“People are being advised to heat living rooms during the day and bedrooms before going to sleep as a cold spell hits the UK.”
Brilliant, this is the same government that has be telling everyone to get heat pumps, which can’t do this and have to keep the house at pretty much a constant temperature 24/7.
>The UKHSA said that, as well as heating rooms that are used the most to at least 18C, “several layers of thinner clothing will keep you warmer than one thicker layer”.
Id be curious to see what people have theres set to. 15/16 is genuinely fine for me. We had my inlaws here who put it up to 19/20 and I was dying.
There seems to be quite a lot of ego attached to this on this sub when it comes up:
“15?! I havent had my heating on yet at all and I leave all the doors and windows open.”
Keeping a few rooms to 18 will cost an absolute bomb. Im dreading the bill from the inlaws visit.
We have ours off at night though we might start putting the therm on low to keep pipes etc warm
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How are people even managing to pay there energy bill when earning like 20k a year? We have a modernish 2 bed flat and 2 of us that aren’t in during the week and our bill is £200 for last month and will probably be more soon since it’s cold.
Living room heated by spot heater as and when needed, and only as and when needed, electric blanket (a whopping 50W) on for 8 hours, 10pm-6am at about 1/3 power. It’s worked so far but this is the first chilly week.
Good luck with that, we have our heating on at most 5/6 hours a day, our electric bill is £100 a month, our last gas bill for the month was £185, we are still having to layer up and be unconformable in the evenings.
Same government that told people to just put an extra jumper on. Unfortunately were not all like our new multi millionaire PM and can afford to throw fifty pound notes on the fire. We need a government who will work for the people not one that works for themselves and big money only. Life’s a symphony you take out the small notes and the whole orchestra will fall apart.
I can’t get my living room to 18 degrees.
This place is so badly insulated, the electric heater that is the living room struggles to get the room to 15.
And as for my bedroom….well I’m thankful for my electric blanket and pyjamas.
For note I’ve tried to have the letting agent get the insulation sorted, even given them the details of schemes that will do it for free, and nothing.
And now I have a new job with a higher wage, I’m no sure if I’m eligible for them if I wanted to try again.
(Roll on feb when I’m out of contract)
What happened to sticking it to Putin and freezing our balls off
Urge all you want, it won’t make me any less skint and cold
It’s 7 days in to December and I send meter readings every day so I don’t get a nasty shock. Heating on from 6.00 until 7.30 in the PM so the kids go to bed warm. 18° to 18.5°. 1960s semi.
So far (1st to 6th December) our gas and electric bill is £69.47 so just over £10 a day. So that’s a minimum of £359 this month but likely more when the kids and us are at home from the 19th. We are OK as I put all my back pay and extra into the energy account over the summer so we have a good buffer in there but Jesus it’s expensive. I have curtained off all exterior doors and windows. Have re-sealed them all using adhesive draft excluder stuff and used insulation tape to tape shut the windows we won’t open as well as putting backing strips behind the rads.
How can someone who is on the poverty line afford even £5 per day for the next few months to keep the house temp above 16°c?
We are a developed country. This shouldn’t be happening. I know why it is and I know greed plays a part. Still, it is embarrassing.
Just heat your homes as you would do normally. If you don’t then not only will you still have to pay a large energy bill, you’ll have nice repair bills from the plumber, electrician and builder to sort out on top.
Is it worth it when future you is going to end up in hospital or dead? Just put all the radiators on the lowest setting and you’ll be fine.
I have just had a log burning stove fitted. It cost four grand with all the building work that was required to fit it, but it was worth every penny as the central heating now only comes on for an hour in the morning.
I literally have a shed load of free wood, but even getting wood delivered it’s still way cheaper than the central heating and the stove will, slowly and when lit correctly, heat the whole of my four-bedroom house.
Shit, I’d never have thought about this if our wonderful media hadn’t told me. What would we do without them?
(Make better decisions at the ballot box probably)
Jesus fucking christ, it’s 2022 and the actual advice at the moment is “try to heat at least one room”.
This country is fucked.
I rented a small ground floor flat in Eastbourne a couple years ago. Everything concrete, no insulation on majority of the studio, a few minutes of natural light would reach the windows per day and it had one radiator. An electric radiator. I physically could not get my environment above 10 degrees on the worst nights of winter. That is some just constant reality for some people and they don’t have the means to escape it.
Is this what the protesters meant about using less oil?
Me and my girlfriend have a small office room where we work and chill out (play games or do whatever) unless we go downstairs to watch Netflix or something. But we just literally close the door in that small room and our Xbox’s heat the room up so we never have to put the heating on.
We’re quite lucky our energy bills haven’t even increased because of that, also we both get really hot when we sleep so we don’t put heating on at night either. Would be nice to put it on when I come home from shopping or my walks but I feel like I can make it through this.
I definitely feel for people who do actually need heating though, especially parents, my brother tells me all the time how they have to manage their heating times so their kids are comfortable (one is a newborn too). My parents are very old so their heating bills are the highest in the family. This stuff is getting ridiculous for such a basic necessity.
My thermostat was recently replaced with a basic non-timer version, so I “hacked” the anti frost portion to keep the house at 15c – so when I want heating I turn it on and it’s set to 18c and when I don’t want heating it goes to 15c.
As it’s gotten colder, with this new pricing, it was going to start costing over a fiver a day, this for a 1 bedroom flat. So I’ve changed the anti-frost temp to 10c – it’s still bloody cold though – last night after work I got in, it was 11.5c in the lounge and even after heating for a couple of hours it was only 13.5c so I went to bed with a hot water bottle.
I like to think I’m fairly fortunate, I have to be less empathic because the thought of people with lower spare income having to deal with this just overwhelms me. Definite failure of the government.
The couple nighbours from the loft conversion in my landlord owned house having litterally frost on bathroom inside wall if temperatures are at 0.
He pays around £20-22 A DAY to keep warm with all electric heating flat.
We have separate prepayment meters so landlord pays for electricity and gas, and we are paying online in to our meters.
We can’t get rebate because goverment does “not know” how to sort out this kind of arangement.
Meanwhile, my ground floor flat is cold in 30 minutes after I switch off heating. Recent look under floor panels confirmed that there ia ground, dirt and old beer cans under floor, no isolation at all, just timber beams, mdf, sound matt and floor panels. Walls are cold even when flat is heated.
Thats how quick house grab conversion look
Practical advice to parents:
Don’t let your kids go to bed with wet feet.
Make sure your wee thing’s feet is dry before tucking them in.
Of little help to people who just cant afford it. We are looking at easily £10 plus a day now. We get no support from the government because our house is Band E. We arent wealthy but we both work. We decided to put our money into a house instead of a fucking range rover. It boils my piss that im delivering to houses with brand new Audis and Mercs on the drive and they still got the cost of living grant earlier in the year and will have access to further grants (ECO+) and I wont.
The UK is not working for working people.
We’ve got ours on 20c night and day. Two kids with asthma, so has my wife,who is also disabled, and my lungs are fucked from two severe bouts of COVID. Last year we had it at 25c. So far estimates are around £360 a month for gas, so hopefully,with the cuts to the temp, it’ll stay around that mark. I can’t risk the families health, especially with the NHS being a disaster
The only joy of living in a studio flat is that I only have the one room to heat (still bloody expensive though).
Yeah it sucks. Just on gas alone my really old, like coming upto 150yrs old house eats gas like it’s going out of fashion. I’m only really heating the lounge and bedroom and bathroom.
Whilst I’m off work ( 4on 4 off) I can and am keeping the lounge heated up with my multi fuel burner. It’s been lit for 2 days now.
Even then, just heating the bedroom and bathroom is costing me about £6 a day.
This house is old and cold and I hate it in the winter ! Especially now gas is about 3x the amount I was paying this time last year !
You’ve got to try and heat your home when you can, not doing so is going to cause damage to it that will cost you more in the long run 🤷♂️
…but leave the other rooms to grow mould so you too can experience the death of your children
How about encouraging the government to reduce energy costs instead of letting their friends rake in record profits year after year, publish info on what MPs get kickbacks from energy companies on the front page instead of telling a broke country to “heat main rooms”
Thanks for letting us know BBC.
Never experienced -1 degrees in my 30+ years on this earth.
Good job the govt is here to save us from actually using our brains.
keep one room warm and layer up, if it gets really cold do what you need to
For the first time I’m pretty thankful to get my period this week. At least my body temps gone up a few degrees. I’d be dithering, but even my hands are quite warm.
Insulate windows in all rooms and keep all fragile to the cold items in the room you’ll be in.
We are supposed to work it was theorised to support ourselves, to heat a home, but the cost of private renting and many other factors are making things incredibly difficult. Its an utter disgrace how government policy has made landlords so powerful now, that they overcharge and in too many cases don’t even manage their housing stock correctly in terms of maintenance and such.
The reality is we have gone backwards as a country. We were living better in the 1990s and 2000s. The horrible truth is I don’t see end coming soon for this crisis. Our living standards are going into a long term fall I fear.
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“People are being advised to heat living rooms during the day and bedrooms before going to sleep as a cold spell hits the UK.”
Brilliant, this is the same government that has be telling everyone to get heat pumps, which can’t do this and have to keep the house at pretty much a constant temperature 24/7.
>The UKHSA said that, as well as heating rooms that are used the most to at least 18C, “several layers of thinner clothing will keep you warmer than one thicker layer”.
Id be curious to see what people have theres set to. 15/16 is genuinely fine for me. We had my inlaws here who put it up to 19/20 and I was dying.
There seems to be quite a lot of ego attached to this on this sub when it comes up:
“15?! I havent had my heating on yet at all and I leave all the doors and windows open.”
Keeping a few rooms to 18 will cost an absolute bomb. Im dreading the bill from the inlaws visit.
We have ours off at night though we might start putting the therm on low to keep pipes etc warm
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How are people even managing to pay there energy bill when earning like 20k a year? We have a modernish 2 bed flat and 2 of us that aren’t in during the week and our bill is £200 for last month and will probably be more soon since it’s cold.
Living room heated by spot heater as and when needed, and only as and when needed, electric blanket (a whopping 50W) on for 8 hours, 10pm-6am at about 1/3 power. It’s worked so far but this is the first chilly week.
Good luck with that, we have our heating on at most 5/6 hours a day, our electric bill is £100 a month, our last gas bill for the month was £185, we are still having to layer up and be unconformable in the evenings.
Same government that told people to just put an extra jumper on. Unfortunately were not all like our new multi millionaire PM and can afford to throw fifty pound notes on the fire. We need a government who will work for the people not one that works for themselves and big money only. Life’s a symphony you take out the small notes and the whole orchestra will fall apart.
I can’t get my living room to 18 degrees.
This place is so badly insulated, the electric heater that is the living room struggles to get the room to 15.
And as for my bedroom….well I’m thankful for my electric blanket and pyjamas.
For note I’ve tried to have the letting agent get the insulation sorted, even given them the details of schemes that will do it for free, and nothing.
And now I have a new job with a higher wage, I’m no sure if I’m eligible for them if I wanted to try again.
(Roll on feb when I’m out of contract)
What happened to sticking it to Putin and freezing our balls off
Urge all you want, it won’t make me any less skint and cold
It’s 7 days in to December and I send meter readings every day so I don’t get a nasty shock. Heating on from 6.00 until 7.30 in the PM so the kids go to bed warm. 18° to 18.5°. 1960s semi.
So far (1st to 6th December) our gas and electric bill is £69.47 so just over £10 a day. So that’s a minimum of £359 this month but likely more when the kids and us are at home from the 19th. We are OK as I put all my back pay and extra into the energy account over the summer so we have a good buffer in there but Jesus it’s expensive. I have curtained off all exterior doors and windows. Have re-sealed them all using adhesive draft excluder stuff and used insulation tape to tape shut the windows we won’t open as well as putting backing strips behind the rads.
How can someone who is on the poverty line afford even £5 per day for the next few months to keep the house temp above 16°c?
We are a developed country. This shouldn’t be happening. I know why it is and I know greed plays a part. Still, it is embarrassing.
Just heat your homes as you would do normally. If you don’t then not only will you still have to pay a large energy bill, you’ll have nice repair bills from the plumber, electrician and builder to sort out on top.
Is it worth it when future you is going to end up in hospital or dead? Just put all the radiators on the lowest setting and you’ll be fine.
I have just had a log burning stove fitted. It cost four grand with all the building work that was required to fit it, but it was worth every penny as the central heating now only comes on for an hour in the morning.
I literally have a shed load of free wood, but even getting wood delivered it’s still way cheaper than the central heating and the stove will, slowly and when lit correctly, heat the whole of my four-bedroom house.
Shit, I’d never have thought about this if our wonderful media hadn’t told me. What would we do without them?
(Make better decisions at the ballot box probably)
Jesus fucking christ, it’s 2022 and the actual advice at the moment is “try to heat at least one room”.
This country is fucked.
I rented a small ground floor flat in Eastbourne a couple years ago. Everything concrete, no insulation on majority of the studio, a few minutes of natural light would reach the windows per day and it had one radiator. An electric radiator. I physically could not get my environment above 10 degrees on the worst nights of winter. That is some just constant reality for some people and they don’t have the means to escape it.
Is this what the protesters meant about using less oil?
Me and my girlfriend have a small office room where we work and chill out (play games or do whatever) unless we go downstairs to watch Netflix or something. But we just literally close the door in that small room and our Xbox’s heat the room up so we never have to put the heating on.
We’re quite lucky our energy bills haven’t even increased because of that, also we both get really hot when we sleep so we don’t put heating on at night either. Would be nice to put it on when I come home from shopping or my walks but I feel like I can make it through this.
I definitely feel for people who do actually need heating though, especially parents, my brother tells me all the time how they have to manage their heating times so their kids are comfortable (one is a newborn too). My parents are very old so their heating bills are the highest in the family. This stuff is getting ridiculous for such a basic necessity.
My thermostat was recently replaced with a basic non-timer version, so I “hacked” the anti frost portion to keep the house at 15c – so when I want heating I turn it on and it’s set to 18c and when I don’t want heating it goes to 15c.
As it’s gotten colder, with this new pricing, it was going to start costing over a fiver a day, this for a 1 bedroom flat. So I’ve changed the anti-frost temp to 10c – it’s still bloody cold though – last night after work I got in, it was 11.5c in the lounge and even after heating for a couple of hours it was only 13.5c so I went to bed with a hot water bottle.
I like to think I’m fairly fortunate, I have to be less empathic because the thought of people with lower spare income having to deal with this just overwhelms me. Definite failure of the government.
The couple nighbours from the loft conversion in my landlord owned house having litterally frost on bathroom inside wall if temperatures are at 0.
He pays around £20-22 A DAY to keep warm with all electric heating flat.
We have separate prepayment meters so landlord pays for electricity and gas, and we are paying online in to our meters.
We can’t get rebate because goverment does “not know” how to sort out this kind of arangement.
Meanwhile, my ground floor flat is cold in 30 minutes after I switch off heating. Recent look under floor panels confirmed that there ia ground, dirt and old beer cans under floor, no isolation at all, just timber beams, mdf, sound matt and floor panels. Walls are cold even when flat is heated.
Thats how quick house grab conversion look
Practical advice to parents:
Don’t let your kids go to bed with wet feet.
Make sure your wee thing’s feet is dry before tucking them in.
Of little help to people who just cant afford it. We are looking at easily £10 plus a day now. We get no support from the government because our house is Band E. We arent wealthy but we both work. We decided to put our money into a house instead of a fucking range rover. It boils my piss that im delivering to houses with brand new Audis and Mercs on the drive and they still got the cost of living grant earlier in the year and will have access to further grants (ECO+) and I wont.
The UK is not working for working people.
We’ve got ours on 20c night and day. Two kids with asthma, so has my wife,who is also disabled, and my lungs are fucked from two severe bouts of COVID. Last year we had it at 25c. So far estimates are around £360 a month for gas, so hopefully,with the cuts to the temp, it’ll stay around that mark. I can’t risk the families health, especially with the NHS being a disaster
The only joy of living in a studio flat is that I only have the one room to heat (still bloody expensive though).
Yeah it sucks. Just on gas alone my really old, like coming upto 150yrs old house eats gas like it’s going out of fashion. I’m only really heating the lounge and bedroom and bathroom.
Whilst I’m off work ( 4on 4 off) I can and am keeping the lounge heated up with my multi fuel burner. It’s been lit for 2 days now.
Even then, just heating the bedroom and bathroom is costing me about £6 a day.
This house is old and cold and I hate it in the winter ! Especially now gas is about 3x the amount I was paying this time last year !
You’ve got to try and heat your home when you can, not doing so is going to cause damage to it that will cost you more in the long run 🤷♂️
…but leave the other rooms to grow mould so you too can experience the death of your children
How about encouraging the government to reduce energy costs instead of letting their friends rake in record profits year after year, publish info on what MPs get kickbacks from energy companies on the front page instead of telling a broke country to “heat main rooms”
Thanks for letting us know BBC.
Never experienced -1 degrees in my 30+ years on this earth.
Good job the govt is here to save us from actually using our brains.
keep one room warm and layer up, if it gets really cold do what you need to
For the first time I’m pretty thankful to get my period this week. At least my body temps gone up a few degrees. I’d be dithering, but even my hands are quite warm.
Insulate windows in all rooms and keep all fragile to the cold items in the room you’ll be in.
We are supposed to work it was theorised to support ourselves, to heat a home, but the cost of private renting and many other factors are making things incredibly difficult. Its an utter disgrace how government policy has made landlords so powerful now, that they overcharge and in too many cases don’t even manage their housing stock correctly in terms of maintenance and such.
The reality is we have gone backwards as a country. We were living better in the 1990s and 2000s. The horrible truth is I don’t see end coming soon for this crisis. Our living standards are going into a long term fall I fear.