Heating a Victorian home

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Hi, I am hoping some of you can help shed some light please! My DH and I have recently put an offer in for a 5 bedroom detached Victorian home, the property is roughly 260 m2. Its needing a full renovation but the windows are double glazed and have been replaced 15 years ago. My DH is a heating engineer so all house will be re piped, new boiler and new radiators will be installed. We previously renovated our 3 bedroom detached Victorian home (new heating system again) and our energy bills cost around £220 a month for gas and electric. I am just a but apprehensive on how much we will roughly be spending to heat the house as the rooms are larger. Is there anyone on here who stays in a Victorian home that can tell me how much there energy bills are please? Thank you for reading and any responses are greatly appreciated

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This is a 'how long is a piece of string?' question, as there are so many other factors to take into account, not just the heating system
eg detached/semi/terraced
Double glazing or not?
Insulation in roof?
Carpeted throughout or bare boards? Are there gaps in the bare boards and airbricks under the house = draught?
Doors - how well do they fit? Are they double glazed?
Curtains? Thermally lined or not? Is your front door curtained off?
Etc.

Also - has it been knocked thru? I live in a Victorian terrace with original ground floor walls in tact, rooms stay much warmer than neighbouring houses where they knocked through - looks lovely but heat goes straight up the stairs and it's draughty.

Oh yes, the curse of the open plan Victorian house. Ours is indeed lovely and spacious but it makes it very hard to heat. Would not recommend!

If you're renovating anyway you should consider internal insulation. We have a 1930s 5 bed semi and thought that the cavity was too narrow for insulation, but recently had the space insulated and internal insulation of bay windows. Our usage is now less than it was before. We are paying a standing order of £330 a month, though there's usually one of us working from home so it's on quite a bit.

Well if your husband is a heating engineer and has actually seen the property then I would think he would be best placed to work out what the likely bills are going to be. And if he can't he is probably in the wrong job.

Make sure you get the deep loft lagging as less heat escapes. If you have large rooms and high ceilings it will cost more to heat but you can put up thick velvet curtains with thermal backing to keep heat in. They look lovely in Victorian houses with large bay windows. If you can make do with 18 degrees and you get thermostats on each radiator so you don't heat rooms as high that no one is in then it might cost in the region of £400 pcm.