Have you put heating on yet?

TITEASCRAMP

I have, its been on all day.I was trying to hold out but its been so cold today, i had to

Magentasue

Oh yes! Couple of weeks ago.

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djm1972

Trying to heat myself rather than the house as much as possible this year. This time last year I would have been sat here in boxer shorts and a t-shirt with the heating going full blast; as it was my first winter in this house, and with gas CH - and no real idea what it was all going to cost!

Now i'm sat here in jeans, t-shirt and a jumper

I have been running the heating in the evening just on 2 "strategic" radiators in order to bring the bedroom up to around 15c - making sure that doors are shut in order to keep there heat where I want it.

So far so good; but we'll see what happens when we get a real cold snap! :eek:

wilroda

We have just put it on, did use a gas fire occasionally before though.
We run it twice a day for a couple of hours as we are both out during the day.
If all the rads in the house are on, is it best to keep all doors shut or open? OH says it is best to leave them open but i am not so sure...

missk_ensington

You'v only just put the heating on! Heavens I have mine on all year round! Even in July and August there were a few evenings when I was sat watching tv and it was chilly, or I was having a bath and it was cold in the bathroom and had to put it on! Had it on regular though since early September!

TITEASCRAMP

Yes we have only just put it on.
We only got CH in 2001 up to then we only had a gas fire and gas wall heater in the bedroom. We managed okay. I have become really soft I think since we got it.

Joyful

I have had it on for the last Month for an hour in the morning and a few at night.

1carminestocky

TITEASCRAMP wrote: »

Yes we have only just put it on.
We only got CH in 2001 up to then we only had a gas fire and gas wall heater in the bedroom. We managed okay. I have become really soft I think since we got it.

We all have! I'm old enough to remember no central heating and just a coal fire downstairs (and a fan heater we used to plonk round the bathroom door a few minutes before we went in the bath to take the 'nip' out of the air!). We survived, in fact I genuinely think we caught less colds/bugs etc. We really ARE papmpered nowadays (me too, btw, I admit it). In a perverse sort of way, since I decided that, this year, we weren't going to pay the discredited energy companies a penny more than we have to, I've sort of been on a nostalgia trip with the lack of sweat-inducing heating.

Magentasue

lol @ miskensington. So out of step with the hardy types determined to shiver until December. I'm a moderate heating user - fortunately, our circumstances are such that we can afford to use the heating when we want to. I hate being cold but admit that in the past, we've been quite wasteful. Biggest sin is having the heating on timer and forgetting to turn it off when it's not needed or we go out.

Will do better this year. Have slashed our electricity use and intend to keep gas down too. Heating on first thing for an hour and most of the evening, although it's cutting in and turning off rather than being on all the time.

1carminestocky

Magentasue wrote: »

lol @ miskensington. So out of step with the hardy types determined to shiver until December. I'm a moderate heating user - fortunately, our circumstances are such that we can afford to use the heating when we want to. I hate being cold but admit that in the past, we've been quite wasteful. Biggest sin is having the heating on timer and forgetting to turn it off when it's not needed or we go out.

Will do better this year. Have slashed our electricity use and intend to keep gas down too. Heating on first thing for an hour and most of the evening, although it's cutting in and turning off rather than being on all the time.

So can we, but my massive motivation is a general dislike (some would call it hatred :rolleyes: ) of our energy industry so I am trying to give them as little of my cash as I can (the 'savings' are all logged and spent on luxuries, though. Lovely, WARM feeling to know when we are dining out that the money being spent would in the past have gone to the energy company.)

Magentasue

And when dining out, you don't need the heating on at home!