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Lampholder terminals don't appear too shabby - could possibly be the switch contacts as much as the lampholder and/or lamp. Try other lamps to see if it's, as suggested earlier, the lamp rather than the holder... Ask Anglepoise for the parts to fit your specific model to repair / upgrade if...

The two meters day/night are still recording usage based on some internal clock switching that has, it seems, reappeared after an time of absence, somehow, some when... Just get a smart meter installed. It'll allow you a wider choice of tariffs in the long term. Smart gas meters are complete...

https://www.fluidmasteruk.com/installation-instructions/ may help with the de-installation? Likely it is a 1/4 turn (or less) bayonet fitting. Quite possible that the whole thing is turning and may result in a leak from cistern underneath if undone too much... So the near-impossible to do...

I'd BBC LW only closed down (as did RTS) on the 26th June 2026 https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/work-warning/news/radio4lw Only one month previous to your post (not three)... So your observations are at odds with the RTS data signalling switch off facts! My money will be on a brief power...

This entire thread is a waste of typing until the OP @Pete48 returns to the site to read this thread (last seen on Sunday afternoon, at the moment it was posted) to answer any of the questions posed since. And that might never happen.

I was reasonably sure the RTS meters had a mains-supported clock internally that could be accurately set via the LW signal as well as (the rarely used, it seems) switching of additional cheap rate slots in 'groups'. That clock is now very likely to drift over time - mainly with power cuts...

Not seen that style. Ever. I have one 13A fused plug style with a 5A on the 'face', and two 2A 2-pins either side, exactly as you describe. Likely over 50 years old (and unsleeved 13A pins, and no shutters of course - how did we not kill ourselves in those days?). Now where exactly did I last...

Lighting? LED old vs Halogens in bungalow? Outside lights on/stuck on (halogen floods)? Lights left on in a loft? Electric underfloor or towel rail heaters in bathrooms? Pond pumps? Fridges, Freezers - esp if 'inherited' with the new home. Get a smart meter or a clamp energy monitor...

No. Why would I? You want me (and others) to read something specific post it in plain text and add the source as a link should I desire to follow that... And the world is flat, too! The modern Smets2 measure Import and Export separately. They won't count down the Import Register when...

Only very very very old mechanical spinning disc / analogue dial meters (sometimes called Ferranti meters) could ever run backwards... AIUI. Plenty of anecdotal reports of such meters running backwards with early solar installs. Modern smart meters might record solar export in a separate...

You probably want some cable puller / fish tapes and strong magnets or hooks to feed something in one way and snare it from the other? Perhaps. https://cpc.farnell.com/search?st=cable+puller

Turn off water to cistern. Clearly it is a Geberit flush valve --- it is written on the top. It will be a bayonet fit (twist off carefully anticlockwise around 30 degrees typically) then lift it up and out; the rubber diaphragm washer can then be accessed for replacement. < Geberit Ideal...

No. Especially one with a moulded shroud/strain relief. Just use a double ended joiner, and a brush plate? Or cable straight out of the brush plate. Note that flexi stranded cable will need the correct euro module (screw terminals?) cf solid core punch-down IDC (Krone block style) module...

I'm not opening a pdf from a random internet source... but Toolstation product 30897 and Screwfix 792PT do "brass" hose connectors. As will most garden centres, The Range, B&Q, B&M etc At least the retailer ones you can examine on / before purchase and reject if they appear too cheaply made.

You have little to no choice: You don't own the meter. Supply Co do. Out of certification meter needs replaced. THEIR choice to do it. Ofgem want them to replace with Smart. Just let them in to do it. Changing meter is just moving the existing 4 wires in the bottom of existing to a new...

Many, if not most, washers and dryers have delay timers built in to run when 'more convenient'. Some now come with wifi connectivity... My washer is like that and I can (but never have) select the wash program and start time via its' Miele app.

How many times will you pose the same question or a minor variation of the same one? You have the brains to work this out and come to a worked conclusion to educate us all! My answer to that Q is when the fossil fuel boiler fails and the immersion backup comes into play.

By whom? What reason do they give? What circuit feeds your ventilation system? What power do the fans/heaters/etc.,. consume (in total as well as individually)? Anyways a fused spur can feed a plug/socket ;) There are suitable switches than can be built into suitably deep wall boxes or...

I can affirm that Grohe rainheads are plastic... at least in the Euphoria 260 3-spray form that we have... the 310mm may only have single spray setting. Check/consider the weight of any replacement head on the riser bar and its fixings - especially if you can find an all-metal construction one!

55dBuV terminated is bang on the middle of the ideal (45-65 dBuV)... -4dB for a passive split = 51 dBuV A passive metal screened splitter is only a few quid and may be worth trying... https://www.toolstation.com/2-way-splitter/p30919 for TV plug style or...