The cold shoulder.

The young of the two new house mates is already starting to piss me off. From trying to rearrange the kitchen, to always leaving the ironing board in the middle of the floor (we never put it away, it just sits at the side of the room), to running the heating almost constantly.

He's been running the heating a) almost as a habit rather than necessity and b) at the highest level.

I keep turning the level down to about 60%. If you put you hand on a radiator, you can't tell the difference between that and full power, but each time he turns on the heating, he moves it back to over 90%.

He doesn't usually get into the house until after 9PM, but he already has a routine - turn on the heating, make some food, have a shower and he'll turn off the heating after 11PM when he's going to bed.

Even if we've already had the eating on for a bit, he still turns it on. Our place hold the heat really well, so a quick hour or so of heating (even at 60%) will keep the place comfortable for a good couple of hours afterwards, but this guy doesn't seem to notice and will turn the heating on again... one night he turned it on no more than five minutes after I'd turned it off, FFS.

I'm not complaining about the heating being on. Heat is a necessity, especially in winter, but I think he's using it too much. There are times when I am tempted to turn off the heating because I am uncomfortably warm.

I'm digressing a little. The gas has now run out. That leaves us with no heating and no hot water. Unsurprisingly, Heating Guy hasn't topped up the card or even mentioned that there's no more gas. Thinking about it, neither has TV Guy. I was the last person to top up the gas card, so it's up to one of the new guys. Except neither of them appear willing to accept responsibility for anything.