Is your heating ON or OFF?

ET22

I can do low temperatures but do worry about the humidity levels inside due to the cold air not being able to hold moisture. For that reason ,my heating is on 19 degrees day and night in the rooms i use   

YoungBlueEyes

elsien said:

I’ve been keeping my central heating at 17 with two layers of socks but I still have chilblains on my feet. Mainly when I’m working from home and not moving around enough, I think.
So I’ve decided to go up to 18 at least when I’m sitting at the desk for most of the day.  I can keep my body warm enough no problem; it’s the feet that are the issue. 

@elsien I'm a chilblain sufferer too, I've one on my left pinkie finger now. I had them on my toes last winter and this winter I've been careful to squiggle my toes about while I'm sat down to keep the circulation going, and that's worked so far. My neighbour gave me thing of "Snowfire" last year - it's a bit of a TigerBalm sort of goop that feels like it heats and cools at the same time. I can heartily recommend that if you can find some. The one on my finger seems to like the cold so I wrap a cold wrung-out-but-still-wet dishcoth round it and that takes the anger out of it. I've never found paracetamol/ibuprofen etc make a blind bit of difference so I gave up taking them. Keeping toes/fingers moving (even when you've got them) does help I think.

I am not a doctor, this is not medical advice etc. But I hope it helps. 

mjm3346

Last winter I had all the night storage heaters on for one day and some of them on also for one day. Midday today it was 43 and I did use 30 mins of a fan heater (on 2 kw) which got that end of the room up to 48. Outside still below freezing and foggy - temperature matters a bit but it's the lack of sun that really hurts as it stops indoors warming up to a comfortable level which the insulation then helps to maintain.

Auntycaz

I've had my heating set at 16 degrees all day, and turning it down to 13 degrees overnight for almost a week as its been below freezing outside. Today it has been -4 degrees outside, with freezing fog all day. Fortunately I have quite a bit of credit built up with my energy company. I wear a dressing gown over my clothes for extra warmth and also use a waffle throw when sitting on the couch as I feel the cold more when sitting still. 

elsien

Cherryfudge said:

MikeyPGT said:

Sitting room fell to 8C this morning so decided to put the heating on for an hour to take the chill off - guess what?  Heating doesn't work.  Boiler fires up, little radiator picture comes on but absolutely no heat in the pipes or radiators.  Guess it'll be snuggling in the fleecy slanket til I can get someone out to look at it.

That's incredibly bad luck - hope it's soon fixed.

@elsien, there's a link, a few pages back, to an article which recommends raising your feet off the floor as it's a relatively cold area to be in contact with. My preferred solution is to put them on a hot water bottle, but a footstool or cushion probably does the trick.

I do have a computer foot rest thing, so you can massage and move your feet while at the desk and they are at the right height. It’s not helping in that respect.

Rosa_Damascena

elsien said:

Cherryfudge said:

MikeyPGT said:

Sitting room fell to 8C this morning so decided to put the heating on for an hour to take the chill off - guess what?  Heating doesn't work.  Boiler fires up, little radiator picture comes on but absolutely no heat in the pipes or radiators.  Guess it'll be snuggling in the fleecy slanket til I can get someone out to look at it.

That's incredibly bad luck - hope it's soon fixed.

@elsien, there's a link, a few pages back, to an article which recommends raising your feet off the floor as it's a relatively cold area to be in contact with. My preferred solution is to put them on a hot water bottle, but a footstool or cushion probably does the trick.

I do have a computer foot rest thing, so you can massage and move your feet while at the desk and they are at the right height. It’s not helping in that respect.

Pernio can be bad luck but on occasion can be a secondary sign of other pathology. It may be worth having a NHS health check if you are over 40 and don't already have an underlying cardiovascular diagnosis.

mumf

This is an interesting topic. Right now as I write this I am sitting on the sofa with my feet up and my electric throw on,with a cup of tea at the side😃. Importantly I am dressed. I say that as our neighbour,a body building fitness guy ( nice chap) lives in shorts and t shirt. His boiler has packed up and he cannot get help for a week,so we lent him a fan heater and oil based radiator,and also told him to put some clothes on! 

  Since my illness we have had to remove our solid fuel heating of nearly 30 years, as my wife in the future doesn’t want the aggro of cleaning and hauling logs etc in. So right now we are totally electric. It works very well! There are hardcore ‘ gas owners’ on the energy section who would slag anyone off like me for saying we are all electric,but used thoughtfully it is not that bad.Right now is the peak heating time,but we allow for it monthly. I wouldn’t say say it applies  here,but budgeting is the key. It’s where many struggle because of lack of it. We are not wealthy,but we do ok ,and are comfortable. 

  Many houses ( including neighbouring ones) are wooden floored,or tiled as though they are in Greece or Turkey 🤣. Our rooms are doored in the original 130 year design. They are carpeted too. They have curtains,not blinds ,and we turn stuff off! Even without heating the room I am in now averages 15.3 c degrees all day. 

One of my friends is a gas engineer,and his son ,his business partner,is heading towards installing insulation and electric air source heating too,as he sees in his young future the move towards gas being moved away from. Given our 30 years of wood/ coal heating now gone at home, I can also see restrictions on that in future years too. 

  As my 90 year old mother said recently,” this central heating lark has only been around about for most folks for 40 + odd years,and now we are going back to the late 70’s and before.” 

Wednesday2000

I woke up feeling quite chilly, but I opened the windows to let some air in before putting on the heating. I had a cup of tea to warm me up while I waited. It was very cold again last night. My dog didn't want to go out to the garden. She kept running in very quickly afterwards.

I have changed the duvet covers this morning and put a thicker one on as that seems to make a lot of difference. I might start putting a blanket on the bed as well.

mjm3346

Overcast again but a bit warmer out 7 today and 6 tonight but no full sun in the 14 day forecast  - need sun between 11 and 2 to get in the windows and make a difference - 47 indoors (midday) and really appreciate the slippers and hot water bottle, nice and warm in bed under the duvets.

YorksLass

Most definitely on!  The light covering of snow we had on Thursday night is still with us and was topped up last night by another couple of inches.  And today we have freezing fog as well.     Daytime and nighttime temperatures here are the same i.e. zero and there's sleet forecast for tonight.  It isn't dark yet but I have the curtains closed already - it's so depressing out there.  And there's no sun on the horizon for the next 10 days.  I hate winter and will be hibernating as much as I can.