Is your heating ON or OFF?

Rosa_Damascena

Off, still off for which I am grateful. Today we had beautiful late summer weather with plenty of sunshine down south, a perfect temperature to be out and about in.

Next week is set to turn cooler.

fatbelly

Currently 20 degrees in my front room, with no heating on. The back of the house is cooler at 17 but that's where we sleep so all fine so far in the deep southwest! Hopefully we will avoid the arctic air that's due to come down the middle of the country this week.

KxMx

Still off.
My bedroom is much colder than the hall (thermostat location) but i've not seen anything on there under 18.5 yet. Is creeping down and usually drops by 0.5 every few days when I look in the morning.
Winter duvet and long pj bottoms have been put into use.
Winter nighties and winter dressing gown not yet needed.

I did discover I cannot switch off the eco mode on my boiler, so still long waits for hot water, which get longer as the ambient temperature of the boiler gets lower.
I also can't partially open the taps to let it heat up at a lower flow rate. Partially opening the taps doesn't trigger the boiler, only when they are fully open does it start.
I thought of contacting my landlord about the eco mode issue, but will put up with it for now until the heating starts to be used which will likely only be a few weeks, it is October next week after all. 
Perhaps once the boiler isn't cold all the time the hot water will come out sooner.

London_1

I too live in the sunny south of England ( Medway,North Kent) and at the moment so far have resisted the temptation to put the heating on.
Just got a thicker cardi out to wear, and retired my sandals to the spare room until next year  

I do have a throw or two to put around my knees when watching tv in the evening so its still warm enough to do without the CH just yet.

Yesterday was a bit damp, as we had some rain,(grass has returned to green again, and weeds are starting to sprout up ). nowhere near enough for the heating though. I live in a very well insulated house ,double roof insulation plus foam wall insulation and I'm mid terraced in quite a sheltered spot, and the temperature in my sitting room is around 23c at the moment,lowest its been since early July. my sitting room is south facing so I get any sun for most of the day.
I have a temperature card on my mantlepiece which tells me how warm it is and normally it has to be 18c or below before I switch it on, and then its only usually on for an hour in the morning. 
The longer it stays warm hopefully the lower my bills at least. 

JackieO xx

Wednesday2000

It felt nippy when I first woke up, the thermometer said it was 18.1°C in my living room without my heating on. I went back to bed for a lie in and put a cardigan on too and when I woke up again it's not too bad now the sun is out.

Primrose

Wednesday2000 said:

It felt nippy when I first woke up, the thermometer said it was 18.1°C in my living room without my heating on. I went back to bed for a lie in and put a cardigan on too and when I woke up again it's not too bad now the sun is out.

It,s surprising how much difference letting the maximum sunshine  into a room can have on the temperature. It really helps to have a temperature reading device in every room so you can be quick to open and close curtains to respond to temperature changes.

it sounds an odd thing to say but when we chose  our current house years ago, the fact that it was east / west facing and ensured that all rooms got sunshine for at least part of the day was one of the deciding factors.   North facing rooms which  never get any sunshine can be so dreary and cold especially in winter yet it,s surprising how many people, when buying a home rarely seem to take this factor into consideration . But being a keen gardener as well, sun movement is important so it was one of the first things I checked!  Getting some winter sunshine into your rooms makes such a mood changing difference too.

Wednesday2000

Primrose said:

Wednesday2000 said:

It felt nippy when I first woke up, the thermometer said it was 18.1°C in my living room without my heating on. I went back to bed for a lie in and put a cardigan on too and when I woke up again it's not too bad now the sun is out.

It,s surprising how much difference letting the maximum sunshine  into a room can have on the temperature. It really helps to have a temperature reading device in every room so you can be quick to open and close curtains to respond to temperature changes.

it sounds an odd thing to say but when we chose  our current house years ago, the fact that it was east / west facing and ensured that all rooms got sunshine for at least part of the day was one of the deciding factors.   North facing rooms which  never get any sunshine can be so dreary and cold especially in winter yet it,s surprising how many people, when buying a home rarely seem to take this factor into consideration . But being a keen gardener as well, sun movement is important so it was one of the first things I checked!  Getting some winter sunshine into your rooms makes such a mood changing difference too.

I really notice the difference between the north facing side and the south facing side since I have been in our new house. During the summer heatwave we had move our bed to sleep in the north facing bedroom as it was so stuffy and unbearable in our main bedroom. I will like that bedroom in the winter months, though!

YoungBlueEyes

I agree Primrose.  My old house was west facing at the front, kitchen at the back was east facing.  The house we just moved to is SE facing at the front.  It's such a difference!

I miss the dawns now, unless they're spectacular and come right round (itms?), and the sunsets are almost over by the time I realise they're in the garden because I'm not used to looking for them out the back and the buildings out there swallow most of it (unless they're spectacular and fill the sky).

The compromises of house-hunting...

Cherryfudge

We took orientation into account when we bought our current house. It's roughly north-east/south-west so one side gets a lot of sun and the other is much cooler. The colder side also had to be reglazed as the old wooden, single-glazed windows hadn't had the sun on them in the winter and had consequently suffered from the damp. 

Fruball

Just threw a couple of boxes/cardboard packaging in the fireplace and that's raised the temp in here a bit as it was getting chilly.  So grateful to be able to do this.