Wednesday 24 February 2016

Warm and cosy

I'm going to put it out there, I really think Toon Towers is the cosiest house EVER. Now if you'd have asked me if our house was cosy this time 3 years ago when we had no proper heating, carpets, external wall insulation, insulated plasterboard, insulation in every void possible I have said through chattering teeth "nope, it's just freezing". And we had the privilege of  huge electric bills off nearly £1800 plus coal and gas bottles. Now with all the energy efficiency measures we've installed, our electricity bill is £700 per year and we earn between £500 and £600 for the solar. It's brilliant that our bills are so low now, for example because any excess solar power goes into heating our hot water and because we've had fairly sunny days for the past 10 days, we've had free hot water which definitely deserves a boom! But above all its so lush (flash back to the 80's for saying lush) it's so lovely and cosy, but on the rare occasions it's not warm enough we just stoke up the wood burner which tops up the whole house and looks so beautiful. Can't wait for the next phase of renovating the bathroom and kitchen, and change the front and back door which will just add to the cosy-ness!