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An older car maybe, with a splash of oil for lubrication. But it will smell a little bit and its the same penalty as running on red diesel if you do get caught or someone dobs you in.

With the price so low it might be worthwhile ordering the 500 litres, when it's delivered at the end of October just squeeze in as much as you can, if oil prices have risen again you'll probably still be winning. I know the minimum order is 500 litres but if they only put 450 in they can't then take it out!!

Greedy people won't be that smart and goff know that ;)

That's the issue, heating will be off for us now till late October and hot water will probably see us using only a litre a day at most. So assuming the minimum delivery is 500 litre, no chance of that fitting in the tank by end of Oct!

Of course you could if you have a kerosene powered generator, I'd be surprised if you could get one more than 20% efficient though...

1) I never had a thermostat fitted before this 2) With this it means I’m not heating an empty house 3) If it’s particularly cold outside I can make sure my house is warm before I even step through the door 4) Synced up with my hive door contacts and Phillips Hue lights 5) I can control the heating in each individual room from my phone - as my bedroom is south facing it’s usually a fair bit warmer than the other rooms - I can set the heating just so all without having to get up.

Does this come with the receiver that wires into the boiler? Already have an existing hive hub from when I moved house.

I fitted my Hive myself. YouTube has a number of videos that will show you how to install it. The only slight problem I had was with the room thermostat.

I turn ours down from my phone and she never knows !

Not sure of your home situation but we had the problem of some cold rooms and some too warm so we bought a set of 5 smart hive TRVs, enabled 'heat on demand' and for the first time this winter (since moving into our home) we've enjoyed a house that has had balanced heating throughout. I honestly couldn't be happier with the whole hive setup as it is now

Thanks very much I'll have a look

Check out Drayton Wiser. After a lot of research I went for Drayton Wiser 18 months ago. Fantastic bit of kit at a very good price.

I'm guessing that this is a similar bit of kit to Hive or Nest only cheaper? If so is there one which is better than the others or are they all pretty much the same? Thanks

That box is the extension kit. Check here if you need one. https://www.tado.com/gb/thermostat-setup-installation#selector-holder

Tado are happy to check that it is compatible for your boiler. Compatibility article and contact link ... https://support.tado.com/en/articles/3387245-is-tado-compatible-with-my-boiler

£139 now

probably the best advice for most too, had a mate that decided to diy and got blew out of a window, not kidding either im gonna wait for the install package to come around

Thanks, thought it was better to be safe than sorry as I didn't want to give out illegal advice and have people work on boilers directly since it's not simple either

yeah i was thinking its not just a simple swap out. For info though anyone can do 'some' work on their boiler although NOTHING that would affect gas work, i can remove the cover and swap the circuit board for example or fix a leaking water joint, not that id do any of it as I'm kack handed and would only make it worse but your statement isn't quite true

By law, any gas device can only be worked on by a Gas Safe qualified engineer and since receiver is built into boiler, only professionals can work on it This isn't a straight swap like mine so you need professional advice and fitting

Ordered at £252 for 1,000 litres on 17th with Fuel Fighter, no delivery yet. However price is now £212 on Boilerjuice and Fuelfighter.

Dropping like crazy... Got a 500l top up on Monday, £139.....£123 today 4 days later.

definitly does thats 15 quid under my usual guy ill double check with him on monday just to be sure thanks dude

900 Litres £244.09 Delivered to BT81 with https://www.valueoils.com/ if that helps

bt81 its fine im going to hold out for another week and see if it keeps dropping down another fiver today as well my local dude is still the cheapest around beating the big names like scott and jennings by a good bit

You can pick this up from a number of retailers for £110, so whilst it's cheaper it's not the saving from £199 as stated :)

It doesn’t make a lot of difference to me as I have a young family and the house is occupied 90% of the time. Tado V3+ without subscription will still send you notifications asking if you want to turn the heating off/on. You only have to tap one button. If for example we have a babysitter round and both adults with activated tado apps leave the property we can leave the heating on when the notification pops up. There are ways around it with the subscription (leave a phone at home or manually change the settings) but I think the notification system works better for us. If you are judging systems the same way (excluding IFTT as it isn’t part of the Hive system) it works the same as Hive. As I said before I can see automated geofencing working well for some, maybe couples with busy social lives or houses with single occupancy or older families with no particular routines for scheduled heating but for me the notification system works perfectly. Previously I couldn’t adjust the heating remotely and now I can and that was the main feature I wanted. At the end of the day it depends on personal preference and the activity of your household. If you have the subscription based or V3 Tado you also get the open window/door detection which would be a benefit for most.

Unless I've misunderstood the distinction I can't see what the point of non-automated geofencing is. If it doesn't automatically use the information on where members of the household are to alter the heating then I would expect for most people there is almost no value. I wouldn't agree that without subscription it is the same as Hive. Hive can, for free, work with IFTT to do automatic geofencing. Can't judge it as a system as I don't use it but that seems to work well from info I am aware of.

In my house I have 2 zone heating with 2 therms. Hive often do deals with multzone (2 or more therms) but I never seen a deal with these with Tado? Anyone ever seen one? I know you can get the controllers for the radiators but I need the actual thermostats. Thanks in advance :)

With the version 3+ you still get geofencing, the subscription is need if you want automated geofencing. Without the subscription it works the same as Hive etc. I prefer not to have the geofencing automated but I can see it would be useful for some people.

You have to have Pouch extension, just looked on my setup and the offer is in Pouch In the Pouch terms and conditions it says the £20 Amazon offer is valid till December so that will be useful in June when I can next switch without penalty.

I was lucky. I already had a Secure smart meter from First Utility, so Octopus could just take it over when I switched. Another strongly negative day tomorrow

I wish they’d hurry up and start installing the smart meters again (obviously masked up etc). I need to be taking advantage of these days (fierce) Amazing!!

In my case I'm better off switching off my solar for a lot of the day as I'd make more using electricity than i make generating it (lol)

You think that was insane? Check out tomorrow

Not getting paid at the moment

Most times,but when you’re not an electrician and your plumber has wired your stat up cockeyed then you’ll wish you hadn’t attempted it yourself,also there are some scary YouTube videos one in particular with the fish tank under his boiler that is just so rough! He tests to see if wires are live with a neon screwdriver! One more thing as regards the “professional “ installation don’t for one minute think the fitters going to spend ages hiding cables etc,I’ve seen one where the cables were draped along desktops and routers and looked a right dogs dinner!

Aha so if it’s refurbished that would undoubtedly involve a factory reset especially required if say it had been registered to someone yes? “But” according to Hive that cannot be done so as to stop people selling the hubs secondhand,sounds like they are taking a leaf out of Apples book yes?

Awesome deal

I did that watched YouTube found my boilers manual of net and installed it.

Watch some YouTube tutorials and there you go.

If you can wire a plug you can wire this.

how long has it taken people to get the echo dot voucher? Just placed my order but not had the voucher at the same time as the hive order confirmation

That's a great idea and would work (y) (y) (y)

Could you set it up with a generic email address, say iamhive@gmail.com so you could pass it on to new home owners when you move home?.

Installation is currently unavailable :(

How easy is it to install yourself?

Yes sorry I was after the 179 deal hence why it didn't work :-( If anyone can get this any cheaper than £149 with hive only with the free dot let me no :-)

Just tried and worked. (confused)

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if you're not comfortable fitting it yourself, find a local heating/electrician/plumber https://www.hotukdeals.com/discussions/hive-heating-how-much-for-installation-2845492 Prices seem to vary as always