Is your heating ON or OFF?

Millionaire

I stick to the logic of putting the heating on when required rather than picking a particular date to start turning it on.

Bargain_Rzl

larmy16 wrote: »

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but a few years ago, I read on an American money saving site, that it is good to wear a hoodie to bed (one of the situations where they have a positive image) - if you have a particularly cold house which is hard and expensive to eat.

I have to say when I tried it - I slept like a baby. It was like being cocooned. Absolutely wonderful. The house I have now is pretty warm having been through all the energy saving advice etc and I would probably be sweltering in one.

I'm not surprised - sounds like a grown-up version of a baby sleepsuit

I tend to be warm enough in bed with just pyjamas and a decent duvet, but when it's particularly chilly I've got a man's sweater which I've had half my life (and I think was originally a hand-me-down from a neighbour, so free!) which goes on over my pyjamas - it's 100% cotton so very comfortable.

Suzkin

Right now, I'm wearing my underwear, a T-shirt, a woolly fleece and a cardigan, a scarf, jeans, knee-high tights and bed socks, clutching my hot (now cold) waterbottle! :eek:

My house is not insulated and had no double glazing (can't afford it), and so I'm trying to see how long I can last without putting the heating on - it's VERY tough.

Suzkin

Millionaire wrote: »

I stick to the logic of putting the heating on when required rather than picking a particular date to start turning it on.

Just curious: As a 'serious money saving fan' and you really your namesake? (i.e. a millionaire?!) :rolleyes:

Caterina

Hi all

Well done to all who managed to get to 1st November without CH, you OS heroes and heroines! :T

This morning I had visions of all those OSers last night at 11.59 pm rushing to their CH control to press the ON button at midnight sharp :rotfl:

SammyJig and Lil_me, glad you were ok in the caravan - I had a few days in an unheated caravan a few weeks ago and really suffered the cold!

Reading the thread, I see that some people are still holding out, hey good for you if you can manage, hope you are not finding it too hard.

To those who come on the thread just to criticise other people's ways: don't you have anything better to do? :cool:

Caterina

281273

No heating still. But with the sun shining through all the windows we are using natural heat.... We are the end house so get the sun all day and also i lovely neighbour who has the heating on nearly constantly. We usually last till december anyway.

Unity

Caterina wrote: »

Hi all

Well done to all who managed to get to 1st November without CH, you OS heroes and heroines! :T

This morning I had visions of all those OSers last night at 11.59 pm rushing to their CH control to press the ON button at midnight sharp :rotfl:

SammyJig and Lil_me, glad you were ok in the caravan - I had a few days in an unheated caravan a few weeks ago and really suffered the cold!

Reading the thread, I see that some people are still holding out, hey good for you if you can manage, hope you are not finding it too hard.

To those who come on the thread just to criticise other people's ways: don't you have anything better to do? :cool:

Caterina

We are still managing with just the stove - so no 'paid for' heating as yet. To be honest, although this is a 1920's semi, we had cavity wall insulation put in twenty-odd years back, plus double-glazing, additional loft insulation and a small conservatory so we get passive solar gain from that.

More to the point, we've been out today and it is definitely warmer than it has been, so hopefully the current cold snap is at an end. :T:T:T

I think from a money-saving point of view it's a case of not allowing the heating to just run on automatically if you don't need it. There's good savings to be made by just checking whether it is necessary and of course using it when it is - 'There's no sense in daftness' as we say up here :rotfl:.

PennyPinchingPrincess

I was so looking forward to 'allowing' myself to put the heater on today, but now today's here I've decided that it was colder a couple of days back and I survived then, so I haven't bothered. Bit of an anti climax really :undecided

Maybe tomorrow!

parsonswife8

Suzkin wrote: »

Right now, I'm wearing my underwear, a T-shirt, a woolly fleece and a cardigan, a scarf, jeans, knee-high tights and bed socks, clutching my hot (now cold) waterbottle! :eek:

My house is not insulated and had no double glazing (can't afford it), and so I'm trying to see how long I can last without putting the heating on - it's VERY tough.

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Suzkin, just don't make yourself ill.
Have a few hot drinks or a small sherry to warm your blood and get under a blanket.

milkybars

I'm staying with family at the moment but when I left my post-grad student maisonette just over a month ago, I said to the new tennants "hold off putting the heating on, the lady in the lower maisonette turns hers on in the last week of October and the 4 flats that the maisonette shares a wall with turn theirs on about the same time" They looked at me a little confused but I've just had an email off one of them saying they heeded my advice and the heating is still off but they're nice and warm due to generous neighbours!