Cold winter weather and property

dizziblonde

Barneysmom wrote: »

No, don't look at the gas meter

Hubby works for the utility company so he just gets it in the neck when the bill comes in... anyway - we're paying his own wage in some stupidly bizarre way so we come out in net profit I guess!

Henry_Hoover_2

Ours is an apartment in a converted factory. Built 1800 ish. High ceilings, and GCH. Takes ages to warm up! The windows have secondary glazing, but still cold.

I have noticed it is a lot colder this year, and we have wooden floor. Last year, it was carpeted.

AlleyCat_2

Thought I'd add to this conversation:


Living in a 1920's built detached property, its always cold but that may be due to the fact that we have, in no particular order:

• solid walls so cavity insulation is not an option,
• single glazing (with mostly useless secondary glazing in some of the windows)
• an ancient boiler
• 'gappy' doors
• damp/ condensation/ wet walls

have just had the loft insulation re-done and the guy that came round to do it suggested we put in Celotex boards in the sides of the roof (it slopes quite far down the 2 sides of the property) in addition to which I am looking into replacing the ancient boiler, and am currently getting quotes for double glazing to replace the secondary glazing that's there now - PHEW!

All of that is adding up to ££££ :eek:but whatever we can get done via grants for the elderly (its my mum's house who's retired) we are, though most of the grant-type schemes run by the government seem to have now run out of funding so happy times (!) trawling the net looking for similar things - thank goodness for sites like this one I say :T

lyndasharp

We're currently in a 1980s end terrace, 3 bed, with basic loft insulation, cavity wall insulation and new combi boiler. Our combined gas and electric now cost £36 per month, and it's lovely and warm :-)

jonewer

Currently live in a 4 bed property of victwardian vintage but with half the upstairs and the kitchen being new extensions.

Main problem is the damned cat wont use the catflap so it has to be open permanently. Its pretty cosy otherwise though theres about a 4 foot gap beneath the kitchen floor and the ground, creating a cellar of sorts. Problem is the floor is not insulated so its beastly cold!

Insulating the kitchen floor is the must-do project for this summer.

Soot2006

I have an ex council house, two bedroom. The little old lady who owned it before us had lived here since it was built and took advantage of every government grant going ... so more insulation that you can imagine. We're always the last house in the area with snow sitting on the roof ... Takes about 60 min of heating on to get the whole house to 20 degrees and takes it hours to cool down again. Windows have to be opened every day, though, as there is no air in the house otherwise. When we moved in we installed a combi boiler that's cheap as chips to run.

mr_rush

Currently living in a ground floor church conversion. Bloody freezing! Very expensive to heat.
Looking forward to moving into our 'new' Edwardian mid-terrace. Amazingly the last owners have done an excellent job of insulating it - double glazed windows, combi-boiler. Good loft insulation. Very warm after 30min of heating on.

Norma_Desmond

Our house was built 200 years ago, and is big and rambling with 2.5 foot thick stone walls and stands alone on the moors of north Pembrokeshire overlooking the sea.
We have about 1.5 feet of insulation in the loft but single glazed wooden sash windows and (obviously!) no cavity wall insulation.

We do have central heating (combi) and 2 log burners downstairs.

We have flagstones on the ground floor as we couldn't bear to cover them with carpet (but lots of big cosy rugs).

Cold? What do you think?!

Mind you, it's gorgeous and cool in the summer.

I wouldn't swap it for anything though; best buy we ever made.

jonewer

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

Our house was built 200 years ago, and is big and rambling with 2.5 foot thick stone walls and stands alone on the moors of north Pembrokeshire overlooking the sea.
We have about 1.5 feet of insulation in the loft but single glazed wooden sash windows and (obviously!) no cavity wall insulation.

We do have central heating (combi) and 2 log burners downstairs.

We have flagstones on the ground floor as we couldn't bear to cover them with carpet (but lots of big cosy rugs).

Cold? What do you think?!

Mind you, it's gorgeous and cool in the summer.

I wouldn't swap it for anything though; best buy we ever made.

I want. Your house. Gimme gimme gimme.

Norma_Desmond

jonewer wrote: »

I want. Your house. Gimme gimme gimme.

No chance!

And you wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes this past winter .

We're used to it now!