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Renting a flat with no central heating.

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  • System
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    Yolina wrote: »
    It's cheaper for developers not to bother putting gas in ;) My flat has gas, however all the more recent builds in my area, including some houses, don't.

    The flat that me and my ex bought had gas. It was built in 1980 and the flats - in blocks of 4 - 2 up, 2 down had their own entrances. The upper flats' entrances are at the rear. Only communal area was the ground floor flats shared the outside space to the side for keeping our bins sand drying our laundry.

    My current flat has no gas, the houses in my street do have gas. But the HA houses down the next street have heat source pumps too.
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  • davidmcn
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    Yolina wrote: »
    It's cheaper for developers not to bother putting gas in ;) My flat has gas, however all the more recent builds in my area, including some houses, don't.

    Also maybe some environmental brownie points in not installing gas nowadays (electricity at least has the potential to be from a renewable source, gas by definition isn't).
  • Pete9501
    Pete9501 Posts: 427 Forumite
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    There's no reason why flats shouldn't have gas. In fact I'd even want it for cooking, never mind heating.

    Oh I think there is:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Point
  • Pete9501
    Pete9501 Posts: 427 Forumite
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    davidmcn wrote: »
    Also maybe some environmental brownie points in not installing gas nowadays (electricity at least has the potential to be from a renewable source, gas by definition isn't).

    Has potential yes, but today 40% comes from coal and another 23% from burning gas to generate electricity

    http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    I spent a year in a place with storage heaters, etc. Gosh that was miserable! Every morning I'd wake up early as the room was stuffy and hot, every evening I'd get home to an icy flat. Horrible, horrible things.

    If you stay there, invest in a shedload of duvets, hot water bottles, etc as you'll want them in the winter evenings ;-)
  • robbies_gal
    robbies_gal Posts: 7,895 Forumite
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    dont do it! a friend of mine likved in a flat with storage heaters-in the winter it was so cold u had to wear jumpers in bed
    What goes around-comes around
  • hcb42
    hcb42 Posts: 5,962 Forumite
    I would walk away. Terrible heating and horrible hot water system!

    I had a flat just like that when I was 18 - in the 1980s!!
  • There will likely be a condensation issue on northern facing internal walls or on the inside of walls that face SW driving rain.
  • WattoS84
    WattoS84 Posts: 13 Forumite
    hcb42 wrote: »
    I would walk away. Terrible heating and horrible hot water system!

    I had a flat just like that when I was 18 - in the 1980s!!

    Not really what anyone wants to hear, but i have to agree :s sorry :eek:
  • We need to hear of they are storage heaters or just wall mounted electric radiators. I have the latter in a flat and it's fine. I hardly ever bother to heat water in immersion heater because I use so little - one of those by-the-sink things would be great.
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