Is your heating ON or OFF?

Techno

Just be careful when it gets below freezing - unless you have very well insulated pipes, keeping the heating on low protects the plumbing. Calling a plumber out for a burst pipe costs a lot more than the heating as a friend found out :eek:

Living_proof

Primrose wrote: »

Well the good thing about this very cold weather is that any surplus stuff overloading our fridge can be safely stored in a cool box or bag outside the kitchen door. At the moment there is a row of tonic bottles lined up which are keeping nicely chilled to support our Dry January!

There has been sparkling water outside mine!

Mee

Techno wrote: »

Just be careful when it gets below freezing - unless you have very well insulated pipes, keeping the heating on low protects the plumbing. Calling a plumber out for a burst pipe costs a lot more than the heating as a friend found out :eek:

Good point. Have insulation around pipes and sandwiched between apartments above and below though end of block so have a few external walls.

Mee

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Wow, that is disciplined! QUOTE]

Not as disciplined as I would like to think - sometimes I put the heating on for 30 mins in the morning if very cold - as it is not fun to be cold in the nuddy...

White_musk

Pop the heating on while having my morning coffee so the wet room is warm for my shower. As soon as I'm dry and dressed it goes off. I then put it on for an hour or so in the evening when sitting around. The radiator in my bedroom is switched off and the window open a little bit as I can't be doing with a hot bedroom.

I try to potter as much as possible so I don't need the heating on during the day. I long for the warmer weather when it doesn't need to go on at all.

VfM4meplse

White_musk wrote: »

Pop the heating on while having my morning coffee so the wet room is warm for my shower. As soon as I'm dry and dressed it goes off.

Don't you worry about the wet room staying damp and getting mouldy?

Midnight and I'm in multiple layers. The heating and fire are still on too.

White_musk

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Don't you worry about the wet room staying damp and getting mouldy?

Midnight and I'm in multiple layers. The heating and fire are still on too.

OO no. I'm a fresh air freak and love the windows in the wetroom and my bedroom open. In summer my windows are never closed, as is the back door, although obviously it is when I go out. I'm also a bathroom germ-phobe (genuinely) so the wetroom is scrubbed within an inch of it's life daily, the loo is cleaned more often per day than I'm prepared to admit. Mould doesn't stand a chance here. :rotfl:

VfM4meplse

I went to bed a little down yesterday, having seen the headline on one the the redtops informing us this is the start of a 5-week freeze:



Wake me up in March...

silverwhistle

Techno wrote: »

Just be careful when it gets below freezing - unless you have very well insulated pipes, keeping the heating on low protects the plumbing. Calling a plumber out for a burst pipe costs a lot more than the heating as a friend found out :eek:

I've only had my CH on for testing purposes this winter as I'm either active or hibernating in front of the wood-burner in the lounge which also heats the dining room when |I open the door.



When I pootle off on my skiing holiday I open the loft hatch, put the heating on constant and lower the thermostat to pretty well its lowest setting. This seems to work well, and being a terraced house it benefits from the protection either side.


When we return both fire and central heating get started immediately!

chickens11

White_musk wrote: »

OO no. I'm a fresh air freak and love the windows in the wetroom and my bedroom open. In summer my windows are never closed, as is the back door, although obviously it is when I go out. I'm also a bathroom germ-phobe (genuinely) so the wetroom is scrubbed within an inch of it's life daily, the loo is cleaned more often per day than I'm prepared to admit. Mould doesn't stand a chance here. :rotfl:

Me too fresh air freak , my bedroom window is open 24/7 all year round , lovely under the duvet and breathing cold air in ........But i have got my woodburner alight in the sitting room 24/7 as its not nice to sit cold ........Also ive got GCH should I need back up heating ............Keep warm folks..