Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

I don't mean popping out to the shop but if you have to take the bin out it's handy.

Slippers are to keep your feet warm and floors clean, indoors!

Meh, I've got a 2 and a 1 year old. I've given up on having clean floors ever again.

Ah, fair enough.

I've got 2x 1 year olds and its made me be more strict about outdoor shoes on in the house.

We don't wear shoes in the house, but after having two kids in two years and living in a building site of a house for the last year I'm not exactly precious about popping outside with slippers on once in a while.

Meh, I've got a 2 and a 1 year old. I've given up on ever enjoying life again.

I've lined up a thermal camera to borrow this weekend so will have a bit more of a look at my place and see where all my heat is going. I assume I want to bump up the heating to get it a fair bit warmer than outdoors (which isn't going to be that cold). Anything else to consider?

I'm borrowing it from this group https://mhsgroup.org/ for anyone else in North London who is looking to get one.

I very much enjoy life, by embracing the mess.

I am on EON and they are offering me fixed at VERY similar rates, ran it through Martin Lewis calculator here: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/-are-there-any-cheap--fixed-energy-deals-currently-worth-it--/

And it says this; shall I fix or wait as the prices are falling according to new.

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Take this with a pinch of salt as I'm just a random energy market consultant on the internet, but our view for the last couple months has been and continues to be that wholesale prices will continue to generally trend downwards at least until March.

For context, wholesale power prices for the coming summer and winter are 30% lower than they were a month ago, and less than half what they were when the news was predicting the energy bill apocalypse ca. the start of September.

There are good reasons why this is the case, but it largely boils down to the fact that everyone (domestic/industry) is using less power/gas because - surprise - it's really expensive.

• They won't give you a deal that they don't expect to make money on
  
• You don't have a better idea of where energy prices are going to go than they do
  
  

Ergo only do it if you need absolutely certainty that your bills won't go up from where they are now, or if you want to gamble on them being wrong about prices starting to go downward

On the other hand if there's no/very low exit fees then there's no downside really, just take the deal and leave if variable prices drop

Good points both! Thank you.

Reckon this window seal was once round or perhaps its the more diamond shaped one?

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Apt!

Warm winter may lower energy bills later this year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64162811

Warm winter may increase energy provider profits later this year

More realistically.

The unit cost has dropped massively at wholesale, we'll see how long it take for them to pass on the cost.

Further to conservation area and Listed Building issues when it comes to energy and thermal improvements - Kensington and Chelsea currently has a Listed Building Consent Order For Window Works out for consultation. It's still quite restrictive but allows secondary glazing to any existing window and double glazing in some circumstances. You can give your support, disagree and/or give comment:
https://planningconsult.rbkc.gov.uk/LLBCO/consultationHome - CONSULTATION CLOSES 9th JAN

This follows a consultation for installation of solar panels last year. The draft is here: https://consult.rbkc.gov.uk/communities/building-consent-order-solar-panels/

Likely to be Reddiplex R6160
https://jcphardware.co.uk/r6160-bubble-gasket-upvc-window-door-double-glazing-rubber-seal/

That looks very promising - thank you.

Having a bit of a play with a thermal camera. Looks like I do lose heat up the chimney. Solution seems to be to add more stuff to my cupboard of electrical stuff ...

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Quite a few places will sell a sample kit of seals to allow you to identify what fits your window.

What model cam is this out of interest please?

It's a Flir C3.

how do people like the swedes and the canadians keep their houses warm during -30c spells of cold weather. should we be learning lessons from they way they do things or have they just htfu'd