Ferdinand

Ouch. Talking to a New York based expat today, and he is expecting a 6k energy bill that he is paying out of the rent for his house in London. If you are paying the bills, then I'd say that you should keep the £400 and the £150, to count against a bit of the blank cheque in possession of your tenants. But ranting heads (ie TV company correspondents) on the TV are saying watch out for dodgy landlords who pay the bills trying to keep the refund. All of them - planks. The only defence is an ultra-efficient house.

It's worth remembering that the cap is on the price, and the £1971 etc is that applied to average usage for a 2.4 person household.

Are your bills included in the rent? 😬

It now appears to be up and running. Latest transition bill received does not contain the 80000% increase in gas usage.

Mainly, I think. I think the two will be about 400 kWh per annum.

Part of that is fridge and freezer, which are not parasitic. But yes, needs a bit of further investigation. And of course the solar is able to cover that during daylight for essentially the entire year. Abracadabra now the parasitic load is only about 40W !

The gas meter now reports that it has successfully connected as of yesterday. So now it needs to reach the display. 80W elec baseload by the look of it.

We need a couple more wider-view pics, and some guidance as to what you want to achieve - parking, lawn, growing tomatoes etc.

Go American and develop some rolls of fat.

In principle they should be working from the latest. I'd check to see that your audit trail of the changes is firm, just in case they get it wrong and blame you. It may be worth either an email or a telephone call to planning just to make sure they are doing the correct thing.

Grand Designs S10E01 Isle of Wight The Tree House. The Linen Jacket With Jeans era. Lincoln Miles and his artist wife Lisa Traxler. Essentially a good project, but with various elements of craziness. Including proving that painting corrugated with yoghurt soup does not make it grow lichen, and that domestic with turbines are a PITA. Lincoln Miles is one of the few who have created a career off the back of Grand Designs. Vid here:

I think you pay someone to take it away. There was at least one Grand Design that was based around keeping one of those chimney breasts as a heritage feature. You cut a hole in the rug, and give at as a poncho to Gary Lineker to go with his goaty beard. You need to attach multicoloured pompoms or it won't be ridiculous enough. And he needs a pork-pie hat from somewhere.

If it was donated, it may be a nice windfall of a few hundred for the charity. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=guy+rogers++chair

It is updateable. And it is important to get on this PDQ. It seems the architect has just submitted a wrong plan?

The news here is that the Octopus website claims to have connected to my gas meter since 7/8. They are now telling me that my gas usage is only up 829x since last week. Still needs to feed through.

Probably not worth too much worry tbh for an interim, unless your interim lasts a decade. Long term, remove the wall. Is that your chair - looks like a Guy Rogers which may be worth £££.

Can you link to your export tariff? Is this perhaps Outgoing Octopus or Outgoing Agile? 24p per KW is more than most people get on FITs. I thought @tommy12398 had said that the solar pv had been fitted recently - ie this summer. I think the tariff is a beta for Octopus playing with the Smart Grid. It looks like they are paying nearly the full wholesale price, rather than the current SEG price.

This is quite a good thread chewing away at the bone of @tommy12398's electricity costs. My comments for Tommy: If your Smart Meter has a 'usage now' mode, that should let you detect what individual appliances are using when you switch them on. Though the solar will act as variable noise on that signal. I think that the ovens sound quite significant. Have you considered that your wife may be able to offset the electricity charges against tax as a business expense? But you would need to know how much was being used, or 'deem' a number. Your EPC is middling to good for all the housing stock of the whole country. The media is how a high D. It was 64-66 in March 2021, and has moved up by 1-1.5 points per year in the long term. For a newbuild from 2014, C does sound lowish, but they could have been making assumptions rather than look at the actual thing. The housing stock across England and Wales varies and this is reflected in the median energy efficiency scores. The median energy efficiency score was 66 in England and 64 in Wales for all records up to March 2021, which is equivalent to band D. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/energyefficiencyofhousinginenglandandwales/2021 Remember that next time you get an EPC, your solar will significantly improve it - remember that if you make comparisons. You may be able to download energy usage in a spreadsheet from your energy supplier - Octopus do that under the "Explore your energy usage" option. For me, I'd have a more detailed look at the usage by ovens - and get that out of the numbers.

Big freezer required.

I thought ST worked in a cafe, so intermittent.

I see that in your blog you noted that it could deliver up to 3kW. Is that the limitation of the Solic 200, or the solar setup - thanks? (I have 9.98 kWp of solar panels, and am working through options.)

Some very good comments above 🙂 . Am I correct that a Solic 200 is essentially the same as an Immersun?

Copied from another thread. If you get into a Smart Meter, watch the process carefully. This looks dramatic, but at this stage I don't expect a problem and expect the gas number to self-correct. Having just read the meter, my usage since the new meter went in is 0.413 m3 - which suggests I am not sure what. ---------------------------------- It is now 10 days since the Octopodule Smart Meter went in. Elec is great, but gas has yet to connect - despite moving the Smart Display to within a few feet of the meter for some hours. It also lists 2 gas meters, and is telling me my use is up by 1600 times since last week. Kinks to be ironed out, and I think I need to talk to them after the 2 week allowed from connection has expired. Ferdinand

These are mine. Went to Octopus last autumn when Avro went bust. The Flexible Avro tariff was defined to be a little below the cap. I already get a "loyalty bonus". For some reason. The "Loyal Octopus" bonus is taken off the Electric Standing Charge, and reduces it by ~30% or 13.15p a day (= £48 pa) on my tariff. The offered fix rate is still imo way out for me, given that my plan aspiration is to reduce gas usage next winter by 50-70%.

Hmmm. It is now 10 days since the Octopodule Smart Meter went in. Elec is great, but gas has yet to connect - despite moving the Smart Display to within a few feet of the meter for some hours. It also lists 2 gas meters, and is telling me my use is up by 1600 times since last week. Kinks to be ironed out, and I think I need to talk to them after the 2 week allowed from connection has expired. Ferdinand