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Thanks TBC, very much appreciated, but hold fire for 24 hours, please. I messaged a a few mates earlier today and one has just replied to say he thinks someone he knows may have one. I'll PM you when I hear back.

Evening TBC, that would be amazing. Don't know anyone who frequents your neck of the woods, but very happy to cover courier cost each way, plus to provide a security deposit and to add a 'drink' for your trouble. 👍🏼

I do, but I won't divulge anything about them at this stage. No point until I have evidence.

... that they'd be willing to lend/hire out, please? Daughter and SiL bought a brand new house from a national house builder that I'm suspicious has little or no insulation in the walls. Currently averaging £17/day on gas for heating alone (mix of wet ufh and rads). Daughter works from home and has two children, one pre school age. She has the thermostats set to 18.5c downstairs and 17.5c upstairs but is struggling to even maintain those numbers. For example, temp in her study/office was just 13c this afternoon. Thanks in advance 👍🏼

Is there no antifreeze in the pipes?

Two hour session tomorrow from 5pm to 7pm.

As I said, likely to be far lower in summer, but we do have a PV diverter to the immersion heater and when it's really hot weather the heat pump cools the floor slab rather than heating it. I'm looking forward to seeing how much (or little) they actually consume.

I've only been able to quantify this accurately since the end of September, so early days yet, but utilisation was 84.8% in October and 89.7% in November. To date this month is 91%. Of course, utilisation is likely to be far lower in higher yield/ lower use months.

... and the Solar panels too. 22 days of the year to go and yet today we topped our previous best annual yield.

And now down to 4.2%

Multifoil generally arrives as a compressed roll that has to have room to expand to its effective state. If you cram it into uneven gaps will unlikely do so.

Completely agree, Jack. Fortunately we're still in a negative net cost situation for our energy use so the odd quid here or there is irrelevant. I was merely pointing out that 'doing the right thing' delivers a personal benefit as well as for the grid.

You may have misunderstood, the air pockets need to be between layers of the foil, not at its edges - see image below

My whole house is insulated with multifoil but please be aware that it relies on the air pockets between layers to be effective as insulation. Stuffing it into crevices may reduce drafts but it won't do a lot of insulating. It's also not the best sound insulation, which it not an issue for us (as we're in a very quiet spot) but may be for you.

Not sure if you ladies have finished arguing over the relative merits of the scheme, but we've just completed the third saver session. We 'earned' 75p in the first session and (to my amazement) £1.12 in the second. Pathetic in the overall scheme of things perhaps, but on the nighttime Go rate of 7.5p per unit that equates to about 90 miles worth of free juice for the Electric Mini. All being well we've just earned another 50+ miles worth - which has to be better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Fixed rate savings rates have actually dropped a few points in the last two or three weeks. For example, Hodge Bank were offering a 3 year fixed rate cash ISA at 4 65% last Friday, but dropped it to 4.30% over the weekend. I suspect the higher mortgage rates will take longer to drop, but not as long as some may be fearing.

Sounds pdg* to me 👍🏼 The additional points you mention are worth addressing if simple to do and not expensive, but otherwise you should be chuffed with those numbers. * pretty darned good.

Blimey, how much do you normally use in that hour to have saved only 25% but earned £1.11 😯

Plots that get listed for sale on plot browser, or anywhere else for that matter, are usually either overpriced, in a poor location, have little prospect of gaining planning consent, or would be difficult (expensive) to build on. Some may even have a combination of all of those issues. And the finished value of a property of 250m2 can vary massively. It would be worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

Plots less than half that size, with planning consent for circa 250m2, sell for circa £400/500k around here (South Hampshire) so I'd guess you'd be looking at double that, or more, unless it's located next to a sewage treatment works.

Next session is tomorrow between 5.30 and 6.30pm. Slight problem, I won't be home.... ... but Mrs NSS will be 🤦🏼‍♂️

Incidentally, over 288,000 Octopus customers took part.

They take the average for the 'saver hour' over the previous 10 days compared to what you use on that day during the nominated hour. In this case it was between 5pm and 6pm on 15th November. You then earn £2.25 for each kWh saved in the hour. In our case, we used 0.13 compared to an average of 0.46 for the previous 10 days.

Still number crunching the figures for what we earned, apparently. About 70p by my calculations.