Have you put the heating on yet?

jazza77

Can't say we've been feeling the cold yet - it's usually at least October before the heating is on in our house. The weather still seems pretty mild at the moment except the odd morning when I've gone out early and found it a bit nippier outdoors, but doesn't last long.

IWantToBeFree_2

We've had ours off for months but turned it on a few weeks ago when it got quite cold, normally when I get cold I sit with the duvet because OH is always warm but recently he has been feeling it a bit too so we've had it on a couple of times. Will try and do without having it on for long spells for as long as possible.

Still got the summer duvet on at the minute so if it gets colder then winter bedding will have to come out!

jpwhittle

havent touched mine yet. i have only just shut the windows in the bedroom at night but that was mostly down to someone at the back having a stupidly loud party. im lucky though im 9 months pregnant so got my own heating system and dh an ds dont seem to be feeling cold yet so im happy. it does help as well we just moved into a new house with proper double glazing so th house is instantly warmer than were we have been for 3 years.
sure it will hit me in the next few weeks when iv had this baby though lol. thing is i like a cold bed as i like to warm it up lol.

amtrakuk

ZTD wrote: »

I'm thinking not of the prices rising, but of the shortages. For example turning on the tap to have nothing happen, or flushing the toilet, and there being no sound of it re-filling - as the electric water pumps don't function without electricity.

Closing down power stations is not due to people's lifestyle...

Very true. We can't keep relying on France to top our energy supply up.

It's about time someone pulled their finger out and built power generation be it nuclear/gas/coal. I can remember The government talking about it years ago and whats happened. Nothing.

winebox

I've got oil CH & to fill the tank = 3 weeks wages, net!! Brisk walk with the dog as soon as I get up in the morning warms me up, have shower before I cool down again & have fleece blanket for the evening, & DD still in t-shirts in the house so she's OK. How come crude oil prices are plummeting but domestic oil prices are a 'mare? Am scared to put the heating on! Good job neither of us feels the cold much. Mind you, my place is known as "bleak house" to my friends.....!

AliBallyBee

Not had heating on yet.....have been using my hot water bottle though which is fab and still warm when I wake up in the morning!!! I switched to a capped rate with npower a few months ago so hopefully won't be hit too hard this winter. Time will tell....

Ali

Molanole

I've still got our summer duvet on the bed and the windows open in the bedroom. But, we do live in a tiny flat on the top floor and there are lots of older folk in the other flats so I think we're getting the benefit of their hot air rising! And the flat is so small that just by cooking in the evening it makes the flat boiling. And we also get loads of light in the morning which helps.

It was roasting in the summer mind. I had the fans on full blast all the time so that'll balance out not having to put the heating on this winter!! lol.

Buzzbox

ExNicotineQueen wrote: »

I live in a shared house with 3 foreigners and the heating has been on constantly all year round. Even in the summer they had it on at 40 degrees max. :mad: I have warned my landlady many times about it but yet she doesn’t say a word to them. Still, I reckon when the new bill comes in she’ll soon change her mind when it hits her pocket. :rotfl:

I have seen the same thing over the last couple of years. Why do people leave their heating on that long so that it basically feels like summer... :rolleyes:

poorbabe

and put the heating on for two hours this evening.


I live on my own and was aiming for 1 October before I put the heating on, but this evening it got too much for me, even with the extra layers I could still feel the cold. I've now set the heating programme for an hour in the morning and 2 hours in the evening.

Oh well, at least I made it to mid-September. Usually I'd have the heating on from August Bank Holiday

chevalier

wizard5353 wrote: »

Well I have turned on one radiator on low but I'm trying to leave it as long as I can before I turn the others on and the heating up but as it's looking like a nasty winter coming I don't hold much hope of cutting costs that way

I might move the BBQ inside and light that to keep warm, it's about the only use it would have seen over the past two years!

I know that this was probably said in jest, but please DON'T DO THIS. You would have to leave a window wide open to ventilate properly at the very least. We have just had a tragedy over here where 3 men bought their bbq into their lodge, and two of them died of carbon monoxide poisoning and the 3rd is very poorly...
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