My gawd, I love my central heating, I would hate to loose it! How do you manage?
Quite easily 😊. Even when I had it working, I barely turned it on. I spend most of my time in one room, doesn't make sense to heat up all the other rooms in my house.
Now I have an electric oil filled radiator in the hallway, set to 12 degrees celsius, so the house doesn't get frosty, and keep my small bedroom at 17-20 degrees celsius (small oil filled radiator and fan heater), and that's all I need 🍻.
I don't actually have running hot water (the hot water tap in the kitchen started leaking like crazy so I closed the valve on it ... I made a half-arsed attempt to fix it) except when I want a shower, then I stick the immersion heater on for an hour or so (also use the fan heater to warm up the shower room). Always thought it was daft I had to run the hot tap for like 30 seconds to get any hot water.
I'm saving up a load of maintenance jobs for when I come to leave the house some day, but I kinda like where I live. I can walk into the supermarket in 10 minutes, town centre in 15 minutes, train station is 10 minutes away, a nice big common is just 30 minutes walk away. If my Thai wife ever comes to England, I'll hand the maintenance over to her so she can earn her keep 😉.