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Re: Worrying slowdown in the sales Heat Pumps in 2026
Maybe people are realising that A2A heat pumps are better value. With the price if oil and gas rising, at least for now, one would think a few people would have been considering ASHPs. It certainly n…3 -
Re: Worrying slowdown in the sales Heat Pumps in 2026
Social media seems to be full of negativity and misinformation about heat pumps, which can't help. Appears even more than anti-EV commentary. However, speaking to a local installer in June, he s…2 -
Re: Worrying slowdown in the sales Heat Pumps in 2026
I'm am more worried about the fact that the government think they are going to get 450,000 per year. By my back of fag packets maths , allowing 2 days per install, 46weeks / year means 19000+ MC…1 -
Re: Worrying slowdown in the sales Heat Pumps in 2026
Politics? All the mainstream parties seem to have decided that a green narrative is a vote loser (even the greens seem to want to subsidise fossil fuel use) so consumers would not be wrong in thinkin…2 -
Re: Yorkshire Water - poor billing
Thanks but that's just not true. It is, though. For YW to provide the info you request, they'd need to (re)fit all their water meters with remote telemetry equipment. I don't know exac…3 -
Re: Water company installed my meter in someone else's garden, now they are complaining it's overgrown
Anglian Water are replacing our meters with "smart" versions. We have no say in that. Perhaps Affinity may leave the meter in situ and simply put in a "smart" one. Then it can be …1 -
Re: Purchasing an Annuity
IFAs are not allowed to receive a commission. An IFA will use the nil-commission annuity rate which will be higher than the commission annuity rate. (however, if the fee equals the commission, the ou…3 -
Re: Purchasing an Annuity
I'm glad you persisted despite the phone number! The HL quotes include their commission. If you click through as though you wanted to buy the annuity, it'll tell you how much that comes to.…3 -
Re: LGPS Shared Cost AVC vs Stocks & Shares ISA – what would you do?
How much investment risk is reasonable given such a long timeframe? How should I think about equities, bonds and cash? Based on a long history, being 100% invested in equities ( via a simple global t…1 -
Re: New Capita-run Civil Service Pension Scheme - problems (what a surprise!)
Capita reports that it met its target to resolve all stock cases of bereavement by 1 September, according to the Written Ministerial Statement and the fortnightly update. In the update dated 3 Sep, t…4
