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

Lawless and shocking.

Well, looks like winter has hit. This was after the heating had been on for the past 6 hours.

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Oooft, chilly. Are you lacking insulation/effective rads/heating to heat the place?

Christ! My partner would have left and booked herself into a hotel.
Looking at the Tado stats last night when it was freezing it took from 12 midnight when the heating went off to 8am to drop from 22° to 19.1° (it’s half a degree lower actual temp as I offset it to avoid thermostat wars)

Do you live in a castle?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/help-to-save-households-money-and-deliver-cleaner-heat-to-homes

Bit of advice pls: (I think I’ve had some but lost it sorry)
Daughters room is north facing, no sun, ceiling is below the communal walkway above, central cupboard.
Room is cold. Always. But daughter is spicy and prefers it cool.
However, overnight, door closed, curtains and blind at window, window closed overnight.
Condensation. Can do a wipe in the morning but it builds up during the day too.
Windows are probably fucked and I’m not replacing as we might move.

Dehumidifier? Cloth? Oil rad?

Also under desk heater (my desk is under the stairs so in the hallway) it’s cold. I don’t want to heat the whole house when I just need the chill off.

I use an oil radiator in my son's room on a tado plug timer to warm it, but it doesn't deal with humidity really. His room is north facing, external walls and gets cold.
Running a dehumidifier in your room will warm it a little, but not much but maybe you don't need to warm it, will deal with humidity though.
Is the condensation just on windows, could do the cling film?

I feel for you, this is what our house used to be like, basically unheatable.

What’s your house and heating system like?

I run a dehumidifier during the day to remove as much moisture as possible. This keeps condensation sensible in my son's room at night with badly designed window bay (wood cladding>air gap>plasterboard, no insulation or moisture membrane.

It's a job next summer to rebuild and insulate. Also the windows in this house don't have cavity closers so it's also plasterboard closing the cavities meaning damp round all windows.

Heating doesn’t deal with humidity, it just makes warm moist air.
If cranked up silly high it could heat the glass to move the dew point but you really are better off spending the money on dehumidifier or opening all the windows to lower humidity and then closing and heating to a comfortable temp.

@skinny
Yeah, condensation on window only. Might try the cling film.

@Grumpy_Git @Mr_Smyth - it's time for a dehumidifier upstairs then.
I don't even want to think about the shonky double glazing tbh.

We have single glazing that was dripping, with clingfilm it's dry.

Any opinions on something like this to heat a room in place of a storage heater?

https://www.diy.com/departments/princess-electric-1500w-white-smart-panel-heater/8712836971868_BQ.prd

I use a oil radiator instead.

I don't want your weird mountain alternatives :P I want to know about this unit or at least similar units to this (if there's a better option).

House is a typical 1910s 3 bed, end of terrace so a big end wall we can't do much about (that doesn't get any sun) and high ceilings. Double glazed but pretty old and a fair few gaps, reasonable amount of loft insulation.

It seems that the radiators were specced to look pretty rather than heat rooms up. Cast iron style and pretty small given the size of the rooms.

I tried turning the boiler down to 35 degrees and left that overnight and during the day. Possibly kept the house slightly warmer but that may just have been down to warmer temperatures outside today.

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Oil radiator is quite standard, oil heats up and keeps warmer for longe distributing heat.

We recently redecorated our 1930s end terrace . Solid brick walls . In the bedrooms we added insulated plasterboard to the external walls, seems to be working a treat. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Knauf-XPS-Laminate-Plus-Tapered-Edge-Insulated-Plasterboard---27-x-1200-x-2400mm/p/163699

That's mad. Our place looks like that... if you don't heat it at all.

if you want to search for the original advice, search masturbation, as you commented that a boy wouldn’t have such problems due to heat produced by constant masturbation. Of course, i forgot the actual advice. There’s a hidden ‘over heard at the lfgss jock locker room’ thread and i scroll the forum looking for material to paste out of context

I think you’ll find that was a response to the gender stereotyping post of boys having huge gaming rigs which keeps their rooms warm.

I’m glad to have been quoted. In or out of context.

Now I’m off to write to the metro about this.

Octopus Agile customers: get paid to use power from 10:30pm to 8:30am tonight

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Thar she blows

How bad would this rad cover be for a room?

very bad, if you want to heat the room with the rad inside