Is your heating ON or OFF?

SuperMoose

Heating not on yet but we have had the gas fire in the living room on a couple of times.
Still got the summer 1.5 tog duvet on but that might change soon :cool:

Olliebeak1951

Still only occasional use of Gas Fire here too, at the moment - but those 'occasions' are now getting closer together .................... maybe the time is drawing much nearer . Forecast for the remainder of this week seems to be quite decent, so let's see what next week brings.

VfM4meplse

Today was beautiful, but the reduction in daylight is very noticeable. Can't complain though.

I am really not looking forward to dark afternoons in a couple of weeks time. Perhaps I need to consult the preparing for winter thread.

uk_american

Off in my corner of Essex. It was 22 here today so the windows remain cracked open although I've had a few nights of shutting them in recent weeks.


Hoping to hold off until November.

carrielovesfanta

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

At midnight I was attempting to read in bed with only my eyeballs uncovered by the duvet but then 30 minutes later we got a phone call from the alarm monitoring company to say one of our cold temperature alert detectors has just been triggered.

I'm intrigued - your alarm company monitors the house temp??

Primrose

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

Yes, I didn’t really think about it when the alarm installers were connecting up these old temperature alert things that are scattered around the house. They’re quite appealing (in a 1960s Art Deco revival kind of way) so I didn’t want to rip them out.

There were so many other sensors for things being installed that I just thought, yes, connect up everything. Why not?

Now I discover they can’t be overridden on the system so unless I want them ringing me every time it gets too hot or too cold, I’m going to have to set them to temperatures that never get triggered.
So pretty pointless really!

Yes I was surprised by your alarm company ringing you with low temperature alerts but I think that might be a very mixed blessing if it started ringing you every morning at 1 am to warn you about an omminent 5 degrees of frost. I think I,d rather just check the weather forecast and dig out my woolly bedsocks ! I,m not the best comoany in the morning when my sleep is interrupted, especially by unexpected phone calls in the middle of the night !

VfM4meplse

uk_american wrote: »

Off in my corner of Essex. It was 22 here today so the windows remain cracked open although I've had a few nights of shutting them in recent weeks.


Hoping to hold off until November.

But today the weather has been horrid. Can't believe how different it was on Monday!

Still no heating though, am warming myself up through the medium of:

Novice_investor101

I turned my heating on last night, I can feel a bit of dampness creeping in (Victorian terrace). Glad I did as it came on this morning when it was a chilly 5c outside.

I'm leaving the hallway thermostat up at 18c (which is about 20c in the rooms) from now & letting the house heat up in the evenings. It's never on during the day. I definitely felt the chill on the way to work this morning, tho.

The winter coat may be coming out soon too

Primrose

Did some garden Labour this morning but now sitting down and starting to feel a little chilly so it's ON boost for an hour and my fleecy blanket and body warmer will help me warm when it turns off. I think you need to keep your body, warm, especially when sitting still for extended periods.

VfM4meplse

Primrose wrote: »

Did some garden Labour this morning but now sitting down and starting to feel a little chilly so it's ON boost for an hour and my fleecy blanket and body warmer will help me warm when it turns off. I think you need to keep your body, warm, especially when sitting still for extended periods.

It was lovely again this afternoon. A brisk walk during the last hour of light makes the house feel very warm when I arrive home. Next tactic: hot tea. Then shawl / blanket, and finally HWB in bed.

no heating for another 13 days.