Is your heating ON or OFF?

tim_n

I can only have my heating on if I flick the switch over. It's rarely cold in the house due to the guy downstairs on long term sick with a nasty disease which means he can't catch cold! It's so hot I have the windows open most of the year.

I do remember a couple of cold days last year so I'm getting the timer fixed this weekend. I'm replacing it with my dad (he's the better electrician) in the hope I can stop the hot water being on twice a day. Still more expense :- (

pollys

pollys wrote: »

Still no heating on here, but, going to a college meeting with DD tonight and I'm sure DH will have put it on when I get back!

Pleased to report that DH didn't put the heating on and was wrapped up in a fleece when we got home.:D

Caterina

Still standing my ground with the teenagers whinging about cold (DS more than DD as she is in college every day and he only 3 days per week). Stove on last night, usual blankets and hot tea mugs watching TV and hot water bottles in bed - bliss!

Not long now! Yesterday DH was chatting on the phone with his cousin, who is planning to visit with his mum (DH's elderly auntie) on the w/end of 1st and 2nd Nov. and I heard DH say "you are lucky you are coming after 1st Nov, at least you will be warm" Ahhh bless him LOL

Caterina

lucielle

No heating on here. Just put the cling film stuff on the windows and it has made a big difference, hoping to go past the 1st of November. Have lit the stove on a couple of occasions.
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MrsE_2

Don't all have a go at me........

BUT I thought if you don't heat & ventilate houses well they get damp?

ixwood

Mine's fine without heating. On a cold morning, I'll get condensation, but opening the windows for a hour or so clears it up no probs.

I was considering lighting a fire tonight just cos it's nice, but I'm resisting so far.

27col

I shouldn't worry too much about teenage girls being cold. When you see what they wear, or rather don't wear, when out in the street. It makes me shiver just seeing them on a cold morning. My heating came on on its own this week. The room stat had been set back to 15 c for the summer. I was hoping to last till 1st Nov. Our lounge gets a big heat gain from the sun, if there is any, as it has 2x8ft wide patio doors.

greenbee

greenbee wrote: »

PRINCIPLES OF ECO-DESIGN: Hot zone20-23° Bathrooms, airing cupboards, rooms for drying clothes, kitchen

Warm zone18-21° Living rooms, study, children's bedrooms

Cool zone16-18° Adult bedrooms

Cold zoneunder 16° Rooms that are not in use, storage rooms, garage, basement

I posted this a day or so ago... and decided to check the temperature when I came in today (I was in my work clothes and it felt FREEZING).

It's 13°

And actually, when I'm doing housework, ironing, cooking etc, if I wear a fleece, that's fine.

But realistically, if I'm going to be sitting down doing paperwork (or as I will be tomorrow, working from home), I'm probably going to need to put the heating on. I expect it'll take me a while to get round to it though :rolleyes:

Mrs E has a point, in that we do need to avoid encouraging damp, so there will be a point at which heating is necessary to prevent the fabric of the house from decaying.

The weather has been much drier recently, so although it is colder, I'm finding that the house is less damp now than it was earlier in the year, and I as I have no heating on, I've been leaving the windows open as there's no heat to escape, so ventilation isn't an issue.

fertyskids

Hi everyone,

ive been following this post for a couple of weeks. as a result ive not had my central heating on at all. and only the gas heater in the lounge when i had visitors staying who complained it as too cold. im adjusting really well.

i have a question though.

i have found in two different places in the house a fine, very fine mold type covering on the walls. in the downstairs toilet on the outside wall, next to the pipe that brings the cold water in for the whole of the house. and again in the dining room on an outside wall. nothing is up against these walls at all. it starts at the skirting board and goers about a 3rd of the way up the wall. it washes off easily. ive never had it before. im in a newish house, 17yrs old. wooden double galzing and i air the rooms daily. i actually sleep with windows open a tiny bit in the bedrooms. ive also found the same thing on the ceilings of the bedrooms in the four corners of the house, but not in any other places. i dont dry washing indoors, i try to keep boiling pans covered. etc.

any ideas of what might be causing this. i have checked outside causes to the best of my ability, guttering, damp course etc.

thanks so much karen

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

fertyskids wrote: »

Hi everyone,

ive been following this post for a couple of weeks. as a result ive not had my central heating on at all. and only the gas heater in the lounge when i had visitors staying who complained it as too cold. im adjusting really well.

i have a question though.

i have found in two different places in the house a fine, very fine mold type covering on the walls. in the downstairs toilet on the outside wall, next to the pipe that brings the cold water in for the whole of the house. and again in the dining room on an outside wall. nothing is up against these walls at all. it starts at the skirting board and goers about a 3rd of the way up the wall. it washes off easily. ive never had it before. im in a newish house, 17yrs old. wooden double galzing and i air the rooms daily. i actually sleep with windows open a tiny bit in the bedrooms. ive also found the same thing on the ceilings of the bedrooms in the four corners of the house, but not in any other places. i dont dry washing indoors, i try to keep boiling pans covered. etc.

any ideas of what might be causing this. i have checked outside causes to the best of my ability, guttering, damp course etc.

thanks so much karen

Sounds like condensation,we live in a very old house with very cold thick solid walls and have to have lots of ventilation and luckily we have no mould.Mind you when we moved here the downstairs had mould and the main bedroom had exactly what you described near the ceiling.The previous occupant had had the windows nailed shut and once we washed the walls with bleach and started ventilating it's been fine since and this is our 3rd winter.
I can't realy offer any other advice other than washing with bleach and ventilation as this is what worked for us but someone may come along with better advice.
Good luck!.