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.

 

[KS55]

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

We found it a major change after 20 years, but I’m glad we grasped the nettle. Took us a year or two, but we love it now.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Just had my winter Gas Bill for over £700. Are they supposed to show the Government deductions on it because I cannot see it and it’s over 100% increase on last year ?

It was knocked off your electricity bill not gas.

 

[Protein Junkie]

It was knocked off your electricity bill not gas.

Can’t thank you enough Dennis.Double like

 

[wahablue]

Bloody horrendous. It’s not like we are wasteful. It’s a Victorian house with sash and case windows. Because its listed we can’t put in double glazing.

 

[Kompany Car]

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.

Can you use secondary glazing ? I know its not aesthetically pleasing, but you're not changing the windows so wouldn't have thought it impacts the listed status.
Does my head in the rules around listed buildings, the rule should just be sympathetic restoration and allow you to use modern materials that give a similar look from a distance to the original. Most listed properties have been changed multiple times throughout their existence so why should they be frozen in time. Im sure it costs enough keeping on top of general maintenance without crazy restrictions. Can understand why some let big houses become ruins to remove them from listed status and then redevelop them into palatial pads.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Can you use secondary glazing ? I know its not aesthetically pleasing, but you're not changing the windows so wouldn't have thought it impacts the listed status.
Does my head in the rules around listed buildings, the rule should just be sympathetic restoration and allow you to use modern materials that give a similar look from a distance to the original. Most listed properties have been changed multiple times throughout their existence so why should they be frozen in time. Im sure it costs enough keeping on top of general maintenance without crazy restrictions. Can understand why some let big houses become ruins to remove them from listed status and then redevelop them into palatial pads.

We had ruled it out because of how it looks but might need to look again after this winters costs.

 

[kaz7]

I am £650 in credit , edf do twice yearly bills so maybe that wont be enough to cover this winter one , wish they would go back to quarterly , you know where you are then

 

[Blue Maverick]

Where does everyone keep their room stat, chatting to a couple of plumbers and they said in your hallway, the coldest room, ours is freezing no way it ever gets to temperature. We have rad stats everywhere apart from the hallway and bathroom, the experts say you shouldn’t have your room stat in same room as radiators with thermostatic valves, but then it says you should have it in the most used room! Very conflicting advice.

 

[PragueBlue]

Where does everyone keep their room stat, chatting to a couple of plumbers and they said in your hallway, the coldest room, ours is freezing no way it ever gets to temperature. We have rad stats everywhere apart from the hallway and bathroom, the experts say you shouldn’t have your room stat in same room as radiators with thermostatic valves, but then it says you should have it in the most used room! Very conflicting advice.

Ours is in the hallway.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Ours is in the hallway.

How long does it take to get to temperature say 19degrees mate, ours this morning was 13.5 and in 30 mins it hadn’t moved!