Owning your own home

Is this offer still available?

I have been with Bulb Energy a year.

As recognition of that, they are offering double referral kick back for the week.

So if you sign up to Bulb this week using my code you get £100 credit in your account and so do I.
http://www.bulb.co.uk/refer/will1561

Cheaper than other utilities, 100% renewable energy, no contract exit fees and £100 in your sky rocket?
Get with the programme.

You literally just have to click that link to find out.

I've got a couple of rooms that aren't being used frequently at the moment so I was pondering setting the heating at different levels in them.

Trying to work out how much it will save in heating costs compared to the cost of fitting some kind of thermostatic valve but I'm struggling to find info on what the incremental cost of running one radiator (gas combi boiler, not electric) is when the heating is on. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

How do you mean, are there radiators in these rooms? With valves? If so just turn them down?

You are over thinking it.
Just turn the rads down or off in the rooms you aren't using and get on with your life.

You can buy TRVs for under £10 - a finger in the air says this is worth the cost.

You can easily work it out by comparing meter reads with a fully running rad against a closed rad.

8k to fit a bathroom inc building a dividing stud wall and underfloor heating, bit much no? Thats not including any bathroom suite.

ouch, this is exactly is our top priority when we move in, we were told we can stick improvements on the mortgage though

Depends on the size of the bathroom, work required etc.

Ours was £12k and included the following:

1. Full rip out, new subfloor (and insulation), new ceiling (and insulation), new stud wall (and insulation) & replaster
   
2. New plumbing for shower, basin, toilet & washing machine
   
3. New shower unit, shower enclosure, shower panels, vanity unit, tap, mirror, toilet, towel rail, extractor fan & window sills
   
4. New subfloor (and insulation) & replaster in downstairs hall
   
5. New floor (Karndean vinyl) in bathroom and downstairs hall
   

Cheers for the sense check.

Maybe not miles off then, but this is without any sanitary gubbins - toilet, tiles, shower, anything, which adds another 5k or so. Maybe more. Defo more.

Pretty sure my last one was near half that price but it was a simpler and less spenny job.

Thats what we are doing too, but you can defo get a less spenny bathroom... this is a push the boat out affair.

Tiling,?

Included but not the tiles.

What parts are included?

How much of that is labour and if two people are working on it what’s their day rate?

It's pretty much no parts included, except simple lights and underfloor heating... I would supply tiles and suite, its a pretty extensive breakdown which only has a couple of ambiguous costs here and there, day rates are not listed as I guess they vary between trades.

My in laws had a simple bathroom done and it went up to 15k but thats because they just went with the local big fitter who obv back on lots of extra costs but they were happy to pay as they are elderly and don't want the hassle of project management.

It's prob a very fair quote, its just a fair bit of money and I'm usually pretty tight.

I'd actually somehow forgotten that you can just turn the radiator off.

Although on closer inspection I'm not sure whether I should be turning this:

or this:

Neither has anything obvious on it.

Top one clearly does say something on it, and it has serrated finish which suggests that it's made for turning.

Bit of dusting wouldn't go amiss :-)

I hadn't noticed that, that does look promising.

I did say that I use the room infrequently, cleaning the rooms I use is tough enough (and there may be some building work going on there too).

I'm not one to talk. I try to keep the kitchen cleanish: that's about it.

Radiator valve should be on the right hand side if you just want to turn that off.

You may need to pop the plastic bit off altogether to get to the actual lockshield valve

Might want to remove the pube before giving it a turn ;)

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That's my porridge ruined...

That's an infinity pube. It'll just keep coming back.

Seriously though, you should upgrade to TRV's on the radiators.

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