Is your heating ON or OFF?

chickens11

Me and the dawg are in front of the log fire , and lovely it is too ....Really been a cold raw feel to the day today , as we havent had any sunshine to help warm the rooms , ive had to have the GC heating on during the day ...

Muser1

Thanks to this site and thread our monthly DD has gone from £156 to £102 and I think will reduce further in the spring! High five!

Ours is off at the moment but has been on 20.5 most of the day as we have had visitors and didn't think it polite to ask them to wear double socks and an extra jumper :rotfl:

Austin_Allegro

I'm staying at my mother's at the moment, a very cold Edwardian end of terrace house. Mother has the central heating on for 4 hours in the morning and four hours in the evening. During the 'cold' times she tends to stay in the kitchen where it's warm by the boiler, or is rushing around the house doing housework and doesn't notice the cold. I work from home so am in my room freezing my ar%e off! I don't like to ask for the heating on because a. it's not my house and b. I like to see how cold I can take it.

So I wear 3prs socks, long johns, wool trousers, vest, flannelette shirt, RN issue cold weather wooly-pully, army issue fleece, scarf and fingerless gloves. Bear in mind it is about 2c outside and I'm guessing about 10c in my room. Most of the time it's ok but yesterday I had to switch a little electrical heater on. :eek:

sparrer

On from 7.30am til 8.30pm, I switched it off for three hours while I was out but so cold today I really need it on. And it's drying the laundry so killing two birds with one stone

Rainy-Days

It's pretty much on during the daytime at the moment. It goes back to timed in the evening and goes off at 9.30pm and back on at 6.00am. Having said that just before Christmas it was not on much during the day at all, it's only that last two weeks of December that I had it on constantly.

I just think there is nothing worse than being cold!

sparrer

Rainy-Days wrote: »

I just think there is nothing worse than being cold!

Couldn't agree more, if I'm cold I feel unwell and miserable. Like many I live on a tight budget but make huge pots of soup in the sc which lasts for several days and is both warming and filling.
Surprisingly mild today, I came home from meeting friends at 2pm and didn't need to turn the heating on until half an hour ago.

Austin_Allegro

Here's a tip for anyone with an unheated bedroom. Sleep with your dressing gown laid over the top of the bedclothes. That way you get extra warmth at night and when you get up, you can put it on really quickly.

Also, if you don't have central heating, you can get a timer switch for an electric heater to come on for just long enough to warm the bedroom before you get up.

If you don't want to buy a timer try doing what I did in my student days, set your alarm clock 20 mins before you actually have to get up, turn the heater on then go back to bed for a snooze while the room warms up!

Torry_Quine

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

Here's a tip for anyone with an unheated bedroom. Sleep with your dressing gown laid over the top of the bedclothes. That way you get extra warmth at night and when you get up, you can put it on really quickly.

Also, if you don't have central heating, you can get a timer switch for an electric heater to come on for just long enough to warm the bedroom before you get up.

If you don't want to buy a timer try doing what I did in my student days, set your alarm clock 20 mins before you actually have to get up, turn the heater on then go back to bed for a snooze while the room warms up!

It seems unnecessary to me to heat the bedroom when you get up and then immediately leave the bedroom surely.

Austin_Allegro

Torry_Quine wrote: »

It seems unnecessary to me to heat the bedroom when you get up and then immediately leave the bedroom surely.

It's just that I hate having to get up in a cold bedroom - spent years doing it as a child and absolutely loathed it! I guess if one is really tough one doesn't need it.

Wanno

I haven't had my heating on at all this winter, or last. I must be hard core. I have a fantastic log burner which I light maybe once a week when I fancy a cosy night in.
I pay £13 a month gas and electricity.