Energy companies going bust

[Marco]

Money's not the issue, it would be a major upheaval that I'm not prepared to do.

In any case almost all my equipment was bought second hand at market rate or below and can be turned back into cash anytime.

Lol, I know you and 'upheavals'... So you'd rather be cold and uncomfortable? Your choice dude, but it wouldn't be mine

As they say, no pain, no gain. We were in a similar position with our kitchen. You'll remember the pictures of the empty shell it started out as with no ceiling or plaster on the walls, after all the old crap was ripped out?

Months of upheaval ensured, but look at it now!

Anyway, I'm largely just yanking yer chain, but I do giggle sometimes about just how different we are in ley areas of life!

Marco [warm, comfortable house first, hi-fi, second].

[CageyH]

Marco [warm, comfortable house first, hi-fi, second].

There will be a picture of your pipe and slippers in your listening room next….

[Macca]

I wouldn't rely on that, sales are in the doldrums for used and new gear. Hi-Fi is a 'non-essential' and folks ain't buying!

That'll change as it has in the past and I'm in no hurry to sell anything.

[Macca]

Marco [warm, comfortable house first, hi-fi, second].

what's hi-fi got to do with it? I've more than enough money for both. It's the upheaval I don't want and will make sacrifice to avoid. You had no kitchen for almost a year, no way I'd put up with that, especially when working full-time as well.

Inconvenience I just don't need for the sake of being a bit warmer on a handful of really cold days (it's only an issue when the temp drops below about 4c).

In any case I have convection heaters I can press into service. The advantage of those is I can place them in the centre of the room for maximum efficiency. They are actually more effective at heating the room than a gas fire. Cheaper to run too.

The house needs a lot of work to bring it up to contemporary standard, and it's all interconnected so you can't just do a bit at a time. It would require me moving pretty much all my stuff out, stripping the whole place back to the brick and starting over. That's the only way it can be done. I can't just do one room at a time in isolation like you did.

[Marco]

Lol, I hear ya!

I do get where you're coming from, but how much of that work needed doing when you first moved in?

The difference between us, is that I'd have tackled what needed doing then, zapped it, ASAP (or as much as I could afford), and sucked up the inconvenience, with the view that the results (massive improvement) would be well worth it. Most of the time when you move into a new house there's work that needs doing, so I'd want to get it done and dusted.

That would've been my primary focus, above ALL else mate, as leaving it would do my nut right in. Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you moved in, all you seemed to have on your mind was your hi-fi. For me, a house has to be a HOME first, before simply a den to house a hi-fi hobby.

Anyway, we'll leave it there, as we polar opposites in this respect, with I suspect very little common ground

Marco.

[Marco]

There will be a picture of your pipe and slippers in your listening room next….

Lol, got the slippers already, but there won't be any pipe!

Marco.

[struth]

Lol, got the slippers already, but there won't be any pipe!

Marco.

maybe a new tailpipe

[Macca]

Lol, I hear ya!

I do get where you're coming from, but how much of that work needed doing when you first moved in?

The difference between us, is that I'd have tackled what needed doing then, zapped it, ASAP (or as much as I could afford), and sucked up the inconvenience, with the view that the results (massive improvement) would be well worth it. Most of the time when you move into a new house there's work that needs doing, so I'd want to get it done and dusted.

That would've been my primary focus, above ALL else mate, as leaving it would do my nut right in. Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you moved in, all you seemed to have on your mind was your hi-fi. For me, a house has to be a HOME first, before simply a den to house a hi-fi hobby.

Anyway, we'll leave it there, as we polar opposites in this respect, with I suspect very little common ground

Marco.

I had no money when I bought the place, I couldn't even afford the mortgage payments. First thing I did was replace all the windows with double glazed units, took a couple of years before I could even afford to do that.

I bought it in 1998, the previous owners had done nothing with it since they'd refurbished it back in 1973.

On the plus side it cost me less money than you'd pay for a decent car - which is why I can afford to retire next year

[Pigmy Pony]

There will be a picture of your pipe and slippers in your listening room next….

Warming in front of the woodburner, next to that butt plug

[Marco]

And is no-one else here then on a fixed tariff for their gas and/or leccy?

Anyone??

Surely I can't be the only one here on a fixed rate tariff...?

Marco.