My journey to a debt free life

Humdinger1

foxgloves said:

So sorry to hear about your heating, OBL. Honestly, don't heating systems just always pick a cold snap for going sick? Just typical. Hope the problem is somewhere accessible. Fingers crossed here for you.
I'm sure you're already doing this, but don't underestimate the warming powers of a hot water bottle tucked up behind your back when you're on the sofa under a blanket. 
Hope it gets fixed soon. 
F x

Ooh yes; addicted to the hot Warty, as it's known here!  The cosiness is unbelievable.  Agree re systems packing up when most needed. The companies selling emergency insurance never have enough people I find....keep going OBL, you're doing fabulously well.  Love Humdinger x 

amber03

Usually if you have no heating in winter you are treated as a priority. Maybe there are a lot of people who have no heating in your area. On Xmas eve our central heating kept tripping our electrics. Thankfully a friends dad has his own company ( and did put us in a new boiler 2 years ago). So quickly rang him for advice. He told us of a quick fix so we didn’t have to call one of his engineers out and be landed with a big bill. Have now found what the problem was and have been able to fix it ourselves. Hope you are sorted out and have heating soon.xx

Cherryfudge

Another option to take the edge off the cold is to use a slow cooker, either with food in or heating water. They are supposed to be very cheap to run, but I don't know how far the heat spreads.

I also ran an empty oven when starting to clear my parents' house and the gas boiler wasn't working.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Sorry about your lack of heating OBL. Do you have no hot water either? Our boiler packed up once and we couldn't afford a new one for two months . Luckily it was the summer but cold showers were the worst! At the moment we only have the heating on for an hour in the morning if it's really cold and occasionally for an hour in the evening if our hands start to go numb (to save money of course), but I would feel awful without a hot shower!

It's good news that you can trial shorter hours at work by the way.

amber03

Cold showers and baths are all the fashion now, supposed to be good for the skin and mind.xx

HairyHandofDartmoor

amber03 said:

Cold showers and baths are all the fashion now, supposed to be good for the skin and mind.xx

They weren't good for my mind Amber as hot showers relax me, but I'd come out of the cold showers feeling really tense and grumpy  😂.

Onebrokelady

The boiler saga continues. The leak was very efficiently found and fixed on Wednesday and it was under the kitchen floor luckily, they were still here for three hours though 🙀 it worked until Friday afternoon and then the boiler packed up again 😟the original guy came out and tried to fix it but it's got so many faults he has advised me it's not worth repairing so I have got to have a new one fitted 😫😫 it is old now and a very cheap boiler with a bad reputation for being unreliable so I think I'm actually lucky it's limped along until now. They are hopefully going to send me a quote on Monday and then look to see if they can fit me in, they are very busy at the moment so I might have to wait for a bit,fingers crossed it will be soon. This house is very damp if it's not heated during the colder months. I keep having to wipe the front door down because of the amount of condensation running down the door,the door mat was soaked 😟

I am so lucky to have an electric shower so I can have at least have a hot shower. The problem with getting cold is it sets off my pain and then I have trouble getting it back under control. The house will be spotless though because I'm keeping myself warm by cleaning all the time 😂😂, it's getting the washing dry that's the main challenge at the moment, both of us have uniforms that need to be washed and dried for a quick turn around so that's a pain in the bum but we will get sorted eventually 

Onebrokelady

HairyHandofDartmoor said:

Sorry about your lack of heating OBL. Do you have no hot water either? Our boiler packed up once and we couldn't afford a new one for two months . Luckily it was the summer but cold showers were the worst! At the moment we only have the heating on for an hour in the morning if it's really cold and occasionally for an hour in the evening if our hands start to go numb (to save money of course), but I would feel awful without a hot shower!

It's good news that you can trial shorter hours at work by the way.

Thanks Hairy I do have an electric shower so can at least have a hot shower. I need a hot shower when I get home from work and it helps with my pain levels too 😊

Onebrokelady

amber03 said:

Cold showers and baths are all the fashion now, supposed to be good for the skin and mind.xx

They aren't good for me when I'm in pain all the time !

Onebrokelady

badmemory said:

When my heating boiler went terminal in late November I only had one fan heater & the oven.  I was totally wasteful and had the oven on with the door open, cooking nothing.

The boiler wasn't really terminal but was going to cost so much to repair & could have gone with something else the next week that a new boiler seemed sensible.  At least people don't burst out laughing at the make of my new one like they did with the old.

I did this one day last week,it was so cold in my kitchen and my hands were hurting so much i stuck the oven on and left the door open it was bliss 😀that's what I've now been advised to do,yours wasn't a Glow-Worm by any chance was it, everyone makes funny noises and starts scratching their chin whenever I tell them the make of my boiler 😀