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Post by Zomoniac on Dec 13, 2022 9:37:11 GMT
£16 on gas so far this week. It’s half nine on Tuesday morning.
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Post by sport✅ on Dec 13, 2022 9:48:11 GMT
That's what you get for buying a pickup, Zom.
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Post by Zomoniac on Dec 13, 2022 10:01:49 GMT
I'll have you know my staggeringly boring Nissan Pulsar gets 80mpg. You still bashing your head on the ceiling of an Aygo?
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Post by minimatt on Dec 13, 2022 10:07:56 GMT
by way of comparison, our house is heated entirely from the burnt remains of our enemies, or coal*/wood when unavailable. When needed to run 24/7 it's entirely coal. I've used precisely one fire lighter in the last ~ten days as it's been burning 24/7 all this time, and 10-15kg of coal per day to heat a fairly small bungalow. Think paid just shy of £950 for two tons of coal in the spring, so £4.75 - £7.12 a day to keep the house at 20-22c *"coal" = smokeless solid fuel |
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Post by quadfather on Dec 13, 2022 10:10:15 GMT
I went out to get some logs and coal yesterday while working from home. And yes, I stayed in the car checking emails for about 20 minutes, using the heater from the car to give the heaters at home a break.
Am I really typing this? Is this really happening?
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Post by quadfather on Dec 13, 2022 10:11:21 GMT
by way of comparison, our house is heated entirely from the burnt remains of our enemies, or coal*/wood when unavailable. When needed to run 24/7 it's entirely coal. I've used precisely one fire lighter in the last ~ten days as it's been burning 24/7 all this time, and 10-15kg of coal per day to heat a fairly small bungalow. Think paid just shy of £950 for two tons of coal in the spring, so £4.75 - £7.12 a day to keep the house at 20-22c *"coal" = smokeless solid fuelSame boat as me. My choices are electric heaters which cost 8 million pounds a second, or a multifuel burner. Needless to say, I look like a coalman on most days. |
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Post by Zomoniac on Dec 13, 2022 10:16:26 GMT
Had £215 of wood delivered on 11th October. Got another £215 coming today because it's almost run out. Thought one load would see us through winter. Lol.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 13, 2022 10:20:37 GMT
£215 for 2 months is pretty good though...what's the additional heating on top?
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Post by Zomoniac on Dec 13, 2022 10:25:10 GMT
£215 for 2 months is pretty good though...what's the additional heating on top? A month ago it was an additional £2 a day. Last week it was an additional £4 a day. This week it's an additional £10 a day. |
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Post by Dougs on Dec 13, 2022 10:28:11 GMT
Yikes! I remember your post now. Is that because you're both WFH?
I've just adjusted the timings and temperature of my schedules to try and bring it down a bit.
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Post by Zomoniac on Dec 13, 2022 10:30:08 GMT
Yikes! I remember your post now. Is that because you're both WFH? I've just adjusted the timings and temperature of my schedules to try and bring it down a bit. We are both fully WFH. The thermostat is on 16.5 and basically left there. Maybe I should turn it off more. It gets very cold very quickly without it though. |
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Post by Dougs on Dec 13, 2022 10:34:58 GMT
16.5 is bloody chilly. Ours is at 19 usually and I get moaned at about that. When it drops to 17, she's almost packed her bags.
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Post by Zomoniac on Dec 13, 2022 10:37:54 GMT
We have a shitty 20yo boiler with separate tank that takes up half the house and makes alarming noises. I had planned to get a new one summer just gone but forgot. In hindsight that was a stupid thing to forget.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 13, 2022 10:49:11 GMT
I worked out the other week that usage has gone down by over 50%. Dread to think how much it would have cost with the old boiler that was either on or off (outside of timed), without a central thermostat.
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Post by quadfather on Dec 13, 2022 10:56:56 GMT
And just to really fucking help, I had some friends around the other night and one of them accidently pressed the wrong switch in the kitchen, thinking it was the light switch, and neglected to tell me.
Yeah, that will have been the hot water tank switch then. That was left on for over 12 hours.
FUCK.
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Post by dfunked on Dec 13, 2022 11:02:17 GMT
Had our boiler serviced yesterday and the guy left the thermostat on 20 instead of the usual 15 that I have it on during the day (office is usually a few degrees warmer than the sitting room)
Sweating away in a t-shirt all morning before I decided to investigate... Oops!
Why he opened it and changed the default temp is beyond me. Just press plus a few times FFS!
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Post by henroben on Dec 13, 2022 11:16:08 GMT
Just done some back of a fag packet calculations and it looks like it's currently costing me around £5 a day for electricity / gas and around £3 a day on logs, but I only have the central heating on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. I've found that once the central heating warms the house up to around 19-20 degrees, the log burner will keep it pretty much at that temperature for the rest of the evening.
So about £8 a day in total, or roughly £250 a month, which seems expensive considering I'm only really heating the house in the evening.
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Post by quadfather on Dec 13, 2022 11:34:37 GMT
Yeah, that's about the same as me - I use electric to take the edge off, and then light a fire for the rest of the time. Still works out at 250 a month. Probably more when I provide the meter reading again.
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Post by sport✅ on Dec 13, 2022 11:55:30 GMT
I'll have you know my staggeringly boring Nissan Pulsar gets 80mpg. You still bashing your head on the ceiling of an Aygo? Damn straight. She's 10 years old now. |
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Post by Youthist on Dec 13, 2022 13:27:57 GMT
Couldn’t find the “we are fucked” thread so will stick this here. Had to call 999 at 330 this morning due to a Youthist significant issue. Waited 5 mins after being put on hold when 999 first picked it up. Then eventually was told that the waiting time for an ambulance was 14 hours.somehow got myself to A and E at 5am and was given some morphine then had to wait 6.5 hours to speak to a doctor. Fun times
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Post by dogbot on Dec 13, 2022 13:32:02 GMT
On the plus side, you didn't bleed out. Hope everything is OK  |
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Dec 13, 2022 13:39:06 GMT
14hrs!?
Oof :/
Hope you’re not dead x
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Dec 13, 2022 14:52:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2022 15:01:19 GMT
Did they manage to get it out?
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Post by geefe on Dec 13, 2022 15:37:29 GMT
Jesus fucking christ 14 hours. Might just go private at this rate.
Reminds me a mate of mine needed some form of live saving surgery and he was told 2 year wait. In the end he paid £10,000 through savings and family/ friend donations to have all the cancer removed from him.
But nope, Britain definitely isn't like America.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Dec 13, 2022 15:38:10 GMT
You can't. Does Private A&E even exist?
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Post by Dougs on Dec 13, 2022 15:48:02 GMT
Nope. And it's the first I have heard of someone being told their cancer surgery has to wait 2 years.
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Post by henroben on Dec 13, 2022 16:00:59 GMT
You can't. Does Private A&E even exist? As Dougs said, all A&E's are NHS. Which is one of the reasons private medical cover is much cheaper in this country than the states - the NHS covers a lot of stuff, the private cover is more of a top up. Allowing you to skip or reduce waiting times and generally having a nicer stay in a nicer hospital and potentially better after care. One of the main plus points of a private hospital these days seems to be that they're not full of bed blockers and actually have room to admit people! |
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Post by elstoof on Dec 15, 2022 7:32:28 GMT
Got our new smart meters installed yesterday, swish new display unit with it so I can watch money disappear in real time. I sincerely hope the gas reading is taking a bit of time to properly synch because we’ve apparently used £10 so far today and it’s only 7:30
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Post by stixxuk on Dec 15, 2022 9:22:47 GMT
Urgh my house warms up so slowly. 16 degrees in my home office currently. The extension bit we built a couple of years ago to modern standards with underfloor heating is at 20...
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