Is your house warm or cold

Mariasofia wrote: »

Thats a euphemism right?

No, more of a labrador

catallus wrote: »

If you pay for gas to heat or run anything then you're going to go broke really really fast.

Body Heat ftw.

Not if your abode is well-insulated. Sadly, this is a rarity in Ireland.

My dads house is the warmest house EVER. It's duel heated with solid fuel and oil. We have a farm, so my brother spends a lot of time going round with a chainsaw and an axe cutting up firewood, and there's two bogs too so lots of turf, so there's no such thing as being careful with it.

The house has recently had insulation be stuffed in between the walls and up in the attics too, and the house has recently been draught proofed, with thingys on windows and doors.

Then in sitting room and living room there's an open fire which anytime I'm home during winter, ill have belting out.

Then - you have the house I'm renting. God! I'm in a house share, that people actually move out of in winter as its so cold. It's a massive house, very cool the rest of the year, but then once it starts to get cold, it's awful. It's oil heating but nobody will put oil in the tank as a) nobody wants to commit to staying here that long and b) last time they out 200 in each someone at home all day left the heating on all the time and opened the windows when it got too warm.

The house is like an igloo. My clothes are damp in the wardrobe and clothes that I wash and hang up to dry, are still wet 3 weeks later.
I have electric blanket on my bed to keep bed from being damp, and I'm going to buy a radiator for my room and for the laundry room for drying clothes

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tim3000 wrote: »

I can see my breath in some of the rooms of this house. Have a fire and a back boiler thing but it is notoriously inefficient and doesnt dissipate the heat to the rads at all. Curse this house.

There's no real reason a back-boiler should be inefficient, i think, maybe you just need to bleed your rads.

April O Neill II wrote: »

Not if your abode is well-insulated. Sadly, this is a rarity in Ireland.

My experience of using gas was in a very badly insulated open plan apt with floor to ceiling windows and paper-thin walls, so maybe I'm not being very objective about the whole gas efficiency thing :rolleyes:, but still I get very badly upset when I see ads for calorgas and remember the €€€€€€100000's I paid to those bloody extortionate basterds. Although I do remember their sales assistant had a very sexy voice. She was very sexily voicedly robbing me. From cork she was, I think. Can't remember her name now. What a bitch.

spcw wrote: »

You must be a women.

Simese?!

catallus wrote: »

My experience of using gas was in a very badly insulated open plan apt with floor to ceiling windows and paper-thin walls, so maybe I'm not being very objective about the whole gas efficiency thing :rolleyes:, but still I get very badly upset when I see ads for calorgas and remember the €€€€€€100000's I paid to those bloody extortionate basterds. Although I do remember their sales assistant had a very sexy voice. She was very sexily voicedly robbing me. From cork she was, I think. Can't remember her name now. What a bitch.

I lived in gaffs where the gas heating system was as useful as teapot made out of ice because of poor insulation.

But I lived in gas-heated house which was phenomenal for holding heat. You only needed to put the heat on for an hour in the evening in the dead of winter and the house would be toasty all night. Cold by the time morning rolled round, mind, but it wasn't a magic house so twas to be expected. :pac:

Doublepost.