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Renting a flat with no central heating.
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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.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
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).0 -
jbainbridge wrote: »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_Point0 -
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/0 -
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 ;-)0 -
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 bedWhat goes around-comes around0
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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!!0 -
There will likely be a condensation issue on northern facing internal walls or on the inside of walls that face SW driving rain.0
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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.0
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