Have you turned on your heating yet?

tomstickland

I've found that some cooking is enough to warm my flat up to the stage where I feel warm for the rest of the evening. "free" heating.

JonathanA

We turned our heating on on Tuesday night - oh how we regret doing that! The central heating pump has packed up (the whole system is about 25 years old), we we rang someone who came out to replace it yesterday late afternoon. Unfortunately, when the boiler was installed, it wasn't done particularly well, the upshot being that one of the water pipes in the boiler came loose - spewing gallons and gallons of sludgy black water into the kitchen. Managed to solve that - with the help of the plumber who was already here and a friend, only to now find that the timer clock is playing up. Now awaiting an electrician friend to come and have a look at it.

And all because the good lady was feeling chilly. I think this will probably cost me more than I had bargained for....

So for all those who have yet to switch on - don't do it!!!

24 hours on, the whole thing was hilarious, but at the time I thought differently. My 5 year old had been in the kitchen pretending there was a river, I quipped that if there was, the plumber had done something badly wrong, and then, as if by magic, there the river was.... whoever fitted the boiler all those years ago hadn't put the pipes in properly, so it could have happened at any time.

The moral of this story is.... get a jumper

dazbfc

Not heating here yet. but the mrs is starting to hint heavily.

Not sure how many more times " put another jumper on" line i can get away with

teapot2

Brrrrrrrrh chilly in the evenings up here on the coast near Edinburgh so have put the heating on for a couple of hours the last two nights but had hoped to hold out a bit longer. Even with extra clothes on its just too chilly to be comfortable. Still ok during the day though and some days it feels warmer outsode than indoors Wots that all about? Just had a letter from EDF as well to say our online tariff is increasing but we've already switched thank goodness its just taking ages to happen so we'll have 2 weeks at the new EDF rate.

HappyShopper3

Still ok during the day though and some days it feels warmer outsode than indoors Wots that all about?

I've experienced the same thing! It was so cold indoors I went out with a woolly hat only to find it is warmer outdoors LOL.

Oh Jonathan I really feel for you. What a terrible thing to happen. I would have been devastated if I had that to contend with.

LOL Miss Penny Pincher. To think it used to be the guys that had the monopoly on the heating. It seems it's role reversal these days.

JonathanA

What can you do? Laugh or cry - we chose the former - it could have been a lot worse!! At least we now know the water in the boiler is cleaner than it has been for a long time and our electrician friend has fixed the timer control - which had been incorrectly wired in the first place. We moved here in March, so haven't needed to use the heating much - I suspect that it wasn't used to being switched off before.

All's well that ends well, but we are thinking about a new, more energy efficient boiler - funds permitting.

seven-day-weekend

My son informs me that our house in the UK has had its heating switched on today (on a timer).

Here in Spain, up a mountain, it's still warm and sunny in the daytime, chilly in the evening, but only to the extent that you wear long trousers instead of shorts and put a cardigan on in the evening.

Mid- November, I estimate, before we get our calor gas fires out of storage.

ailuro2

ours is set on a thermostat for daytime and nighttime temps, so it's not come on yet by itself, but I've put it on a few times to get washing dry when it's been a bit chilly and the rain has been on.

Hoping not to let the thermostat go above 20 for a while.

In mid-winter I find I need it at 22.0 degreed C to keep me wark,yet autumn 19.6 seems alright.

Strange- anyone know why?

Ken68

It's all in the mind, Ail., shine a torch behind some red glass, or a tea candle floating in water behind orange/red glass, you'll think you are warm.
Even cheaper is christmas foil wrapping paper crumpled up in the fireplace. :-)

Grumpy_Old_Duffer

16:00Hrs 6th October 2006 ... Heating switched on ... outside temperature showing 13 degrees .... usually wait until the temperature is in single figures .... getting old & soft!!!! Even had to change from shorts to trousers ... now that is getting soft!!!!!