Mines set to 21 and find that quite OK

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Lets be careful out there !

The only energy crisis in my home is, she don't feel up to doing the garden, or will do it after the housework, or when I get back from shopping, cleaning the car, or the laundry, when she was younger did all this, and bring up two kids, my how times change! a squirt of easystart in the cold weather does the trick so no real probs at the moment

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Its not always the biggest and the bestest, its them that make the least mistakes.

I hope that's after she's cooked your breakfast and washed the plates ?

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Lets be careful out there !

Mine is set at 19 at night, 20 in the day time. That even with the wind and snow blowing. However, the walls and doors are well insulated.

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Some good points raised by Westonman about room temperatures there, and it doesn't only relate to the elderly.

For the last month Iv'e had to have my heating on far higher than I would like or can realistically afford owing to health isssues. I live in a ground floor flat, and my upstairs neighbour has personally thanked me for the fact I have heated her flat at no cost to herself as the heat I am paying for has seeped upwards.

Probably the best tip I can give elderly people worried about escalating energy bills is to wrap themselves in an electric blanket.
They could turn the heating down or off on warmer days and the electricity used by the blanket should be no more than about £2.00 per day.

We all know the real issues is high energy prices but all the while the market is structured as it is these will not be decreasing any time soon.

A lot or posters heaped praise on Maggie Thatcher in the other thread but conveniently forget it was her Government which privatised the energy utilities. Cartels and rising prices are what you get in a free market.

Having the heat high can create illness, one it drys the air to much. It's better to have the tempiture in the mid to low 20's and dress warm.

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its only unhealthy , if you dont have any windows open

I leave early in the morning ,and my house is the only one with the bedroom windows open
its no wonder people catch colds etc from each other

just checked my meters , happy days , still £90 in credit

Pre 1970's we never had central heating and everyone got on ok back then.

Sure it was a real pain to light the fire every day but because of it families would congregate in the one warm room in the house instead of retreating to their own centrally heated rooms to play gaming consoles or watch (another TV).

Did old people die of the cold back then? I suppose some did but coal was a cheap energy source although of course it had some drawbacks.

One day possibly quite soon it will again become a significant energy resource as looming crisis forces us to re-open the vast reserves under our feet.