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I can only assume you live somewhere pretty warm - if I don't have the heaters on in my apartment, the indoor air temperature will be roughly equal to the outdo
by ipsi 9y ago
I can only assume you live somewhere pretty warm - if I don't have the heaters on in my apartment, the indoor air temperature will be roughly equal to the outdoor air temperature, which is frequently <5°C in winter. No amount of clothing is going to make that comfortable or healthy to live in.
I don't know how much it costs to heat my place, since I only have storage heaters, so it all gets merged in with the rest of my electricity usage.
- Tharkun 9y agoIf you're interested in figuring out the costs, they sell devices —— called calorimeters i think -- which you can stick on the storage heaters and will make pretty decent estimates of the amount of energy released.
- pjc50 9y ago> the indoor air temperature will be roughly equal to the outdoor air temperature Your insulation could definitely be improved - I live in Scotland and when it's 0C inside it seems to equalise at about 10C simply from having humans in with cooking and lighting. That's still a bit uncomfortably cold so I run the heating, but without good insulation a lot of paid for heat would be escaping.
- ipsi 9y agoOh, no doubt. It's an old terraced house in London, and I'm in the basement flat. No double-glazing, and I doubt the walls are properly insulated. But it's relatively cheap, and running the storage heaters 24/7 hasn't resulted in an excruciating power bill. The only time I've actually noticed it being brutally cold was coming home after several weeks abroad, where I'd turned the heaters off before I left to save power. Coming home after that was particularly unpleasant.