Is your heating ON or OFF?

SuzeQStan

put on GCH this morning 1st time since March 2026. As it got down to 2c in early hours this morning.

Only put it on for an hour and that warmed us to 19c as the house was still warm from log fire last nite

Looked at cost on 🐙 and after you take off our average standard 65p daily DHW it shockingly came to £1.50 - FOR ONE HOUR running GHC in 3 bed detached.

Dread to think what the costs will look like when weather/house gets properly cold.

Rosa_Damascena

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82171603#Comment_82171603

Could that have been because it was the first use of the season and the system needed heating up from scratch?

SuzeQStan

yes that’s a good point I hadn’t thought of that.

But really we just use the GCH to ‘take the edge off’ - we never run it off the thermostat.

In proper winter we run GCH 3x hrs a day - one hour morning, noon & just before bed.

We have experimented with running it off thermostat to keep it circa 19/20c daytime and 15c overnite and average costs were £10 a day. Hence our reliance on the multiburner in open plan. And bedhats/electric under blankets at night.

Changeyourlife25

On for the first time here 🥶

Florenceem

Mine is on.

Bridlington1

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82171536#Comment_82171536

I probably will if the weather forecast is to be believed, I've felt fine this week and it's highs of about 15 today, it looks like it's highs of 14-16C consistently till Goth weekend at least.

Wednesday2000

Mine has just gone on after I aired out the house with the windows open for a while. It feels really cold to me compared to the months of heatwaves. I can't stand either extreme and it isn't actually all that cold at the minute!

I would like the see snow while I live by the sea as I haven't seen it in the past four years that I have been here.

itsthelittlethings

I have popped it on a couple of times.

Swipe

No heating on yet as the sun has been doing its job. Rain forecast for the next week or so from Tuesday but I'm hoping I can manage well into November before any storage heaters go on. Disappointingly, the clocks go back next weekend so I'll lose my extra hour of cheap rate in the mornings. I've been enjoying my lie-ins since April but time to start getting up an hour earlier from next weekend then.

Rosa_Damascena

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82171859#Comment_82171859

Its Sunday afternoon and I feel really cold - had a long walk and got caught in pouring rain. Usually a hot bath and big mug of tea is enough to set me right, but not on this occasion. I'm wrapped head to toe and may have to consider getting a heated blanket out to achieve cozy status.

The thought of a drizzly week ahead is not filling me with cheer! I just need to get real and admit that summer is over (even though my roses seem to be doing well with a third bloom!!).