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An illustrated comic strip. Panel 1: A radiator on a wall, giving out heat to the room. The text reads: “My brother and I own this flat. It has an old radiator in each room. The radiator’s settings are broken, and stuck on high”. Panel 2: A birds-eye-view of a person in bed. They look cold. The text reads: “My most uncomfortable memory is when I was a student in Leeds. I would sleep in many layers and not pay for heating until it was too late”. Panel 3: A birds-eye-view of a person in bed. They look warm. The text reads: “My most comfortable memory would be at my Mum’s under blankets with the heating on and watching the telly.”
An illustration of a radiator on a wall, giving out heat to the room. The text reads: “My brother and I own this flat. It has an old radiator in each room. The radiator’s settings are broken, and stuck on high”.An illustration from a birds-eye-view of a person in bed. They look cold. The text reads: “My most uncomfortable memory is when I was a student in Leeds. I would sleep in many layers and not pay for heating until it was too late”.An illustration from a birds-eye-view of a person in bed. They look warm. The text reads: “My most comfortable memory would be at my Mum’s under blankets with the heating on and watching the telly.”

Interview 18

person Participants: Participant lives with dad, and older brother comes to stay twice a week
distance Location: Balham
apartment Housing type: Terraced house
receipt_long Heating costs: Don’t know the bill

Privately owned flat. Victorian house so each room has a radiator that runs along the wall.

The main source of heating is central heating via boiler. There is a boiler in the kitchen. Sometimes, the dad turned the electric hobs on and the oven to keep the kitchen warm during winter.

The radiator is often on a very high setting as the settings do not work properly, which made the room too hot. “It would be good to “bleed” the radiator but I didn’t”.