Is your heating ON or OFF?

MikeyPGT

SuzeQStan — MoneySavingExpert Forum - originally it was set up for the wrong area (this time last year) but now just seems to have given up communicating!  It did respond to a 'ping' from them but didn't give them any data.  It seems ridiculous that they don't seem that bothered that they aren't getting any information but there we go ...

SuzeQStan

Ah that sounds familiar too - prior to discovering 🐙 had recorded the wrong mpan number, they came out on one of their repeat visits and refused to set us up with a mobile signal booster aerial as we are based in the north but we insisted on it and they did cave in. 

 Pointless in the end because it turned out to be something else - but worth repeating here in case they might have refused the aerial to you as well @MikeyPGT?

Wednesday2000

The heating is on as it feels very chilly. I just got my thick cardigan out and my blanket to put on my lap.

Rosa_Damascena

Its a chilly 5degC outside but I have taken a chance on the sunshine with 2 loads of washing. Of course I'll have to finish them off indoors which will involve either flicking that heating switch / failing that, the Dri Buddi - but that won't be until after 4pm.

ET22

Its going to feel like minus 4 at 5am and it is about 0 degrees atm. I will not be turning the heating off tonight whether I can afford it or not. If it feels like minus 4 outside in the morning, I want my heating to be on already when I wake up 

Swipe

I've just turned down my living room storage heater ready for the sweltering 14C forecast for tomorrow 

Skint_yet_Again

My heating is off 🥶 I’m having an extra radiator put in. Down to 10.5 when heating engineer arrived this morning but I’m now shut in the living room with the sun coming in and it’s up to 13.5. I’ve got thermals on plus several layers of clothes, coat & gloves plus 2 throws and another coat over my legs. Hopefully it won’t take long 🤞 I couldn’t live like this. 

dreaming

Skint_yet_Again said:

My heating is off 🥶 I’m having an extra radiator put in. Down to 10.5 when heating engineer arrived this morning but I’m now shut in the living room with the sun coming in and it’s up to 13.5. I’ve got thermals on plus several layers of clothes, coat & gloves plus 2 throws and another coat over my legs. Hopefully it won’t take long 🤞 I couldn’t live like this. 

I seem to have suffered nearly 4 years of ill-health, plus I am now 70 so I definitely feel the cold more than I ever did. I have a decent credit balance so I put the has central heating on if I feel the need but also wear thermal layers and have a number of blankets. I also use an electric heater if I am just in the living room - a quick blast from that warms the room up rather than heating the whole house. Your last remark reminded me of a conversation I had the other day when I was reminiscing with a relative about "the good old days" when all we had to heat our (totally uninsulated) house was a coal fire in the living room, and in the depths of winter a paraffin heater on the landing (which made our eyes run with fumes). My dad, who used to leave the house at 7 a.m. would sometimes leave the oven on low with the door ajar so it was slightly warmer in the kitchen. We kids (our mum had died when we were all young) would run downstairs to get washed and dressed in the kitchen before going to school - where the girls weren't allowed to wear trousers or even tights, just skirts and knee length socks. I definitely couldn't live like that now. although I suppose I would if I had to and am well aware that there are still people who are unable to heat their houses adequately.

Skint_yet_Again

Yes @dreaming I am grateful that I can afford to heat my home. I remember just having 2 coal fires to heat our childhood home and ice inside the windows. I too have health conditions and feel the cold so I often wear thermals and several layers but this is the coldest it has been so far this year. 

Rosa_Damascena

Swipe said:

I've just turned down my living room storage heater ready for the sweltering 14C forecast for tomorrow 

Where do you live?!