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Looking for Residential Home recommendations/ feedback in Belfast/Carrickfergus areas
I’m looking for recommendations/ feedback for Residental homes between the greater Belfast & Carrickfergus areas. I’ve an elderly widowed relative who might be in the market for a residential home. She has limited sight, but otherwise is very independent. No dementia. No medical or mobility problems ( apart form the sight…
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Contactless Debit Cards
I live in the North of Ireland and bank with the Bank of Ireland. Sometime back I was issued with a new contactless Debit Card. Now I don’t want a contactless card, I believe them to be unsafe. Yes I know the bank will say if there is any fraud we’ll refund the money - I wonder how long and what hoops you have to jump…
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Equity release and gifting to money to children
Hi - My parents own their own house which they have paid off the mortgage many years ago. Roughly 5 yrs ago they took out 100K in Equity Release against the house to gift to family members. My question is......if my parents now wish to put the house into their childrens name (Me and my bother) in order to activate the 7yr…
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Car insurance
I followed your checker. 1st Ladybird, 2nd RCIB. Both companies request dva check code. Not available in N. Ireland. Both cancelled policy and kept money. By the way, RCIB owns Ladybird. Would not recommend for N. Ireland drivers.
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Power Ni Energy Online Monthly Direct Debit Discount Capped at £15 a Quarter
If you are a high user the benefits disappear. and possibly on some quarters you may not obtain the full discount. As prices increase the situation gets worse as it takes fewer units to reach the cap so there are more units charged at the standard rate. The use of a keypad in this situation which give you a discount of…
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Max credit on SSE gas meter
I can't find the answer anywhere on the website and they aren't replying to my emails or social media requests. Does anyone know what is the max credit a meter can build that takes a payeasy card?
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Gym/weights equipment
Does anyone have experience ordering weight equipment for home use here? - e.g. weights bench, barbell, dumbbells etc. Finding lots of companies not delivering to NI still.
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How can I remove a second charge on my mortgage
I have a second charge on my mortgage from the builder who constructed our house, they have since stopped trading and have went bust, we have reached out to the builder about this charge and they will not enter into conversation with us about the charge, we want to sell the property as its putting us in financial…
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SSE Airtricity - new name new contract?
My contract with SSE is due to end in Feb. From the comparision tool they would still be the cheapest supplier for me if I could get the 17% tariff but this is only available to new customers. If I put the contact in my wifes name would that constitute a new customer? Has anyone tried this? Their website is currenly down…
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Nationwide BS
Friend of mine phoned Nwide today to ask about Equity Release and was told that Nwide have stopped offering ER deals. Any idea why ??
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Equity release
HelloLooking for advice on getting rid of equity release, a few years ago we took on equity release as we thought it was a good idea but find it was wrong to do so . Just want to get out of it now now but it will cost a lost any idea???
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Electric Ireland max keypad top-up
I’ve just received my £600 voucher and would like to add a significant amount of it to my keypad meter. I’m hoping this will mean I’ll avoid further price rises, at least until I have to top-up again. Does anyone know what is the maximum amount a keypad meter can hold? I’ve emailed Electric Ireland several times since…
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Firewood/ coal suppliers
Hi I was just wondering if anyone could recommend suppliers of competitively priced wood or coal please. We’re in the North Belfast area and would like some delivered but getting bamboozled by options. Thanks
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Dental implants Northern Ireland
As a result of an accident many years ago I slowly lost my upper teeth. At that stage implants were not an option they were just to costly but now that I'm retired and have some cash gathered up I'm thinking of using it towards implants From what I've read the loss of bone makes this more difficult but not impossible. My…
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Where to buy Kitchen Doors locally or Online
Hi folks, I'm considering replacing all my kitchen doors and hinges, etc, and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a Kitchen door supplier that has reasonable quality and price? I'm from Londonderry so maybe a 20ish mile radius or online in the UK. I have looked at diy-kitchens.com and they look interesting…
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RTÉ App for television
I'm trying to find out if there is an RTE television app. The same sort of thing as iPlayer? There is an app for TG4 but when I search for a RTE App I can't find one all that resembles it presents is 'rtve play' which is Spanish! I'm assuming there is an app for I have one sitting on my iPad tight. Any thoughts? Kevin
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Cleaner
Just wondering how much is the norm for house cleaning?My wife has taken on a cleaner, but I don't think that the cleaner is charging enough for the work involved but don't want to embarass her either.Just wondering what the usual rate is for this?Derry area.
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Second hand jewellery
Can anyone recommend a jewellers in the Belfast or County Antrim area that would buy good quality jewellery to sell on? I would rather not use the cash for gold route unless it was a last resort, but I have a few good pieces that are in perfect order, and I don't really want to sell on ebay etc
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BT Home Essentials broadband
Hello Has anyone got on to the BT Home Essentials broadband with BT? I had seen it referenced on the MSE site. I thought it was a tariff as such. When I asked to move to it, BT has now moved me on to some sort of flashy broadband with digital voice for which I now need a special type of digital voice phone which can then…
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Enforcing a judgement
As the title says, has anyone had experience of enforcing a high court judgement? We have recently won a high court judgement but the man it was against hasn’t followed through with any payment or plan to pay. As a result we now have to take further action and move to enforcing the judgement which is more money for us but…