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The powerwall+solar works because people dont on average drive that far. Most journeys are under 5 miles, and the average UK driving is around 8k a year. So for many drivers, your not actually needing to charge the 30kwh battery up from flat. Your only needing to top off the 5 or 10kwh that...

tinfoil hat for the car?

Because unlike electricity, red diesel is red, and is subject to periodic inspection by HMRC, along with large fines if your caught. Electricity is not red. HMRC have also stated that its not a fuel, and thus doesnt incur any fuel duty. Every electric car sold comes with a charger equipped...

I still dont see how a smart meter can tell whats connected to it. Smart meters might well allow them to introduce more granular time of use tariffs, it still doesnt allow them to discern the difference between a 3 bar fire plugged into the wall, and a car charger. Unless you have some sort of...

Umm... Its electricity, coming out a socket, into a load. How on earth are they going to charge more for the special electricity that goes to the car? The powers that be may well devise a scheme to recoup the money lost from fuel duty, but its surely likely to be some sort of road charging or...

I'll plug it in at 6pm then if they're going to charge me more to plug it in at 3am o_O

a guy on the EV forum posted this pic of what he has

I've asked around on the electric car forums and no-one else seems to have this issue, thye've just asked for "economy 7" and got what i expected to get. Supplier seems to barely know whats going on and the meter guys are clearly useless as well. If there are two types of meter, the idiot that...

I have an electric car, which clearly uses a fair chunk of electricity for charging. As a result i wanted to switch to Economy 7 to benefit from cheap rate electric at night for charging the car. So i had Scottish (British) Gas out this morning to fit an Economy 7 meter. The guy looked at my...

But as we've ascertained, people DO overcharge, after all, the first guy in this post was quoted £380 for the same job. You've all agreed £380 is a ripoff, but in the same breath dont like customers asking how much something will cost and blame the customer for picking someone cheap? Cant you...

Again, why all the attacks and **** taking on the customer? Common theme by certain folk on this board? You dont know he "only wanted to pay peanuts". You've plucked that conclusion out of thin air and all it achieves is makes you look like a bell end. If the guy phoned a supposed RGI, and...

This video sounds better Most of the noise is just the fan/burner/water flowing etc, but you can at least make out the droning "light aircraft" sound on top in that video

Nor was i, but inquest was reported on here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-25319071

Yet that explosion wasnt caused by gas at all, looks to have been caused by expanding foam vapours.... Something many folk would use without even considering such a danger.

Well this was my point? Some things are obvious, if your plasterer or joiner does a crap job, you can look with your eyes, realise its crap, and use someone else. Those trades produce a very visible end result, and people sort of expect a wall to be flat and smooth, or their doors to open and...

Yeh, but as i've mentioned above, unless those neighbours/friends/relatives are RGI's, they dont have the knowledge to know if the RGI they are recommending is actually any good, and as this thread shows, even if they hired someone that did a good job of, say, installing their boiler, it doesnt...

And this is the crux of the issue. The war cry on here is "Get an RGI" and yet many of the RGI's are useless, or have an ulterior motive to get a bigger job like replacing the whole thing. Why the OP bought the gas valve rather than the plumber seems to be a moot point. Given the guy vanished...

Fair point, and something that needs rectified, as thus far it hasnt been serviced since we moved in a couple years ago. But takes us back to my original point. I had a quick look this morning at some review sites looking for a local RGI, the best rated company on there also happened to have a...

I realise its the rules, that doesnt mean the rules are correct or that i agree with them, and i'm point out why i take that view. And yes there is a balance to be struck, but when the trades on this forum seem unable to accept that the real world is FULL of cowboys that balance is seriously...

The primary issue, and something the decent guys on here seem to fail to understand, is how is your average punter supposed to know what they're getting? Theres clearly a theme on here where someone gets an "RGI" in who turns out to be incompetent, and its somehow the fault of the customer? I...