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The below average temperatures, which mean I have the open fire on most days, got me thinking about next winter.
I have oil central heating in this house, (rental so not my choice) but last year it cost me £300 for 500lt which lasted a scant two months, so this year have decided to not buy any (can`t anyway) and buy the small free standing room radiators and instead put what cash I can into my electricity meter. Even though it`ll still be expensive it will be cheaper than oil! I was going to buy the oil filled rads but someone elsewhere recommended convector heaters instead so having looked online at the two, I`ll go with those.
This is a four bedroomed crofthouse with only two bedrooms in use, plus livingroom and kitchen and a concrete built, add-on 70`s bathroom that is like a fridge even in summer!
Health and safety would no doubt have a hissy fit but I intend to (and have done in the past) run an extension lead into the bathroom to plug a rad into, otherwise the room is near unuseable, in minus twenty degrees last winter not only could you see your breath in there, there was ice on the inside and you were in danger of hypothermia if you stripped off to bath!
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Apart from that, I`m trying to get a store of peat and coal together but it`s hard, prices have gone up and we are needing the fire lit almost every day due to the weather being cold and wet.
And I`ll be buying paraffin lamps...can anyone tell me if I could burn vegetable oil in a paraffin lamp?
And candles, etc, plus making patchwork quilts for over our knees in the evenings.
Is anyone else thinking ahead to winter already?