There is temporary government help like furlough payments and bounce back loans for businesses for only like the last year of Coronavirus days. They want to help the whole economy to recover and they want to help the stress on small businesses, like your local garden centres. I think garden centres have seen improvements n business as long as they have on online presence and a delivery service because people in lockdown take to improving their homes and gardens.
This particular scheme is just tax breaks to big energy companies for hitting green targets. Nothing paid to the homeowner directly.
I thought it was much older than that @Lyn? I could have been benefiting for a few years then! It comes down to what often gets called the Mick Jagger theory [poor ol' Mick!] but the problem is that, like many Government 'systems', they aren't fit for purpose, so people who are well off and don't need it, can't refuse it. You'd have to get it, then give it to someone else. Bonkers.
Yes it is now, retirement age was 60 when I got. It’s 67 now,
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
This year the apartment is way warmer than last year when I was doing work on it. Last year I had half the apartment with its old carpets stripped off and the cement floor of the ground floor exposed bare, the new carpets and underlay stuck with delivery delays in the middle of Coronavirus lockdown.
This year I have a 3.0 tog 11 inch underlay and the softest, most tightly woven, and thickest carpet wall-to-wall that is so lovely I sleep on it at times. The bathrooms & WC tiled with underfloor heating. Already feeling the difference because it gets very warm and the time the heaters are on as well as the heating bill are far less with the thermostat at 22C.
Confession,just had a shower/hair wash. When we had our boiler replacement,we kept Emersionheater, electric proper bathroom wall heater and already have an electric fakey log fire.we looked into combi and other boilers.desided NOT to have combi. Next door just had combi boiler fitted,4days,3 different types of workmanship,5 different vans. I went over to the first,(they asked me to guard the place as they were going on holiday) he looked about 10,spent most of his time on the phone,you could hear him,(wasn't work related) telling me combis were best. I shouldn't have kept what I did. Told him if your boiler breaks down, without these backups,we'd have been stuffed. My fess up! I finnish with a cold 30 second shower,(boosts your immune system) I put the wall fire on while I got dressed! Am also wearing tracksuit bottoms,that's a first,cos I m not going out anywhere only running through the rain into the summer house where my weight bench Fbike are.
I had the heating on for half an hour today, at the back of 4am, for my daughter. It's been really mild at night over the last 4 to 6 weeks, but we're back to more normal temps again with another 5 degree low last night. Other than that [putting it on for the girls going out to work] it'll only be going on when I consider it needs to go on, which means nearer zero at dawn, and single figs in the evening, and even then, I don't always have it on. It's not quite double figures yet today, but it won't be going on. House is well insulated. It's been much warmer this year though. We would often need heating on [for varying lengths of time] from September, right through until May.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Nanny Beach I had my boiler replaced last year. I got a high powered Bosch combi boiler. Heats the water only when I need it. However, I have a separate electric shower also. If the boiler runs into trouble, the only think I need hot water for is a shower and I have that separately. I can boil a kettle for everything else.
We also had a fancy state of the art Bosch boilers. So you have an independent electric shower. We had one in our last House,2kw and hugely expensive to run. We have an electric manual shower now,fed by the tank and gas boiler.My sons in flats living alone have Combis,I know a lot of people have regretted having them as there's no stored water,if several things are in use. Do you have some independent heating Jac19?
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The whole system isn't fit for purpose.
Child benefit - yes. Absolutely.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
This particular scheme is just tax breaks to big energy companies for hitting green targets. Nothing paid to the homeowner directly.
This year I have a 3.0 tog 11 inch underlay and the softest, most tightly woven, and thickest carpet wall-to-wall that is so lovely I sleep on it at times. The bathrooms & WC tiled with underfloor heating. Already feeling the difference because it gets very warm and the time the heaters are on as well as the heating bill are far less with the thermostat at 22C.
Oh well, I've a few years till I get that and the heating allowance
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Other than that [putting it on for the girls going out to work] it'll only be going on when I consider it needs to go on, which means nearer zero at dawn, and single figs in the evening, and even then, I don't always have it on. It's not quite double figures yet today, but it won't be going on.
House is well insulated. It's been much warmer this year though. We would often need heating on [for varying lengths of time] from September, right through until May.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...