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Window cleaning
I stay in a quiet area facing trees and not much traffic I usually get a 4 weekly window cleaner but twice I switched to a new one who stopped turning up. Anyway there’s a few can sign me up some have 3 month minimum contacts and are more expensive. I am tempted to do a one off clean spring summer winter it costs more but…
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Pensions problems
Hi, Not sure whether this should be under pensions or probate as it’s both kind of. My dad recently passed away and left me as executor. He left me a list of his assets in which was included a large pension with Aegon target plan which he had got through working for United utilities. My dad was under the impression it…
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Aegon pension fund - fee overcharge since June 2020
For attention of anyone with an Aegon pension plan I have today received notice from Aegon that, from June 2020, Aegon took more than the 1% charge my plan was meant to be billed at every year. I do not know if this is a problem specific to my account, or everyone with the same plan. (I don't recall doing anything around…
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Utility room ideas please 🙏
Afternoon all sorry if this I a repeat thread but I couldn’t find where the last one went ☹️ We have this add on to the house we’ve almost finished updating. Currently has electric and cold water supple with drainage (needs updating though). How would you go about making it into a small utility room? We’d like to replace…
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Mass copy files to Azure Blob
Dear experts, we are looking for a way to send a lot of data from SharePoint to Azure blob. Basically we want to archive old files so we do not run into quota issues with SharePoint as it is getting very expensive. Anyone has found an easy way to do it. We need to be able to filter based on modified date as access date is…
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Santander Hard Search
Hi I had an alert from Experian today that a hard search had been carried out by Santander on 31st December. I don’t have any accounts with them and as far as I can remember never have. The only thing I can think it is is fraud as I know I definitely didn’t do anything banking related on that day. Does anyone have any…
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Claim Form Ibis budget hounslow
Hi all. I’ve recently been sent a claim form from the Civil National Business Centre, claimant is Civil Enforcement Ltd from Liverpool, re an unpaid parking charge at Ibis Budget Hounslow. funny thing is I did not use or enter the car park at any point, I simply carried out a U turn on the main public road, and during that…
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What are you making for dinner?
There were problems with the original thread in that it disappeared and could not be reinstated. So a new thread was created and we all started again, unfortunately that thread also seems to have joined it's predecessor. So here's a new one. We need to hear about Suki's lamb casserole and Island Maid is back from Amsterdam…
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Evri parcel was wedged in my porch and I couldn't open the door
This discussion was created from comments split from: Evri - compensation for returning shipment to company without trying to deliver?.
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Hsbc online login
Hi Usually when you go on their website to login to online banking it asks you to generate a code from your mobile app. But now it asks you to login to the app and scan a QR code that appears on the website. I have tried scanning the QR code several times but nothing happens... Anyone else had this issue?
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UKCPM - Should I complain? - Over £500
Hi all, First I would like to apologise. I found this forum way too late and so have already committed some of the "sins" such as responding when in Scotland and going to the IAS. A lesson learnt, but might have worked out in my favour (see below). I have also read all the stickies. I am here at the "waiting for LBC…
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Water Bill - United Utilities
Hi My water bill has increased to £1150 p.a. which seems very high when comparing with the national average. My house (4 bed / north west) does not have a water metre and has 2 soakaways so I have applied for a reduction re rainfall / sewage costs. Not very familar with water bills but does that appear high? I have asked…
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Appealing payment not taken with POPLA
A couple of months ago I parked in the car park at Wycombe Rye Lido in High Wycombe. I entered my number plate, paid with Google pay the 50p for my parking, then received a notification of payment on my phone and thought no more about it. 7 days later, I received a fine for "Payment not made in accordance with notified…
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I finally received the County Court claim after 5.9 years
This is the third time I'll be asking for help here, which has been invaluable so far. As with my last post, here's a TL;DR of the situation: * Drove onto the named car park. * Passenger got out to pay at the machine. * Huge queue at the machine. * Passenger finally get to machine, machine won't accept the reg. * Passenger…
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Holiday declined
Hello I booked a holiday for the end of 2026, I put my request in last year and it’s been sat in pending for months, our contract states that holidays should be approved/declined no later than 2 weeks after the request was made. When it was declined no reason or anything was given. The holiday has now been paid for and the…
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Another debt from 20+ years ago paid off! Harooo
😁 So, after taking out a credit card in my mid 20s, landing myself in an awful relationship where he stopped working, I was earning around £4 an hour, and everything then went on the credit card …. Age just shy of 51, I have just settled the balance of £1958 for £580 with Capquest. Despite my long-term mental health…
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Best EV tariff + SEG export tariff when you have solar & battery? How do people compare properly?
I’m trying to work out the best way to compare EV tariffs together with SEG export tariffs, for households that have solar + battery + EV. Most comparison sites (and even MSE guides) seem to look at: • cheap overnight EV rates or • best SEG export rates but not the combined effect when you have both. For example, if: • an…
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Old Roof Timbers with Moisture Content on Average 40%
Hi, The roof timbers in my friends old home have a moisture reading of around 40%. It's an old slate roof on a traditional timber rafter and purlin construction. There are no slipped slates. There's no underfelt. The parging/torching was done with a lime mortar but has fallen off over 30% of the roof area. None of the…
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Quidco Questions & Answers
Hi all, Welcome to the new official Quidco Questions thread. If you have a question for the Quidco Company Representative account, here’s the place to post it. The previous Quidco thread was started 14 years ago, so we've started fresh with some updated guidelines: * This thread is for questions about Quidco only. If you…
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Civil Enforcement letter
Hi all. I really appreciate some help and advice about the following case which occurred about a year ago to a friend of mine He parked outside a restaurant and was in there for about 30 minutes. When he came out he saw that he was fined for parking outside the store. So he appealed and provided receipt from the restaurant…
