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An illustrated comic strip. Panel 1: The exterior of a circa 1940s-style semi-detached house with bay windows. The text reads: “We’ve been here 24 years. We rent our house from our landlord”. Panel 2: The same house as in Panel 1 - heat is emanating from it. The text reads: “The house cannot be cold as my children have asthma”. Panel 3: The illustration focuses on the bedroom window, which looks colder. The text reads: “I am going through the menopause so I don’t heat my bedroom. It would be uncomfortable. We spend most of our money on heating”.
An illustration of the exterior of a circa 1940s-style semi-detached house with bay windows. The text reads: “We’ve been here 24 years. We rent our house from our landlord”.An illustration of the exterior of a circa 1940s-style semi-detached house with bay windows. Heat is emanating from it. The text reads: “The house cannot be cold as my children have asthma”.The illustration focussing on the bedroom window of a house, which looks cold. The text reads: “I am going through the menopause so I don’t heat my bedroom. It would be uncomfortable. We spend most of our money on heating”.

Interview 4

person Participants: 4 (K, her husband and three children)
distance Location: Willesden
apartment Housing type: Semi-detached house
receipt_long Heating costs: £160-£300/mo

K needs to keep the house warm for her child who has asthma and cannot be cold.

She also likes to keep the house warm for when her kids return around 4 pm – so she switches on the heating at 3pm.

She is currently going through menopause so keeps the heating in her bedroom off while the rest of the house is warm.