Need to save money!

mizzbiz

Oh I don't think it's that cheap to put a stove in tbh. I think it's a grand to get it installed as gthis is what we were going to do and the cost put us off doing it at this moment.

Another one who has moved into an old victorian cottage. Luckily the old man who lived here before he died took advantage of all the insulation grants going so the house is pretty warm. Also has relatively new central heating so we are lucky. However, the place is costing a lot to do up and our fuel prices are being hiked in September :-( We can't do the three layers thing (which I would normally advocate, to my husband's disdain) as we have a baby coming in October - the worst time. So the house has to be hot.

We will be doing:

Secondary double glazing (from Wickes)
Thick, lined curtains
Hand-made (by me) sausage draft excluders made from old pillows.
Closing off half the house and just living in one side of it.

We also have (the best thing ever!!) a calor gas heater. It just gets wheeled in when it gets very cold and the room is toastie in no time and no surprise bills in the spring.

We are better off though. We moved from an electric only flat, flat roofed (so no insulation), top floor etc etc. It was perishingly cold (hence the calor heater) and cost a king's ransom to heat. We only ever heated one room.