Avoid using GAS and ELECTRIC !

mardatha

...can you maybe, when you get time, tell us whats the worst shock ??....Getting worried now !

knittingnelly

Oh, Mardatha I am sorry, I didn't mean to spoil your day

I think the scariest bit is that on the front of this gizmo (better than 'thingie'? :rolleyes: ) there is a readout which shows the cost of your months electricity based on the amount of power you are using at that moment. Now at times today the gizmo had amounts up in the hundreds for our monthly usage :eek: (like nearly £500 at the point I started hyperventilating:eek:) Now I KNOW that that figure shows what your bill WOULD be if you were using at that rate 24 hours a day for a month - but - what frightened me was the fact that every time I looked at the damn thing it was showing more than our monthly DD, even during the daylight with me home alone and hardly anything switched on... just made me wonder/panic as to what will happen during higher use and after price rises. Sorry, haven't done anything to make you feel better have I? :grouphug: :coffee: There, have a hug and a coffee! There wasn't an icon for a wine glass!

Ceridwen I got it as a freebie for going over to Southern Electric's green tarriff but having seen it in action I would think it's probably worth buying as I can imagine it saving you quite a bit. Not angst though, just cash They cost £30 - £40.

fizzel81

i need a proper read up on this thread, house has been cold today, very different from where i was living last winter.

need to hang a curtain rail above the front door and source a nice thick winter curtain, i have a drafty wooden door and letter box is at bottom of door and it can make the stairs etc quite chilly

replace ds's duvet and use the old ones under sheets and source some cheap but large fleece blankets

when they hit the shops well primark the fleece all in ones are good for the boys pver pj's (and it keeps them warm) was also thinking of getting myself fleecey pj's

im going to try very hard to use as little gas/elec as poss, fleece also dries quite quickly so that would be handy washing wise, my gas bill was just short of 300 for 3 months!!! whereas elec only 60 odd, if i can get that gas down its going to be a bonus

on that note im off to bed, its warmer under the duvet

katieowl_2

fizzel81 wrote: »

i need a proper read up on this thread, house has been cold today, very different from where i was living last winter.

need to hang a curtain rail above the front door and source a nice thick winter curtain,

Use an old wooly blanket to line a door curtain ...and make sure it's longer than the door, then you can pop a draft excluder ontop to hold the whole thing down nice and snug.

Regards

Kate

mardatha

I think its a cunning ploy Nelly. By the end of the week you'll have totally unravelled and be so busy chewing cushions that you wont notice how much elect you're using. So they will get more money out of you! Some free gift ....:)

bertie2

I live in a Victorian flat and in out lounge the bay window measures 14foot by 14foot and they are single glazed sash windows.Consequently even though we have a coal fire the front room is freezing in the winter:eek: What I want to know is where can I get relatively inexpensive thermal curtain lining material so I can line all the curtains?

mardatha

I saw a shop on ebay selling it but I dont know what its like, I want some too.

domino

I am thinking of getting some thermal curtain lining from http://www.collybrook.co.uk/acatalog/Thermal_lining.html
at £3.90 per metre. Does this sound a reasonable price? I too have victorian sash windows that probably fitted their frames once. I am going to line my existing curtains aroiund the house with this and make some thermal lined austrian blinds for kitchen and bathroom windows. Goodness, it's freezing in July - what happens in January!! :eek:

[Deleted User]

The only upside to the cold weather in july is that we`ll be acclimatised by winter. I ordered some thermal underwear the other day. Cheaper than damart and they do childrens sizes.

http://www.britishthermals.com/?gclid=CMiRvLTNtJQCFROI1QodixLVTQ

[Deleted User]

thermal lining at £3.49

I didn`t look up p+p
http://www.candh.co.uk/Category-Thermal-Lining-FLNGFLTH/