What to do about my cold house!

[Rhymenocerous]

[yorkshire]You were lucky![/yorkshire]

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[ButchQuique]

Whoops, No i made a slight mistake with the wording on that post.

The boiler thermostate didnt get touched in the summer either, just the wall stat

[Dina Forever]

The prices I quoted are from British Gas who our council were using at the time due to sum grant or something.

[Bulwinkle]

Well I probably should have mentioned that the original reason the fan was installed was because the people downstairs smoke and as its just floor boarRAB between the flats it made our flat stink, so the council fitted this fan to kind of pressurise our flat and if anything force air down into the flat brow and stop the smell. Which it did, but then I turned it off for a while due to the cold and we get mould and condensation.

[TMol56]

Not for free no.

[JT!]

Ring round and get quotes from other places, BG maybe expensive.

[Cassie xx]

Does sound like the property would benefit from cavity wall insulation and as such I'd try and see If you can find a way of getting it done at a more reasonable price. Had ours done a few years ago and It's made huge difference £££ .

What are the windows like single glazed, double glazed, large, small? if they're old are they fitted with draught excluders?

[ocean temp = 72]

Thanks for that, might try them and see if i can find these draughts

[!*Lil Me*!]

The windows are new, well they are double glassed, how long they've been there I don't know.

The other thing I've noticed is that we have open fires in most rooms, I have had to stuff black bags up them full of crunched up newspaper to stop dirty falling down onto our floor, they are a fair bit draughty to, you can really notice them when near then.

[HannahTheSwearBear]

Bet you never had to work a 27 hour day though