Is your heating ON or OFF?

thedogsmum

Last year, I bought a heated throw, for about £40, which saved me having to put the CH on until it was really cold. I fished it out again and been using it for the past couple of weeks; love it! (Aldi had one yesterday, in their Sunday specials, for £30).

WantToBeSE

It's still off here today, although i am really feeling the drop in temperature today. I am wrapped up warm with fleece trousers, a thick hoodie, thermal socks and wooley slippers on. Am drinking hot choc to warm myself up too.

REALLY want to keep it off for as long as i can. I feel that my body needs to get used to the colder weather instead of putting the heating on as soon as it gets cold. That way i think the heating will be turned on less during the winter, as we'll be used to the lower temperatures.

RevolvingDoor

Ours is still off! My hands are feeling cold as I'm sitting here though. I'm off to have a hot shower and then wrap up. Wearing fluffy socks makes such a difference I find.

darrensurrey

I generally wear a woolly hat and a thick bodywarmer indoors these days.

Am experimenting with something at the moment. My office is upstairs and I spend most of my time upstairs. The thermostat is downstairs. I only go downstairs to cook, exercise and dance naked to Kylie*. So I've set the thermostat to ~14C. It's currently 13C downstairs and 15C upstairs. Gonna see how warm it gets upstairs with this temp setting (it was set to >15C before).

*-inserted to see if anyone reads my post. I prefer dancing naked to Jason.

terrierlady

my first time at home during the day, when at work heating only came on for an hour both morn and night, brought heated throw from aldi lovely and warm, doing the autumn clean up so keeping warm that way, will need to think up other ways to resist putting heating on.Love reading others ideas etc.

WantToBeSE

I have started doing some cooking and have the tumble dryer on to dry school uniform, so its heating up nicely The oven and the TD have dual uses during the winter!

A tip for everyone (if you dont know it already)- To save on the heating, when you have been baking/cooking in your oven and you have finished and turned it off, leave the oven door open. The heat will esccape into your kitchen (and also your lounge if you have a tiny house like mine) and it'll cost you nothing

Darren-Enjoy dancing to Kylie/Jason

darrensurrey

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Darren-Enjoy dancing to Kylie/Jason

I will do a dance especially for you.

dashetlandexile

I'm moving into a new house (hopefully) at end of November and wondering if I can sign up to a fixed rate with a utility supplier like martin recommends now, even though i don't have the house yet....?

mummygems

Ours is currently off (in Essex), although I do feel a little cold sitting at the computer so will get up and move around in a minute. It does feel a lot colder in the morning but not enough to put the heating on!

Unless one of the kids gets particularly ill or the weather really turns I am hoping it stays off until the end of October/November 1st.

EDF just put our monthly direct debit up again which is the 2nd time in 3 months (and we haven't even started with the heating yet!!).

mancbird

Ours is on at the moment, just for an hour as this house is very chilly today. The house is over 150 years old and as it is rented we are limited as to what we can do in terms of insulating etc, but I am determined this year we will be warm! Going to head over to the preparing for winter thread and start making a list. Will make myself a hot drink to keep me warm whilst I read