4th day without gas

[Rhythm Thief]

Well I'm sitting here doing the same - working under two duvets in some warm clothes. It's OK as long as I stay in the same room and keep having warm drinks. What a skinflint...! Actually I quite like it.

That's what I meant by "my Yorkshire upbringing". Nothing to do with greater tolerance of cold, I'm just a tight bugger.

 

[al78]

We rarely use the heating. We sleep under two duvets as a matter of course and wear more jumpers if it's cold. It's snowing outside here and the heating isn't on. Must be my Yorkshire upbringing.

Do you ever have problems with damp? Problem is that when the temperature drops indoors you tend to get condensation so how do you lower the humidity if you don't put the heating on?

 

[al78]

We rarely use the heating. We sleep under two duvets as a matter of course and wear more jumpers if it's cold. It's snowing outside here and the heating isn't on. Must be my Yorkshire upbringing.

Do you ever have problems with damp? Problem is that when the temperature drops indoors you tend to get condensation so how do you lower the humidity if you don't put the heating on?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Do you ever have problems with damp? Problem is that when the temperature drops indoors you tend to get condensation so how do you lower the humidity if you don't put the heating on?

The bedroom is damp, but that's mostly because the chimney breast leaks quite badly. (It's being fixed, or it will be as soon as it stops snowing.) The chap who came to advise us about the damp problem told us that central heating actually makes the damp problem worse - especially in a house like ours, where every room has three outside walls - and what we really need is a big woodburner in the lounge, stoked up so it heats the whole house and keeps air moving through all the rooms. Unfortunately, our horrible '70s gas fire has a back boiler on it, and we'd need to modify the whole heating system before we could fit a woodburner. Maybe the next spare £2 000 we have will go on that.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Do you ever have problems with damp? Problem is that when the temperature drops indoors you tend to get condensation so how do you lower the humidity if you don't put the heating on?

The bedroom is damp, but that's mostly because the chimney breast leaks quite badly. (It's being fixed, or it will be as soon as it stops snowing.) The chap who came to advise us about the damp problem told us that central heating actually makes the damp problem worse - especially in a house like ours, where every room has three outside walls - and what we really need is a big woodburner in the lounge, stoked up so it heats the whole house and keeps air moving through all the rooms. Unfortunately, our horrible '70s gas fire has a back boiler on it, and we'd need to modify the whole heating system before we could fit a woodburner. Maybe the next spare £2 000 we have will go on that.

 

[Twenty Inch]

Ceedee that sounds really nasty.

I've been expecting this sort of thing for a while, and have made sure that we could cook, keep warm and stay comfortable if we lost the leccy or gas. We have a camping cooker with spare bottles, extra clothing, candles, lanterns, hot water bottles, spare duvets and lots of socks available in the house. We don't have any extra heaters, but we will have soon.

 

[Twenty Inch]

Ceedee that sounds really nasty.

I've been expecting this sort of thing for a while, and have made sure that we could cook, keep warm and stay comfortable if we lost the leccy or gas. We have a camping cooker with spare bottles, extra clothing, candles, lanterns, hot water bottles, spare duvets and lots of socks available in the house. We don't have any extra heaters, but we will have soon.

 

[velocidad]

We rarely use the heating. We sleep under two duvets as a matter of course and wear more jumpers if it's cold. It's snowing outside here and the heating isn't on. Must be my Yorkshire upbringing.

i'm with you RT, i'm quite a scrooge with heating.it's partly environmental and partly financial that drives that. now i'm not saying i'd like to be stuck without heating altogether and certainly feel for those saying they're in this position, but with velocimum at work and velocison at school, there's not much point heating the house for me. i usually pop it on for an hour between 3pm and 4pm and that gets us up to about 16 degrees which usually does us. we never heat our bedroom and always have the window open. just what ya get used to i spose.

 

[velocidad]

We rarely use the heating. We sleep under two duvets as a matter of course and wear more jumpers if it's cold. It's snowing outside here and the heating isn't on. Must be my Yorkshire upbringing.

i'm with you RT, i'm quite a scrooge with heating.it's partly environmental and partly financial that drives that. now i'm not saying i'd like to be stuck without heating altogether and certainly feel for those saying they're in this position, but with velocimum at work and velocison at school, there's not much point heating the house for me. i usually pop it on for an hour between 3pm and 4pm and that gets us up to about 16 degrees which usually does us. we never heat our bedroom and always have the window open. just what ya get used to i spose.

 

[Campfire]

No gas - how on earth did we used to manage? We never had central heating until I was about 15. Although I do not have the heat on during the day unless I am sitting for a while (I sneakily put on the gas fire for a bit) I try to use layers and the heat goes on around 5. This weather I've been putting it on a bit earlier. Far too expensive to shell out to energy companies nowadays!

Ceedee I hope you get sorted soon. Jane, I hope your heating is soon fixed. My neighbours have just had some pipes burst & water's leaking. I was looking after the same house last year whilst owners were in Spain when it failed. It was a nightmare. The house is now rented for a while until they sell it. Poor tenants!

I suppose all this contributes to reasons why people go to live in Spain?

 

[Globalti]

It's bloody cold in Spain in winter - real, high altitude inland Spain, I mean, not the holiday resort that stretches along the coast.

Tres meses de invierno y nueve meses de infierno.

 

[ColinJ]

It's bloody cold in Spain in winter - real, high altitude inland Spain, I mean, not the holiday resort that stretches along the coast.

Tres meses de invierno y nueve meses de infierno.

A mate of mine discovered that when he emigrated to Spain a few years back to escape the UK traffic and winters. He was living in an old stone outhouse in a mountain village and woke up snowed in one winter morning with icicles hanging from the ceiling!

He'd soon had enough of that and ended up in Tenerife. I'm currently getting emails from him describing how he's sunbathing every day under blue skies with temperatures well into the 20s!

 

[Ceedee]

Thanks for everyones sympathy. Just an update on the situation, still no gas and no idea of when it will be reconnected but the good news is

"Because of the disruption caused over the New Year, and the on-going inconvenience caused by the loss of supply, as a one-off goodwill gesture, we are increasing the amount of compensation we will be paying customers from the statutory agreed amount of £30 per day to £50 per day. We hope this goes some way towards showing customers our gratitude for their on-going patience, and of course, it also covers any additional costs associated with runnning electrical heaters and buying convenience food and take-away meals."

so turn up those electric heaters and get the take-away rung

 

[Twenty Inch]

You can get a little camping heater with 4 spare gas bottle of Ebay for about 20 quid delivered - it'll heat one room in the house at least.

 

[Ceedee]

You can get a little camping heater with 4 spare gas bottle of Ebay for about 20 quid delivered - it'll heat one room in the house at least.

All sorted now, Thanks.