by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 21, 2026 | Home & Garden, Trending
Key takeaways From 1 October 2026 the Ofgem cap is £1,723 a year, with electricity at 26.32p per kWh and no VAT on it until 31 March 2027. Gas is 7.97p per kWh including 5% VAT. That puts a 2kW plug-in bedroom heater at 52.6p an hour, or £4.21 for an...
by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 19, 2026 | Kitchen & Appliances, Trending
Key takeaways The Drinking Water Inspectorate classes water under 100 mg/l calcium carbonate as soft, and cites the WHO figure that scale forms at 200 mg/l or above. Below 200 you are buying a descaler for a problem your tap water is not causing. We costed...
by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 18, 2026 | Health & Wellness, Trending
Key takeawaysThe ISO size printed on a pack comes from ISO 16409:2016, which only covers manual brushes with a round head on a wire stem. Plastic core brushes, powered brushes, floss, tape and filament free picks all sit outside that standard, so they carry no ISO...
by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 18, 2026 | Coffee
On the prices two UK suppliers publish, leasing a commercial coffee machine costs as much as buying it after 3.3 years, in the middle case. Across 22 machines the crossover came between 2.4 and 3.8 years for all but one. Redber’s five-year leases on eight...
by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 18, 2026 | Coffee
The cheapest bean-to-cup coffee machine from a mainstream brand on Amazon UK on 18 September 2026 was the Bosch Series 2 VeroCafe at £249. That is below the lowest Amazon price the tracker camelcamelcamel has on record for it. Several better-known machines on the same...
