To hate people going on about how beautiful my house is

[DyslexicScientist]

When its absolutely freezing inside, costs a fortune to heat and its still not particularly warm or comfortable! This is for about half the year. I've done lots that I can do but it is listed.

I dream of building a modern but boring house. I've packed my suitcase and am staying in my friends modern house this weekend and I'm really looking forward to it.

Anyone else suffering in an old house and having to deal with people just commenting on how nice it looks despite bing very impractical?

I wanted to buy a beautiful Victorian house, but didn't because I knew it would be so cold all the time. I definitely want to feel comfortable in my own home. I bought a 1930s house, put in cavity insulation and double glazing. Carpets help too.

FGS I'd love a daughter excluder....esp a teen daughter excluder.
However I made our draught excluder 'sammy snake' many years ago.
They are really easy - buy a piece of thickish material you like, fold it over in a door long sausage shape and sew along one side and across one end (inside out), turn it the right way round and stuff it with cut up old clothes etc (my mum used to keep old tights for filling things - I don't wear them so don't have any!) pack it really well and then sew up the end...
(Sammy is more complicated than that -made from some fabric offcuts my mum had hanging around - he is two tone -has a blue belly and vintage red/pink floral back 1970s ish - and he is vaguely fat snake shaped and has eyes and a crochet red forked tongue... made pre DC when I had time to faff - and was actually for the slug infested Victorian rented house...now it would be plain and boring... )

I must be going wrong somewhere. My bedsit is old, damp, old, freezing, old, and filled with character and massive fucking spiders.

But nobody ever says to me "Oh, your bedsit is so beautiful"

They say "Christ, it's fucking freezing in here. Can't you turn the heating on? It's already on?! Jesus. Yeah I'd love a cuppa. And a blanket. This blanket smells a bit like dog. Oh, I see... Yeah in that case pass me the dog too. Thanks. Oh, yeah, you're right, she does function a bit like a hot water bottle...

... Did you know you've got damp problem?"

If you are really skint then you can make portable heaters with two terracotta flower pots and a tea light. They provide a remarkable amount of heat.

Confess I have a sausage dog though non floral and a sheep as draught excluders. Only prob is JRT regards them as a toy.

Border
I lived in a bedsit and I ever it had an old and highly dangerous gas fire - but god it warmed a room up

U need humidifier

Apologise if this has been suggested but here's what I'd do:-

Get some of that draught excluder tape (most diy shops have it) and go round the seals of your windows and doors/particularly where you feel a draught.

Put a draught excluder at the bottom of all outside doors.

Keep heating permanently on at 18 degs, if you want to turn it down at night, go no lower than 16.

Keep all doors closed in rooms that are usually cold and keep the doors open of the warmer rooms.

If you can, get some cheap-to-run electric heaters and use these sparingly in the coldest rooms when it's ffffffreezing.

Get big thick rugs on all floors.

Always wear socks.

My house is very a old, single brick, converted outbuilding, so we're in the eaves. It's single glazed as well. It's always pleasantly warm here now, after doing all of the above. Used to be freezing. Energy bills haven't increased either (but do keep an eye on this, if you alter your heating as above).

Good luck.

Why are there no photos yet? We need photos!

BorderTerrierControl my friends say that about my house too! I never ever seem to live in a warm house!!

Last week I spent 3 hours at my neighbours. She has an aga on in the kitchen, the heating on full blast, a calor gas fire and a wood burning stove both on in the lounge and I was still freezing and sat in my fleece and had a cold nose when I got home. She says her gas bill is over £2000 a year and she buys a ton of logs every two weeks!

Her house isn't even beautiful. We live next door in an 80s house built in what used the be her field and are lovely and warm.

I can cope with the limitations of living in a listed building, the cold, the draughts, the slugs, the windows that are gappy in the summer but need brut force applied (carefully, lots of small panes of glass) to open them in the winter to allow the rooms to breathe (some idiot had the place painted about a hundred years ago, and then it was listed so we can't change it), the winter gas bill and the stupidly high electricity bill from running dehumidifiers constantly... it's the ramblers knocking on the door to ask about the history of the place that annoys me! I've even had people asking me 'oh, do you live here'? when I've been hanging out washing or watering the garden. Give me draughts and slugs over nosey ramblers any day.

2 words: Thermal underwear. It works

Or try getting fucking menopausal then see how often you feel cold.