How to live without heating - save £000s

Gerry1

givememoney said:

If you're connected to mains gas, you're looking at a cost of around 11.51p per kilowatt-hour. This means that if you have a 24 kW boiler, you can expect to pay around £2.76 per hour to run it on mains gas.

More likely to be 10.51p in London, and not 11.0p or above anywhere else.  It's unlikely to cost £2.76 every hour (or even £2.52) except when it's going flat out.  When the target temperature is reached it will modulate down or switch off for a while, so then you'll be using less.

Markc0011

is seriously hard to live without heating.
Whats interesting I've found a sequence of vids on youtube:
Like Canadians and how they cope. (-20C)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MzFWY5rc1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVkRaiTXX3U

Markc0011

another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t-TzPmmr7g
Suggests making a tent indoors!

Chrysalis

GaleSF63 said:

Chrysalis said:

2 pairs of socks.  One foot has thick wooly sock as outer layer, not found any for sale on the net as in 2022 the online clothing market is about think material cheap clothing.

Thick jogger bottoms.

Tshirt, jumper and cardigan type top available but currently only need tshirt and cardigan type top..

Plan to get some gloves, and have a wooly hat to wear as well if needed.

Room temp without heating and PC off (when in bed or not here) 13-14C, with PC on 15-16C.  No room heating used at all.

Get the knitting needles out.
Or try outdoor shops like George Fisher in Keswick. 
I remember the socks my mother used to knit for our walking boots. You needed a pair of boots 2 sizes bigger than normal to accommodate them! (It's possible we wore 2 pairs - I'm going back a bit.)

If you need to upsize the shoes/boots then you know you have a proper pair of socks.

Chrysalis

Markc0011 said:

another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t-TzPmmr7g
Suggests making a tent indoors!

Pretty good video.  He is right efficiency is about heating as little air mass as possible.

Mstty

Yes this post will only be viable for a small number in society but it's a good diary and some good info on thermal clothes that will be of use to lots of others right now.

However the instant hate towards the OP from the very start of this thread is just not acceptable. However a reflection on the keyboard warrior society.

Chrysalis

Mstty said:

Yes this post will only be viable for a small number in society but it's a good diary and some good info on thermal clothes that will be of use to lots of others right now.

However the instant hate towards the OP from the very start of this thread is just not acceptable. However a reflection on the keyboard warrior society.

Seen your post and checked a few random posts in older pages, I think the issue is many people have a mindset the whole house must be heated, I dont know if they fairly comfortable financially on a decent income so the costs arent a problem, or they have no problem having energy debt as long as it means they get their comfort.

I have respect for everyone's opinion, but i do agree some posts in the thread seem quite disrespectful.

Ironically looking at other parts of the net the idea of just heating your body, or just heating a room seems far more accepted, with those doing it admitting they doing it out of financial restrictions, one lady celebrating she topped up her gas for £30.

Whilst heating my entire home to 18-22C wouldnt cause me debt, I just find it so hard to justify spending £300 plus a month to do that, so I hope those who dont accept it at least do respect some of us dont want to or cant afford to be heating rooms we not using.  Let us discuss amongst ourselves with alternative ways of keeping ourselves at a healthy temperature in peace if you dont agree.  Thats my message to the MSE community on this.

Usually i dont even bother with heating but we gone from a swing of +4 over average temps from recent december's to -5 this december, so even i have succumbed to it, once temps go up by about 4-5 degrees (so room temp of 14C) I will be ok again.

Swipe

@HertsLad Internal temp check this morning? -7C outside here right now 

Sea_Shell

I hope the OP is OK, as they haven't logged in since the 9th.   

Max68

To be fair I have purchased several items after looking at this thread.  Two dressing gowns, curtains to go across doors , other items of clothing and it has helped to an extent.  Sainsbury do a fabulous men's dressing gown of which has been brilliant coupled with a throw in the evening.  In fact last night I ditched the throw at one point despite the room temp being 15c as I was starting to sweat!!  Problem is in temperatures such as these in my case it has to be used with some heating.  I can cope now with 17c, whereas in the past it would have to be up at 20 at least but when I get up and the house is 13.5c that's too low for me.  I'm surprised people can be comfortable at lower temperatures.  At this point I've used the heating sporadically and have used just over 433.3 kWh already this month, which is what I used in the entire month of November.  It's ticking over at one imperial unit a day whereas it was once every other day.  Once the outdoor temps get back to 7 or 8 I will cut down again.  I'm not looking forward to the bill and know eventually I will be in debt but I already had damp on one wall so can't afford even bigger bills to fix it so have no choice.  So debt to heat the home or debt to fix it, you really are damned if you do, damned if you don't.