Central Heating - On or Off Yet?

Dreamnine

BallandChain wrote: »

lol typical man! You do realise you wouldn't have to have the heat blasting out if you had some warm clothes on.

ETA: That was meant for Andy.

Dreamnine, what does your in door temperature read? Which part of the country are you in?

Edinburgh and it's around 13c in the house. I have a warm jumper and a hot water bottle.

If I have friends or family round the heating goes on, but when it's just me I consider it a waste.

Andy_WSM

BallandChain wrote: »

lol typical man! You do realise you wouldn't have to have the heat blasting out if you had some warm clothes on.

ETA: That was meant for Andy.

But then I wouldn't feel liberated with all me bits dangling!

I'll turn the heating off on Wednesday morning for the week as punishment for sitting here near naked tonight when it's only 4C outside and a toasty 24C inside.

- I will however be flying out to Spain on Wednesday - this cold just isn't for me :rotfl:

Fire_Fox

Andy_WSM wrote: »

Nothing in return? I can't stand being cold either. I don't work my nuts off all day, pay extortionate taxes and then want to come home and freeze my !!! off in my own home! I had a hot shower earlier and have now parked my butt in front of the gas fire wearing nothing but boxers. :j

As I said "I dislike spending money when I don't feel I have got anything in return and I'd rather spend the money I save on something fun!" :beer:

BallandChain

I couldn't cope with 13c! That's positively arctic to me.

Good grief Andy, get some clothes on, turn the heating down and think of the money you could save. There's no way my OH would sit there in nothing on and blast the heat out. In fact he hates the heating being on as it makes him feel sick. (Should think the bills coming in have a bearing on that too.)

NEH

Well I am one of the ones that people can't believe they had the heating on earlier in the year...When we lived in Aberdeen in August we had the heating on at times as it was pretty damp and cold and miserable....

I have stayed and visited many houses that people don't have the heating on and to be honest I have found that damp, musty smell in all of them. I have had it in one of my homes in the past and it took ages to get rid of that musty smell from my clothes when I moved out and it had adequate ventilation...

I have a long term illness and it's excarbated by the cold so I have to have the heating on, I would rather do without things than have a cold house...we moved to this property this September and it's lovely to have gas central heating again. I have it on for about 2 hours in the morning and then 2/3 hours at night.....The temperature this weekend was about 0/2 degrees and there is no way I would have done without heating....

clairewop

my heating comes on at 6.30 in the morning till 9 then 7 till 9 in the evening, i might put it on during the day if it gets cold

kindofagilr

Well it was 3 degrees when I left for work this morning too cold lol

Talldave

I just don't get this antiquated attitude of having the heating "On" or "Off".

I've fitted a programmable thermostat into which I've set the times and temperatures that I want the house at - warmer during the evenings, a bit lower during the night, etc.

It's the same programme 52 weeks a year - if we get icy cold weather in June, the heating kicks in, if Christmas Day is boiling hot, it wont be on. In addition, it learns how fast the house heats up - so if you've set it for X degrees at 7am - it'll get it right, adapating for the fact that the radiators will need to come on earlier during colder weather than they do in warmer weather.

If I take a day off during the week, I hit the "day off" button and it switches to the Sunday temperature settings. When we go on holiday, you tell it now many days you're away for and it goes into frost protection mode until the day of your return.

It's a total fit and forget solution - must have cost me about £60 many many years ago and was worth every penny.

BallandChain

I might be wrong Talldave but surely it costs money to have the boiler on 'standby' so to speak.

Tonight I tested to make sure the radiators all work and they do! Had the heating on for 15 minutes and we were hot. OH started to feel light headed with the heat, but he insisted we tested the heating as the last time I checked the heating was working I only checked the main radiator came on, lol. Heating now off but electric blanket on.

shegar

Makes me laugh when people say they have set their heating at 13 degrees.!! at that temperature the boiler hasnt even clicked in .:rotfl: