Is your heating ON or OFF?

Quasar

Caterina wrote: »

:j Ciao Quasar!

I am sure you have spotted the "Italian mamma" touch in my previous post heehehe

Caterina

Yep. Just like my own dear mamma When we speak on the phone she always advises me to make sure I keep warm in cold wet Britain... :rolleyes: Bless her.

kazwookie

My heating is on the timer and is working, as I have poor circulation in my fingers and hands.

Some times I have been known to put my gloves on in the evening to help me.

sparrer

Stil not giving in, luckily it's warm today even though it's wet and windy. I have to keep the back door open otherwise I'm constantly up and down to let the furpets in/out. They're like that game of find the lady..two cats out, one dog in. Cat in. dog out, cat in. Cat and dog out, dog in. Two cats in...hold on, one's in already and I only started with two :eek:!!!

Ah well, it will certainly keep me warm when it does get too cold for the door to be left open :rotfl:

Natty68

I put one of the radiators, in the living room, on 2 and a half, just so it would kick in if it got cold and so far the temperature in the living room has been a steady 20deg all day

mardatha

Parsonswife- it isnt so bad as I make it sound really. I live in a tiny village surrounded by hills & moors, all covered in heather, with sheep and hawks and peace. We can leave doors & cars open at all times. But I wouldnt like to live here without HEATING lolol!

parsonswife8

mardatha wrote: »

Parsonswife- it isnt so bad as I make it sound really. I live in a tiny village surrounded by hills & moors, all covered in heather, with sheep and hawks and peace. We can leave doors & cars open at all times. But I wouldnt like to live here without HEATING lolol!

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Your surroundings sound idyllic and I am green with envy.

Slinky

I lived in a house for my first 25 years where most of the time the only heating was a single bar electric fire in the kitchen. Nothing at all upstairs. It was GRIM. We had a thermometer in the house, I remember it was regularly below 50F in the winter. Ah, the good old days, how I miss them.... not.

My Dad still chooses to live like that now. I don't visit in the winter!

We're having the cavity wall insulation done in our house on Thursday, it'll be interesting to see what difference that makes.

ceridwen

kittie wrote: »

ceridwen there is always a `slave` radiator somewhere as it is a safety device. It is often in an airing cupboard and must always be left on

Confused by that Er...do you mean the thermostat valve on it must be left turned on - even if the central heating isnt on...as one has it switched off at the main control?

Puzzled - as I've had this house over 20 years now and the Gas Board (as was) used to service the house for some years and then I swopped to a "little man" I've had for years and in neither case has this ever been mentioned. I just tend to leave all the thermostats set at max - apart from my bedroom one (which is off or on the lowest setting possible) and then the main central heating control is either off or on. The kitchen radiator annoys me by taking a while longer than the others to warm up when I have the central heating on - but gets there (10/15 minutes later than the others???) and I have complained about it doing that before and gather its the "end of the run" or summat. I've never heard of a "slave radiator" concept. Confused too at the thought of a radiator in an airing cupboard - as I've never seen that in anyones house (mind you - I dont go round opening their airing cupboards 'tis true). I've just got a radiator per room in each room and one in the hallway and have the individual thermostats switched up/down/off as I require. I've never been told to do anything different to whatever I wish/whenever I wish.

(mind you - I know the people I bought my house off were mean little.......s and would never do a job properly if there was a "cheapie" way of doing it - so they were trying to run the 7 radiators from a back boiler - so I had to change it to a boiler "man enough" to cope with that number of radiators. I also had a ventilation grille put in the sitting room floor near the gas fire - when my "little man" mentioned it was missing.)

grannybroon

Hi there

The system we have does not have a slave radiator. We can have just heating or just hot water. No need to keep a radiator on.

We put our heating on occasionally a couple of weeks ago but now I have it on timed (but thermostats not too high) morning and afternoon/evening.

Our boiler is almost 30 years and we hope to replace next summer so expect heat/efficiency will be improved.

GB

Edinburghlass_2

Heating had to go off today as I have food poisoning and every time I'm sick the sweat lashes off me

Not something I'd advice to save on heating though