a golden opportunity for a mass socialist organisation and propaganda campaign, but no. We have a shitlib Labour boosting the government and the good people who jumped ship after Corbyn (who tbh I don't think would have seized the moment particularly well either) are now either completely disillusioned with politics, have gone to well-meaning but ultimately hopeless local organising efforts, or have joined one of the twenty tiny new parties with fifty guys in them apiece. I unironically really like this post It's an insight into a really unique outlook (that it is unique is, I suppose, the point being bemoaned)
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FiftySeven posted:I got an email through from Bulb 2 days ago saying that my electricity usage in my shop was higher than their assumed usage from my old provider and therefore I owed them £450 and my monthly payments needed to go up by £300. Needless to say, that was absolutely ludicrous and when I checked, they hadn't had a meter reading from the so called smart meters in 3 months since it was installed and somehow came to the insane conclusion that I would have used 4 times the energy I actually had done when you look at my meter. if I was running an energy company that was potentially going out of business in the next month or so I'd probably be trying to squeeze every last penny out of my customers that I could tbh obviously I'd need to be an absolute bastard but it's not like I'd have got into that position without being one
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Biggus Dickus posted:Minor heart attack this morning when Octopus emailed me to say my electric was going from 13p/5p to 26p flat rate. Then someone checked the computer and it turns out they had renewed me on my existing rates just before everything went nuts. This is what peak being on a pre-payment gas and electric smart meter without a standing charge looks like. If they don’t go bust I can run the central heating if it gets real cold, if they do or the gas goes up again choices will happen. 
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ronya posted:I unironically really like this post I wouldn't say it's a particularly unique outlook, here in the UKMT, in the year 2021?
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The Times reporting that we're going to start adding fluoride to drinking water nationwide in the next few years. I'm way too Americanised, I didn't realise we weren't doing this already. Nice for the anti-vaxxers to have something new to occupy themselves with post-Covid.
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ronya posted:I unironically really like this post I feel that I am being mocked in eight dimensions, somehow. I don't think I made my point particularly articulately, but christ I am frustrated with everything and I needed to post about it.
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ronya posted:I unironically really like this post The fact that you think this outlook is "really unique" shows how wildly out of touch you are. Looking forward to the Streeting ascendency, I guess.
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I would like to declare my wholehearted support for Wes Streeting for leader of the Labour Party as the man most likely to bring about my political agenda of banishing the Labour Party to the Phantom Zone where it belongs. (Seriously, surely the only people who actually thing he could have a chance at leader are the McShitter and his ever so grateful mum?)
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feedmegin posted:Sooo my hunch was correct, my landlord has found a new estate agent to try and sell this place and he has 3 people coming round for viewings on Saturday. May be moving house soon I guess? Remember that your tenancy is still valid until it expires, so they’ll need to either sell the house with vacant possession (and pay you to leave if you’re in contract); or find a buyer who will buy the place with you in it. They can’t get decide you need to leave because they’re selling, assuming you still have a valid tenancy.
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feedmegin posted:Sooo my hunch was correct, my landlord has found a new estate agent to try and sell this place and he has 3 people coming round for viewings on Saturday. May be moving house soon I guess? A few days after you invite goons to your house the landlord decides to sell up and flee? Who could have seen this coming?
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peanut- posted:The Times reporting that we're going to start adding fluoride to drinking water nationwide in the next few years. Parts of the UK do already do it, for ages. Its just not everywhere.
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Other places like north Derbyshire and the Southern Pennines don't need to due to naturally high fluorspar deposits.
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1965917 posted:I keep having the same conversation with boombers and its driving me insane. - British AA gun, 1941
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feedmegin posted:Sooo my hunch was correct, my landlord has found a new estate agent to try and sell this place and he has 3 people coming round for viewings on Saturday. May be moving house soon I guess? As Twisto says, there’s no special possession procedure just because the landlord wants to sell up. If they want you out they still need to follow the normal process of serving notice and getting a possession order from the county court. (The specifics will depend on the type of tenancy and contract.) If the landlord sells without first obtaining possession (or bribing you to surrender your tenancy) then your tenancy will almost certainly be binding on the purchaser.
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Red Oktober posted:Remember that your tenancy is still valid until it expires, so they’ll need to either sell the house with vacant possession (and pay you to leave if you’re in contract); or find a buyer who will buy the place with you in it. They can’t get decide you need to leave because they’re selling, assuming you still have a valid tenancy. Surely everyone now has assured shorthold tenancies, where they can give you notice any time they please.
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I don't get why the Labour right are in any rush to replace Starmer. It's not like there's a singular dynamite candidate (in their mind) waiting in the wings, and Starmer's doing everything they want anyway. Might as well keep him as a fall guy. I guess the answer is the right aren't a singular competent blog, and the careerist instinct will cause some to come out of the woodwork (a la Wes 'NUS to Blairite pipeline' Streeting)...?
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amazing. I'm on one of those energy flipping companies that checks your tarrif and automatically switches you. Couple of days ago they tried switching me from green to avro. avro went tits up so they kept me on green. now green has gone tits up. To top it off, the tarrif flipping company has also gone bust lol. Free market efficiency in action.
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Oh dear me posted:Surely everyone now has assured shorthold tenancies, where they can give you notice any time they please. No, it's usually either a 6 or 12 month term where neither of you can vanish at the drop of a hat, then after that it goes to month to month where the tenant can give 1 months' notice, the landlord usually 2 but I think still 4 right now because COVID. I am in that latter case; I'm aware they can't just chuck me out if they find a buyer, but they're fairly clear they'll Section 21 me if they do.
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feedmegin posted:after that it goes to month to month where the tenant can give 1 months' notice, the landlord usually 2 but I think still 4 right now because COVID. That's actually what I meant. With a shorthokd 'rolling' tenancy they can give you notice without needing any reason, so 'I want you out so I can sell up' is fine. I am being evicted for this reason in November.
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Answers Me posted:I don't get why the Labour right are in any rush to replace Starmer. It's not like there's a singular dynamite candidate (in their mind) waiting in the wings  https://twitter.com/ChrisKPH/status/1441062113062100996
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Wes Streeting the latest great hope of the Labour Right, Jesus. I guess the idea is that being young, he's a fresh face with no baggage? Or am I thinking about this far more deeply than his supporters have?
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Julio Cruz posted:surely if Streeting is running then Jessflaps will do the same That hustings will be absolutely grim
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If Corbyn ran again he'd probably win which would be extremely funny. (Not sure if he could given the suspension etc but failing him someone like McDonnell would be just as good)
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So virtually all the petrol stations in my town have run out of fuel. Both diesel and petrol. Kind of unnerving (and irritating). But there's nothing about a fuel crisis in the press at all (which is bizarre given how expensive it's got over the last couple of months. Guess talking about it would be doing down Britain). Should we all be filling up jerry cans while feverishly chain smoking, or is it just some random localised thing? Edit : oh wait poo poo it's suddenly national news. gently caress The Perfect Element fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Sep 23, 2021 |
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crispix posted:*creaking economy and rampant poverty* I cant tell if this is an impression of Boris or Kieth or both.
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