I AM SO BLOODY COLD!!!!

[Cattermole]

And sad.
So. Won't go into details but in December the kitchen started to flood on a pretty much daily basis which has been partially dealt with, and is still coming in. (Much less. I THINK. Haven't had the same amount of rain so I don't know.)
We have a granite cottage the kitchen and dining room of which were saturated a week ago, and an industrial dehumidifier left by the insurance company belting out cold air. Our downstairs is open plan, so everything is cold.
I am sat here under a blanket shivering. There is no one I can talk to to sort it out because the people who need to finish the work aren't back till 4th January.
I want to cry, but DH and the Junior Engineer are already pretty bloody miserable too.
And a merry fucking Christmas to a certain statutory body who left it like this, too.

Go for outside for a min or a walk will feel warmer when you get back in, light a fire if you have one and get some hot chocolate inside you ( add a tipple if you aren't going anywhere). Get some thick socks on.

Hot drinks. And tuck everything in - tuck your vest into your knickers, and your trousers or pjs into your socks.

I'm right with you OP. My living room in like an icebox and I cant seem to warm it up. My house is only 12 years old aswell.

Doesnt help that I have massive patio doors in the living room and they are so shit they let in a draft.

Also I have a hot water bottle tucked under my arm from about Nov - March 😂

The heating has just come on (and I have thermal socks on with trousers tucked into em, AND have been out into the snow, so I am all winning!)

Hot Vimto.
Electric fan heater on in the living room, surrounded by cats.
Curtains drawn.
Big woolly jumper on.
Still frigging cold.

Roll on bloody Monday. I think prowling the house in the early hours checking the flood defences doesn't help.

(And thanks all. It's sort of nice to think there is an army of us out there in the dark, freezing our bits off.)

Can you get one room upstairs warm, with a plug in heater? Have you got functioning electricy I assume so because of the dehumidifiers? My sympathies, I have been flooded and know how bloody horrible it is living with the aftermath. Close the door on the noisy cold machines and concentrate on getting one room cosy with a TV or laptop etc. Move furniture to get a comfortable area set up.

As you have already discovered this can go on for some time, drying seems to take forever. But it does eventually. Take each stage as it comes, try not to get overwhelmed by thinking of what needs to happen all at once.

When I can’t shake the cold, I tend to have to have a hot bath/shower, then put all the cosy clothes on. Then hot water bottle, blanket and a cup of something hot!
Hopefully youll warm up soon!

@Noflora I must admit I'm finding it really hard - it feels like a burglary. It's the fact that it keeps bloody happening!!!! and there is no end to it in sight! As fast as one thing gets fixed it seems to pop in somewhere else - I'm guessing because it was let to go on for so long by the agency concerned, that it's caused some damage to the body of the house.

But we live in hope.....