Is your heating ON or OFF?

Bridlington1

Rosa_Damascena said:

Swipe said:

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

Where do you live?!

I'm in Yorkshire and we're apparently going to be getting 14C tomorrow, it's only about 6C now so it's looking like quite a jump in temperature over the next 24 hours, needless to say my windows shall be wide open tomorrow to let the warmer air in.

To be honest, I think it'll be nice to get a bit of milder weather, I didn't enjoy cycling to work in the ice this morning.

Rosa_Damascena

Bridlington1 said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Swipe said:

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

Where do you live?!

I'm in Yorkshire and we're apparently going to be getting 14C tomorrow, it's only about 6C now so it's looking like quite a jump in temperature over the next 24 hours, needless to say my windows shall be wide open tomorrow to let the warmer air in.

To be honest, I think it'll be nice to get a bit of milder weather, I didn't enjoy cycling to work in the ice this morning.

No disagreement there! Its sunny in the Essex Riviera but a chilly 6degC atm - only going to get chiller now....

YorksLass

I've adjusted my heating to cope with the current chilly spell.  I've turned the main thermostat up a couple of degrees (was 17, now 19), have turned up the TRV on one of the iiving room radiators (was 2.5, now 3) and have extended the times the heating is actually on - haven't quite reached the All Day stage - yet!    

I don't have it on overnight but am always pleased to hear it click in before I get up in the morning.  The radiator in the bathroom gets turned up for when I have a shower and turned down again when I've finished.  I'm usually OK while I'm moving about but wear extra layers, use throws etc for when I'm sitting, especially in the evenings.  I pay by monthly DD and have a good credit balance to pay for any extra heating that might be needed over the winter.  Like @Bridlington1, I'm also in Yorkshire but, at 76, I'm no spring chicken anymore so when it needs to be on, then it will be!

I'm another one who remembers having a coal fire in the living room, a smelly paraffin lamp for upstairs, ice on the inside of the windows and having the gas oven on to warm up the kitchen.  I definitely wouldn't want to go back to that.

General_Grant

My reminiscing from 1950s - coal fire in "living room" (dining and sitting area between the kitchen and Sunday best sitting room).  That Sunday best/visitors sitting room also had a fireplace but hardly ever used.  Upstairs a fireplace in my bedroom (so Santa could have come down and never met a fire) and an Aladdin paraffin heater in the large bathroom to protect the water tank rather than keep the room warm for the human family.

Rosa_Damascena

General_Grant said:

My reminiscing from 1950s - coal fire in "living room" (dining and sitting area between the kitchen and Sunday best sitting room).  That Sunday best/visitors sitting room also had a fireplace but hardly ever used.  Upstairs a fireplace in my bedroom (so Santa could have come down and never met a fire) and an Aladdin paraffin heater in the large bathroom to protect the water tank rather than keep the room warm for the human family.

The privations back in the day outstrip today's poverty, that is for sure!

luvchocolate

Definitely off today very mild in Yorkshire 

ET22

heating went on for a couple of hours this afternoon because a visitor was an 8 week old baby. Its switched off again now and wont be going back on 

Rosa_Damascena

ET22 said:

heating went on for a couple of hours this afternoon because a visitor was an 8 week old baby. Its switched off again now and wont be going back on 

Interestingly, Scandinavians wrap their little ones up and then leave them napping in prams outside to acclimatise to chilly weather. That is bad enough but apparently they are also unsupervised - not something I would want to risk, however "safe" the country is. https://www.wanderwithjo.com/why-scandinavian-parents-leave-their-babies-outside-in-the-cold-and-doctors-approve/ .

dreaming

Rosa_Damascena said:

ET22 said:

heating went on for a couple of hours this afternoon because a visitor was an 8 week old baby. Its switched off again now and wont be going back on 

Interestingly, Scandinavians wrap their little ones up and then leave them napping in prams outside to acclimatise to chilly weather. That is bad enough but apparently they are also unsupervised - not something I would want to risk, however "safe" the country is. https://www.wanderwithjo.com/why-scandinavian-parents-leave-their-babies-outside-in-the-cold-and-doctors-approve/ .

Sort of following on from my earlier post about reminiscing, as a new mum in the 70's I was advised to do similar with my son - i.e. wrap him up and leave him in the pram outside (although in the back garden rather than out the front).  I'm guessing that my siblings and I were treated the same way, although it probably wasn't that much warmer inside our house then. Some young parents I know go too far the other way (in my opinion) and hardly let a breeze near their babies - but equally I've seen quite young children in buggies in the cold weather (and buggies don't offer the same protection as prams did) without hats or mitts on. Yesterday my heating was on and off all day as I kept going hot and cold and shedding/donning my layers. Today the heating only went on about 4 p.m. as the temperature dipped but has switched itself off now.