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£800 per month? That seems a lot for a family home, even during these times. And that’s only for gas, electricity excluded? How big is the house and is there z

£800 per month? That seems a lot for a family home, even during these times. And that’s only for gas, electricity excluded? How big is the house and is there zero insulation, eg single pane windows?

fennecfoxy 4y ago
Electric heating, man. 800£ is still a lot but I think my 2-person 60m^2 flat is doing about 200£/month in electric with only 3/5 heaters turned on (our bedrooms + lounge). With just these three heaters on it's about 40kWh a day mostly in heating (everything else uses almost nothing). I can imagine a family with kids where you want the house to be heated all over + much more cooking/washing machine use and you could get to the £500-700 range, but 800 is still definitely a lot. It's such a cool place here. I just wish Brits would fix their political/cultural problems. They like doing things "the good old way" too much hence political parties cater to those people. Gov should have been looking at this energy crisis thing 20 years ago; it was obvious as all hell. They went all in on gas like the scumbags they are, yeah it'll never run out. Sure.
- alias_neo 4y ago
  That figure doesn't even include our electricity usage, which is fairly conservative; we average about 12kWh/day when we're not using electric heating and we're working from home.
alias_neo 4y ago
It's a 4.5 bed detached; solid walls, suspended floor, large bay windows, some of the double glazing is shot, hard wood floor downstairs, high ceilings, some of the radiators are too small or too oldz some of the piping is too small and not insulated and runs under the house where it's extra cold. Yes this all needs fixing, yes we working on it, but we only moved in a few months ago, it takes time, and money. The ~£800 is just for gas and just for heating and that's without having it on enough to be warm most of the time. When the children aren't home we just use an electric heater in two rooms; we both work from home in our own office spaces.
- uxcolumbo 4y ago
  That's crazy having to spend so much on heating alone, hopefully it gets warmer soon. Maybe try electric blankets - I've seen ones where you can use them like a poncho - keeping you warm while working. Must be cheaper than having to heat an entire room.
  - alias_neo 4y ago
    We've gotten some electric blankets for the kids and some heated throws for ourselves, also the weather is a bit milder in the positive single digit range so it's easing up a little for now, but who knows what's to come.

fennecfoxy 4y ago

Electric heating, man. 800£ is still a lot but I think my 2-person 60m^2 flat is doing about 200£/month in electric with only 3/5 heaters turned on (our bedrooms + lounge). With just these three heaters on it's about 40kWh a day mostly in heating (everything else uses almost nothing). I can imagine a family with kids where you want the house to be heated all over + much more cooking/washing machine use and you could get to the £500-700 range, but 800 is still definitely a lot. It's such a cool place here. I just wish Brits would fix their political/cultural problems. They like doing things "the good old way" too much hence political parties cater to those people. Gov should have been looking at this energy crisis thing 20 years ago; it was obvious as all hell. They went all in on gas like the scumbags they are, yeah it'll never run out. Sure.

alias_neo 4y ago
That figure doesn't even include our electricity usage, which is fairly conservative; we average about 12kWh/day when we're not using electric heating and we're working from home.

alias_neo 4y ago

It's a 4.5 bed detached; solid walls, suspended floor, large bay windows, some of the double glazing is shot, hard wood floor downstairs, high ceilings, some of the radiators are too small or too oldz some of the piping is too small and not insulated and runs under the house where it's extra cold. Yes this all needs fixing, yes we working on it, but we only moved in a few months ago, it takes time, and money. The ~£800 is just for gas and just for heating and that's without having it on enough to be warm most of the time. When the children aren't home we just use an electric heater in two rooms; we both work from home in our own office spaces.

uxcolumbo 4y ago
That's crazy having to spend so much on heating alone, hopefully it gets warmer soon. Maybe try electric blankets - I've seen ones where you can use them like a poncho - keeping you warm while working. Must be cheaper than having to heat an entire room.
- alias_neo 4y ago
  We've gotten some electric blankets for the kids and some heated throws for ourselves, also the weather is a bit milder in the positive single digit range so it's easing up a little for now, but who knows what's to come.