Is your heating ON or OFF?

calicocat

On, with the timers, which I have tweeked to come on earlier and for longer as it's getting colder.

I also have the bedroom Rad on now, but keep fanning on with switching it on and off depending on how hot/cold I feel.

I can't decide if it's better to just have it on constant when i'm in and awake now , rather than on and off with the timers, due to folk here saying that works out cheaper....lots of conflicting opinions.....decisions decisions.....

115K

sparrer wrote: »

I need my heating on all day as I'm disabled and sedentary. I recently changed my supplier on the suggestion of the MSE 'Cheap Energy Club', just got my first months bill and the cost is up 30% on my previous supplier. It's an estimated bill so I'll be phoning them on Monday to give them a reading. Not happy, a third is a huge amount so I've a feeling I should have left well alone.

The same thing happened with us when we switched but after giving a meter reading they gave us a refund so hopefully it should be the same for you.

moments_of_sanity

No heating on here at the moment. Temp in the LR is 16.7 degrees and have my onesie on and a blanket over my legs.

Just got my combined gas and electric bill in for December and the bill is £112! :eek: I didn't think we had used much but seems our electric usage has gone up as only used 499.06 units (or whatever they are of gas) which was the same as our November usage.

Justamum

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

Just got my combined gas and electric bill in for December and the bill is £112! :eek: I didn't think we had used much but seems our electric usage has gone up as only used 499.06 units (or whatever they are of gas) which was the same as our November usage.

We pay our bills on DD, and our monthly oil bill is £110, and electricity is £177. You're lucky in the UK as you can change your providers, but here we have a choice of MEA or MEA!

moments_of_sanity

Justamum wrote: »

We pay our bills on DD, and our monthly oil bill is £110, and electricity is £177. You're lucky in the UK as you can change your providers, but here we have a choice of MEA or MEA!

Wow! I am going to stop complaining about my bills for electric and gas now........slinks off...........

Antwerpen

Heating is still off

My DD has decreased from £63 to £38 pm and I am £169 in credit . £15-Electric and £23-Gas. I actually want to decrease my gas, not sure if I am able to.

There is only me and my DD and we live in a mid floor flat, so my neighbour heats my flat . We're also out of the flat 7.20-4 Mon-Fri, when I am at work..(34 week contract).

robgoingcrazy

cornishchick wrote: »

Only using central heating to dry washing once a week, otherwise using my fan heater on and off, seems that's what works for me, will check my bill predict in due course.

Today I thought back to the above post as I found a use for my leftover bubblewrap, amd not sure how effective it has been as extra insulation, though not doing any harm I guess, but with the coping stones missing from my garden wall, and unable to currently resolve the situation with the owner of the unoccupied house the wall borders, the bubble wrap came in handy for protecting the wall from the elements for the time being:




Maybe I shall set a trend, and start on the rest of the garden and house soon! :T

moments_of_sanity

No heating on here and hasn't been on for a few days. I said to DD I had turned it up last week as it felt a bit damp upstairs and after about 30 mins I asked her to go and turn it down..........she came downstairs (remote control in our room) and was laughing and saying 'you call that putting the central heating on, it was set to 15 degrees'! I asked her what she had turned it down to and she said 12, she is learning fast that girl :rotfl:

sparrer

Thank you 115K that's exactly what's just happened

I've kept it to about 18 these past few days as it's been so mild. Hoping we don't get another cold spell like last weeks for a while

[Deleted User]

Mine is most definitely on this morning as its brass monkeys out there and a thick white frost.I too am slightly disabled and can't run around to keep warm and I may be frugal with most things but I can't bear to be cold.My bills are too bad at the moment and I keep a close eye on them,but as my house is very well insulated and I have an 'A' rating for energy(my son-in-law is a surveyor and did my house for energy measures a couple of years ago) I am happy to keep it warm, when the weather gets chilly.