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Have you turned your heating on yet?

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  • jolou
    jolou Posts: 55 Forumite
    No not yet. It's not that cold here yet. I really feel the cold but we are still sleeping with the window open.
  • Hi :hello:

    the heating in my parents house is NEVER off!

    Im trying to keep it off until October - however if the weather remains the same I may aim for November!
    :j Where there is a will there is a way - there is a way and I will find it :j
  • pault123
    pault123 Posts: 1,111 Forumite
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    tonight was the first night since summer i've thought, arghrgrh its cold, and last night I could feel the cold in the bedroom. Was blowing a gale outside and raining heavily.

    First time the bedroom windows were condensated this morning too!

    I refrained from turning it on until i'd got the official "MSE time to turn your heating on date" in true money saving style!
  • Hopefully not until October or November, but it does get chilly here as we are high up and it gets so windy here.
    For example right now the wind is whistling down the chimneys and making my feet cold. My body is OK though. I'll just have to put some thicker socks on :D

    I bet it's actually warmer outside, besides the wind, as the sun is out and shining :rotfl:
  • spirit
    spirit Posts: 2,886 Forumite
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    Still nice and warm in my house. don't know if it is the new cavity wall insulation, extra loft insulation I put up making the difference? the room temps have not dropped below 20c yet :T
    Mortgage free as of 10/02/2015. Every brick and blade of grass belongs to meeeee. :j
  • Some people are too cold? I'm in Scotland and still walking about the house in a t shirt with bare feet!
  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    I haven't and managed to hold out until November last year.. but it was just me in the house with OH all day but this year we have the baby so I might not manage it. I do intend visiting people to take advantage of their heat instead.. sneaky! lol.

    It is still 22'C+ in here so no need to.. I don't have the heating that high anyway! I am still wearing vest tops and no socks..
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  • I will reassess the situation on 30 September, which is the earliest I allow it to go on, and it will then go off latest 31 March. if you're cold, move around more, wear more clothes or use a throw and a hot water bottle. Cheaper to heat a kettle of water and cuddle a HWB than to have the fire on all night.

    Can't understand these people who set their thermostats at 22 degrees and leave the boiler on all year.

    Mrs P P
    "Keep your dreams as clean as silver..." John Stewart (1939-2008)
  • elfen
    elfen Posts: 10,213 Forumite
    It'll go on when I get cold wearing a hoodie and a blanket and thick socks....and then it will be sparingly.
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  • DKLS
    DKLS Posts: 13,461 Forumite
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    Already on and toasty warm here.
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