Gas & Electricity

[KS55]

Christ!
Ours goes off an hour before we go to bed and doesn’t come on until 7.
House never yet gone be low 14 degrees overnight.

Depends a lot on how well insulated your house is. We used to live in a stone built Victorian house with very thick walls, which acted like a storage heater in winter and prevented solar gain in summer. Our current house is 1930, and the temp drops much quicker in winter.

 

[Blue Maverick]

thanks mate. We have a protected yellow glass in the top panels that we cant replace so the best we could do is double glaze the ground floor and half the upstairs windows. We have 30 or so windows, many of them large so its an expensive business for an incomplete solution. We would both be pushing up daisies before we got half our investment back. Hopefully the worst is over and we can reign the heating back. If the energy market settles down a little I'll look to get as far from British Gas as I can.

30 windows are you the Lord of Saddleworth!

 

[Saddleworth2]

You can buy bespoke double glazed timber sash and case windows, but is it another reason you are prevented? Would be costly I would imagine but you could just do the main living areas first.

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Nice stuff in there.

 

[Saddleworth2]

30 windows are you the Lord of Saddleworth!

No. Just an increasingly poor oap living in a house that is getting too big for us ;-)

 

[KS55]

30 windows are you the Lord of Saddleworth!

He lives in a greenhouse and his tomatoes are superb. He supplies Tesco during the shortage.

 

[KS55]

No. Just an increasingly poor oap living in a house that is getting too big for us ;-)

Yep, we were the same and traded down after kids left and we retired. Best move we ever made. Profit paid for our new smaller house.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Horrendous. Stop cooking and wear 5 layers. Move house.

Thanks for the helpful advice mate.

My wife hasn't been well over the winter so a comfortable internal temp is important.

 

[Saddleworth2]

He lives in a greenhouse and his tomatoes are superb. He supplies Tesco during the shortage.

I wish. Only Turnips up our way.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Yep, we were the same and traded down after kids left and we retired. Best move we ever made. Profit paid for our new smaller house.

It may still come to that. Big step though after 20 odd years.

 

[KS55]

Thanks for the helpful advice mate.

My wife hasn't been well over the winter so a comfortable internal temp is important.

Best be warm and poorer rather than suffer.