Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

How do you manage such low temperatures - even in an old building? Today it's just 23 degrees in the old building. With the recent sun, anyone should be sitting in their place feeling at least warm to very warm.

Temperature this morning in the home office after not heating over the warm weekend in the unrenovated old building (only renovation 2017 new double-glazed windows): 16.5°C. The apartment below us is empty and heated little or not at all, northeast side, unheated bedroom next door.

Temperature yesterday noon in the currently unoccupied and unheated house with external insulation: 16°. It has been below 14 before, with insulation it of course doesn’t heat up so quickly. In the attic it was nicely warm :P

Well, I definitely have to watch the money too, but 18° in the living room and 16.5° in the HO would be far too little for me.

How do you achieve such low temperatures - even in old buildings? Today it is just 23 degrees in the old building. Given the sun lately, anyone should be sitting at least comfortably warm to very warm in their place.

It was very cold here in September and we have not been here for over 2 weeks now. The house was already cooled down from September when we left. We have no windows facing south. And since we have good insulation, it does not warm up quickly. Upstairs it is a good 20 degrees and certainly even more in the attic. But towards the basement it is not insulated and it only has 14 degrees, practically all year round.

How does one manage - even in an old building - to achieve such low temperatures? Today it is just 23 degrees in the old building. With the sun we've had lately, anyone should be sitting at least comfortably warm to very warm in their place.

We were also down to 17.5 in the basement. For example, yesterday it was warmer outside than inside. In the evening we then light the stove.

Here, the gas price is also falling again. From October, we had almost 20ct/kWh, and now it’s dropping to 15ct/kWh. It affects me less at the moment because we currently only heat domestic hot water with gas and therefore only need 10-12m³ per month.

How have you set it up? We also only have domestic hot water with gas at the moment, but I don’t reach those values. I set domestic hot water from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Consumption was 44m³ per month.

In the holiday home, we had a completely uninsulated older bungalow and a conservatory, so the heat from the heater escaped as much as it was put in. (all the more bitter since it was an electric heater). In the conservatory, it was very cold in the morning and very warm in the sun at noon. I truly appreciate my solidly insulated old building with constant temperatures.

And by now it's already 19.5° in the living room. What a difference the presence of people makes....