Is your heating ON or OFF?

Wednesday2000

I was cold again last night and got into bed after switching off the heating. I had the heating on for three hours in the morning/afternoon and three hours after 6.

I put on the halogen heater in my bedroom and promptly fell asleep around 9.30 according to my Fitbit. It does give off such a relaxing warmth if you use it in a smaller area. My husband had to switch it off as he had to go out to work a night shift last night.

Rosa_Damascena

I had the heated blanket on all night as well as the usual 2 duvets and blankets. Bliss!

Auntycaz

Hope everyone is managing to stay reasonably warm as this cold spell is expected to last until at least Sunday.  It's still -3  here but not as cold as it was earlier in the week so my heating is still on 15/16 degrees on the wall thermostat during the day and 12 degrees overnight to stop any pipes bursting. It's too slippery outside for me to go out but at least we haven't had snow. Stay safe everyone.

Rosa_Damascena

Its cold here but beautifully sunny and dry, and wrapped up well it was extremely pleasant walking earlier.

Auntycaz

I spoke too soon about the weather warming up a bit, we're back to thick freezing fog and -7 outside again and it's like a skating rink on the path so heating is still on. Can't even take the rubbish to the bin for fear of falling over I've just put it outside the back door for now. Glad I stocked up on milk and teabags and my cupboards are fairly well stocked so I don't need to try and get to the shops. Take care everyone.

Primrose

My husband tried empty the kitchen bin bag into our outdoor recycling bin this morning.  The lid was frozen soIid and wouldn,t budge. Some things are not worth battling with when a potential fall, a fractured limb and a ten hour waiting in a freezing ambulance are the potential outcome!  

YorksLass

As I expected, the timer for the heating has had to be altered back to what it was (longer) - this week has been so cold.  Fortunate to not get any snow but it's been thick frost every night with minus temperatures and daytime only just above freezing.  Like Auntycaz, we've had freezing fog too.  I did venture out to the bin this morning but that's as far as I'll be going!

Auntycaz

Check the water pressure on your boilers everyone. I woke up this morning to -5 and freezing fog again and my boiler had gone off. E1 on the display. So I had to get down on the floor and crawl in the cupboard to increase the water pressure. Luckily the person who did the check on my boiler had changed the valve you open to let more water in as the old one was too hard for me to turn It took a while to get back up again but it's back on again so that's good.
I can't understand why it has happened again so soon as it's only about 6 weeks since last time i had to do it. Stay warm and safe everyone.

plumb1_2

Auntycaz said:

Check the water pressure on your boilers everyone. I woke up this morning to -5 and freezing fog again and my boiler had gone off. E1 on the display. So I had to get down on the floor and crawl in the cupboard to increase the water pressure. Luckily the person who did the check on my boiler had changed the valve you open to let more water in as the old one was too hard for me to turn It took a while to get back up again but it's back on again so that's good.
I can't understand why it has happened again so soon as it's only about 6 weeks since last time i had to do it. Stay warm and safe everyone.

Could be you have a small leak on the system, or a prv slight leak. If it continues the need to top up, then it needs investigation 

Auntycaz

plumb1_2 said:

Auntycaz said:

Check the water pressure on your boilers everyone. I woke up this morning to -5 and freezing fog again and my boiler had gone off. E1 on the display. So I had to get down on the floor and crawl in the cupboard to increase the water pressure. Luckily the person who did the check on my boiler had changed the valve you open to let more water in as the old one was too hard for me to turn It took a while to get back up again but it's back on again so that's good.
I can't understand why it has happened again so soon as it's only about 6 weeks since last time i had to do it. Stay warm and safe everyone.

Could be you have a small leak on the system, or a prv slight leak. If it continues the need to top up, then it needs investigation 

Thank you for your help and for replying so promptly. I think I might not have topped it up enough last time i did it as I'm a bit nervous of having the pressure too high. My boiler is above my worktop on the wall, but the place where you change the pressure is in the cupboard under the worktop in a corner so a bit difficult to get to and impossible for me to see the dial at the same time so i have to do it a little at a time.
Also should the dial on my boiler which shows what the water pressure range should be be checked when the heating is on or off.