Is your heating ON or OFF?

wort

A beautiful autumn day, washing on line early, before a walk to town to get covid  jab. Back and done an hour or so in the garden in a vest top !!!! Unheard of for chilly old me🤪house isn’t nearly so warm as outside so it will be closing curtains and doors as soon as the sun starts to dip.

Wednesday2000

I popped out to the shop earlier and only had sandals on, well, and clothes, you know what I mean. Lol.

Then I got home and had to put on socks as my feet felt cold. It is definitely my house that feels chilly. I went upstairs to the south facing bedroom and it is noticeably warmer upstairs. I think if we do have a cold snap/snow I will be using that as the living room.

Longwalker

The house is getting colder , outside temps are barely making double figures, over night the temps are really falling, we still had thick for at mid day today ( beautiful evening though so a 3 mile walk at 4 kept me warm till now ) 

CH/HW 45 mins in the morning and CH 4 hrs at night. We dont have the rads on upstairs where our sitting room is so the stove gets lit around 5/6 pm and we let it die off around 9pm

Using wood, the few bits of smokeless we have to use to keep the fire going are from last year. Where as a scuttle would last a day ( 3 scuttles per sack ) its now stretching for 3 or 4 days . Thankfully we have a couple of years worth of logs but they are going down fast and we need to start sourcing more for the years ahead

KxMx

I will need to bleed 3 out of 4 radiators tomorrow but the heating here definitely works.... And it's so quiet compared to where I was living before! 

Makingabobor2

Beautiful day today, so no heat needed at all. Sat in the sun with a friend who bought me a coffee and it was lovely. Then later I went for a walk and sun still shining, but now it is chilly indoors....but then it always is in our front room. Typing with my cashmere handwarmers on and just about to get my fleecy dressing gown on and snuggle under a blanket. 

YoungBlueEyes

Did anyone listen to You&Yours on radio4 yesterday lunchtime? The topic was "is your heating on or off". Woman on it said she had no heating on yet but the aga was heating the house nicely and they had oil filled radiators and heated throws. God I did laugh.

Then an 'expert' from Energy Action something something (?) came on and said we must all have our heating on day and night at a low/mid-20's temp cos that'll cure another caller's mouldy bathroom problem. That got me shouting at the radio - Aye right love! Haven't you heard the news? Heating on round the clock - and will I send you the bill will I? :rolleyes:

Made me think of you @Bendy_House. You need to crack your windows open after a shower, trickle vents etc etc

Auntycaz

No wonder some people are getting into debt if that is the sort of advice the so called experts are giving people. I would like to see them live on a minimum wage, benefits or a pension for a couple of months they have no idea do they?

Kerreh

Cherryfudge said:

Our heating came on overnight - lovely and warm this morning! However, it's now so mild out that I've been walking round the town in a tee shirt.

Apologies for quoting you directly it's merely to illustrate my question I suppose....

I see that people have their heating turn on overnight (here/other social media posts) likely I assume because the thermostat is set to say 15 degrees or such so it automatically clicks in.

I've grown up (ie. my parents do this) always setting the thermostat to 0/minimum before going to bed so no heating clicks in overnight. We then either manually turn it up for a bit of heat in the mornings or, (for me as I'm only awake/in the property for less than an hour each weekday morning) not turn it up at all until the evening.

It made me wonder... are we alone in our approach/ do other people have their heating 'off' completely overnight? It's not that we're tight (although in today's times maybe we need to be) but I guess it certainly helps with fuel costs ....

(nb. heating is most definitely off in all scenarios currently, day or night!)

Primrose

I,m surprised that new double glazed windows don't come with compulsory fitted trickle vents to help reduce dampness, especially in kitchens and bathrooms.  We were naive when we had our single glazing replaced. Had trickle vents in living areas and bedrooms but not in kitchen and bathroom where they,ve probabky most needed.  It was probabky a an additional cost issue at the time. Not a problem as we can always open little windows but built-in options always better.

Primrose

We used to turn our heating  off at night but now we,re much older and one of us is acutely disabled thermostat is set to come on if the temperature drops below 17 degrees during the night.  While we,re still being extra vigilant  with heating now there,s no point in popping our  clogs from hypothermia  when we  have some savings in the bank. Economies are  being made in other areas to compensate