Standing charges

£1000 a year must mean you hardly have the heating on. My boys are now living together and both working from home... they see the bill rising super fast and wondered how their monthly use is over £200! They are turning the heat off in the day and sitting with hot water bottles in the backs of their chairs.

My main source of heating is the woodburner with 50% of the heat coming from wood I have scrounged. The only time the heating goes on is when I have a shower or bath. I have a gas fire in living room which is rarely used because I am rarely in that room. My back room (Chillout room) has the woodburner in it which heats that room plus the kitchen. I have also put up curtains on my open plan kitchen/diner so that if I want to in the depths of winter I can curtain off the back room and get it really toasty with Kato and I hugging the woodburner!