To wonder how long the no heating brigade will last when it turns cold?

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I’ve been contemplating how much I can reduce the heating and electric throws. It’s chilly here today, sixteen degrees, but grey and drizzly. I’ve lit the wood stove, I do have a cold so maybe I feel more susceptible to chills.

I feel like I’ve fallen at first hurdle. Definitely going to be keeping one warm room in the house so it’s not just really unpleasant for the dc. I’ve recently paid 365 for four cubic metres kiln dried wood but it’s going to cost 1K to fill the oil tank for 1000 litres. Was a third of that last year.

We had a heat storing stove in the bedroom so that kept it warm enough, and an open fire in the lounge and wood cooking stove in the kitchen. The upstairs and basement were literally freezing though, I put a pack of baby wipes on the stairs and they froze solid.

I was coping quite well with no heating in most of my house until a pipe burst and the water went down through 3 storeys and ruined a lot of irreplaceable stuff 😭

That’s awful. Tricky balance between saving money and protecting the house. I hope you had insurance

Somebody else posted suggesting they only pay out if you've heated the house to at least 10°C.

If you've, by choice (i.e. the heating wasn't broken), not run your heating during the recent cold snap, I'm sorry but you really only have yourself to blame for burst pipes and I don't think the insurance company should be picking up the bill.

I found this article and Admiral insist on a temperature of 12°C. I presume they can tell if you've not had the heating on by requesting copies of your utility bills.

www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2845331/The-experience-wary-pipes-plumbing-Pass-temperature-test-home-uninsured.html

I don't unfortunately have contents insurance which is where most of the damage was. I do have house insurance but I didn't want to claim on that due to the excess and inevitable premium rise.

Not all rooms of my house actually have any heating and this was one of them. We don't have central heating anyway just storage heaters and the ones in the bedrooms don't work anymore.