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What temp is your house right now?

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TicTacFrenzy · 16/11/2022 20:37

And do you have the heating on?

I thought it was a bit chilly this morning/last night but moving around today it was ok (hoovering etc)
We are sitting on the couch tonight with blankets, and ds just commented it seems to be warmer to night than last night. Checked the thermostat and we are sitting at 15.5 degrees. But we are ok tbh.

How warm is your house tonight?

(No heating yet and I think we are doing ok feeling cold wise iyswim? None of the kids have complained yet! Although we have a box of blankets by the couch. Have put up an extra set of double lines curtains on the main "cold" windows, put in extra foam on windows that were a bit leaky and tend to go to bed earlyish)

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BeyondThinkOfTheOptics · 25/11/2022 17:06

Just got my reading through for yesterday too, and that one was £2.31 for the same times.

So budgeting £2.50 seems reasonable Smile

Merryweather80 · 25/11/2022 17:12

I caved in yesterday. I had two large loads of laundry and I was shivering in bed. It was 11 degrees in our bedroom. Youngest DC and I have asthma and we’re coughing and needing the nebuliser. We had the heating on for an hour and we managed to heat most rooms to 19.

Blondeshavemorefun · 25/11/2022 17:48

I will rummage in my cupboard tomorrow

gas meter is at the bottom

why are they so hard to get to /read

don’t have a smart meter. Heating going on more each day as bloody cold

tho know will get colder

will see how many units have used in 3w x by 32 to make khw and work out the tough cost

Ilikepinacoladass · 25/11/2022 18:36

IncessantNameChanger · 24/11/2022 16:49

But 16 pm isn't enough to heat a UK house in winter is it? If it only cost me £16pm to heat my house it would be 21dc 24/7 and I would forgo Netflix. Unfortunately it's closer to £10 per day fuel costs with to keeping the house over 18 versus £4 per day without heating.

No one goes to pret daily, has Disney plus, netflicks, smokes, drinks and goes on holiday abroad and sits in a house that's bearly in double figures.

Obviously your heating is not going to come to £16 per month overall, but I think £10 per day sounds a bit excessive, mine was on quite a bit last month and only came to £90 gas and £20 electric, then minus £66 government help...

Think people need to work out how much they would actually save by sitting there in the cold, coz for lots of people there are much easier ways of saving the money.

BeyondThinkOfTheOptics · 26/11/2022 17:03

Running both the heating and hot water yesterday on the timer (7-8 and 4-6) cost me £2.87. Seems my theory of the hot water costing less if the heating is already on was right! 😁

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