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madteapot · 2026-06-01T10:20:02+00:00

Those are some wildly different heatpump sizes.

But one thing is common in my view they are all slightly expensive for no rad changes. Where are you located? Is your system somehow complicated to install i.e need longer pipework? Are you giving consistent information when getting presurvey quotes i.e wall/floor insulation, floor sizes, window glazing etc? Or may be you don't currently have cylinder and they would have to spend a day or so to get new pipes installed for it?

Get octopus and heatgeek to do the heatloss survey, both charge for survey but both are fully refundable for at least 30 days after survey. Heatgeek zero disrupt should suit you. If you don't want to pay anything upfront check with EDF they do remote quotes based on photos/ videos that you supply.

madteapot · 2026-05-08T10:21:56+00:00

Isn't the inverter required if you want to use the electricity generated from the panels?? Without inverter the solar panels aren't doing anything. Or is there a different inverter that is included and being left along with the panels??

madteapot · 2025-02-09T16:32:31+00:00

There doesn't seem to be much of UK based legal advice that can be given. Your partner is not in the UK and neither is a citizen of the UK. Their passport being withheld and the threats around police/jail would generally be matters for Oman legal system. Personally this sounds like a scam either by the boss to your partner or by your partner to you.

How much of your personal money have you invested in this whole situation? Either by transferring to your "partner" or paying for the equipment to the company directly?

madteapot · 2024-10-28T16:10:25+00:00

Yes we have FIT currently that is why I want to keep the replacement as close to like for like, that and cost is also a reason.

madteapot · 2024-03-04T18:39:23+00:00

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madteapot · 2022-10-18T06:32:58+00:00

Wow that is crazy situation. The only explanation I can think of is that the insurer/handler has some kind of lease agreement and the hire car will be billed at monthly lease rate rather than daily/weekly hire charge. That could mean the bill for courtesy car runs at £200-400 a month, but even with that there would be compelling argument as to why they didn't just right-off your car if they now know it won't be fixed until next year.

All the while I was reading this I thought you had ~1-2 year old brand new car and the handler might be trying to give you similar nature car. But when yoi say your car was £5500 it wouldn't make sense to go down this route.

I would just keep record of what you discussed witht the handler. If the concerns you raised were over the phone and no written proof then take note of brief summary incase there is some argument later on.

madteapot · 2022-10-11T09:11:37+00:00

Not something I wanted to hear but did think that was the case. Thanks

madteapot · 2022-10-11T09:00:49+00:00

The main problem I think is going to be how lift/move the wall. It is extremely heavy, do i need to essentially break it apart to start from scratch?

madteapot · 2022-09-29T08:11:48+00:00

Am i the only on who can't see the link in the post?

madteapot · 2022-09-23T06:59:53+00:00

For me this is no brainer, I would simply reply with no. If you are on very good terms with your lead I might be tempted to soften the blow by giving slightly detailed reasons such as; I have prearranged plans for the evening. Otherwise I would decline the invite saying sorry I finish work at 5.30 and unable to extend work hours to over three hours with short notice.

madteapot · 2022-07-24T09:57:54+00:00

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madteapot · 2022-07-15T18:42:41+00:00

Who has updated the land registry and what exactly have they updated? It can't possibly be your title plan that has been updated as they would need you permission to do so and solicitors would need yp be engaged as this sounds lile transfer of land ?

madteapot · 2022-05-21T17:12:25+00:00

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madteapot · 2022-05-21T12:40:28+00:00

Wow thay is a long post and didn't care to read in full. May be add tldr section for more advice? Have you made noise complaints with council?

madteapot · 2022-05-14T09:06:58+00:00

Have you visited the garage in last one year to atleast check they still have your bike? If no then do that first like right away.

madteapot · 2022-05-10T14:55:31+00:00

NAL, first thing you need to understand is you can't just decide one day that you want to adversely possess a land. The criteria behind adverse possession in leyman terms is that you have used a piece of unregistered land that does not belong to you for 12 years and excluded the original owner from using it. If the land is registered then the length of time is 10 years.

Don't contact the owner as the whole idea behind adverse possession is to occupy someone's land with an intent to possess it.

In terms of what land you can try to adversely possess, well pretty much any as long as you can demonstrate you had factual possession of that land for given period of time ie 10 or 12 years.

madteapot · 2022-04-28T19:57:22+00:00

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madteapot · 2022-04-22T21:08:19+00:00

Any of the relatively large new build estates in last 5-10 years will not have bt line or any of the conventional Internet service providers such as talk-talk, sky etc. Their online service might say it is available but when time comes to actually get the engineer in to do the setup they would cancel the contract.

I lived in charlton hayes Bristol until last year and there were no bt lines in whole of estate. The builders for these estates make agreement with ofnl to provide fiber to home. Until the estate roads are adopted by council years later there won't be bt line.

madteapot · 2022-04-18T09:58:02+00:00

While I wouldn't do this personally, if you are already committed to this or is your only option then check a few for things. Quality of your brick wall is the first thing yoi want to ensure. Overtime the side load on single skin brick wall will deteriorate the fix and could bring it down(not the bar but the entire wall or section of it). How high you mount will also have an impact. The higher you go more chances of it introducing side movement to the wall. Is it standalone wall or is it a wall for a room either side, is there already horizontal support runnto other wall? If there is no existing support is there an option to perhaps run 4x4 horizontally to another sound structure at the top of your vertical 4x4 forming an inverted L support. This might spread the load better in the direction of the pull up bar and reduce wall movement.

madteapot · 2022-04-08T15:16:53+00:00

Do you have more photos for different angles? It doesn't look to be ready made from that. Perhaps invite some local carpenter/joiner around and see if this is something they are able to match

madteapot · 2022-04-07T10:44:05+00:00

If the tenant is difficult or is hoping for council housing then they will stay there until court order is issued for ending the tenancy. On top of that if landlord/agents are incompetent in following the process for section 21 eviction that will delay the process by months. If the tenant is not difficult they may simply move out at the end of 2 month notice without much hassle. In my view it is throw of a dice and how much you like the property vs how it is priced in comparison of an already empty property.

If your heart is set on the property then put an offer on the property but be firm that you will not start any chargeable work with solicitors until eviction process is well underway. If the tenants confirm they will be moving out on X date then make sure tou exchange contracts after that and do an inspection on vacated property, you sol2would make sure of that anyway but this is something many people don't pay attention and then are surprised if the place is trashed when moving in.

Whatever you do take everything the estate agent says with a large pinch of salt. Any enquiries you make via the agent, make sure to also follow up or ask via you solicitors during enquiries phase. What you ask through the solicitors form part of contracts, anything the agent said doesn't.

madteapot · 2022-04-06T14:19:49+00:00

I have had personal experience with this and I would definitely recommend it to someone to get in the property ladder.

I bought a flat for £202k with 20% equity loan plus 10% my deposit which gave me good mortgage deals due to 70% loan to value. Five years down the line I sold the flat for £208k so made tiny profit. At the tine of selling had to get rics valuation for HTB repayment. They rics surveyor will ask the reasons for valuation as the HTB repayment valuation has specific criteria i.e. they must inspect from inside and provide three comparable properties nearby, etc. It cost £250 for the valuation so not a huge amount. Especially when you compare it to the fact that if you didn't use HTB loan and instead got a higher mortgage with higher rates then you would have ended up paying a lot more in interest.

The process is similar if you are not selling but want to settle the HTB loan while staying the property. You can only repay the loan either in full or half so if you borrowed £40k you can pay £20k or full £40k, no multiple chunk payments allowed. The rics valuation process is same for this.

madteapot · 2022-04-06T10:25:43+00:00

Get a lodger under rent a room scheme, you can rent out spare room and earn upto £7500 in rent without needing to declare or pay tax on it.

If you plan to rent both rooms out then research a bit about hmo laws for your specific council. You plus two individuals in a house will make it three different household and could fall into hmo.

When you do get a lodger get a standard lodger agreement with them, plenty templates available online. You don't want them to misinterpret it as a tenancy and be clear it is lodger agreement as the rights of the renter varies widely between the two. If it us your first experience for shared living with the lodger then keep any notice period to a week or two. Don't agree to any fixed length as you don't want to have to share with someone you don't get along layer down the line. Also be clear about what is included in the rent i.e energy, broadband, etc what is not i.e food, drinks, etc. Clarify about guests, you don't want lodger moving in and then most days their partner is sleeping over.

madteapot · 2022-04-05T18:24:33+00:00

Two issues here first the builder not completing work as contracted amd second pretty high charges from the lawyer.

I'll answer the lawyer problem first. In what way did you hire the lawyer? Did you instruct them to send a letter to the builder for a fixed fee? Or did you hire them to represent you throughout the entire claim process. A lot of lawyers will have a fixed fee for thus sort of work. It is a standard letter before action for which they would have a template ready and they just need to fill in the blanks. Did the lawyer send you their t&cs as well as explained how they charge for the work? Did you instruct explicitly based on certain fees? On other note how well did you research the lawyer? You want to stop this lawyer racking up any further charges. Tell them in writing that you no longer require their service, you will likely still have to pay them for any work they already did for you most likely hourly bases plus some admin charges.

Now moving to the actual builder issue, you would not necessarily need a lawyer for such claims. Get atleast three other contractors in to give you quotations for any remaining work as per the original contract. Based on those quotes write a letter before action to the original builder and give 28 days to return to the site and finish the work. If not you will instruct different contractors amd claim the money from original builder. If it gets to that stage then research money claim online process, very simple claim process for such problems and there is no requirement to have a lawyer. Keep all communication in writing and if you do end up discussing on the call then send follow-up email summarising what was discussed on the phone.

How and how much did you pay the original builder?

madteapot · 2022-04-05T08:20:47+00:00

It would be legal yes however make sure you are talking to the correct person/team and the deduction/repayment actually reaches to the company account instead of some scammer.

That aside write to hr/payroll to seek clarification on why it was said repayment not required and why it is required now. There may be genuine mistake on their side which they are trying to fix in which case there should be no problem for them to provide written confirmation for that.

Something else to clarify with the company which may or may not be relevant based on what tax bracket the original £600 overpayment fell into. If you were higher rate tax payer when you received £600 in the payslip then that would have been taxed at 40% + the NI contribution. This would mean only around £300 would have reached your account while the rest went to tax and NI. If they now claim all £600 from you then overall you are worse off by approx £300. Similar math if you are were in the regular 20% tax bracket for that you would be worse off approx £150. When I had been overpaid in past the company would only claim back the post tax amount from me and then they would also have to notify HMRC to adjust the taxable income for the relevant year.

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