Is your heating ON or OFF?

noonesperfect

Well I suppose you could say we've already succombed up to a point as we've had the heating on 2-3 times already (just for a couple of hours at a time, mind) and we have used the bottled gas fire recently, but right now it's 15.5C in this room and I'm not cold (I'm not dressed either, S/S nightie and dressing gown and slippers). The walls have no cavity so when it's cold it's cold in here!! In any case I wasn't brought up in a particularly warm house. We had central heating but it was no more than "background" and there was always windows open no matter what.

Like another poster - I can't bear the heating on when I'm in bed.
I soon get too hot :rolleyes: .....

Even when it gets really cold we'll still only have the heating on for a while in the morning and a while in the evening - heating oil is soooooooooo expensive. I'd rather snuggle up in bed!

[Deleted User]

I have CH but as yet haven't put it on I have a knitted throw to go over my knees when watching T.V. I have a small clock in my sitting room so if the temp falls below 16-18 then I know I will have to put the heating on I suffer with osteo-arthriris and my joints tend to seize up if they get too cold or damp I keep a hot water bottle filled by my chair, and also a flask of coffee or HM soup to warm me up if I'm sitting for any length of time.
My CH comes on once a day for two hours in the morning just to heat the water but not the radiators, but I do try to keep it off as long as I can. My house has had the walls insulated and I have thick insulation in the roof. Last winter I managed to get through by only putting the heating on for an hour at a time when it was really cold and my bills came down quite a lot. I pay £17.00 per month for my gas and £11.00 per month for my electric and I am over £100 00 in credit at the moment with the gas and around £50 in credit with the electric.I live in a mid terraced house so not a lot of heat escapes and I have thick curtains to all of my double glazed windows. I think I do quite well really and unless we have a very hard winter I think I shall be fine and warm. When I was a child we had no such luxuries as CH or D/glazing we soon learnt how to stay warm with hot water bottles and shawls around our shoulders. my late Dads army coat over my feet at night kept me warm as toast.
P.S. the Slow cooker in the kitchen keeps the chill off the kitchen and cooks lots of HM soups and stews as well.

Debt_Free_Chick

Not sure if I qualify here, as I have an AGA. I have no other method of cooking so I'd starve to death before I succumbed to hypothermia :rotfl:

I also have an open fire and get free logs (ex is a fencing contractor/agricultural worker so is forever cutting down trees). I've lit the fire once but not yet put the central heating on and I'm determined not to. TBH I haven't seen the need for heating yet, but I spent 18 months without CH during a renovation and I think that toughened me up, so I feel the cold less. And I have a Spaniel that needs two good walks a day, irrespective of the weather.

I'm also making a huge effort to turn off all things electrical - in particular, not leaving the PC and not leaving the TV on standby! I'd not been convinced that this would actually make much difference, but someone posted the rate at which the dial on their meter span around and recorded how it fell when they turned certain things off. It was eye-popping to see how much the PC and TV (on standby) used up, so I'm converted now!

razra

no heating on here yet either

But then again it is just me in the house so if I get cold I just put an extra jumper on and don't have to listen to anyone whinge that they are cold:rotfl:

I did buy a halogen heater yesterday so that if and when it does get cold I can put that on instead as it seems silly to heat the whole house just for me in one room

But I am planning on holding out as long as poss with no heating, havent needed the lecky blanket or hot water bottles just yet either:D

And I find that in work where the heating is on Im way too hot so Im sat in a short sleeve shirt and praying I dont acclimatise to it else I'll need to put the heating on when I get home:o

One thing I did notice last year mind was if I felt cold in the house I would go for a wander outside either in the garden or round the block and I instantly felt warmer when I came back in:rotfl:so exercise is the way ahead!

forgot to say that Imeasure thingy is also making me determined to go as long as poss with no heat, its really nice to put my readings in each week and see them stay the same (or slightly drop) makes me even more determined not to give the energy companies any more of my pennies

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

Not sure if I qualify here, as I have an AGA. I have no other method of cooking so I'd starve to death before I succumbed to hypothermia :rotfl:
I'm also making a huge effort to turn off all things electrical - in particular, not leaving the PC and not leaving the TV on standby! I'd not been convinced that this would actually make much difference, but someone posted the rate at which the dial on their meter span around and recorded how it fell when they turned certain things off. It was eye-popping to see how much the PC and TV (on standby) used up, so I'm converted now!

Debt_Free you'd be surprised how much you save by turning everthing off that would be left on standby.I don't have one of those meters but I have been reading my electric meter weekly for the past nine months and my usage has dropped 24 units a week.So that's over £2 plus weekly off my bill.I was shocked and could'nt believe this.I can't bear to think just how much it's cost me over the years.

razra

actually thinking about a chat we had in work last week, to do with chill blains, I remember we used to suffer really badly with these as kids. Do you think that was due to a lack of heating/DG back then or just the fact the winters used to be a lot colder than they are now? I havent heard anyone mention chill blains in years

suki1964

kittie wrote: »

people who have their ch heating on at all, even for half an hour are using heating. Who are they kidding?

we have no heating on at all and I also include a fire of any sort. It is comfortable and lol my gas use for a whole week is 33kwh which compares with 562 for an average gas user at the moment

You cannot compare N with S and E with W and new houses with old houses and draughts. There are some good stoic folk on the thread. well done as it can`t be easy

Totally agree which is why my contribution to the thread stated where I was and size of house.

I was in London last week and was still able to walk about the house naked after a shower with NO heating on at all. Here you would freeze bits off you seeing as day time temps are struggling to make 11/12 and night times are done into the low singles

MrsE_2

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

Debt_Free you'd be surprised how much you save by turning everthing off that would be left on standby.I don't have one of those meters but I have been reading my electric meter weekly for the past nine months and my usage has dropped 24 units a week.So that's over £2 plus weekly off my bill.I was shocked and could'nt believe this.I can't bear to think just how much it's cost me over the years.

Blimy, thats £26 a quarter, thats some drop.

When you say everything, you mean everything?
Like the cooker, microwave, washing machine, everything?

caledoniaquine

kittie wrote: »

people who have their ch heating on at all, even for half an hour are using heating. Who are they kidding?

we have no heating on at all and I also include a fire of any sort. It is comfortable and lol my gas use for a whole week is 33kwh which compares with 562 for an average gas user at the moment

You cannot compare N with S and E with W and new houses with old houses and draughts. There are some good stoic folk on the thread. well done as it can`t be easy

Ive never said I didnt have my heating on.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

MrsE wrote: »

Blimy, thats £26 a quarter, thats some drop.

When you say everything, you mean everything?
Like the cooker, microwave, washing machine, everything?

It is a big drop and I realy was shocked.The only thing I don't switch off is my range cooker as it's just so much bother as I have too wait till OH gets in to sort it out.Everything else I click off after using.I think in the long run it's worth just that little bit of effort and you get so used to doing it,it becomes automatic in the end.