How to live without heating - save £000s

HertsLad

As reported on the radio, temperatures have suddenly dropped. Until this evening, I was doing OK with what I previously mentioned I was wearing. But tonight I realised I was starting to feel cold at home. When I looked at a thermometer downstairs, it indicated 6C probably due to an oversized air vent. Upstairs it is still 10C. So I added genuine down trousers and a second down jacket. Within a few minutes I was feeling perfectly warm again.  The down jackets are both from Millets shops, most recently priced at only £29 - an absolute bargain.  

wrf12345

House is below ten degrees this morning, which is noticeably colder than above (for me). Turned my halogen heater on for fifteen minutes (it is under my desk) just to warm up after my invigorating 6am cold water shower. Our glorious government has reinstated the WFP which arrived in my bank today but will try to hold off turning the gas back on at the meter until December, the £200 should let me run the CH for a few hours a day for three months (heating two of the four rooms in my detached bungalow) but also ordered a heated vest from Aliexpress for less than £20, which has a 90 day free return. Already have some battery banks. Just to cheer everyone up, we are about due for a severe winter based on past cycles but global warming may have changed things a bit, impossible to tell. Once I have had my two hot coffees and Keto-friendly high protein breakfast I will do 30-40 minutes on my cross-trainer, which gets me nicely warmed up.

kimwp

Re-following with interest as I've started volunteering at a dog shelter and there's no heating in the kennels- I was mostly sat for about four hours in snow weather last Wednesday and I was pretty cold. Base layer, thick sports t/-shirt, thermal long sleeve t/-shirt and thin fleece (plus scarf), leggings and jeans while I was inside, then gloves, hat, waterproof jacket when I was outside. I've put on quite a bit of weight since I was last needing to be outside in the cold, so need to get some better insulating clothes than the only ones that currently fit. I need to be able to be reasonably flexible (effectively sitting on the ground) and not noisy (to not freak out the dogs). I was looking at heated thermals, but there's so much choice and not enough convincing reviews. Any advice welcomed!

wrf12345

"I've put on quite a bit of weight since I was last needing to be outside in the cold"

You have an extra insulating layer of "fat", I am back to my teenage waistline (nearly 70) after fine-tuning my low carb diet that eliminates all the highly refined, carb laden food, which has the downside of feeling the cold more then before - you can't win, can you!

Swipe

kimwp said:

Re-following with interest as I've started volunteering at a dog shelter and there's no heating in the kennels- I was mostly sat for about four hours in snow weather last Wednesday and I was pretty cold. Base layer, thick sports t/-shirt, thermal long sleeve t/-shirt and thin fleece (plus scarf), leggings and jeans while I was inside, then gloves, hat, waterproof jacket when I was outside. I've put on quite a bit of weight since I was last needing to be outside in the cold, so need to get some better insulating clothes than the only ones that currently fit. I need to be able to be reasonably flexible (effectively sitting on the ground) and not noisy (to not freak out the dogs). I was looking at heated thermals, but there's so much choice and not enough convincing reviews. Any advice welcomed!

Do as the OP of this thread and wear two lots of cheap thermal base layers, top and bottom. Not restricting at all and will make the world of difference.

elsien

And completely off topic, now wondering what they do to keep the dogs warm. Because for some breeds their short fur is absolutely not enough.

Green_hopeful

@elsien i wondered about the poor dogs as well. I hope they are ok. 

kimwp

Green_hopeful said:

@elsien i wondered about the poor dogs as well. I hope they are ok. 

They do their best to keep the dogs ok, they have installed heaters since Iast week and provide covered dens inside their pens. It's still pretty cold for me, but the dogs don't seem to be cold - they happily lie stretched out on the concrete floors, even the shorter haired ones. It costs the owners £300-400 of their own money to re-home each dog, from Europe.

Eldi_Dos

kimwp said:

Green_hopeful said:

@elsien i wondered about the poor dogs as well. I hope they are ok. 

They do their best to keep the dogs ok, they have installed heaters since Iast week and provide covered dens inside their pens. It's still pretty cold for me, but the dogs don't seem to be cold - they happily lie stretched out on the concrete floors, even the shorter haired ones. It costs the owners £300-400 of their own money to re-home each dog, from Europe.

Hopefully they have raised beds and dry bedding for night time.

kimwp

Eldi_Dos said:

kimwp said:

Green_hopeful said:

@elsien i wondered about the poor dogs as well. I hope they are ok. 

They do their best to keep the dogs ok, they have installed heaters since Iast week and provide covered dens inside their pens. It's still pretty cold for me, but the dogs don't seem to be cold - they happily lie stretched out on the concrete floors, even the shorter haired ones. It costs the owners £300-400 of their own money to re-home each dog, from Europe.

Hopefully they have raised beds and dry bedding for night time.

Yes, they do.