RANT. Five hundred fucking quid for one month energy and a husband who keeps putting the fucking heating on.

[IncompleteSenten]

£477 and some change. This month's gas and electric bill. It's normally up to fifty quid either side of 300 which is bad enough but this one fucking hurt! Yes this is each month, not quarter. Month. 31 days. For a little 3 bed semi.

My husband puts the heating on if you so much as blow in his fucking face. I've been begging him to put a fucking jumper on. I keep turning the heating off. He turns it back on.

I submitted the meter readings on the 1st as always and this month's bill is as above. Nearly 500 quid. I nearly cried. I finally got him to agree that we have to reduce our usage and to keep the heating off during the day after we got this bill. We've agreed it before after bills at the top end of 350 yet somehow it goes back to oh it was cold, oh the cat was cold, oh just for an hour... Then before I know it, the heating's back on to 30 all day and night .

I've bought everyone thermal long johns, furry slippers and those big blankets that are jumpers with hoods.

I turned the heating off this morning and he turned the fucker back on because - and I quote - "it's a bit cold".

Yes it's a bit cold, arseface. Put an extra layer on 🤬 and fucking deal with it!

I'll calm down of course but right now I'm so angry that my stomach feels like it's on fire. Yes I can pay it, we're very lucky in that respect I know. It's not that I can't find five hundred quid from anywhere, I can do some jiggery pokery and sort it, it's that I've got to pull five hundred quid out of my arse because mr neshbastard refuses to deal with a bit of a chill.

@aliceinanwonderland we're with Eon. It was £275 a month but they wrote to us and took it down in January. Gas and electric, standard gas heating with a 4 year old Worcestershire boiler. House is about 20 years old and we have an American style hot tub heated all year round.

Wow to some peoples bills. We pay £130 direct debit. Last month was £140 actual bill but we had some cold temps in Jan and heating was on more. we do run up credit. We are only two in 3 bed semi but he works from wfh.

We heat to 17/18 when on. We don’t scrimp on it but it’s usually clicks on and off totalling a few hours a day to keep to temp. We do wear a jumper, socks and have blankets of cold. I don’t like the dry air from overheating the house.

Back to @IncompleteSenten 30 degrees is bonkers! Your husband has had a long time to get used to temps. I do feel for your battle!

They could set it quite high at 21. My 90 year old grandmother is warm enough at that temperature, sitting still without a blanket. With an electric blanket, he wouldn't be shivering, and if he got up and moved around he wouldn't need it as warm as sitting still.

My ds is in a t-shirt and barefoot inside and the house is 16 with the heating on. It's not too warm as I'm in a jumper.

Bloody hell, we are in a thatched cottage, rural, no cavity walls etc and the most we have ever paid for heating (oil and electricity) is £250pm and we have it warm (around 19 degrees all day and 17 overnight).

I can’t fathom that cost at all.

Kids always seem to run hot. I'm talking about adults. My kids all went through the 'I don't need a jumper on' stage or refusing to wear a coat when it was snowing.

30 is mental. I end up sweating just when ours is on 18. But maybe that's my age 😄

He's 17

I'm the same. Cant stand being cold. Makes me feel ill and miserable. I also have a chronic condition which is more painful when I'm cold.
But ... 30 is ridiculously high! Mine sits around 18/19 in the day and is off at night.
Could you compromise: heating can go on but only up 21 or something like that?

Extra layers don’t compensate for a freezing house as a pp said. If my partner moaned about a bill we can afford, I’d tell him to piss off. Our heating is often on 24 degrees and we pay £400+ a month from octopus.

Hmm.. How's your house insulation? 30 to me screams that you are losing heat in the house massively somewhere, have you checked all doors/windows etc (please don't tell me he's also the type to open a window for some 'fresh air' WITH the heating on too?) Like, I get you live somewhere cold, and he'd originally from Africa, but I would be dripping with sweat constantly from 30 and I am q cold person! Reason I ask is that we've just had a new door, and the guy fitting it commented that we'd be much warmer because the old one had warped/gaps - it wasn't noticeable to us, and we'd just written it off as a cold area of the house... oh my god, it must be several degrees warmer across the whole room now its fitted, and I've gone from giving the heating a boost (to 21) 3 times a day to once!

No one is talking about a freezing house, just normal room temperature.

No one is talking about a freezing house, just normal room temperature.

If he’s cold, he’s cold.

That's ridiculous, I didn't even know 30 degrees was an option. It's so so unhealthy to live in that temperature, it's just breeding germs. Our total bill hasn't gone above £100 a month, and we're perfectly comfortable.

30 degrees? Bloody hell. Ours is set at about 13 to take the edge off the cold. We all have big fleecy hoodies and I've just bought a fleece electric over blanket. We have the heating on for abut an hour a day and the bill is till over £200, and its a 3 bed terrace but were open plan so not doors to keep heat in.

The cap isn't a cap on the bill it's a cap on the price of one unit

Not at 30 degrees. Most of East Africa doesn't even get that hot routinely.

He needs to see a doctor and also he needs to sort out a smart meter so he can watch himself waste money

Cold isn't freezing and if he feels cold at 21 or higher then he is not healthy and he needs to see a GP for a check up.

Good god I'd die living in that heat. 18 degrees here and that just for a quick blast early morning before we leave for work, then for a few hours in the evening. Even my elderly mum only puts it up to 21/22 degrees and I find her house unpleasantly warm. Quite aside from the cost I'd be fuming that he's imposing this on everyone else. Where does he base himself during the day at home? Can't you turn the radiators down in all other rooms so if he's insisting on mad temperatures, you're not all suffering?

Is 30 a typo 😳😳

Then before I know it, the heating's back on to 30 all day and night

30!! 😲. Are you in Alaska?

That's not how the cap works

I work in the sector and I try and explain it like milk for people who don't understand - let's say Asda decided to set the price of milk at £1 for 2 pints for an entire year. The price of 2 pints would stay at £1 for the whole year, but you could buy as much or as little as you need. So you don't get unlimited milk for a set price every month, you could still buy 4 or 6 pints or however much you need, but the price per pint wouldn't change.

I think you need to look at your CH setup, irrespective of whether one person prefers a warmer temp.

Do you have programmable room stats and at least 2 zones? Do the rads have thermostatic valves on?

With all of the above you should be able to control the heating temp in each room more efficiently, so maybe one area is at a higher temp to accommodate a family member being colder.

Turning the heating off and on, will allow the temp to drop in the house, meaning when the heating is on it will take longer, therefore cost more, to increase the temp.

I doubt the house every reached 30 degrees, I expect that is the temp the room stat is increased to and then the boiler works constantly to try and achieve that level, hence the cost.