jansman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:21 amHow are you finding your power costs?
Personally we don’t consider our power usage and cost to be over the top. Don’t get me wrong,it is expensive compared to let’s say a couple of years ago,but our way of living is economically viable. Nor do I / we earn a load of money either. But of course,that’s us.
I let my power utility set the monthly direct debit amount, I watched what I used really carefully, and 3 months ago, they lowered the amount by 25%. I'm happy to report that even though we've just had winter (not the coldest ever, but even here down south, we had 3 or 4 days of snow), I'm still £17 in credit
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I used to expect to be negative credit by winter's end, but I'm not. And I'm taking a tip from you once the sun's out a bit more, in actually using my solar panel to charge my phone
Yesterday I sold our two cast iron multi fuel stoves. Well,sold one,swapped one. Got a nice 5kw compact version,along with chimney etc to fit our smaller fireplace in a real TEOTWAWKI situation. The chimneys are now shut off but can easily be opened and stove fitted in minutes. My wife knows how. That stove has been stored appropriately in my workshop. To be honest I can see the solid fuel being gradually outlawed,but if there is SHTF there’s a back up . Wood is not a problem for fuel either locally .Indeed there’s a few bags of smokeless fuel,and tinder stashed in case of an emergency. I’ve put in another spare gas bottle too in case of power cuts. Our heating is bang on now. I’ve got to say that remote control electric is brilliant!
I like the sound of that! I've got one of those little gas fires that runs on tiny cartridges, and with all the tree pruning I've been doing recently, I've kept the trunks - they're not very wide, but they'll help for a power cut of a few days.