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Does your new-build home have electric heating? Is it effective?

Posted by thatintelligentbloke@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 13 comments

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I live in a 2020 build and have a gas system boiler with a hot water cylinder. It is a large development that is still being built and those completed from last year onwards generally have heat pumps instead of gas. My house does retain heat very well and takes very little to heat, but I do find the hot water with the cylinder uses probably 30% more than the combi boiler in my old house with the heat loss from the cylinder. Overall though the gas usage is half my old house, despite being much bigger.

Can you identify the dam from Johnny Vegas carry on glamping? Photo attached.

Posted by TastyStable2727@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 31 comments

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Thruscross Reservoir between Harrogate and Skipton. [https://maps.app.goo.gl/DNFaAA9iLkGq6F2d7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/DNFaAA9iLkGq6F2d7)

What is your working from home set up like?

Posted by Flimsy-Resource-5375@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 130 comments

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Proper office set-up in the 3rd bedroom. Sit/stand desk, 35” ultra wide monitor, 24" second monitor plus laptop screen, duplex colour laser printer, the works. The days I have to go into the office I'm less efficient because the set-up just isn't as good. I also have my own PC and PS5 hooked up for the rare quiet periods.

Why are old peoples’ towels always dead hard?

Posted by ManSoAdmired@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 309 comments

Do you finance your car or do you own it outright?

Posted by Bullfrog-Dear@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 130 comments

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PCP. It was zero % interest with a hefty deposit contribution and I thought they had significantly underestimated the likely depreciation so by my calculations it worked out cheaper than buying an 18-month to 2 year old similar model and keeping for the same period. I'm two years in to the three year contract and so far it looks to have worked out with its current value already well under the balloon figure. Next time I'll buy outright unless I spot another very good deal.

What will be some of the unexpected or not obvious benefits of weight loss jabs in years to come?

Posted by No-Beat2678@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 218 comments

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Immediate discrimination claims I imagine. The average woman is lighter than the average man so charging by weight is indirect sex discrimination. Even if they normalised by sex there would still be race discrimination cases due to average size differences. There is also potential disability discrimination if the weight is caused by or sufficient to be classed as a disability. Basically it would be a massive legal minefield that no airline covered by UK law would go near.

How about Ozempic paid for by the NHS?

Posted by mrwishywashy@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 27 comments

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I believe the £200 includes the professionals time to prescribe and monitor the recipient. Also they are using Mounjaro which is more expensive but studies show also more effective as it is dual action activating GIP as well as GLP-1 receptors.

Why are there so many jobsworths in the UK?

Posted by original_oli@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 42 comments

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I find people who complain about jobsworths are usually selfish people who expect everyone else to bend over backwards so they can get their way.

Considering the ever increasing pension age do you think Britain needs more bank holidays and a 4 day work week?

Posted by RoyalMaleGigalo@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 265 comments

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The state pension age has never been 50. It was 70 until the 1940s when it changed to 60/65. Non-state pensions could be taken at 50 until 2010 (and some still have protection to do that) but that was a very rare option outside of the emergency services/public sector.

What is the obsession of putting carpet in new/refurbished houses?? Let it go...

Posted by Blasmere@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 13 comments

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I want carpet in all rooms except kitchen, bathrooms, utility room and downstairs hallway. Dining room at a push. I really dislike hard floors in bedrooms.

Is this a normal thing in the countryside?

Posted by Smurph-of-Chaos@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 346 comments

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That's what I'm thinking. Were they on the track that goes through the houses or the lower track/road that runs below the houses? The one through the houses isn't a right of way.