Is your heating ON or OFF?

Vala-Mal-Doran

I have had a similar problem with windows being soaking in the mornings - I have double glazing and ended up searching this board for solutions, so many people were saying it is a matter of Heating/insulation/ventilation, so I tried leaving the small window in our bedroom open a crack - just enough so I could see the sky through the side of it and low and behold this morning I woke up to - DRY WINDOWS :j:j:j Couldnt believe it - given the last few weeks its been awful in our bedroom - the worst is when we have a later start meaning we are in bed for an hour longer - you wouldnt believe how much worse it was!
Im going to try it again tonight but with even less of a crack - ie-not seeing sky just 'off the latch' and see how that goes as OH grumbled he was chilly this morning - but he does that most mornings :rotfl:

In other news - I bought a cheapy digital thermometer off fleabay today and its ace! I bought it out of curiosity and whoever mentioned about candles raising the room temperature - you were right - i never believed it would but its gone from 15.4 degrees to 16.6 degrees in about an hour. and theres only 2 tealights on! That said I also have put the draught excluder against the door and oh has a fleece blanket on his lap and it could just be because we have been holed up in here for a few hours but il experiment and see!
I plan to put fleece blanket on the curtains tomorrow and see what a difference that makes. :T

Love my new £3.50 toy!:rotfl:

Tibbie's_mum

Can't have heating on, as I've got the builders in and only 2 rooms and the kitchen are habitable. The plumber is totally stripping all old pipe work out and replacing but still another week or two without heating to go. Although it was cold when we got into bed last night, after four bodies have slept in this room for a few hours it doesn't 'arf warm up, thank goodness we insulated the floor!

kayester

hour last night to take the chill off, got friends round tonight so it will be on again

sistercas

I put my heating on for an hour last night while I was watching tele . It seems ok this morning so I haven't put it on

mrsmclaren

After posting the other day about getting to November I can't quite believe we managed it! Normally it goes on the last week in October as we have my step-kids over at the start of half term and I'd hate for them to go back to their mother and say it was cold in my house. But anyway it hasn't been as bad this year and we've left it off.
Asked H this morning if he wanted it on now it was November and to my surprise he said no! Said he only really feels it when he gets out of the shower so not bothered yet. I'm quite happy to wear an extra layer round the house and am back at work next week so out of the house all day again.
Need a few jobs doing before I want to have the heating on for any length of time anyway - there's only a blind up in our son's room as there's no curtain pole and it has been getting quite chilly especially by the window. H is going to borrow a better drill from one of the neighbours to put the pole up so I can get some (ikea fleece lined) curtains up. Also got a door curtain to go up over the back door which is quite draughty.
Looking forward to having a nice warm money-saving house this winter without having to break the bank to pay the gas bill! Kind of makes me wonder why I didn't put a lot of these money saving ideas into place years ago...

hopps

Vala-Mal-Doran wrote: »

I have had a similar problem with windows being soaking in the mornings - I have double glazing and ended up searching this board for solutions, so many people were saying it is a matter of Heating/insulation/ventilation, so I tried leaving the small window in our bedroom open a crack - just enough so I could see the sky through the side of it and low and behold this morning I woke up to - DRY WINDOWS :j:j:j Couldnt believe it - given the last few weeks its been awful in our bedroom - the worst is when we have a later start meaning we are in bed for an hour longer - you wouldnt believe how much worse it was!
Im going to try it again tonight but with even less of a crack - ie-not seeing sky just 'off the latch' and see how that goes as OH grumbled he was chilly this morning - but he does that most mornings :rotfl:

In other news - I bought a cheapy digital thermometer off fleabay today and its ace! I bought it out of curiosity and whoever mentioned about candles raising the room temperature - you were right - i never believed it would but its gone from 15.4 degrees to 16.6 degrees in about an hour. and theres only 2 tealights on! That said I also have put the draught excluder against the door and oh has a fleece blanket on his lap and it could just be because we have been holed up in here for a few hours but il experiment and see!
I plan to put fleece blanket on the curtains tomorrow and see what a difference that makes. :T

Love my new £3.50 toy!:rotfl:

You are so right about the candles,when it gets really cold we have a lot of tea lights that I buy through the year when I see them cheap and a couple pillar type candles burning,we can get the temp up to 20 in LR.

Wish I could cut my electric down,it's easy with gas just a case of not using it,can't do that with the electric,

pollys

We are having the boiler replaced, it is old, broken and keeps costing us money. We have no hot water or ch. we do have an electric shower and gas fire so not too bad. Last night we didn't need any form of heating. Did sleep with my dressing gown on though.

Pollys

Rummer

We normally have our heating on 24h a day over the winter (timer broken) on the lowest setting however this year I am going to switch it off during the day at least while the weather is not too cold.

WantToBeSE

Wow, it's the 1st November and the heating has only been on for 10mins in the morning up till now!
I was thinking about how mild it has been last night when we got the trick or treaters coming to the door..normally halloween is really cold, but not this year!

Do i dare try and set a goal to get to December with only the 10 minute warm up in the mornings? Hmm...i think i will!

Igamogam

1st November and the Quattro ( AKA the Aga) has been 'fired up'. Should now be on until the spring sunshine warms us up slowly Also means I can now cook on more than a 2 burner camping stove :j Having said that its not particularity cold here yet but a bit damp and claggy - cloud base just skirting the chimney pots so I feel we are justified :rotfl:

We are solid fuel CH and HW and cooking here so our electric bill goes down in the winter...............I know weird and E-*n think so too;) And with solar panels our electric monthly DD has halved - we now try very hard and try to get to the point that E-*n will owe us again come the spring...........here is hoping for some winter sunshine