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Battery only install
For now going for the cheaper option, as solar is out of our price range. Average usage is around 6kWh a day peak time. I know payback is not as good as solar (not that I'm worried about that), but needs must & will make a nice saving a month on bill, charging overnight on IOG, which we are on with 2 EV's & not wanting…
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Land missing from title-future lending problems?
We are buying a property, using a bridging loan, as its being sold under auction conditions. The property has two separate title deeds and the current owners have lived there since the 50’s. They bought the second title in the 70’s (im mentioning this as its before it all went digital) which is ajoining and used as a…
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Open new Santander Edge and Current accounts?
Hi, my 6% on the Edge saver accounts expired today so I closed them via chatbot. I noticed that if you open new current accounts you also get Amazon vouchers. However, you need to use the current accounts for purchases to qualify for the voucher, which I imagine would trigger the monthly maintenance fee, wouldn't it. Is it…
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Is MBNA currently a fee free mule / money transfer card for new customers?
Long time stoozer coming out of retirement to have another go, as I have a hungry offset mortgage that needs a few £1,000s! I noticed on a few post here that the MBNA credit card was recommended as a 'mule card'. Is it currently the case that a new customer, could expect to get Fee Free money transfers? Or are Fee Free…
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AXA home emergency & 0800 repair,complaint.
Hello,has anyone else had this happen to them? My elderly parents boiler stopped working on Easter Sunday,pressure had gone to zero,and it was dripping from the prv outside,so I rang Axa home emergency,which they have through Hastings insurance. I explained what the problem was,they said an engineer would be in touch…
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Splitting moving costs
I moved in with my boyfriend three years ago. I have my own room(menopause } but none of the furniture or household bits are mine. I still have a house elsewhere. My boyfriend has sold up and we are going into rental. He wants me to pay 50% of the moving costs £1000 my share. He refuses to get a lower quote or move…
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Bed and ISA with Bonds
Hello Investors, I have a question, I'm used to Bed and ISA for transferring shares in funds and shares in individual companies from General Accounts to an ISA. Is it as simple with Bonds? I've avoided Bonds until now, but something over over on ii has caught my eye. I'm thinking of investing about £5,000 in some bonds.…
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UK Garden/Plants advice website/group ?
Anyone recommend a really good website/forum etc for garden/plant advice and inspiration I've tried a few and most dont have any designers or experienced gardeners/experts to answer any of my questions Thanks
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Anyone got a Moneyfarm Cash ISA and checked their daily interest?
Currently the Moneyfarm Cash ISA has a base interest rate of 3.80% AER "calculated daily and paid out daily", plus a bonus rate of 0.52% AER "calculated daily and paid out after 12 months", making a total of 4.32% AER ("Sum of base and bonus interest"). All good so far. Moneyfarm however, are not paying me the base…
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UK Air Passenger Duty kept on holiday cancellation
I was due to go on holiday with a firm called Distant Journeys but my wife injured herself so we had to cancel some weeks beforehand. I had to pay 100% of the cost of the holiday including the Air passenger Duty (APD) despite not flying. On claiming travel insurance, I could not claim the APD element and was told to…
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Local shop charging over £5 to use card machine. Won't let us top-up electric or gas by card?
Our local shop in the village we live in never lets us use our card for electric and gas top-ups. The shop owner purposely puts 'Out of order' sign on Cash machine so people can't use it, but when we need to buy top-ups for gas and electric he lets us use it. So he has money in the cash machine and knows he has, but won't…
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Issue with 3rd party owned Solar Panels
Hi, we moved into our house 8 years ago. The house had existing solar panelling. The previous owner sold the FIT onto a 3rd party (Rainmaker Energy) meaning, although we got to use the energy generated at source, we did not own the panels so didn't benefit from any FIT payments. As part of this, Rainmaker outsourced the…
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Thoughts on Humax Aura PVR?
We have an older Humax Freeview recorder that is starting to be unreliable. The Humax Aura is a possible replacement, but I see several user reviews on both John Lewis and Amazon that say it is best avoided. As usual there are the "best thing since sliced bread" vs "don't touch one with a barge pole" reviews, anyone got…
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Old Style Daily Thursday 23 April 2026
Good morning all.
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Electricity FIT & Export Payments with Solar Panels
Are domestic electricity payments received from Octopus Energy for FIT & export taxable ?
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Help! Carrot baton mountain
I collected about 15 packs of carrot batons in my evening Olio, and cannot distribute them because they are "use by". What genius ways have you got to cook, preserve, serve, use carrot batons so I can get them all processed into something or other tomorrow?! Thanks for any thoughts you can provide!
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Dealing with unresonable parking charge
I'm looking for advice about a parking charge I got from Smart Parking in Inverness recently. There is a lot of discussion about the behaviour of this company at this car park on the MSE forums but most of it is 10 years old. The charge seems unreasonable but the treat of debt collectors, escalting costs etc. is worrying…
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Fresh Diary for 2025! & Carrying on for 2026
Hello those who follow along! Last year goals; - Get debt gone (didn't complete) - Buy my house - COMPLETE - Meal plan/prep - Sort of - Cut out Coffee (I gave this up on 22nd November 2023) - Didn't complete - Have savings of at least 2k! - didn't complete Am I annoyed I didn't complete some goals? no. I can try again!…
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Samsung Galaxy A34 - Outlook Mail problems
Over the past week or so I have had problems a few times with my phone failing to update my mail. The mail update on my laptop etc - just not on my phone. I have googled a fix. It just doesn't seem to fix my phone permanently. I've had to clear my Cache (via Settings, Apps, Outlook, Storage, Cache & Clear the Cache) That…
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Should larger businesses pay for your personal time lost using help facilities?
I have found myself losing an increasing amount of my personal time dealing with poor administration, product quality/description/instructions/etc. when contacting large organisations. This is especially the case when using bots ( capable of solving problems of 7 year olds and below), or the good old “ We’re sorry, but all…
