From: "Tim" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Keeping your home vs Instant Property portfolio.
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:13:31 -0000

>> "Andy Pandy" wrote
>> > OK, but the point is you are still paying to heat those rooms,
>> > even if it's less than you pay for heating the rest of the house.
>>
> "Tim" wrote
>> The point is that you were *wrong* when you said it would cost
>> *three* times as much to heat a house costing three times as much!
>
"Andy Pandy" wrote
> You are *wrong* when you said that I said that! Nah na na na na!
>
> I said "A 5 bed detached house will likely have 3 times the
> heating cost of a 1 bedroom flat at a third of the price."

Exactly.  That was *wrong*.


"Andy Pandy" wrote
> Note the word "likely".

I did. Doesn't make any difference - it's still wrong!


"Andy Pandy" wrote
> ... And that was based on the detatched house
> having a much greater external wall/volume area
> then the average flat. A point which you've avoided.

Ignored, because it has a much smaller effect on the issue than
not having to heat certain areas upto the same "living" temperature.