Is your heating ON or OFF?

Gloomendoom

We have my in-laws staying at the moment so the heating is on for the first time since the spring. The fire is lit as well and an electric blanket is busy toasting their bed.

I'm sitting here in shorts and a tee shirt.

andygb

We gave the heating a quick blast last week, more to test it out and see if the boiler cut in OK. Within ten minutes it was really hot so we turned it off and will rely on blankets and the like until it gets noticeably colder.
We did notice that as soon as the heating was on, it seemed much stuffier in the living room.

andygb

Gloomendoom wrote: »

We have my in-laws staying at the moment so the heating is on for the first time since the spring. The fire is lit as well and an electric blanket is busy toasting their bed.

I'm sitting here in shorts and a tee shirt.

We stayed over at some relations back in April, and they had their thermostat set at 26C:eek: when it was warm enough outside to wander around in a t shirt. They wondered why I kept going out for long walks, and didn't want to sit in the living room - door closed, it was like an oven, or possibly the core of a nuclear reactor.

sparrer

Most definitely off, didn't even need it on in the bathroom earlier. Sunshine pouring through the windows, cats stretched out on the patio, kitchen thermometer reading 25c. Long may it last!

robgoingcrazy

It's not warm here! 17C in my living room on getting up, I find I feel cold when I get out of bed but once I've woken up and had liberal amounts of coffee I adjust!

Hedgehog99

Thermostat currently set at 18°C, and the timer for a morning & evening warm-up. It came on yesterday morning, but didn't need to today, so must have been warm enough. Don't want to get cold/damp problems in a small house when drying washing / cooking / using the shower.

At work, colleagues set the temp to 25°C given half a chance. You can tell who pays their own bills & who doesn't! I don't want to get acclimatised to high temps at work & then feel cold in the evenings.

Al1x

Heating is still off here... but it is 20-21oC in our house still!

Ratison

No heating until November is going well for me - have taken to wearing my hat inside at times, and sleeping with my dressing gown under the quilt covers, so that it's nice and warm, and is to hand when I wake up in the morning.

I live on my own at the moment, so it feels silly to heat a 3 bed detached house just for me (and my dog).

bargainbetty

I cracked. The coldness of the rainy days was just that little bit too much, and I'm fairly sure my elderly downstairs neighbour sold up to her grandson who doesn't put his heating on! I'm not getting that extra bit, so one of the storage heaters has gone on.

Only one though. Living room only - the back room and bed room can wait a bit longer.

andygb

sparrer wrote: »

Most definitely off, didn't even need it on in the bathroom earlier. Sunshine pouring through the windows, cats stretched out on the patio, kitchen thermometer reading 25c. Long may it last!

It sounds as if you have a South facing kitchen like us:)
Back in the Summer, it was regularly 40C in our kitchen - and that was before you started cooking anything:eek:
When we moved into the house, the previous owners had put the heating thermostat in the warmest part of the kitchen:doh: and the heating never cut in, even on the coldest of days. We relocated the thermostat/control box to the living room and it is set at 16C all year round.