How to live without heating - save £000s

HertsLad

That's correct. I will not be paying the standing charges.

subjecttocontract

I find a combination of solar panels, solar domestic hot water heating, a log burner and portable gas heaters using bottled gas costs me hardly anything in operating costs. Added to that I'm expecting £900 from UK Gov' + whatever the new PM decides to give me might mean I will make a profit.....

deano2099

Honestly, base layers are brilliant, relatively cheap and don't make you look like you're on a ski holiday. But not something we've ever got into the habit of wearing in the UK.

Sea_Shell

deano2099 said:

Honestly, base layers are brilliant, relatively cheap and don't make you look like you're on a ski holiday. But not something we've ever got into the habit of wearing in the UK.

Even the humble vest may make a comeback.   Worked for my grandparents 😉

Magnitio

Mstty said:

It doesn't work that well with UK construction especially red brick houses with west or south facing walls. They store the sun's heat during the day and release it during the night (massive storage heater on two sides of your house if you have both orientations)

Might paint the house white if this continues lol.

Due to the state of the brickwork on my house I had it rendered a couple of years ago. The white render has done a great job of reflecting the heat this summer and with blinds and windows shut during the day it has remained relatively cool (24 degrees inside when 30+ outside). The challenge is judging when to reopen the windows in the evening.

givememoney

I'm not going to shoot you down as others have here as you were trying to be helpful. At my age 74 I cannot go without heating in the cold weather with umpteen layers on as cold air on my face especially my nose feels very uncomfortable. I will try your advice on keeping legs warm as although I wear trousers, i will buy some thermal long John's.

badger09

Sea_Shell said:

deano2099 said:

Honestly, base layers are brilliant, relatively cheap and don't make you look like you're on a ski holiday. But not something we've ever got into the habit of wearing in the UK.

Even the humble vest may make a comeback.   Worked for my grandparents 😉

A vest I can cope with. 

As long as it isn’t the hand knitted, turquoise, bri nylon ones my mum made me wear in the early 1950s. I’m itching now, just thinking about them😡

But please, please, don’t make me wear a ‘liberty bodice’ (misnomer anyone?) with rubber buttons which were impossible to fasten/unfasten with frozen fingers😂

Ally_E.

Magnitio said:

Mstty said:

It doesn't work that well with UK construction especially red brick houses with west or south facing walls. They store the sun's heat during the day and release it during the night (massive storage heater on two sides of your house if you have both orientations)

Might paint the house white if this continues lol.

Due to the state of the brickwork on my house I had it rendered a couple of years ago. The white render has done a great job of reflecting the heat this summer and with blinds and windows shut during the day it has remained relatively cool (24 degrees inside when 30+ outside). The challenge is judging when to reopen the windows in the evening.

That's something I didn't think about. Our house is also mostly rendered and painted white and stays cool in the summer if we close all windows and blinds. It got to max 27 degrees on the day it was 40C in London. Our previous house would have been almost 40C inside with the blinds closed, but it just absorbed heat from the sun a lot. 

wild666

I use thermals in winter they keep the body warm plus I have 4 pairs of thermal jogging pants to go over the thermal under garments plus I put a T-shirt over the thermal vest plus a fleece dressing gown in winter.

brewerdave

HertsLad said:

That's correct. I will not be paying the standing charges.

Only just seen this reply . So you are paying £100s (possibly £1000s) to be disconnected from the grid??