Is your heating ON or OFF?

luvchocolate

In West Yorkshire..no heating needed yet 
Windows open until about 6pm then just the trickle vents open. 

Summer duvet still on 

Rosa_Damascena

Wednesday2000 said:

It is very mild here. I am wearing a summer dress and sandals. We are still sleeping with our windows open too.

I did have to put on socks and get a blanket a few times in the evening in the past two weeks, but the heating is definitely off.

I don't see it being turned on for another 4 weeks at least! We have had a wonderful long summer on the Essex Riviera.

thara1996

Not yet.  

I have now dug out the old portable heater however in order and have cleaned the fire place as well. I have a pile of old leaves to burn up during the winter. I’m seeing to the radiators. 

HappyinDevon

Our heating has come on twice, when the lounge has been below 17 degrees, but mostly I’ve  been snuggled under a blanket if I’m chilly….. I’m happy to let the heating come on at 17 degrees for the sake of my old house!

ancientmum

I live on my own in a flat, the heating is the original storage heaters (about 30 years old I think).  Last year I had two removed because they had stopped working.  Living on the south and slightly west coast I'm hoping that it will be another few weeks before I have to turn the remaining two on, but as I don't have anywhere outside to dry washing I may have to use the one in the sitting room (next to an open window) on wash days.  I've noticed that the cooler mornings and evenings are leaving things damp.   I won't put the one in my bedroom on until it gets really cold.

YoungBlueEyes

marycanary said:

Ah, the annual, "I'm too hard to put the heating on thread". 

Not really. Some of us just don't want a lot of heat.

Mine isn't on, and depending on the weather it could easily be another month before I even think about it. Day temps are high teens here, low double digits overnight. My thermometer says its 21' currently in the lounge  

MACKEM99

  Bring on global warming and we don't need much heating .....thus reducing emissions.😃

Siebrie

It has been on for two mornings early September, when there was an unexpected drop in temperature. It was switched off after those two days, both at the thermostat, as well as at the kettle (it has the option to choose ‘hot tap water only’, and ‘on vacation’).
Three nights ago we put the electric blankets back on our beds. Soon, I will add the flannel fitted sheets and duvet covers to the laundry circulation.

MrsStepford

Heating OFF, but the tower fans were still in use earlier this month. Here on the South coast we can get summer nights when the temperature doesn't drop below 20C. We like a cool bedroom, so don't have electric blankets, duvets or hot water bottles. We used to have log fires spring and autumn but now that husband has been diagnosed with chronic bronchitis, can't have those anymore because of particulates. 

YorksLass

Our heating is on for 40 minutes in the morning to take the chill off the house and sometimes for a brief spell in the evenings if and when it's needed.  Last winter we were quite stingy with the heating and it wasn't particularly comfortable, despite wearing layers, using throws, hot drinks/meals etc.  And we noticed mould appearing in the unheated rooms.

I'm OK during the day as I'm busy doing things but DH's poor mobility means he is often cold. At our ages (74 and 82), we're not spring chickens any more and can't tough it out like we used to.  We'll be far less Scrooge-like this winter!