What are you all up to

It should have been a milestone birthday, but no, the “interesting” bit of the milestone reached isn’t available for another year. I’m not sure access to a bus pass has the same interest, but I will check out rail passes. Given the last few years, and the health scares he’s endured, it’s good enough to hit a certain age in one piece. 🥳

I had my uncles's house rewired when I inherited it in 2014.  It has 2 rooms downstairs, plus kitchen, 2 bedrooms and a large bathroom and I seem to remember that it was around 2,500 and they charged around 150 extra to fit a shower over the bath! I think that I made the mistake of getting a number of quotes, instead of going for just the one. 

How can they decide that gas heating costs £1.65 per hour?  Surely must depend on how powerful your boiler is, how big your house is, how cold it is  outside, and how hot you keep it inside.

With our new boiler and the tado  control system, we are keeping the living room, kitchen, upstairs toilet, landing and downstairs hall heated to 19-22 degrees, from 08.00-22.30, unless the TRVs turn things off.    Plus our bathroom morning and evening for a few hours to 21-23 degrees, and the rest of the rooms to a minimum of 15 degrees.

 Yesterday we were home all day and it was very cold, we used 96  kWh of gas, which cost about £7 at the current prices.

Something wrong with their arithmetic! 

Having a bus pass is the only advantage of getting old. We only tend to use ours when we are away in the caravan. Last weekend we stayed on the CCC Braithwaite site a few miles outside Keswick. It was great to leave the car on site and jump on the bus  only 50m from the entrance. A few minutes and you are in the middle of Keswick. 

From what I remember they quoted a 24kwh boiler on an average family home with no more than 10 radiators.

They used the current gas price. 

I'll see if I can find the report. 

It was Ideal Home who did the report they quoted at 6.89p per KwH using a 24kw boiler it would work out at £1.65 per hour.

Day started off well. Door bell rang just before 9 am and a neighbour handed OH her winnings from a raffle that was made for people donating to a cancer charity. A nice CK travel bag and 6 free days at a Gym/Spa. She handed the free passes back asking for the participants who were the ones being sponsored for the charity event to be given them. They're younger and fitter than us so they'll get more use and deserve them.

We then visited our local Range and OH found one of those plastic storage box with 5 drawers in that she's being trying to find. Had to be a certain size and this one had 1" to spare.

So one happy bunny.🐰😃

Did I receive anything. Yep, a bowel screening kit and results from my consultant that I've waiting for. No happy bunny on this side of the bed.

Wish the "free" bus pass was UK wide and not just restricted to one country. 

TG

Appreciate that you were quoting the source you mentioned. Like Kj I was a bit surprised at how high the costs were. I can only say what we pay for the gas we use aided by my Hive and Octopus Energy apps. Having read what Ideal Home said I thought I would check. Yesterday (as an example) outside temperature was around 6 degrees during the day, so not freezing. Our boiler (fairly new and no idea what Kw it is, perhaps I should check!) The boiler was running for just over 5 hours in that 24 hour period. I can work out that it was costing me about 69p and hour plus of course the daily standing charge of 26p. I might depend on what temperature the system is running at and what temperature the heating stat is set at. To my logic if you run at a higher temperature the boiler would just be running for more hours rather than using more gas per hour. I could have that totally wrong of course! Does Kj know?

David

Something strange happened on here last night as two of the posts that I replied to do not show my responses although there are others I submitted are there. Hey ho, yet another glitch in the system!!

Happy birthday to your OH, tda, and pleased to read that you are recovering from your colds. I am suffering myself but it is taking a while to shift.

Congratulations to your OH, WN, on her winnings and finding just the right size of storage box.

We have had two sunny days and the snow has just about gone, although it did freeze overnight, so some surfaces were rather slippery first thing, and we have had a very chilly wind for most of the day. 

 I hope the nellies can get away on their planned trip soon.

Millie, yesterday we postponed going on our trip until Friday, thinking that the roads would be clear by then, as we were going to the C&CC's Windermere site, However early this morning we got a phone call from their HO to inform us that they have had to cancel the booking completely because of the amount of snow on the site and it was not opening until 15th. So we won't be heading off until next Monday to the second of our booked sites.

on here

 Nellie

I sometimes post and what I have posted does not appear. Sometimes a refresh works but I sometimes have to check my profile and look at my latest posts there. No idea what causes it but as we all know this software is well past its sell by date!

David