What are you all up to

I get travel sick on buses.  Always have, right from being a child. We’d rather go out in our warm, comfy, all comforts MH than queue for a bus, dragging the dog along, have to use horrible public conveniences, find somewhere that sells decent vegetarian food, carry our purchases around all day, have someone hacking and coughing all over us. I love trains, but not buses. 

TG

Appreciate that you were quoting the source you mentioned. Like Kj I was a bit surprised at how high the costs were.

As was I, which is why I posted it. As we don't have mains gas I can only go on what was reported by Ideal Home. It would appear from what Kj posted his usage is pretty similar to ours and the cost is comparable. 

DK, just worked it out they are quoting 6.89p per KwH for gas on a 24kw boiler. So 6.89 x by 24 = 1.65 they are quoting for the boiler to be running for the full hour. I'm pretty sure our boiler a (28kw) one doesn't run for an hour solid even from start up. 🙂

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Likewise David.  I quite often end up by writing a post twice, as the first one gets 'lost'....

David

Same here, David.  I quite often lose a post and have to write it again....  this is the second time for this one!!

David

Edit: ....and now the first one has appeared!!  🙂

Just shows how pretty useless these statistics are!     Bit like this price cap business when they quote the cost for an average family and house......is there such a thing as an average family and house?

At least   now the media are also saying that it does depend also on how much you actually use.

With heating there really are far too  many variables for an average cost to mean anything.   And as David said, how many people know the kW rating of their boiler?

Our boiler will run for an hour or more at start up in the morning, but once the rooms are up to the set temperature it can go off and on.   However modern boilers modulate......they burn less gas and reduce their output to match the heat demand,  I think  ours can go as low as 6kW, so although it is running, it is not burning that much gas.

The figures you found are quite likely to scare some people into not turning on their heating, which is rather irresponsible of Ideal Home IMO.

Best laid plans and all that... we’ve had a full weekend planned for a while at our caravan, meeting up with friends, table booked for a meal out with cousin, meeting up with Son and family, visiting the Christmas market. Then it rained and rained! We have been watching the river level closely, shall we shan’t we. Then OH got a stomach upset yesterday when we should have left, decided, with the river high and rising to cancel. Glad that we did, message from the Site this morning asking that people don’t travel there as the Site may have to close due to flooding. And it’s not as though we can just pop back home. We will have to go at some point to just finish the last of the winter pack up. Not too bothered if it floods when we aren’t there, we have floats fitted, but not much fun if we are there. A friend who lives in Stratford town just messaged that they had just received a flood alert from the Met Office, so we really did make the right decision.   Ah well off to Tesco now, every cloud.

Talking about heating........ours did not start up this morning at the set time, so it is a bit chilly here.   Nothing wrong with the boiler, just the internet.

We were due to switch broadband provider today, we are now on 3 Home  Broadband, we already had it all set up but were still using Plusnet .   However they very kindly cut us off at 4am, as shown by the lack of heating temperature records, so our tado system had no internet to use to turn on the boiler.

  Should have thought about that, but had not expected them to cut us off till later in the day.    Strangely, our phone line still seems to be connected meantime.

We were late home yesterday as we were looking after the 2 little ones while both parents were at SIL's drama club annual show.  DD is needed to operate the sound system and lights, and she was not home till well after 9pm.  She also had to be at her office in town yesterday, had to take the train, and walk the mile to the station, so she was pretty worn out when she got home.

We are also on duty today, but only for the afternoon, so have time to sort out internet related stuff.  2 of my Alexas are refusing to co-operate,  but the heating is now fine.