"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
whiskeyomega wrote:
Is it bad news to have a house with septic tank and storage heaters and
no mains gas and a flat roof on an extension? Or is he being bloody
silly?

IMHO, the main thing would be to get some form of affordable heating. Is
wood for burning readily available since you live in a rural area?

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I don't think that our heating is unaffordable really. It may not be as
warm as others but it being on would help

We are currently heating the whole place on one large heater in the hall
( 3.4 kw) and one small heater in the sitting room ( 1.7kw) , There are two
heaters in the sitting room but we have the smaller of the two on. To give
you an idea the sitting room is 20ft x 13ft. The dining room next to it is
10ft x 12ft . Both bedrooms are 12ft x12ft and neither has a room heater
on. The hall heater is supposed to heats them ( its a 3.4 kw ) but the
kitchen sucks a lot of heat from the hall. The kitchen is freezing to be
honest and wet - water down the windows and water down the tiles on the
walls and mould growing on the ceiling across the coor and windows.

He just says we cant afford to put the heating on but I work and get £200 a
week and he has £200 a week pension - ok so not as much as we got when he
was working .

He just wont let anything be done.

On and there isn't a supply of wood. We would have to open up a fireplace
anyway and we don't have a fire grate, and we don't have a boiler and we
don't even know what the previous owners did when they blocked the
fireplaces up. We could find ourselves knocking out breeze blocks and find
nothing in behind at all. I doubt I could afford the money to put a new
fireplace in there - and the cost of coal according to my parents is rather
more than our electric right now.

Besides he us just hell bent on seeing us freeze with some Victorian idea of
going in the poor house ( I am not kidding - he seems to think we are going
to be poor because he is now on a pension)