Is Your Heating Off Now?

kuohu

I haven't had it on at all this winter. I didn't think it had been that cold. I've had the fire on maybe 4 or 5 times though.

howalsh

crawley_girl wrote:

Mine's off and has been for 2 days now... here's hoping that spring has sprung!

:heartpuls CG :heartpuls

Same here!

kathfisch

Ours is on and the water temp thing is at minimum (don't have room thermostat or timer!). Its basically hardly on and then we can turn it up if we get chilly. Have had it on permanently this winter and seems to have worked well, having it on but lower during the night and keeping the temp of the house more consistent. Supposed to be more economical than being alternately boiling and freezing. Our house gets super cold though, has single glazed sash windows = freezing cold draughts 24/7! Have had two duvets together all winter and the heating on (low) and still been freezing in the worst bits. So glad I'm moving out in june....!

Sorry, off on a bit of a tangent there!

JollyNolly

kuohu wrote:

I haven't had it on at all this winter. I didn't think it had been that cold. I've had the fire on maybe 4 or 5 times though.

There speaks a real DFW Nerd!!!

Ali-OK

Another 'leave on all the time' and just change temp as needed. Turned it right down this morning as it was a glorious day here and had most of my windows open. I love getting fresh air into the house (when its warm enough!)

shellabear

Turned it off last night but by about 1:00pm it went back on again. :mad:

Bl00%y Freezing!! :rotfl:

alyth

Heating, what's heating!!! I live in an old 40 roomed hospital that we're converting back into a house, in rural (freezing!) Scotland, and we've survived without heating for nearly 4 years now.... we have plug in heaters and coal fires, and after slaving away for hours on end at night lighting fires, we're finally getting heating installed next week at the cost of a small house! And, guess what, Scottish Hydro have just whacked their prices up by 16% from next month - so, even with heating in, I won't be turning it on unless it gets to minus 10! It's amazing that you really can survive without it, we live in layers, and in the winter we gauge how cold it is by how many layers we wear - we got up to 5 once - in October I go to Primark and buy fleecy tops from size 10 to 16 and line them up accordingly in the wardrobe so I can just lift a layer at a time! Thankfully we'll have 6 months to save up over the summer so we can actually switch the heating on -watch the National Grid soar when we do!

saving_is_fun

No heating for us today, just an extra cardigan!!!!!!!!!

amosworks

Mine's on all year round too, but has a booster for the morning and evening regardless (because it also heats the water). The other day it was hot and the back door was open so I went to turn the heat down and found it was switched off all day and I never even noticed lol First time this year AFAIK

benedictadams

TurnaroundSue wrote:

Mine is on all year, but at the moment is sitting at 24C - mind you seeing as I owe the gas and electric £320 after the winter quarter I should really turn it off altogether and snuggle up to OH :rotfl:

That seems to be very warm for any time of year

Have had the storage heaters off for two days and at the moment its 17C in my lounge (i never let the room get above 20C)