I Accepted High Heating Bills as ‘Normal’ — Until My Neighbour Proved I Could Save £180 With a Simple Trick He’d Been Using.

I’m Mark, 37, living in Scotland with my wife and two kids.

I’ll be honest — this winter hit us harder than any I can remember.

Not just the temperatures, but the costs.

According to OFGEM, energy prices have risen over 50% since 2021.

And this year? Experts are warning that they could rise another 10–15% before next winter.

Groceries are up.
Petrol is up.
Mortgage rates? Don’t even get me started.

But heat? Heat is the one thing you cannot cut completely.

Especially with two young kids… and a wife who gets cold just looking at an open window.

So there I was — a grown man, working from home in my own house — typing with numb fingers because I refused to turn up the thermostat from 18°C to 20°C.

Why?

Because every time I did, I felt like I was burning money.

We started doing what most British families quietly do now:

– closing doors to “trap the heat”
– heating fewer rooms
– timing showers
– avoiding letting fresh cold air in
– layering up indoors like we were camping
– setting the heating to come on for absurdly short bursts
– doing the “thermostat hover” every morning: Should I? … No … Yes? … No.

But even with all that effort, the house still felt cold and the bills were still getting bigger.

And the worst room for me?
My home office.

People say you are more productive at colder temperatures - but not when it is freezing..
I had to switch on heating to even get some work done.

I felt like burning  the money that I earned right away.

I checked the smart meter app.

£8.40.
For that day alone.

£8.40… and I was still cold.

My wife complained the kids’ bedrooms were always cold at bedtime.
The bathroom felt like a walk-in fridge every morning.

Every morning I’d stand in front of the thermostat, staring at it like it was a slot machine at a casino:

“Can we afford to turn it up?”
“Just for half an hour?”
“Maybe until the kids finish breakfast?”

Most days, we didn’t.

We’d just layer up and hope for the best.

And honestly — it felt embarrassing.

We work hard.
We’re not irresponsible.
And yet somehow, staying warm felt like a luxury.

My daughter walked into the kitchen wrapped in his dressing gown, teeth chattering, and said:

“Dad… why is our house always so cold?”

It wasn’t exaggerated.
It was just honest — and that made it hit even harder.

Later that week, my daughter dragged her duvet onto the sofa and said quietly:

“We shouldn’t put the heating on too much, should we? ’Cause it’s expensive?”

Hearing your own kids talk like that…
about warmth…
in their own home…

That’s the kind of thing that gets to you.

That was the moment I realised:

This winter, something had to change.

Same street.
Same house type.
Same weather.
Same income level.

Yet while I was freezing in a hoodie, my nerd-neighbour was taking the bins out in a T-shirt.

His kids weren’t under blankets.
His wife wasn’t wrapped in a dressing gown.
Their windows weren’t frosted inside.

Something was off.

Then I saw his comment in our local Facebook group:

“Our heating costs stayed pretty low this year.”

Low?
In Scotland?
With prices up 12% this winter on top of a 55% jump the last two years?

I had questions.

Two days later I asked him directly.

“How are your bills low?”

He shrugged:

“We don’t heat the house anymore.
Just the room we’re in.”

I laughed.
“With what? One of those £15 fan heaters?”

He smirked.

“No. Proper ceramic heater. Plug-in. Efficient. Room’s warm in under a minute.”

I stepped into his living room.
Warm.
Comfortable.
Not stuffy.
Just… normal.

For the first time I realised:

My heating wasn’t failing — my strategy was.

The Moment It Finally Clicked

It heats:

• the spare bedroom no one uses,
• the landing you walk through for 4 seconds,
• the hallway that never gets cosy,
• the loft above your head,
• the walls, the ceilings, the pipes…

Everything except the actual humans living inside.

So why was I paying to heat the whole house?

It hit me:

We only live in 2–3 rooms…
but we heat all of them.

No wonder the bills are insane.

During my research I found an article about “why UK is behind in heating” that changed everything for me.
Central heating was invented in a completely different era — when:

• energy was dirt cheap,
• families spent evenings together in ONE room,
• nobody worked from home.

That old idea of “heat the whole house” doesn’t work anymore.

Today, we live room-by-room — but our heating system still behaves like we live in a 1980s house.

Here’s the brutal truth:

UK homes lose heat faster than almost any in Western Europe.

And at the same time UK energy costs surged ahead of European peers.

That’s not an opinion — it’s a measurable fact.

Thin walls.
Drafty windows.
Loft space that leaks heat like a sieve.
Big gaps under doors.
Stone floors that feel like a glacier in December.

You can pump heat into the house…
but it just escapes.

And you’re paying to replace the heat that’s slipping through your walls, roof and floors every hour.

But here’s the part that shocked me most:

Those cheap portable heaters were actually making everything WORSE.

Let’s talk about those little £14.99 heaters from ALDI, Lidl or Amazon.

As someone who understands the tech, I know exactly how these things work:

They’re basically a toaster with a fan strapped to it.

A metal coil turns red hot.
A fan blasts the heat forward.
The second power drops — the heat disappears.

This leads to:

– constant ON/OFF power surges
– huge electricity waste
– uneven heat
– noise
– burning dust smell
– potential fire hazards
– short lifespan

They feel hot instantly — which tricks people into thinking they’re efficient.

But they’re not.

They’re the least efficient heating method you can use.

So when my my neighbour said he used a “plug-in heater,” I assumed it was one of these cheap ones.

When I first saw the device plugged into my neighbour’s living room wall, I genuinely thought:

“There’s no way that tiny thing is heating this whole room.”

My neighbour grinned.

“It’s not like the cheap ones. It’s got a ceramic core. Proper stuff.”

It turned out I knew nothing about the power of ceramic heating!

“How does it work?”

Before he ever mentioned any brand, the thing my neighbour said that stuck with me was:

“We just use a ceramic heater now. Heats the room in under a minute.”

Ceramic?
In a plug-in heater?

As a practical guy who understands how heating elements work, I was… sceptical.

But the more I looked into it, the more I realised:

Ceramic heating is the technology I should’ve known about years ago.
It’s used in places where reliability and efficiency actually matter:

• industrial-grade heating systems
• premium home appliances
• aerospace temperature regulators
• EV climate-control units
• high-efficiency space heaters in Scandinavia

Not in £14.99 bargain-bin gadgets — but in serious engineering.

So I dug in.
Not the marketing claims — the physics.

And suddenly, everything made sense.

When electricity passes through a PTC ceramic element, it reacts almost immediately.

• No slow warm-up
• No 15-minute waiting period
• No shivering until the boiler decides to cooperate

Ceramic → instant heat.

Central heating?
20–40 minutes for a “maybe it’s a bit warmer now?”

Metal-coil heaters?
They heat fast…
…but cool down within seconds the moment the power dips.

Which brings me to the part almost nobody notices:

This was the jaw-dropper.

Cheap metal coils lose heat so fast that the heater has to constantly:

🔥 BLAST (full power)
❄️ STOP (to avoid melting the unit)
🔥 BLAST again
❄️ STOP again

Each cycle =
power spike → wasted energy → higher bill → loud noise → inconsistent warmth

Ceramic is the complete opposite:

• It warms fast
• It stays warm
• It needs fewer heating cycles
• It stays stable

Meaning:

• lower running cost
• smoother heat
• less wasted electricity
• no “hot face, cold feet” feeling

This alone explains why ceramic heaters don’t gulp electricity.

This honestly blew my mind.

PTC ceramic naturally limits its own power draw.

As it gets hotter → its resistance increases → it draws LESS power.
As it cools → resistance drops → it draws a bit MORE power.

No thermostat drama.
No overheating panic.
No wild temperature swings.

Other heaters?They run full force until they overheat — then shut off abruptly — then repeat the whole cycle.

Every cheap heater I’ve owned does the same annoying thing:

🔥 A burning-hot spot right in front of it
❄️ Arctic freeze everywhere else

That’s because it blasts heat from a tiny coil surface.

Ceramic heaters use:

• a larger heated surface
• a more efficient transfer
• a smoother airflow pattern

So instead of:

• hot face
• cold feet
• warm corner
• freezing room

…you get balanced, even, natural-feeling warmth.

It feels like the room is warm — not like something is blowing hot air at your shins.

This was the biggest factor for me as a dad of two chaos-loving kids.

Ceramic heating has built-in safety advantages:

• no glowing red coil
• no exposed wire element
• no superheated metal
• no “burning dust” smell

I’ve literally watched a cheap heater burn its own casing.

My neighbour sounded like a salesman.

But he had no code or affiliation with Qinux, he was just a big fan!

Qinux is not the only ceramic heater out there but my neighbour and I have one thing in common:

We are both big nerds when it comes to tech, and we overanalyse everything before buying.

So when he says “it is the best”, I know he has read all the comparison pages and reviews out there.

“By the way,” he added, “that Qinux heater I mentioned — costs pennies to run. We put one in the living room last year and honestly… we’ve not looked back since.”

The winter before alone we paid £1200 for heating.

Now we are at around £400!

Now—that got my attention.

I got a lot of ideas of how to use that extra £800 in savings!

I sat down and bought 3 of them right away for my home office, our living room and the children's bedroom.

When our WarmPro finally arrived, I carried the box inside like some kind of sceptical scientist preparing for an experiment.

My wife raised an eyebrow.

“Alright, Mr. Engineer… let’s see if your magical plug-in heater actually does anything.”

Fair enough. I’d been talking about it for days.

So we decided to test it in the coldest room in the house — my home office.
The room that made my fingers seize up every morning.
The room that felt colder inside than it did in the car outside.

We plugged it into the wall.

And then…

60 seconds later:
A warm current across the room. Not “kind-of warm” — genuinely noticeable.

3 minutes later:
I wasn’t hunched over my desk wearing a hoodie.
The room felt normal again.
Comfortable. Liveable.

10 minutes later:
We looked at each other…
and I walked over and turned the central heating off.

Not down.
Off.

For the first time in months, the house didn’t feel like a financial trap every time warmth entered the room.

That evening, we tried WarmPro in the living room — just to be sure it wasn’t a fluke.

Same result:

• Fast
• Quiet
• Warm
• Zero guilt

My wife looked at me with that half-annoyed, half-impressed expression only a spouse can give.

“Why didn’t we get this last winter?”

I didn’t have an answer.I just sat there, feeling warm for once, wondering the same thing.

Since that day, everything about winter life in our home shifted.

Now:

• Mornings aren’t freezing — no more breath clouds in the bathroom
• My home office actually feels like a room again — not a refrigerated storage unit
• The kids’ bedrooms warm in minutes before bed, not after half an hour
• We don’t heat the whole house anymore, just where we actually are
• No more £££ flowing out of our radiators and straight through cold Scottish walls
• No more thermostat guilt, no more debates, no more feeling like heating is a luxury

WarmPro didn’t become a “gadget” in our home.

It became part of the routine — like the kettle, the toaster, the morning coffee.

Always there. Always reliable.
Always warming exactly where we are, not where we aren’t.

And as I sat one evening, warm and comfortable for the first time that winter, I realised something:

My neighbour had been right the whole time.

Of course I analysed everything with a power measuring plug after a week of using WarmPro:

I opened the energy app.

Last winter’s numbers hit me like a punch in the gut:

Last Winter (Before WarmPro):

• ❌ £6–£9 per day on heating during the coldest weeks
• ❌ Heating bedrooms nobody slept in
• ❌ Heating hallways nobody stood in
• ❌ Heating the landing (why on earth does the landing need to be warm?)
• ❌ Endless thermostat guilt — every “click” felt like spending money I didn’t have

Now compare that to this winter:

This Winter (With WarmPro):

• ✅ Central heating set low — just enough to prevent damp
• ✅ WarmPro used only in the rooms we actually occupy
• ✅ £2–£3.50 per day
  (with some days under £2 when it wasn’t freezing outside)

I checked the numbers three times because I thought the app was glitching.

But no — it was real.

We were genuinely saving £120–£180 per month.

For a family with:

• a mortgage
• two kids
• rising food and fuel prices
• school trips
• weekly shops that feel like lu

Let me make something clear:
I’ve owned the cheap heaters.
All of them.

The £12.99 supermarket fan heater.
The £19.99 rattling tower.
The tiny Amazon cube with “500W MIRACLE!” written in Comic Sans.

They all fail for the same reasons:

Cheap heaters:

🔥 Metal coils that glow red-hot
🔥 That horrible burning-plastic smell
🔥 Hot blast → cold blast → repeat
🔥 Massive power spikes on the meter
🔥 Noisy fans
🔥 Only heat a tiny corner
🔥 Burn out after a season

They “feel” hot because they’re horribly inefficient.

This is the part that surprised me:

❌ Many cheap ceramic heaters use a tiny ceramic chip — not a real ceramic core

They slap “ceramic” on the box, but inside it’s 90% metal.

❌ Others heat unevenly and still waste energy

The technology is there… but badly implemented.

❌ Most still sit on the floor with trailing cables

A tripping hazard waiting to happen.

❌ Most don’t have proper UK safety systems

No tip-over shut-off.
No real overheating sensors.
No stable casing.

So even within the “ceramic heater” category, the differences are massive.

1. Full PTC Ceramic Core (not a tiny chip)

WarmPro uses a full-size PTC ceramic block — the same tech used in EVs and industrial heating units.

Result:

• faster heat
• more stable heat
• less electricity wasted

2. Smart self-regulating thermostat

WarmPro doesn’t blast on/off.
It adjusts intelligently to maintain the exact temperature.

3. Even, quiet airflow

No hot corner and freezing room.
WarmPro spreads heat smoothly and quietly.

4. Direct wall plug = no cables

No floor clutter.
No tripping hazards.
No overloaded extension leads.
Just safe, clean, instant heating.

5. Real safety engineering

• tip-over shut-off
• overheat sensors
• heat-resistant casing
• ceramic core (no glowing red coil)

Designed for family homes — not garages.

6. Built for daily winter use

Most heaters are for “occasional use.”
WarmPro is engineered for hours per day, every day, without losing efficiency.

7. Energy efficiency that shows up on your bill

Fewer power spikes.
Fewer cycles.
Less wasted heat.
More actual comfort.

After buying mine, I joined a Facebook group for UK homeowners discussing heating costs.
To my surprise:

• Hundreds of people were already using WarmPro
• Parents swear by it for kids’ rooms
• Pensioners love it because it’s safer and cheaper
• Airbnb hosts use them in every room
• Students use them in cold flats with terrible insulation
• Remote workers say it “saved their sanity”

Honestly, seeing so many other people experiencing the same thing made me feel even more confident:

By this point, I was warm, the kids were warm, the house actually felt liveable again…
But there was one more thing that pushed me from “happy” to completely convinced:

WarmPro offered a 30-day, no-questions-asked money-back guarantee.

Meaning:
If it didn’t cut the bills…
If it didn’t warm the rooms…
If the hype didn’t match the reality…

I could just send it back.

That alone made it the safest purchase I made all winter.

But of course… I didn’t send anything back.Quite the opposite.

I know how this sounds, but hear me out:

WarmPro is literally designed for room-by-room living.
So having just one means you’ll constantly move it around the house like a TV remote everyone fights over.

Here’s why we now own three, and why I’m genuinely glad we do:

1. Every room heats in minutes, and stays warm

The moment you walk into a cold room, you just plug it in.
60 seconds later → warmth.
3 minutes later → comfort.

No waiting. No boiler lag.

2. Prevents arguments about the thermostat

Instead of heating the entire house, each person can heat their room.
Kids love this because their bedrooms warm quickly.
Your partner loves it because the living room stays cosy.
You love it because you’re not paying £8 a day to warm air that escapes through the roof.

3. You get the maximum savings only when you stop using central heating everywhere else

One WarmPro = good
Two WarmPros = much better
Three WarmPros = central heating becomes a background system, not the main event

That’s when the bills drop hard.

This is the most common complaint I’ve seen:

“I only bought one.
Now it’s out of stock and I’m annoyed at myself.”

This was the reason I ordered two more right away.

When something works this well — and saves this much — you want it in every room you actually use.

Here’s the honest reality:

WarmPro sells out in the UK. Every. Single. Winter.

That is what I have seen last year and my neighbour the year before, and seen other customers write angry reviews about that for years!

Last year:
❌ November — gone
❌ December — waiting list
❌ January — totally unavailable
❌ February — price went up
❌ March — people were reselling used ones for higher prices

This year is the same.
Demand always spikes right when the temperatures drop — exactly when you need them most.

If you wait, you’ll end up:

– paying January prices
– fighting for stock
– or going through winter with cold rooms again

Trust me:‍

Get them while they’re available.

If you want to heat the whole house, keep paying the energy companies.
If you want to heat your life, not your spare bedroom, get a WarmPro.

Here’s what I recommend:

✔️ Start with two if you’re unsure

One for the main living area, one for your bedroom or home office.

✔️ Get three if you want maximum savings

Living room
Bedroom(s)
Home office

This is what actually cuts your bill — because suddenly your boiler doesn’t have to heat everything.

✔️ And remember:

If for ANY reason you’re not impressed…
if it doesn’t warm the room quickly…
if it doesn’t lower the bill…

You get all your money back. No questions asked.

No risk.
No hassle.
No gamble.

Just warmth — finally, without guilt.

Look — I’m not a salesman.
I’m not trying to “convince” you of anything.

I’m just a 37-year-old dad from Scotland who hit his limit last winter.

For years, I thought:

• cold was normal
• discomfort was normal
• outrageously high bills were normal
• feeling guilty for wanting warmth was normal

But it’s not.

You deserve to feel warm in your own home.
Your family deserves comfort — not compromise.
Your wallet deserves a break from the punishment cycle.

WarmPro didn’t just heat our rooms.
It gave us back control.
It gave us back comfort.
It gave us back winter without dread.

And now?

When I see my neighbour Peter scraping frost off his car with that relaxed little smile…

I finally get it.

He wasn’t freezing.
And he wasn’t paying a fortune.

Now, neither are we.