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You can opt out for 26-27 and onwards from 6th April 2026 it says in your screenshot. Likely via an online form next year, as well as by letter. You happened to miss the window for opting out for 25-26 (but I didn't).

What torch is this? Incandescent lamp or LED or fluorescent? What rating in Watts and Volts (3.6-3.7 being roughly the lithium cell V)? Old used cells from abused tools and tool chargers won't have the capacity of new ones from the major brands such as, say, Sony, Samsung or Panasonic. Buy...

WD40 (what type)? Only the dry lubricant PTFE would be suggested by them for locks. The original water displacement stuff is not recommended. Some use graphite powder in lock barrels to lubricate them. A soft pencil rubbed on the key can be used too? Picture of this lock / screw could help...

Read the tank manufacturers instructions for the base required. Needs to be flat and support the entire base plus circa 300 mm all round typically. https://www.oftec.org/consumers/off-gas-grid-guides/home-guide-to-domestic-liquid-fuel-storage-up-to-3500-litres and...

Not a chance. Pump out 900 litre of kerosene to ?200 litre? barrels to store safely. Remove old tank for safe disposal. Remove existing base. Dig out for new base. Dispose of spoil. Lay hardcore. Whacker down. Lay reinforcing grid and base formwork. Mix and lay concrete. Wait a day or so to set...

FWIW: I paid over £3k for a bunded 1225 litre tank in SE England just over 8 years ago. That involved water contamination due to rain getting into the single skin tank. Extra cost was a new oil pump for the boiler and a thorough clean and service. You need specialist / insured / hazardous...

UPS is the obvious 'off the shelf' solution. Or a suitable home battery-inverter to support the whole home, with care over what is used. Or a home brew battery-inverter / power station / petrol generator. Some ISPs will offer a solution for 'vulnerable customers' via a short term battery...

Dualit Classic is a manual lever to lift the toast. It's not ejected automatically. The Dualit Classic timer control has marks at roughly 2 and 3 minutes. Around the 2 +/- a bit is the setting we use. It's not a bimetal (browning) control but a pure clockwork 'timer' and Dualit do caution...

Well my repairable Dualit Classic toaster makes a clockwork ticking sound when in use and a much, much louder mechanical clunk when it switches off. No need for a ping, even with no hearing aids in.

iPlayer no such thing as BBCi

Fixed that for you. On what device? It matters. Have a look using a PC. Phone. Tablet and try again on the original device you watched it on? Mistakes happen and they will re-encode / update things when they become aware of an issue (which there may or may not have been). If via a TV...

BBC iPlayer by any chance? On what specific device - multiple different coded streams for different devices. I should have it recorded from DSat at 1080i on my PVR. A quick watch on this laptop of the first few minutes seems fine to me. It is set at night for part of the time with Russel...

Have you tried one of your other TVs in place of the Sony for the same time of night? If it is affected the same way then that shows something in that room/outlet is the issue. Even running two side by side via a 2-way splitter? To see if when the Sony glitches the other does anything? Ditto...

Makes tea taste awful according to swmbo. Not especially nice with whisky, either. Urban myth. https://www.kinetico.co.uk/blog/post/can-drink-softened-water Mind they do say not to use for babies and if on low sodium diet. Most installers will fit a drinking water tap that is not softened...

The 3000 will be, roughly, half the brightness of the 1500 when both sets consume the same quantity of electrickery. Take/send the 3000 set back and replace with 2 sets of 1500.

@geoffers1 the OP hasn't been seen since 3 Nov 2024, so you may never know. Our floor-standing equivalent is working fine. With the filter now completely removed (we have a water softener on its cold supply). Possibly essential for hard water areas... and need 6 monthly replacement at a cost...

Hmmm. My unvented HW cylinder has daily losses of circa 2 kWh... According to the manufacturer. That would be 18 kWh per week without using any water from it. I can't dispute your actual measured numbers but you must have the smallest HW cylinder and be exceedingly frugal with HW draw-off...

I use a Meross smart plug to control a towel radiator, outside the room, of course. But any similar smart switch control will work whatever the brand. That's what I'd fit in your adjacent cupboard. 13A socket and towel rail wired into a fused plug into the smart switch.

Is this an unvented hot water cylinder pressure vessel? White usually. Or a boiler pressure vessel? Red usually. The manufacturers installation manuals should specify the setting and how to do it...

Not that I know of. Some TVs have a Composite PAL video (and stereo audio) input : 3x RCA or 4-pole 3.5 mm jack. Not always listed in the specs so need examination of connection panel and/or manuals. You may already have suitable connections or cables in the man cave? My 65LV2000 oled from...