Help! I am in Fuel Poverty.

ash28

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Our living room is heated to about 18 degrees in the winter. The bedrooms a bit less - I don't think heated bedrooms are very healthy, better to have a cooler room and a warmer duvet.

My mother, OTOH, reluctantly puts the heating on if the inside temp falls to below 13 degrees.

I have a sister a bit like your mother. If we stay with her during the winter (north east coast) I'm sure it's sometimes colder inside than it is outside.

And the heating has a set time to go on regardless of the temperature - ie, between 6:30pm and 9:00pm - we don't often stay with them during the winter. It's like being in our garage.

I've often thought about getting a "big slipper" a la the Sunday tabloid adverts and the Billy Connolly sketch nd one of those big blankets with sleeves in, especially for winter visits. I haven't quite got the nerve.

PasturesNew

We can't afford to heat our rooms to the modern day Celsius standards... we're still having to heat ours in Fahrenheit!

neverdespairgirl

ash28 wrote: »

I have a sister a bit like your mother. If we stay with her during the winter (north east coast) I'm sure it's sometimes colder inside than it is outside.

And the heating has a set time to go on regardless of the temperature - ie, between 6:30pm and 9:00pm - we don't often stay with them during the winter. It's like being in our garage.

I've often thought about getting a "big slipper" a la the Sunday tabloid adverts and the Billy Connolly sketch nd one of those big blankets with sleeves in, especially for winter visits. I haven't quite got the nerve.

My mother says things such as, "of course we can't put the heating on - it's April!" as if the temperature is an illusion.

My parents do have those blankets with sleeves on, though.....

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My mother says things such as, "of course we can't put the heating on - it's April!" as if the temperature is an illusion.

My parents do have those blankets with sleeves on, though.....

Oct-April (I think) is the only time you get your heating on in Northern italy. (which is not a warm place through winter).

Running out of oil this winter was not fun, and I like a cold house. By cold I mean, I expect not to have heating on 24/7 ever, and quite like ice on the inside of windows in the morning, but expect it to defrost during the day. The several days of frozen loo even when the heating has been on is not fun, so is too cold to dry washing and having run out of clean clothes. I don't mind haddling up in a duvet (I don't have a blanket with sleeves) in the house, but like it to be warm enough to do other than that if I so choose, even if wearing layers.

This time we are approaching it with no heating other than the slightly dodgy woodburner. We're hopoing to have some heating in in time, but schedules are totally to pot now. I'm having insulation down first week in August I hope.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Oct-April (I think) is the only time you get your heating on in Northern italy. (which is not a warm place through winter).


This time we are approaching it with no heating other than the slightly dodgy woodburner. We're hopoing to have some heating in in time, but schedules are totally to pot now. I'm having insulation down first week in August I hope.

I feel for you but it could be milder this coming one.

The one good thing about living in our house again is it is warm in winter without having heating on all the time and the lagged loft massively helped so we don't have our radiator on at all in our room even when it was icy cold.

The biggest creator of fuel poverty in our household is a 17 yr old and 24 yr old who expect to wander about in shorts and tees even when there is snow on the ground outside.
Does anyone else have this problem? They just don't 'get ' putting on jumpers indoors to keep warm. Must be our fault somehwere down the line but I can't think what we did.
Maybe son hasn't recovered from our 1st house which had no heating and he went to bed from aged 3 -7 in a cute little itchy arran knit during winter and woke up to ice inside the windows.

jimjames

Blacklight wrote: »

08/10 inclusive = 36 months
£4,862/36 = £135/m

Except LM says it is £4862 on average PER year.

That is a huge amount, are you heating the whole of your village? Ours is £130pm for large detached property

iB1

MacMickster wrote: »

Thanks for this and will do.

I'm a bit surprised that he didn't know about this already. I'm now worried that he is actually hacking the Pentagon while pretending to study (so baseball bat may still be required).

He is part of Anonymous or Lulzsec and I claim my £5!

wageslave

A subject close to my heart.

I read about the rise in leccy/gas prices and went into a panic. You can all boast until the cows come home about the ice inside your windows but I have two small children who need to be kept bliddy warm

I have been looking into running the central heating from a wood burner.

I dont have an indoor swimming pool.

ash28

jimjames wrote: »

Except LM says it is £4862 on average PER year.

That is a huge amount, are you heating the whole of your village? Ours is £130pm for large detached property

We seem to be between LM and you with bills that are £250 a month - we have a large detached house. The heating is set to all day - on at 6am and off at 11pm - the temperature dictates how long the heating runs - it's set to about 17 degrees during the day and 20 degrees in the evening in the winter and left at about 17 in the summer. If the temp drops below 17 the heating will kick in. We also have a gas fire to supplement the central heating.

Thats an all year setting and it's interesting that in the glorious summer we are having the heating has been coming on during some evenings. It was so cold one evening last week not only did the heating come on but we put the fire on. We have a great duvet - the sort where they press stud together - we still have them press studded together and it's July.

My sister, mentioned in an earlier post, who runs her heating for about 1.5 hours a day and switches everything off at the wall, lives in a 3 bed semi - it's a good sized sized house with big rooms - has bills of £65 a month and nearly passed out in shock when she found out what we paid.

It's LM's swimming pool that's the killer (I wish it was a problem we had) - we have friend with one and OH helped him put in solar heating for it a couple of years ago.

ash28

wageslave wrote: »

A subject close to my heart.

I read about the rise in leccy/gas prices and went into a panic. You can all boast until the cows come home about the ice inside your windows but I have two small children who need to be kept bliddy warm

I have been looking into running the central heating from a wood burner.

I dont have an indoor swimming pool.

When ours were small we lived in Scotland and most children (including ours) went to bed in the winter in something called a sleep suit - worn over pyjamas or babygros. It was a fleece like suit with feet - great for bed and much better than a dressing gown in the mornings - it kept them warm if they threw off the covers.