A storm on a long holiday weekend lets me do some investigative 'draught sniffing' so I can perhaps need less heating for the house.
Unfortunately, it looks like my sources of draught are:
- Behind secured bathroom or kitchen units, where the plumbing pokes through the wall.
- The chimney above the gas fire I'm not using.
- Windows where hinge mechanisms are broken and have gaps. I'm replacing these, for £££!, but in the meantime, I've inserted foam adjacent (but not between) parts.
The other 'good' aspect of a storm, is that my electrivity supplier is paying me £0.11-ish per kWh to USE electicity, so I'm on gratuitous electric heating for many hours, at 22 deg C. I'm usually at 18.
The reasons are complicated, and still linked to marginal pricing, and the ridiculous scenario where generators are paid to NOT generate electricity while unsustainable fossil operators have contracts to still provide base power, because it's expensive to switch them off and on again. Nonsense!
j5v