My card meter was fitted and ut's eating my money...

tyllwyd

If you can see daylight through your front door, no wonder it is cold! I think you'd be justified talking to your landlord and asking him to fix it. We were asking a chippie the other day about the possibility of fitting a wooden front door to replace our upvc one, but he wasn't keen because he said he couldn't fit a wooden door that would be draftproof like a plastic one.

BTW, if the front door is that bad, are the windows in any better condition?

misspoppy

Hi I've just bought a halogen heater from ebay about £20 inc delivery, its very powerful on the lowest setting and instantly and they say costs about 3p/hour the only thing i don't like is that its very bright.

london_fox

my OH's mum has one of those Halaogen heater things. They are great and also can add some moody lighting in rooms (they use theirs in the Conservatory). Definitely worth the investment and they said theirs didn't use too much power.

GeorgeUK

Also - If the gaps you are talking about are in the actual panels of the door, you could use toothpaste (non-gel). Sounds odd, i know - but i've used that to plug nailholes in walls and is a cheap alternative to insultion foam. Once the toothpaste gets hard, no draught will get though. If you're worried about how it may look, you could try colouring it after it's dried.

trying-very-trying

misspoppy wrote: »

Hi I've just bought a halogen heater from ebay about £20 inc delivery, its very powerful on the lowest setting and instantly and they say costs about 3p/hour the only thing i don't like is that its very bright.

I have one of those halogen heaters as well, and they do give out a lot of heat for not a lot of money, . The one I have has 3elements, each one 400watts, I very rarely use all 3 elements. My one was a tenner out of poundstretcher, but I noticed that they now do an 800watt one, with just 2 elements, for about £6 or £7. My daughter also has one to top up the heating in her living room, rather than increase the gch.

floss2

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Sorry to hijak, but our new rental house has a boiler timer for the Centrl Heating and Hot Water. Central Heating is fine, but how long should I heat the hot water for? We have an electric shower so only need enough to wash hands, faces and the breakfast washing up.

Thanks Catt xx

I would reckon on about half an hour before you get up, and same before washing up at night.

Our heating/hotwater comes on 30m before the alarm, goes off the same time I go out, and comes on 30m before I'm due home, going of at bedtime. We have a 7-day timer though, which means we can set it differently for weekends. If DF is working from home in his attic, he has an oil-filled radiator with a thermostat to stop him from freezing!

Skint_Catt

floss2 wrote: »

I would reckon on about half an hour before you get up, and same before washing up at night.

Our heating/hotwater comes on 30m before the alarm, goes off the same time I go out, and comes on 30m before I'm due home, going of at bedtime. We have a 7-day timer though, which means we can set it differently for weekends. If DF is working from home in his attic, he has an oil-filled radiator with a thermostat to stop him from freezing!

Thank you! This si what I do pretty much at the moment - I just wondered if it only needed to be on for an hour each end and then would be fed from the already hot tank, but I guess not. Thank you