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    How do I change my email address on Askaboutmoney?

    Hi I’m on a phone and don’t see my name on the top bar? Thanks
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    Rural v city solicitors and septic tank

    I’m just selling a property in Dublin using a local solicitors for conveyance and hope to purchase a house outside of Dublin which will have a septic tank. The reason I mention the septic tank is that I know a certificate of compliance is required and I am wondering do solicitors outside of...
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    Phone Plans for limited internet use

    Thank you again everybody and my apologies for not replying to the most recent comments sooner. I appreciate all the help.
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    Phone Plans for limited internet use

    Thank you everybody for your help.I appreciate it and the education.We are in our 60s and have mobiles witih PAYG.My wife's parents are in their nineties with no mobile and just a landline that for some reason,I don't ask, they pay through the nose for calls on.We are both behind the times in...
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    Phone Plans for limited internet use

    I agree, it does defeat the purpose.
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    Phone Plans for limited internet use

    You are probably right.It was me suggested turning off the data as that is what we do at the moment and whilst I think it has turned on once it has never caused a problem being off.Other of course that WhatsApp messages don't come in and people don't know what the hell is going on when you don't...
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    Phone Plans for limited internet use

    Would the trick be to turn off data when the phone is not being used specifically for internet use and then turn it back on every so often to check on WhatsApp messages?Thank you
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    Phone Plans for limited internet use

    It’s an iPhone 7 with Vodofone and as I say pay as you go. €45 worth of top ups since Jan which tells you how little it’s used. We’re with Virgin and I see they have deals. I have heard stories of data being gobbled up with background stuff like apps being refreshed going on. She uses WhatsApp...
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    Phone Plans for limited internet use

    Never having had a phone plan, my wife and I use Virgin WiFi in the house and do without when outside. However with my wife’s elderly parents now needing looking after and they not having WiFi she needs to sign up to some plan to have internet whilst looking after them. Emergencies, checking...
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    Broadband Alternative

    Thanks again dub_nerd. I’d get rid of the telly myself but I want to stay married
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    Broadband Alternative

    Thank you dub_nerd. I live in Dublin. The Horizon box, of which I have had a few, was always unreliable as in would fail to record and/or partially record.I made numerous complaints and each time the box was blamed and replaced to no great effect. This morning whilst exploring VM options, I...
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    Broadband Alternative

    Hi RedOnion,thank you so much.I apologise for rehashing this and feel a bit embarrassed.I've no head for this stuff at all and keep forgetting or getting lost in it.Normally I have no trouble thinking outside the boxes but this is a challenge.I will re- read that old thread and check out the...
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    Broadband Alternative

    Hi, can I ask the younger and maybe not so younger how you work your TV/ internet options? The reason I ask is that it seems more and more people are dispensing with paid TV subscriptions and in some cases using other- legal- means of getting internet such as phone packages. It seems that a lot...
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    Wooden Homes

    Any recommendations for wooden homes? I'm thinking log as opposed to wooden framed.TIA
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    Recommend Electric Hob Supplier

    That is what I had planned to do. On re-reading it seems that if you want the store to install you also have to also buy delivery. If dems the rules....
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    Recommend Electric Hob Supplier

    Thanks everyone. So am I right in assuming that you just can’t walk in and buy a hob and take it away?
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    Recommend Electric Hob Supplier

    Thanks odyssey06
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    Recommend Electric Hob Supplier

    Thanks galwaypat, I never thought of that! Will check now. Myself and diplomacy were never formally introduced, so I struggle sometimes and it seems that even with my best efforts I still get in trouble.
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    Recommend Electric Hob Supplier

    Apart from the usual, Currys,DID and Power City are there other retailers that might offer better prices?
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