Has anyone put their central heating on yet?

I’m old enough to get the £250 allowance this winter, and so is my wife, but we usually get away with thermostat set at 19 degrees C here until January, and so far it has been OK. The heating comes on automatically, but we were told to make sure it is on during wet spells to avoid mold. We are on the south coast though, so it might be different in Aberdeen.
 
I have my heating on from 6.00 to 10.00 am and 4.30 to 10.00 pm.
I have paid £20 for an M & S Teddy Fleece hooded blanket thing, goes over your head and boy does it keep you warm. Saves heating the whole house and I wear it during the day time when the heating is off.
And it’s not one of those dead bulky ones you can’t do anything in. I do my housework, washing up, cleaning etc., whilst wearing it. Highly recommend it. Love it. Advert over, revert to normal, folks! :-)
I was going to get one but it would be better if you put yours on and came over to do our housework etc.
I shall pay you the sum of five English pounds.
 
The heating in my bungalow drops quicker than a brick when the heating goes off.
Got a cavity wall insulation company to check my walls. The existing Insulation has voids all over the place. It will cost £3500 to have it removed and £2500 to have new insulation put in!!!!! May have to think about taking some money out of my pension pot to pay for it. Bloody ridiculous amount of money.
 
The heating in my bungalow drops quicker than a brick when the heating goes off.
Got a cavity wall insulation company to check my walls. The existing Insulation has voids all over the place. It will cost £3500 to have it removed and £2500 to have new insulation put in!!!!! May have to think about taking some money out of my pension pot to pay for it. Bloody ridiculous amount of money.
If you put that crap in your walls, you'll have condensation and eventually damp.
The cavity is there for a good reason ;)
 
The heating in my bungalow drops quicker than a brick when the heating goes off.
Got a cavity wall insulation company to check my walls. The existing Insulation has voids all over the place. It will cost £3500 to have it removed and £2500 to have new insulation put in!!!!! May have to think about taking some money out of my pension pot to pay for it. Bloody ridiculous amount of money.
Don't do it.
In the cold wet, damp British weather, dampness is always a problem leading to possible mold problems.

By filling the gap between the two layers of brickwork you will inevitably create a bridge between the outer and inner layers and the gap is there for a reason! It creates a barrier between hot (inside your home) and cold (the outside temperature) and between the wet outside and dry inside of your home.

If water enters the gap, it’ll run down the outer layer of your brickwork and dry out (which is why airbricks are important). If you have retrofit cavity wall insulation the water should run down through the non-absorbent insulation balls and out at the bottom. That’s the idea anyway.

In reality, especially if you live somewhere as wet as , that may not always be possible. If it’s wet and windy, the exposure to rain may not give the cavity time to dry and therefore the moisture could transfer to the inner wall and into your home.

Either live with what you have got or look at external insulation.
 
If you put that crap in your walls, you'll have condensation and eventually damp.
The cavity is there for a good reason ;)

i've not got cavity wall insulation in my house, and you can bloody tell when it turns into late autumn/winter. The heating just disappears out of the house. I can get it warm, but it will not stay warm and that racks up the bills.

I've heard mixed opinions about cavity wall insulation, and yours is not uncommon; it will create a damp bridge and cause more problems longer term. But what do i do? it's really quite chilly in my house without the heating. Surely i can increase the efficiency some how...
 
I have insulated walls, makes no odds as the crawl space under the house makes it freezing in the winter and red hot indoors in the summer , i am here in bed with gloves on !
 
My walls aren't insulated it appears as I recently had a period of birds flying around in the cavities.. and eventually appearing in various spots around the house. Strange experience having birds flying around your kitchen!
 
My walls aren't insulated it appears as I recently had a period of birds flying around in the cavities.. and eventually appearing in various spots around the house. Strange experience having birds flying around your kitchen!
Ha, welcome to life with merlin , most are dead but i have had one or two alive ones flapping around the kitchen , dont get me started on mice everwhere you cant get them out of , little shit , lol
 
I've been experimenting with having no heating for the past four days since my wife went on a business trip just to see how it feels, because I hear a lot of people cannot afford it.
It is a scary stuff if you ask me, four bedroom Victorian house, the end of terrace (six houses), the rest disappeared during The Blitz. Double glazed, insulated lofts and and insulated end-of-terrace-side. And yet temperature vary between 11 and 14 C degrees, depending on the floor and the side of the house. Just to think we are asked to pay £1+ million for the houses that lose 98% of their heat in couple of hours when the temperature hits 10 and bellow is preposterous.
The dog doesn't give shit, the fecker will sleep anywhere if he had a walk and something to eat, the cat is absolutely hating it and she is always on the prowl trying to jump into my lap. It almost feels living like a homeless in a card box.
The only solution is to raze to ground this Victorian crap and build a proper house.
 
I've been experimenting with having no heating for the past four days since my wife went on a business trip just to see how it feels, because I hear a lot of people cannot afford it.
It is a scary stuff if you ask me, four bedroom Victorian house, the end of terrace (six houses), the rest disappeared during The Blitz. Double glazed, insulated lofts and and insulated end-of-terrace-side. And yet temperature vary between 11 and 14 C degrees, depending on the floor and the side of the house. Just to think we are asked to pay £1+ million for the houses that lose 98% of their heat in couple of hours when the temperature hits 10 and bellow is preposterous.
The dog doesn't give shit, the fecker will sleep anywhere if he had a walk and something to eat, the cat is absolutely hating it and she is always on the prowl trying to jump into my lap. It almost feels living like a homeless in a card box.
The only solution is to raze to ground this Victorian crap and build a proper house.

Same 140 year old solid brick end of terrace, currently working from home with half my body in berghaus sleeping bag and fingerless gloves like Marve from Home Alone haha. Just put the heating on for a couple of hours now the kids are home.
 
I've been experimenting with having no heating for the past four days since my wife went on a business trip just to see how it feels, because I hear a lot of people cannot afford it.
It is a scary stuff if you ask me, four bedroom Victorian house, the end of terrace (six houses), the rest disappeared during The Blitz. Double glazed, insulated lofts and and insulated end-of-terrace-side. And yet temperature vary between 11 and 14 C degrees, depending on the floor and the side of the house. Just to think we are asked to pay £1+ million for the houses that lose 98% of their heat in couple of hours when the temperature hits 10 and bellow is preposterous.
The dog doesn't give shit, the fecker will sleep anywhere if he had a walk and something to eat, the cat is absolutely hating it and she is always on the prowl trying to jump into my lap. It almost feels living like a homeless in a card box.
The only solution is to raze to ground this Victorian crap and build a proper house.
Makes you wonder how we managed when I grew up, no such thing as central heating. Snow and ice outside, I suppose we just got used to being cold so it became the norm.
 

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