I live in a house share with another girl who is the owner.
We filled the heating up with oil at the end of July and, without telling me so I was aware the bill was coming, got it filled again last week. I will say we have never had any problems before. We have got on well until today.
The problem:
She is a nightmare with the central heating. She is home 4 days a week and will leave the heating on max from 9am until 10/11pm. You come home and house is like a furnace. She walks around with no socks or slippers on in a thin t shirt and pyjama/lightweight tracksuit trousers.
I'm off work when she works and instead of putting the heating on I chose to buy heavy weight sweatpants, heavy weight jumpers and put my dressing gown on and use a blanket as necessary and at least wear thick socks. The radiator is turned off in my room most of the time as the heating pipes are in there and it's just unbarable to sit in there when she has had the heating on for a serious length of time- she knows this. It honestly gets that hot if I'm sat in the other lounge alone I open the window. When she comes in and I haven't had the heating on it goes straight on regardless of what time it is. I've managed to walk around without a jumper on today and she's put it on at 3 ffs. There was a time she would put it on before going to work but has stopped realising I turn it off as soon as she's out the door.
I don't disagree some heating is needed- but I think a couple of hours in the evening is sufficient. When I lived at home I had it on for maybe 4 hours a night.
The bill is nearly a grand and she asked me today to give her half. I've offered a third. She is going out so we haven't really spoken about it but she clearly thinks IBU.
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altctrldel · 12/02/2016 20:26
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