Electric heating
Jan 24th 2013 | 3:19 am
#16
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From: Lot et Garonne
Re: Electric heating
We're not far from Gers, about 15 mins and yes it got to -16 last year.
We have a woodburner that does our kitchen/dining room (we move into here for the winter)
We have electric heating in the front room, I had a colleague here so we had to keep this going for longer than normal, and electric heating in the bathroom and 3 bedrooms.
By the end of winter we will have used 400e worth of wood and I think our last leccy bill was about 250e for two months. I expect this to creep up a little. I think in the summer it's about 180e
We also use an oil burner in my office and the hallway that runs at 25e a week! If we don't put it on in the hallway the core of the house gets cold. How I wished we bought a smaller house and one with insulation. We plan to put another wood burner in the hallway.
We have a woodburner that does our kitchen/dining room (we move into here for the winter)
We have electric heating in the front room, I had a colleague here so we had to keep this going for longer than normal, and electric heating in the bathroom and 3 bedrooms.
By the end of winter we will have used 400e worth of wood and I think our last leccy bill was about 250e for two months. I expect this to creep up a little. I think in the summer it's about 180e
We also use an oil burner in my office and the hallway that runs at 25e a week! If we don't put it on in the hallway the core of the house gets cold. How I wished we bought a smaller house and one with insulation. We plan to put another wood burner in the hallway.
I don't really understand how!
Jan 24th 2013 | 5:17 am
#17
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Re: Electric heating
crikey ours is 190 and a big house with two water heaters and no heures creuses
Jan 24th 2013 | 5:37 am
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Re: Electric heating
I would imagine your meter has been read recently and your bill adjusted accordingly. I hope that the latest bill is just to pay off the excess and your monthly standing order will be raised to take the increased consumption into account. This often happens if one buys a house whose previous owner kept the heating very low and walked around looking like Captain Scott.
If you're sure the loft hasn't been insulated, this must be your number one priority; as you will remember from your physics lessons, warm air rises, and in your case may well be merely heating God's backside, instead of yours.
(The French call it "chauffer le Bon Dieu.")
It's an easy job as long as there is easy access (we're not talking about God's backside any more). Insulation ten centimetres thick (de la laine de verre) is a minimum; I'm told twenty is near perfect. Go to a DIY store, load up with the required number of rolls and just roll it out on the loft floor. Bob's your uncle. A doddle. And guaranteed to keep the house much warmer.
PB
Jan 24th 2013 | 5:46 am
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Re: Electric heating
Hi,
I would imagine your meter has been read recently and your bill adjusted accordingly. I hope that the latest bill is just to pay off the excess and your monthly standing order will be raised to take the increased consumption into account. This often happens if one buys a house whose previous owner kept the heating very low and walked around looking like Captain Scott.
If you're sure the loft hasn't been insulated, this must be your number one priority; as you will remember from your physics lessons, warm air rises, and in your case may well be merely heating God's backside, instead of yours. (The French call it "chauffer le Bon Dieu.")
It's an easy job as long as there is easy access (we're not talking about God's backside any more). Insulation ten centimetres thick (de la laine de verre) is a minimum; I'm told twenty is near perfect. Go to a DIY store, load up with the required number of rolls and just roll it out on the loft floor. Bob's your uncle. A doddle. And guaranteed to keep the house much warmer.
PB
I would imagine your meter has been read recently and your bill adjusted accordingly. I hope that the latest bill is just to pay off the excess and your monthly standing order will be raised to take the increased consumption into account. This often happens if one buys a house whose previous owner kept the heating very low and walked around looking like Captain Scott.
If you're sure the loft hasn't been insulated, this must be your number one priority; as you will remember from your physics lessons, warm air rises, and in your case may well be merely heating God's backside, instead of yours.
(The French call it "chauffer le Bon Dieu.") It's an easy job as long as there is easy access (we're not talking about God's backside any more). Insulation ten centimetres thick (de la laine de verre) is a minimum; I'm told twenty is near perfect. Go to a DIY store, load up with the required number of rolls and just roll it out on the loft floor. Bob's your uncle. A doddle. And guaranteed to keep the house much warmer.
PB
Jan 24th 2013 | 6:26 am
#20
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From: Provence
Re: Electric heating
We couldn't insulate the loft because we use it. BUT we did have insulation installed between the beams and the roof. More expensive but works really well
Jan 24th 2013 | 7:12 pm
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From: Lot et Garonne
Re: Electric heating
Hi,
I would imagine your meter has been read recently and your bill adjusted accordingly. I hope that the latest bill is just to pay off the excess and your monthly standing order will be raised to take the increased consumption into account. This often happens if one buys a house whose previous owner kept the heating very low and walked around looking like Captain Scott.
If you're sure the loft hasn't been insulated, this must be your number one priority; as you will remember from your physics lessons, warm air rises, and in your case may well be merely heating God's backside, instead of yours. (The French call it "chauffer le Bon Dieu.")
It's an easy job as long as there is easy access (we're not talking about God's backside any more). Insulation ten centimetres thick (de la laine de verre) is a minimum; I'm told twenty is near perfect. Go to a DIY store, load up with the required number of rolls and just roll it out on the loft floor. Bob's your uncle. A doddle. And guaranteed to keep the house much warmer.
PB
I would imagine your meter has been read recently and your bill adjusted accordingly. I hope that the latest bill is just to pay off the excess and your monthly standing order will be raised to take the increased consumption into account. This often happens if one buys a house whose previous owner kept the heating very low and walked around looking like Captain Scott.
If you're sure the loft hasn't been insulated, this must be your number one priority; as you will remember from your physics lessons, warm air rises, and in your case may well be merely heating God's backside, instead of yours.
(The French call it "chauffer le Bon Dieu.") It's an easy job as long as there is easy access (we're not talking about God's backside any more). Insulation ten centimetres thick (de la laine de verre) is a minimum; I'm told twenty is near perfect. Go to a DIY store, load up with the required number of rolls and just roll it out on the loft floor. Bob's your uncle. A doddle. And guaranteed to keep the house much warmer.
PB
It's the heating, I have been round, turned things on and off and that's what it is. We bought an electric for the girls bedroom, I wonder if we should bought an expensive one, maybe they are more efficient. I still can't quite believe it. Maybe there is a problem somewhere, or someone is tapping into our electricity
So I think we will get a another woodburner with a backboiler and run radiators off it. If anyone knows anyone that can do this in Lot et Garronne or Gers or anywhere around there.
