What to do about my cold house!

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Thats way to much mate, you need to get off these pre payment metres, they cost a fortune in the long run.
First thing I did in my house when we moved in was to get rid.

I did a thread on it 3 years ago...

http://www.Rabroad.com/forums/general-chat/683518-how-do-you-pay-gas-electric.html
 
Had a quick look at your thread will have a read properly in a bit, but someone made a comment that the Internet deals are the best, like I post a few posts up the difference with British gas is only £5 for an average month.
 
As far as I was aware people have these meters put in if they fall into debt, which means for every top up you make a certain amount goes towarRAB that debt. You may be paying for someone else's debt.
 
Well hopefully it should be both really as it was costing a fortune before to keep it as cosy as possible so if this keeps the heat in hopefully I'll not need it on so much.
 
Na we changed to BG when we moved in, so should be ok. I think many people have these as a way of keeping track of the money they spend.

Plus as a landlord it's better than having to case previous tenants that haven't laid there bills.
 
We switched to BG from SE when we moved in to our house but the meter still had a huge debt on it, just because you change supplier does not reset the meter or so we found out, It was costing us £24 A DAY!!!! servicing somebody elses debt, it did get refunded but was bloody shocking to start with
 
only just seen this htread and read from the first page upto here lol

our 1 bedroom flat is in a big old converted house and alot of the things you have said i can relate too ie having the thermo on 21 constantly just to get the flat "warm" then once you turn the heating of it gets cold very quickly and using extra duvets (we use 2 15togs i think), using £3-5 on gas a day

we have massive single pain windows probley 10ft by 4ft so we always have the curtains closed to keep the warmth in and very high ceilings which i think doesnt help as it takes longer to heat the room up?

ive asked about getting double glazing fitted but was told its a listed building so no

think il phone tomorrow and see if the building has had cavity walls done or maybe it doesnt have cavity walls

all in tho been a very good read
 
Hi,
Hope it's been of some help to you.

I was told that my house didn't have cavities, firstly by the inspection guy at the council, he used google street view to look at the property (!), then the guy who came to size up the house to have the cavity wall insulation done said they looked like the ones with no cavity, I said that I had drilled through it myself putting an outside socket on and know I went through a cavity. He drilled various test holes and stuck his bendy telescope thing into the holes, and of course there it was, the cavity.

So don't let anyone say you don't have cavities without them checking PROPERLY first!
 
Well just had the surveyor come round and there adding another 8" of insulation for free

Just got to move all the crap out the attic now
 
Nice one!!

That's a good result, just goes to show sometimes it's worth asking! :-)

I definatly think we noticed the difference since having the cavity done, the heating isn't on for as long and it seems to stay warm.

Happy days so far!!
 
Putting 8" of additional insulation in the loft doesn't do much good if then compress it with boxes of stuff!

Our loft has 12" of blown in insulation and it effectively renders the loft useless. I could probably build a false floor above the insulation, but as soon as you put a box on and compress it it will lose a huge chunk of its r-value!
 
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