My electricity bill has just tripled: how about yours? Alternative suppliers?

[gentlegreen]

I lived with a mate who felt similar but spent most of the time in his shorts with his top off. I on the other hand start feeling headachy and stifled at anything above 20 C

All the online advice says that people our age will die of hypothermia at anything lower than 21 ...

 

[gentlegreen]

I've set my heating of my one room to 17 and it's been ending up at around at least 18 with me and my PC and a bit of solar gain...
Yesterday it didn't fire up and hit 21.
Today it needed a couple of KWH and is currently now 18.
When I get back from my afternoon bike ride I have to sit here for a bit with no top on drying off and cooling down.

It's not that I can't afford the energy, it's simply wrong - as well as unhealthy.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I lived with a mate who felt similar but spent most of the time in his shorts with his top off. I on the other hand start feeling headachy and stifled at anything above 20 C

Ditto, it used to be hard visiting mother, she would heat to 25c.

 

[existentialist]

Ditto, it used to be hard visiting mother, she would heat to 25c.

I think the problem is that, as we get older, we tend to FEEL colder. But then it's no more than a couple of hundred years since people believed that the temperature was what they felt it to be, lacking any objective means of measurement - I think that must still linger on.

 

[gentlegreen]

Round my sister's they piss money away on heating partly due to keeping the back door ajar to give the dogs access to the garden...
As with the rest of their appalling lifestyle habits that are killing them slowly they think I'M the weirdo...