Is your heating ON or OFF?

Caterina

On this occasion I am not going to be very OS I'm afraid. After having been so unwell with my shoulder & arthritis etc...and found that cold and damp really make it worse, I am going to keep the heating on until I am fullly recovered!

We have it on, very low, all the time, and only give it an occasional high blast in very cold evenings. I have the radiators in my bedroom and office room switched off permanently, because they are at the top of the house and get quite warm from the rest of the house. My usual bedroom temperature is between 15 and 18 degrees centigrades. When it gets to 18 I feel too hot to sleep and I open the window!

We are also using the woodstove extensively (in the living room), which warms all the living spaces downstairs, so we do not need to put the heating on too high in the evenings unless it is really freezing.

I hope to switch everything off on 1st March, watch this space!

nodwah

Well I don't like being cold but the DH hates being hot so I'm the one on the couch with the duvet round me while he's in shorts.

but during that cold spell the heating was on all day I'm afraid and now it's turned mild even I'm feeling warm so I've turned it right down

My floorboards are so gappy that when there's a wind blowing it's feezing in here, but luckily during all the snow it wasn't actually windy here so we kept all the heat in the house! (the floors are next on the to do list)

Apart from that my hot flushes stop me from putting the heating on when i'm alone!

skintmumof3

funnily enough earlier today i decided as its half term we don`t need the heating on in the morning as the kids don`t crawl out of bed til at least 10.....
and i have reduced it by 1 hour in the evening, as i find with the lighter evenings its not quite so chilly.......
so i am getting there.
dread to think what the bill for this quarter will be though.....
skint
xx

splishsplash

I only have it on for 30 minutes in the morning and 45 minutes in the evening for the last week.

The week before, I had it on for 4 x 45 minutes when we had snow, but that only lasted a couple of days.

I have a little house, the walls are made of solid stone and are two feet thick, so a little heating goes a long way for me. Double glazing also helps, I'm sure.

I don't think I'd like to turn it off altogether yet, there's a couple of cold months to come. I usually find March and even April colder than February.

Zazen999

Lol at this. my OH is in training and now comes and sheepishly asks if I am cold, before putting the heating [secretly] back on. At least he is asking first now.

I work from home and will not put it on before 4pm no matter how cold - so I can cope in the evenings once it goes off [about 7ish].

The OH got a bit of an earful yesterday as the oven was on and the kitchen and dining room were lovely and warm and he put the heating on about midday...it soon went off again.

Best thing I'm doing is increasing the amount of chilli in each dinner dish so he thinks it is hotter than it is. And making him more cups of tea so that he goes to the loo more, thus coming back downstairs into the warmer kitchen more making him think it is warmer than it is. It's all about mind games.!

SunnyGirl

I've been reducing both the time the heating is on and the temp since it got milder. Not got it on today though as the boiler is broken & as it's a combi we've no heat or hot water. Don't have a shower or an immersion heater either LOL! The fire can go on in the living room & I've roped the kids into helping out with the cleaning, washing & ironing to keep them warm haha!

Loved the original thread it gave me lots of food for thought & made me think about when the heating was on & did it really need to be.

~Yorkshire_Belle~

nodwah wrote: »

My floorboards are so gappy that when there's a wind blowing it's feezing in here, but luckily during all the snow it wasn't actually windy here so we kept all the heat in the house! (the floors are next on the to do list)

After lots of attempts at stopping the draught we found this worked (I have nothing to do with the company!)

http://www.stopg-p.co.uk/

Heating down but not off in our house ( it is off upstairs except in the bathroom!) 1 1/2 hours in the morning and 3 hours at night

rachbc

I NEVER turn my heating off - its on a thermostat and timer but i never goes off altogether - it might not come on for months but if it gets cold enough I want it to pop on itself. I've re-programmed the thermostat lower and for shorter periods, got interlined curtains and draught excluded everywhere and collected free wood but I will not give up central heating!

ETA dh called me mean yesterday for turning off he rad in ds's room while he was away for the weekend!

SunnyGirl

rachbc wrote: »

ETA dh called me mean yesterday for turning off he rad in ds's room while he was away for the weekend!

My dh says similar things I personally don't like bedrooms too hot (I sleep with the window open all year round even if it's only a crack) and neither do the kids. DH on the other hand likes a warm room. I wouldn't mind but it was me that grew up with central heating always and his parents lived above a pub & didn't have central heating upstairs! Maybe thats why he likes it so much

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

We went to bed last night realising it had'nt been on all day.It was very mild yesterday as it is today.We're just going to continue to put it on when we need it like we've done all winter.Still £235 in credit so smiling and we have'nt suffered either.