Cost of living crisis/kWh Measuring Contest

Ok, cool. I never take quotes like that very serious, I want to know material, labour etc as otherwise they also always end up noting something was more expensive than expected etc.

For solid wall wall insulation it's basically just taking off and resizing base boards, redoing any sockets, and then putting on battens and insulation, and then plaster. "Per room" for a terraced house this is just one wall, and even then just the bits round the windows!!! I guess the coving could be expensive to replicate. I think I previously paid like £1500 for that.

Just turned the thermostat down to 19.5C. I can't be heating the house when it's just me in a room in the corner.

@patrickewing - hah, I've played that every month since they introduced it and never won a thing.

That too. It is super useful to have, though. The girl really feels the cold, so we put it in her room rather than heat the entire house and whatnot.

Used to have an oil radiator at uni, as one house didn't have central heating. Cracking bit of kit.

Also as unless you have good internal insulation (who does?) you are effectively heating the whole house, due to heat loss to other rooms.

I've got WiFi thermostatic valves on every radiator (except hall and bathroom tower rails), so I can just turn on a single or selected set of rooms. But I still think it might be overall more efficient to not do too much zoning. That's what heating design YouTube videos tell me anyway...

We're getting to the nitty gritty here but your CH will reach your thermostat temp quite quickly and will then be using nowhere near 29kWh. And it will have warmed your whole house while doing it.

Your electric heaters are on nearly constantly* and will use their max rated energy rating pretty much continuously as they only temporarily* heat a very small space.

I can see having an electric heater on if it is literally one person at home in one closed room but go beyond that even a little bit and I'd personally put the CH on. And turn off/down radiator valves in any rooms are typically empty (and what's the difference compared to an electric heater in a different room).

With several people in the house it's no question. Use CH and adjust the radiator valves so people who like their rooms warmer can have it warmer. If you turn down your CH thermostat "to save money" but then top up the heat in different rooms with electric heaters you're almost certainly doing it wrong IMO.

*both due to lack of interior insulation

Yeah I think average actual UK requirement is 6-8kw, again for the coldest days.

I bring the bubble wrap to me by climbing inside a zorb ball while wrapped in my electric throw

Ah the joys of it all, my Direct Debit is going up by £77 but that doesn't take into account the £66 a month credit. So it's actually only going up by £11 for 6 months, then it's going back up....when the usage drops.

That's pretty damn convoluted.

I've just wrapped a bambino in bubble wrap, have I just invented infinite heat?

Us too, no idea how i fluked that.

There'll be no bubble wrap round here and just wearing shorts with taps aff inside all winter.

Next winter, bubble wrap aplenty.

I killed a TaunTaun and slept inside its corpse.