Is your heating ON or OFF?

angela30

ours is Still off at the moment, but we have a candle alight and a oil lamp burning away which is giving off alot of heat and a hot water bottle for bed Not sure how long we can keep going like this because its getting much colder in cornwall now, but not sure how we will pay the bill if we turn it on! holding out for as long as possible this year lol

bluebag

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Thanks Polly, it has been fixed today
So heating is ON On ON!!

Talking about heating- i am a self employed cleaner, and this 1 house i go to is MASSIVE (very much 'how the other half live') and there is nobody there during the day when i go. but they have their heating on FULL BLAST all day! :eek: The house is empty..i dont get it!? I understand that with a house like theirs (£1.4m) that then may not need to worry about heating costs, but what a waste of money!

It might be a bit like mine, no, not a mansion! but a cathedral ceiling old drafty terrace with sub floor cellars and single skin walls.
It takes an age to warm up, so I keep the temperature pretty constant in the winter. But by no means full blast.

When our boiler broke it took a full three days after a new one was fitted for the house to fully warm up, flippin expensive.

Cheaper and more comfortable for me to keep the heating on low all the time rather than let it go cold and then have to have the boiler on thermo-nuclear setting to heat it back up.

WantToBeSE

bluebag wrote: »

It might be a bit like mine, no, not a mansion! but a cathedral ceiling old drafty terrace with sub floor cellars and single skin walls.
It takes an age to warm up, so I keep the temperature pretty constant in the winter. But by no means full blast.

When our boiler broke it took a full three days after a new one was fitted for the house to fully warm up, flippin expensive.

Cheaper and more comfortable for me to keep the heating on low all the time rather than let it go cold and then have to have the boiler on thermo-nuclear setting to heat it back up.

I can definitely imagine that it'd be very cold without the heating on in there, with high ceilings and several floors to heat

My heating is ON for it's usual 10 mi warm up this morning

CupOfChai

On now. I've compromised. We have two storage heaters, so I'm putting on one at a time and alternating them to try to warm the flat up but not get it too warm. It still gets too hot in the room where there's one on though!

I must be the only person in this thread who keeps opening the doors to let the heat spread out over the flat instead of trying to keep it in the room...

115K

CupOfChai wrote: »

I must be the only person in this thread who keeps opening the doors to let the heat spread out over the flat instead of trying to keep it in the room...

I do that too.:p

It's frosty here today but nice and sunny too. I have only got the storage heater on downstairs and am leaving the one upstairs off until it gets really cold.

Gonzo1987

still managing with only having the heating on for maybe 30 mins here and there! Our flat gets too hot!

shegar

We had a -3 this morning , so my GCH id timed to come on at 6 am, I turn it off after about an hour, been so nice and sunny today ,, but now turned cold , so ive lit the fire and its so cosy now, and dam well dark already........

bizzylizzy

It was warmer with the sunshine for a while this morning, but I can feel the temperature has dropped a lot and everywhere is cold. Candles lit, curtains shut but we may have to succumb to the small electric heater again later. Once I get cold, it takes ages for me to warm up again. I feel myself slowing right down.
Still, it's almost halfway through November so we've done quite well, hopefully we can keep going a while more. If I could afford it, the heating would have been on weeks ago!
Has anyone on here made a flowerpot heater?

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CupOfChai wrote: »

I must be the only person in this thread who keeps opening the doors to let the heat spread out over the flat instead of trying to keep it in the room...

I've got my doors (Living Room, Kitchen, Bedroom and Bathroom) open.

Mind you, I don't have any heating on, so no heat to spread.

Currently 57.6f (about 14.2c) in the Living Room and, since I'm off to bed shortly, it won't be getting any warmer tonight, except under my duvet.

willow23_2

My heating is on for about half an hour in the morning now and an hour or so in the evening once I've cooked and the house has cooled down again. Me and the littlies live in a draughty terrace with single skin walls which was worse for the first winter we lived here as there are no doors between the from door, hallway, living room and kitchen.

My landlord let me put up some rails and my sister passed on some massive long curtains so now we have a curtain at the front door and over the two open door-ways which really does help. Candles are lit at the moment and there are always blankets on the sofa and chairs.