Is your heating ON or OFF?

parsonswife8

suki1964 wrote: »

My train of thought is if you are paying to put the heating on then USE that heat to dry clothes. I have radiator airers over the the rads in the bathrooms to dry the smalls and I have clothes airers in the hall and bedrooms and I often put towels and sheets over the rads at bedtimes to put the last residual heat to use

Tumble drier is in the garage - next stop freecycle

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The gas heating is warming us and the clothes! It's just through a small grille or grid, in the wall. We don't have radiators.

sparrer

greenbee wrote: »

Next time try offering the wood on Freecycle.

I had my downstairs doors replaced at the weekend and put the 4 old ones on freecycle for fire/bonfire wood. Didn't get any takers so I put them on another one a few miles further on...seems nobody wants old wooden doors to burn .

We're enjoying the milder weather here in Beds, lovely to be able to turn the ch off in November

chardonnay_2

god, it's freezing in fife -, but we have stopped using our tumble dryer and are putting the heating on to heat up the room then turning it off till it gets cold again. instead we are using an airer and 2 multi peg hangers from poundland (for socks and underwear over radiators) and putting clothes over the other radiators apart from living room which we spend most of our time in

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

We here in Newcastle are enjoying a very mild morning,let's hope it's not the calm before the storm.
I've still not needed my heating so well chuffed.I've got all my windows open and my back door to air the place and it's realy nice even though I'm still in my PJs.
I'm not saying I'm not going to put my heating on as my OH is not as hardy as me and I need to consider him but everyday's a few pounds saved and that's a help.So I'm just going to play it by ear and hope the weather stays mild.
Have a good day everyone.

Andy_Hamilton

My neighbours have definately put there heating on.
For the previous few weeks I have noticed the radiators getting boiling to warm the house. Now they are hardly warm.
I'm not one for leaving the heating on all the time and always have the bathroom window open to air the house.

naturebychoice

November 4th. Still no heating. Im not giving in.

But I keep getting told by the elders that it will freeze my pipes or damage the boiler with the cold weather. Any truth to this?

Im sat in the house with a woolly hat and fleece jacket and duvet.

Primrose

As other people have advised, a vest or some other thick undergarment like a T-shirt can make an enormous difference to maintaining body heat.
But while we all rejoice about milder days and not having to turn the heating on, for every day that we have these higher temperatures, it's occured to me that this means a little bit more of the polar ice melting, global sea levels rising, and more lower ground becoming vulnerable to risk of flooding. For those who live in low lying coastal levels and other flood plains, that's a scary thought for the longer term future.

calleyw

We have ours on the boiler from7am until 11pm each day. But use the thermostat to actually turn it on and off.

So at bed time it is turned right down to 10 degrees if cold in the morning sneak down and put it on.

We did have it on for a little whole over the weekend but it was cold and damp.

Nearly everyday I air the house for at least 10 mins opening all the windows and keeping the doors shut.

On saturday we had a columbo marathon watching session and we where snuggled under a duvet but I did put the heating on as and when needed.

My husband has thermal t-shirts and long johns to wear. As he has a long term condition as well as having had a stroke. I alway say if you need it put the heating on, put it on and stuff the costs.

Yours


Calley

HairyHandofDartmoor

We did put the radiators on just before 1 Nov, but only for a couple of evenings 'cos we had 2 sleepovers over half term and didn't want to freeze our visitors.

Since then it's been on after dinner for 2 hours every evening (to warm us up just before we go to bed!)

It was very cold last week though and we kept warm the rest of the time with our thermal vests/T shirts, fleece blankets/duvets, and I've been getting up in the morning and putting my fleece jacket on rather than putting the heating on. I just have to get dressed at top speed in an icy bedroom.

A vest or T shirt does retain a lot of body heat, particularly thermal ones, but best of all is a thin long sleeved thermal top. I wore one to go trick or treating, with a jumper over the top, a (fake) fur lined gilet over that and a fleece jacket over the top, and I was really snug even though it was a freezing cold night!

I hope we're building up some credit with the gas! Our electricity bill is through the roof despite low energy bulbs everywhere but the kitchen (unsuitable light fitting.) Anyway I mustn't stray off topic!

The weather feels milder today so I'm going to adjust the boiler and not have the heating come on tonight. I'm terrified of our direct debit going up again.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

naturebychoice wrote: »

November 4th. Still no heating. Im not giving in.

But I keep getting told by the elders that it will freeze my pipes or damage the boiler with the cold weather. Any truth to this?

Im sat in the house with a woolly hat and fleece jacket and duvet.

Boilers have frost controls on them which usually kick in when the temperature gets too cold and I know that mine would go through a little cycle so it would'nt freeze and become damaged.If it was realy freezing I would always put the boiler on anyway to run the pipes through to stop them from freezing and causing a costly burst accident.
If you intend to keep your heating off permanently then I suppose it's just a case of playing it by ear and doing what's appropriate at the time.
I'm not wantig to give in either and to be honest it's been realy easy and I've had no early morning headaches which always happens when I wake up to the heating on and my hubby has'nt had his rhinitis problem which also coincides with putting on the heating every year.So not only have we saved a fair bit in credit for when it's realy cold but we feel better too.