Turning on the heat

Well, I've decided not to have my heating on until I have replaced the money I stupidly lost to a workman. Good job I don't have visitors . I wonder how long I can stick to it.

Oh no!
That's almost as if you have lost double the amount if you do that.

I don't believe anyone is actually criticising anyone else for being thrifty with their heating. I'm certainly not and am being careful about the temperature setting on the CH... and not wandering around in a T shirt as if I'm in the sub-tropics of California - like my two teenage grandsons...

I'm simply dismayed that in a comparatively wealthy country, so many people, both old and young, will have to economise with one of life's essentials - for some, to the detriment of their health.

Of course, we will all do what we have to do - but it shouldn't be like this.

Oh Dickens so with you on this! I have a father who wanders around his house looking like Steptoe bundled up in five layers because he refuses to light his Aga!

Mr PG insists that CH doesn’t go on until end of the month regardless …

Then there’s little me saying allow for the day, not the season…🤦‍♀️

The warmth that was held in walls, floors and flooring is rapidly disappearing, even in my insulated new build house. I think I have reached an uncomfortable temperature, which depends very much on the day, dull and rain seem to zap the temperature, the downside of patio doors and lots of windows

Looking at octopus charts today, much of the daily cost is fixed standing charge, cannot do anything about that

I use my electric blanket every night now and bedding has been changed to wool winter duvet with a welsh wool blanket on top, I am cosy all night but need to tweak the living room temperature. 19 is not enough for me now, it is true about feeling the cold as we age. Seeing the finger tips becoming white due to raynauds, it is a reality check

I am upping my downstairs thermostats by half a degree at a time from now, underfloor heating here so this will be for 24/7, it takes a very long time to change temperature

God help the poor and those who need to economise further, to try and get through the lack of winter fuel payment

^Looking at octopus charts today, much of the daily cost is fixed standing charge, cannot do anything about that
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I think fixed standing charges are a swindle. They may not be, but it feels like that to me.

I volunteer for a charity, I may have said before, half our electricity cost is the standing charge.

We dont use a broker for that specifically, but I have found that even brokers do not[or choose not to] work out accurate figures taking a standing charge into account. They seem to guess, and guess wrongly. They go more by daily rates, when a change in a standing charge can skew the end figure more than the change in daily rate.

Dickens

I don't believe anyone is actually criticising anyone else for being thrifty with their heating. I'm certainly not and am being careful about the temperature setting on the CH... and not wandering around in a T shirt as if I'm in the sub-tropics of California - like my two teenage grandsons...

I'm simply dismayed that in a comparatively wealthy country, so many people, both old and young, will have to economise with one of life's essentials - for some, to the detriment of their health.

Of course, we will all do what we have to do - but it shouldn't be like this.

we will all do what we have to do - but it shouldn't be like this

Indeed.

We're happily cosy with 2 large fireplaces - hold heat well.

That should everyone be cosy and content.