Housemates won't put the heating on

[JennyWirral]

I'm sat here bloody freezing here because my housemates won't put the central heating on.. Apparently it's too much money.

I live in a house with 3 other housemates

Actually it's worse than that.. someone has physically sabotaged the settings unit of the boiler...

An eclectic heater! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If you're going for the heater, get your mum to bring it round inside a large suitcase. Don't let on you have it!

Can sort of understand the heating and that conversations need t be had on when it’s on and for how long

no hotel water and a damaged thermostat feck that and report to your landlord asap

Showering at the gym is fine if you have gym membership but it’s ridiculous to not even put the boiler on for one hour in the morning each day.

Just the act of washing your hands in cold water after using the toilet is tough if you’re someone who really feels the cold.

You shouldn’t really get a blow heater as they are expensive to run.

Call a meeting with your housemates to discuss properly and rationally. Have you got electric and/or gas meters installed? Or a Smart Meter (I wouldn’t recommend one)? If so, maybe you could do a trial week of having the hot water on for one hour in the mornings and then 30 mins in the evening. We’re a family of five inclu. young DC and that’s what we’ve always done for years with the addition of the boiler on for hot water for 30 mins at lunchtime as I’m WFH. Similar pattern with the heating. We only ever put the heating on for one hour when we have really cold mornings and evenings around shower/bath times. My partner and DC walk around the house in T-Shirts and shorts complaining that it’s cold whilst I’m layered up.

Wtf no hot water either. There what 4 of you to split the bills across. One hour of hearing costs me £1.20 thats like 30p each. Id be getting an electric blanket for myself and then look to move out.

Why can't you all just agree to like £5 a day and with a smart meter its easy to monitor that you don't go over a set budget.

Jesus, makes me so glad I no longer share

How are you cleaning the place with no hot water? You are destroying someone else's property. Who acted as guarantor?

If this is actually real then people have lost their tiny minds.

I would be looking for a new place ASAP.

In the meantime, whack on the heater once it arrives and ignore any moaning from them. Have you got a lock for your bedroom? I would get one if possible as they sound like the types that would try to sabotage your heater too.

No hot water is grim. What about handwashing? Washing up dishes?

The heating thing is grim too and I'd wondered about how it would work in house shares. Heat your room, hot water bottles, thick socks, a heated throw. And get on Rightmove.

And email the LL while you're at it.

Get your mum to wrap it and put it in a big carrier, an Ikea bag for example. Christmas wrapping would work a treat this time of year!

The last thing you need is for a fellow housemate to get wind of your heater.

Just get it into your room quietly.

She could get a 1 kw heater and run it for a few hours a day to at least have a warm room in the evening after work. Cost is about 20p per hour.