Cost of living crisis/kWh Measuring Contest

Yup. Condensation on the inside of the window had frozen at the bottom of the pane

I assume he's going to climb inside them like a tauntaun later.

Dead prostitute.

Are you going for slow-roasted, or biltong-esque air-dried?

16 overnight here.

I just have it off from 22:00 - 07:30 and at 15 degrees after that. Absolutely hate having heating on while I'm in bed (apart from that blast in the morning as you're waking up)

Wow you guys go LOW! Our thermostat is set to 18 at night and when we're away. The house takes ages to warm up.

Also apparently it's not good for kids for the temp to fall below 18 :/

After the last half-month bill, I've been playing about with the schedules and have it at 17 when it's just me in the house. With 2 jumpers and gloves, it's just about manageable but still bloody cold. Genuinely must be age, never used to be like this! No chance my wife would put up with that though, so 19 degrees when she's around. And have dropped the time it goes off to 8pm. See if that makes a difference....

We have reptiles (well, just the one at the moment – Voldetort!) and a ten-year-old daughter.

1970s end-terrace, traditional construction materials for the time, but upside down, so the upstairs is all open plan, living, dining and kitchen, and the downstairs is a narrow hallway with three bedrooms and a bathroom.

Gas central heating, using a fairly new boiler and BG's Hive system.

We currently use a schedule of:

0645 - 0815 – 20º
0815 - 1500 – 19º
1500 - 2200 – 20º
2200 - 0645 – 15º

If we feel cold at any point, we boost it to 23º for an hour or so.

I work from home, the little 'un is out during school hours and for various activities, and Mrs. M. works about five shifts a week away from home but is here otherwise.

Looking at the Hive graph (we don't pay for the "Plus" version, so it's just one day's data), it looks like we touched down at around the 15º overnight. If I'm understanding it correctly, the heating came on in three short bursts during that time to maintain that temperature.

We don't have smart meters, so I really don't have any way of knowing for sure what it's all costing, but our combined electricity and gas bill is currently £206. We then get the £67 back to us a couple of weeks later each month.

We did recently have the loft re-insulated, and it was chuffin' freezing up there when I went up on Tuesday, so the insulation definitely appears to be working!

I was thinking about age too. I know we've had a warm november and then it's plummeted to temperatures lower than normal for this time of year, but my body is definitely suffering more this year than last year. 

If I just wave my hand in the air, I can feel the coldness. Checked all the window seals and there's a *tiny* amount of air here and there, but nothing really dodgy. I've bought some sticky draft excluder things for the windows anyway as they're cheap as chips and definitely cheaper than getting new windows.

WHEN WILL IT END

Sunday, apparently.

That's nothing to do with keeping warm, though.

sick filth

The “heatwave” is only Sun - Tue though, isn’t it?

It’s on the downturn here again after that…

It doesn't look like we're returning to a daily average of -5/-6 though. Which is the killer. It's basically arctic air we're getting when normally we'd be getting lovely European or Atlantic