Help please as I’m panicking

MrsStepford

skogar said:

If just you then it may be possible to mainly heat 1 room and it may be possible for you to sleep in the same room.

Please don't do this with a gas fire. you could die with carbon monoxide poisoning.while asleep
Check with letting agent or Shelter or Citizens Advice as if you have a gas boiler and/or gas fire, then IIRC landlord has to pay for annual service and safety checks. Servicing should improve efficiency and if boiler and/or gas fire are obsolete, you might get new more fuel efficient ones at no cost to you.

Have you raised damp with landlord ? First house we rented developed damp and landlord had the outside sprayed, which stopped it.. 

brianposter

The first requirement is to know why "the house has a damp problem".

Is this anything to do with the fish tanks ?

Toomuchdebt

Tranboy said:

What is it with people making multiple posts on exactly the same subject.

same exact postings 14 minutes apart.....attention seeking..?

No I posted in 3 separate places and apologised for doing so but I know not everyone checks the same boards and people from debt free would have different advice to those from old style and energy.  Not attention seeking at all just following the advice of someone who advised 2 other boards to post on. And as I was posting from my phone it was easier to copy and paste than write a whole new post. If you have a problem with that please feel free to ignore my posts. 

Toomuchdebt

Just popped on quickly to say thank you to ( almost) everyone and I will try and go through the replies later this evening when I’m on the computer. My phone isn’t letting me quote anyone so it’s really hard to reply to individual comments. 

Didn’t want anyone to think I was being rude and ignoring all the replies. 

Also decided to do things that need good light such as my knitting in the day so I don’t need to put the light on so I will be back here later. 

Carrot007

Tranboy said:

A person I worked with a few years back asked me why her electricity bill was so high, eventually we found it to be a 400 watt pond pump in the back garden running 24/7.

I assume from the 400w that this was more a lake than a pond. Or from the 60's.

Tranboy

4000 litres approximately and circa 1995.

Carrot007

Tranboy said:

4000 litres approximately and circa 1995.

Ahh be the age then I guess. Mine is a 4000 litre one and 15w including the 7w internal filter tube.

I guess everything has got better!

Tranboy

If you'd care to google 400 watt pond pump you will see models from Yamitsu and Waldbeck nemesis that use that power today. The ponds in question ran uphill in a sloped garden so needed a good head of water to pump uphill to the top pond which then cascaded downhill into two linked ponds via small waterfalls.

Mstty

Tranboy said:

If you'd care to google 400 watt pond pump you will see models from Yamitsu and Waldbeck nemesis that use that power today. The ponds in question ran uphill in a sloped garden so needed a good head of water to pump uphill to the top pond which then cascaded downhill into two linked ponds via small waterfalls.

On 24 hours a day over 3500 kWh so that's roughly £1000 to run all year 🤣🤣🤣

Tranboy

Don't forget we are talking electricity prices in the early 1990's...mars bars were 25p... £3 for a packet of fags...average electricity bill was £350 and prior to 1995  there was no vat charged.