Is your heating ON or OFF?

YoungBlueEyes

It was -1 here last night, and a proper pea-souper this morning. So that's it, heating is on!

I could tell I had the heating on last night, had a lot of condensation on my windows this morning

Silvertabby

Zero overnight, and chilly fog this morning so, yes, the heating is on, as it has been when needed.

House is well insulated, and I 'run hot' at night (female age thing!) so still using our summer duvet.  If Mr S gets cold there's a throw on the end of the bed that he can pull up.  Plus we have a furry hot water bottle (aka cat).

Don't know how next door are going to manage - a couple of years ago they had their house 'modernised' by making the lounge/dining room/kitchen open plan, with huge glass bi-fold doors across the entire back wall.

RobM99

Silvertabby said:

Don't know how next door are going to manage - a couple of years ago they had their house 'modernised' by making the lounge/dining room/kitchen open plan, with huge glass bi-fold doors across the entire back wall.

Seemed a good idea at the time!

Primrose

Large areas of glass like that are certainly a mixed blessing in cold weather.  The only way of insulating is to pull a thick curtain across them and live in permanent darkness.  Don,t know what,s more depressing - cold or lack of daylight ..

RobM99

Primrose said:

Large areas of glass like that are certainly a mixed blessing in cold weather.  The only way of insulating is to pull a thick curtain across them and live in permanent darkness.  Don,t know what,s more depressing - cold or lack of daylight ..

Grey, damp, drizzly light? I'd rather a low energy bulb on!

Now a light bulb joke - I said grace when I was given an energy-efficient bulb.....


4 watts we are about to receive...!

freshmayres

I thinking it may be time to give in and pop the heating on. What is the consensus on the optimal temperature to keep things just ticking over? I was thinking 17° but not sure if that's too low?
 I live in the middle of a brick terraced row but have terrible insulation (military housing, so am limited in what I can do) 
The house is empty during the day so not sure whether just to heat when in or keep at the low temperature all the time. I do have two oil filled radiators to give a boost when needed.

Silvertabby

Primrose said:

Large areas of glass like that are certainly a mixed blessing in cold weather.  The only way of insulating is to pull a thick curtain across them and live in permanent darkness.  Don,t know what,s more depressing - cold or lack of daylight ..

No curtains at all .  Far too big for any combo of ready mades, and the quote for made to measures nearly induced a heart attack (went way over budget for the extension and 'modernisation).  

Primrose

 I live in the middle of a brick terraced row but have terrible insulation (military housing, so am limited in what I can do) 
The house is empty during the day so not sure whether just to heat when in or keep at the low temperature all the time. I do have two oil filled radiators to give a boost when needed.

Could you focus on keeping one room as your Warm room , keeping all the doors closed and focusing your heating in there? If you're only int the hiuse in the evenings thwt might prove mor economical although  there's never a totally right answer in these situations.

YoungBlueEyes

I’m not sure how the curtain/condensation thing works. Well I can’t work it out in my house. 

I’ve got a cold conservatory off the living room, and I’ve hung floor length, fleece lined (by me!) curtains and there’s no cond there this morning. The front door has the same curtain set up, cond this morning. My living room and main bedroom have blackout roller blinds, absolutely soaking this morning. The bathroom has no blinds nor nothing, cond this morning. The wee window in my hall has a thin blind, cond this morning. 🤔🤷‍♀️

Silvertabby

freshmayres said:

I thinking it may be time to give in and pop the heating on. What is the consensus on the optimal temperature to keep things just ticking over? I was thinking 17° but not sure if that's too low?
 I live in the middle of a brick terraced row but have terrible insulation (military housing, so am limited in what I can do) 
The house is empty during the day so not sure whether just to heat when in or keep at the low temperature all the time. I do have two oil filled radiators to give a boost when needed.

18° is working for us at the moment, but that may have to go up when we hit really cold weather.

Our house is well insulated ( but have lived in married quarters in the past - my sympathies!)  so we don't need the heating on overnight, but it is set to click in should the temperature drop into pipe-freezing territory.