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[woody1]

Got some quotes. All inc VAT.

Two for replacement windows; £1500 and £1700. They can replace them from the inside, so don't need scaffolding.

Masonry painting dormer facias, 2 days £400, but it will need scaffolding.

Scaffolding to provide boarded platform...

[woody1]

A couple of years or so (it came with Win11). It's only a low-end ASUS....

[woody1]

One thing that would put me off them is Vodafone. Was with them for about 3 years and it wasn't great. Having said that, it was mainly their website, billing and customer service that was the problem rather than the network, so Lebara might be fine....

[woody1]

If the following EU and other countries meet your needs, I can highly recommend giffgaff. They piggyback off O2, and I've not had any problems with coverage.

£10/month. Unlimited calls/texts. 20Gb data, of which up to 5Gb roaming.

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[woody1]

Clearly not.

They need to make it unlawful, with jail time and/or swingeing penalties, to remunerate workers with anything less than 100% PAYE....

[woody1]

This was introduced in 2018 to target the enablers. But it doesn't seem to have put cojak out of a job.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collec...dance-enablers...

[woody1]

Do you know if all the schemes you have been listing here are contractor ones? I'm guessing there must be some non-contractor ones out there.

Unbelievable that so many new ones keep popping up. Clearly there must still be a demand despite it being well known that nothing works.

[woody1]

I was trying to decide which was the worst TV ad this year, and then along comes the Waitrose one with Keira tulipely.

Unbelievable that marketing departments sign all this crap off.

[woody1]

Unlike last year when it was mainly employers (& farmers) that got hit, this year much more of the general population are likely to be impacted, so it's not surprising there's so much speculation as to who/what they're gonna screw....

[woody1]

At current price of 26p/kWh, that's over £250. Won't take that long to make back the £6k....

[woody1]

4 units per day? Any idea how many units per year you're generating?

With the combined roof & panels only being £6k more than just a re-roof, I guess it won't take too many years for it to pay for itself?...

[woody1]

Even just using USB sticks for backups, music, films, I've found they don't last that long. Currently using a SanDisk one which seems to be holding up.

Laptops these days don't seem to use HDDs anymore. Mine has eMMC. Is that likely to fail like SD/SSD at some point?...

[woody1]

Or the Treasury's answer to the question "how can we boost economic growth?". ...