I feel like I’ve spent the entirety of 2023 wrapped in an oversized hoodie blanket moaning that the house is cold, because my family - like many others in the UK - are cutting back on our gas usage after our smart meter reading almost gave me a heart attack in December.
We’ve already taken a number of steps to try and stay warm and ‘heat the human, not the home’, from stocking up on hot water bottles, using USB gloves and popping the heated airer on for a couple of hours to warm the room while drying a wash load.
Out of emergency rather than luxury, we also had to have a new roof just before Christmas, which has certainly helped prevent heat escaping skyward at such a rapid rate. But we were still finding the house very draughty and generally cold.
