Living alone, is a £150 annual heating budget possible?

sniggings

no idea of the heating affect from houses next door, my guess is you probably may not gain much heat but you are probably not losing much either.

I know my outside walls are cold in the winter, if there were houses both sides I'm sure that would reduce my heating bill.

teddysmum

sniggings wrote: »

no idea of the heating affect from houses next door, my guess is you probably may not gain much heat but you are probably not losing much either.

I am thinking the same as you.


Another item to add to the list of other possibly unthought of costs,didn't include hot water for floors and other cleaning.

Andrew_Cottrell

berbastrike wrote: »

Living alone, is a £150 annual heating budget possible?

I know this is low... but could it be done?

It can be done if you use gas for heating:

For the period: 2 July 2013 to 1 July 2014
Your gas usage summary: 1,093.21 kWh
Your total costs were: £59.28

The figures above include heating, hot water, and gas hob. It was on the Ebico tariff, in a two bed mid-terrace house, with gas central heating, double glazing, and loft insulation. I had set the heating at 16°C to come on for a couple of hours in the mornings and evenings (weekdays), and all day (weekends).

MABLE

berbastrike wrote: »

I know this is low... but could it be done?

I'm thinking of not using any gas, only electrical heaters. 2 rooms a day in winter, 500w heating, 8 hours, = 8kw - around a £1.

£30 a month for November - March. Heating not really needed for the other months as can wear jumpers etc, doesn't really bother me!


Am I dreaming?

Dreaming you say. You are in cuckoo land. By not heating the house adequately can cause a lot of problems for the house and in the end will cost you more.

PlymouthMaid

16C brrrr

Andrew_Cottrell

PlymouthMaid wrote: »

16C brrrr

16°C is fine if you're wearing suitable clothes. At that temperature I wear thermal long pants & vest under my normal clothes.

MABLE

PlymouthMaid wrote: »

16C brrrr

You janners have it made.

Andrew_Cottrell

MABLE wrote: »

By not heating the house adequately can cause a lot of problems for the house and in the end will cost you more.

Do you have a reference for what temperatures might cause problems with a house? Obviously below 8°C will cause problems, but could there be problems above 8°C?

Hoof_Hearted

One possibility is to have an open fire/wood burner and collect your own wood. I scavenge about a third of our wood burner's consumption just by picking up logs in the woods and asking to take the debris when somebody is having a new fence installed. Skips are w0rth keeping an eye on, too, for pallets. Every bit of scrap wood I see is free heat.

lstar337

Andrew_Cottrell wrote: »

It can be done if you use gas for heating:

For the period: 2 July 2013 to 1 July 2014
Your gas usage summary: 1,093.21 kWh
Your total costs were: £59.28

The figures above include heating, hot water, and gas hob. It was on the Ebico tariff, in a two bed mid-terrace house, with gas central heating, double glazing, and loft insulation. I had set the heating at 16°C to come on for a couple of hours in the mornings and evenings (weekdays), and all day (weekends).

Would be interesting to see if you could maintain such low costs in a year where we actually had a winter.

I take it you are on a NSC tariff?