Crisis Loan for Oil Heating?

Morgan_Ree

Another suggestion is to speak to social services

They helped me out a few years ago when I had literally no money to buy food for me and my son. They gave me tesco gift cards every week for a month!

Might be worth a try

Zara33

daska wrote: »

What Warm Front can do differs according to whether you own or rent the property.

Not sue if you are aware but your warm front link actually doesn't go to warm front it goes to another website I'm sure it was an oversight
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downshifter

ShaShaSha wrote: »

Thanks everyone for your replies.

Massive sigh of relief from this end. Now I need to concentrate on keeping the heat in! so any suggestions on draft proofing etc would be fab
Thanks everyone

Have a read through some of the 'Preparing for winter' threads, some brilliant ideas for keeping warm on there. It's incredible how creative people are about getting warmth in and keeping it there. http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=531601

DS

loobyloo0302

Hiya all. Sorry to butt into the thread but I too have oil fuelled heating and hot water (which at the moment is broken down :rolleyes: ) I have a couple of issues.

Our house layout is a front porch, leading to a living room, then next to our living room, we have a large dining room/kitchen, then we have the back porch, in a small room in the back porch is our oil burner. (where we live, it is basically three houses that have been knocked into two, so we have half of the other house that used to be here if that makes sense)

Last winter, we only had the one little one, and he was 1(ish) at the time, so when the weather became cold, we could keep the living room door shut, have a draught excluder on each door and have an electric halogen heater on constantly in the living room. This was sufficient at the time, as our son had no urge to be in and out of the living room. Now, obviously, the cute little innocent baby turned into a monster that spends all day running in and out of the living room, lol, so keeping him tied to the one room will not work, especially now he has his nearly 1 year old sister as they are a pair together! When you open the door between the diner and living room, the cold is just incredible. I think alot of this stems from the fact that there is a large hole in the wall under the sink for the pipe for the water to drain through, and the back porch is also not double glazed (I think the same applies for our kitchen window, too) We also have vents at regular intervals that sit just above the skirting boards, but I have managed to cover most of these, and intend to cover the rest in due course. Now you all know that oil is not cheap, last year, it was costing us up to £75 a week to fill the tank, which we simply cannot keep doing. I really do not know what to do, as I know I will not be able to keep my children in the living room all winter like I could do last year, so a small halogen heater in the living room will not cut it HELP!!

alwaysonthego_2

Hi Looby, we can look at whether you are claiming the benefits you are entitled to.

I need to ask some questions

What is your yearly income?
Do you have a partner?
Do you have savings?
How many hours do you work?
What benefits are you claiming now?
Do you own your own house?

downshifter

loobyloo0302 wrote: »

Hiya all. Sorry to butt into the thread but I too have oil fuelled heating and hot water (which at the moment is broken down :rolleyes: ) I have a couple of issues.

Our house layout is a front porch, leading to a living room, then next to our living room, we have a large dining room/kitchen, then we have the back porch, in a small room in the back porch is our oil burner. (where we live, it is basically three houses that have been knocked into two, so we have half of the other house that used to be here if that makes sense)

Last winter, we only had the one little one, and he was 1(ish) at the time, so when the weather became cold, we could keep the living room door shut, have a draught excluder on each door and have an electric halogen heater on constantly in the living room. This was sufficient at the time, as our son had no urge to be in and out of the living room. Now, obviously, the cute little innocent baby turned into a monster that spends all day running in and out of the living room, lol, so keeping him tied to the one room will not work, especially now he has his nearly 1 year old sister as they are a pair together! When you open the door between the diner and living room, the cold is just incredible. I think alot of this stems from the fact that there is a large hole in the wall under the sink for the pipe for the water to drain through, and the back porch is also not double glazed (I think the same applies for our kitchen window, too) We also have vents at regular intervals that sit just above the skirting boards, but I have managed to cover most of these, and intend to cover the rest in due course. Now you all know that oil is not cheap, last year, it was costing us up to £75 a week to fill the tank, which we simply cannot keep doing. I really do not know what to do, as I know I will not be able to keep my children in the living room all winter like I could do last year, so a small halogen heater in the living room will not cut it HELP!!

Hiya, again I'd say try asking this on the preparing for winter thread, loads of excellent ideas for blocking off holes etc. I would add that if you do run your boiler or any other type of fuel for that matter, blocking off vents could be dangerous. However you need to block the hole under the sink (I also have cold gales blowing under the units, where they meet the floor) - anyway, you'll get good answers on the other thread. It'll make your oil go much further.

DS

starnight_2

Hi ShaShaSha

Just wanted to say I'm glad you got your oil sorted and crisis laon was able to help.

Welshwoofs

woodbine wrote: »

I would seriously urge caution re:buying a portable calor gas heater,especially where there are young children,i once had the misfortune to see someone very very badly burned by one of these mobile death traps

Fireguard

Re the fumes, there are no noticeable fumes and we have carbon monoxide sensors in most rooms.

Granted they aren't for everyone, but I would't write them off as death traps when you can take the same simple precautions you'd make if you have a real fire.

daska

Zara33 wrote: »

Not sue if you are aware but your warm front link actually doesn't go to warm front it goes to another website I'm sure it was an oversight
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You're correct, it was an oversight, I've promised to make a birthday cake and someone else on the OS thread was asking about Twilight cakes so I went to have a look... OOPS! Fab cakes though!

ShaShaSha

Thanks everyone, oil got delivered today but the system needed bled - which it isnt doing so engineer coming tomorrow so cold night for us tonight