Please can anyone offer advice on my SOA?

rising_from_the_ashes

determinedchrissy wrote: »

It's quite possibly more :eek: particularly in the winter. Haven't had the heating on now for a couple of months, but have managed to find a cheaper oil supplier, saving me about £100 per tank (usually get 1/2 tank every 2-3 months at £350 a time)

paulmapp8306 wrote: »

Oh - Oil. I think thats a little high TBH. I use oil, and while prices do fluctuate - I heat my 4 bed semi - which has gaps under and around doors and windows, no cavity wall and poor loft insulation (its a forces home). I use around 1600 Ltrs/year which costs around £90/month.

Re the oil, yup, I'd have a check you've not got radiators etc on in rooms not used / hot water not left on for hours etc

I used to have oil in my old house and got through around 1000L / year, which I believe would be shouldn't be more than £700 / year at today's prices (happy to be corrected) and is a much more reasonable £60ish / month.

rising_from_the_ashes

determinedchrissy wrote: »

Heating is on as low as possible - OH has just fitted a wall thermostat and it's currently set at 15 degrees, so it's barely on. We live in an old stone built house - so no cavity insulation but the roof space is insulated to the hilt. We probbly use 2500 - 3000 litres per year. The boiler is probably not as efficient as it could be but replacing it is not high on my list of priorites right now

Sorry you must've posted when I was typing:)

Is the thermostat set at 15 deg and the radiators on in all the rooms?

Ideally, you want to have rooms not used / little used set at frost protection on the radiators themselves and turn them up / down as needed - eg in winter, I put my bathroom radiator on 1/2 an hour before a bath & shut the door so the room's warm & then turn back to frost afterwards, the bedroom ones are never on above frost protection (healthier to have a cool bedroom & can easily add an extra duvet if needed etc).

The only ones regularly on above frost are the hall - as it distributes heat throughout the house to stop everything getting too cold - and the lounge where we sit in the evenings.

PS - my house honestly isn't like an ice-box! HTH

Pips_Mum

determinedchrissy wrote: »

Had thought about calling Sky's bluff re: cancelling the contract, but the telephoneland line is through them too - what's the chances that they would accept my cancellation rather than offering me a free upgrade?

Helloo!

My OH rang Sky at the weekend and said we couldnt afford to pay for it anymore (genuinely true) and were thinking of going to Virgin as they were cheapers, was there anything they could do. When she looked she saw we never use the landline so managed to reduce it from £17 to £3!!!! :T It will revert back to higher after a year but hey thats a year away. Overall its reduced from £57 a month to £30.

Give it a go, you dont have anything to lose really.

determinedchrissy

Pips_Mum wrote: »

Helloo!

My OH rang Sky at the weekend and said we couldnt afford to pay for it anymore (genuinely true) and were thinking of going to Virgin as they were cheapers, was there anything they could do. When she looked she saw we never use the landline so managed to reduce it from £17 to £3!!!! :T It will revert back to higher after a year but hey thats a year away. Overall its reduced from £57 a month to £30.

Give it a go, you dont have anything to lose really.

Wow, that's great - did they change your landline to a 'lite' type tarriff? We had that once with BT years ago but they changed it when we got broadband. We now have broadband through orange, so don't know if we need the sky landline for this?

determinedchrissy

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Sorry you must've posted when I was typing:)

Is the thermostat set at 15 deg and the radiators on in all the rooms?

Ideally, you want to have rooms not used / little used set at frost protection on the radiators themselves and turn them up / down as needed - eg in winter, I put my bathroom radiator on 1/2 an hour before a bath & shut the door so the room's warm & then turn back to frost afterwards, the bedroom ones are never on above frost protection (healthier to have a cool bedroom & can easily add an extra duvet if needed etc).

The only ones regularly on above frost are the hall - as it distributes heat throughout the house to stop everything getting too cold - and the lounge where we sit in the evenings.

PS - my house honestly isn't like an ice-box! HTH

Heating only set to come on for an hour in the morning and a couple of hours at night (when it drops below 15 degrees lol!) I'd like to think that the thermostats are turned down on the radiators in all but the living room, but I know for a fact that they aren't <sneaks out to turn them all down> :doh: