Is your heating ON or OFF?

Quasar

I did last night for a couple of hours - on low - as it was very wet and quite chilly. Today it's peeing down with rain but at the moment I'm fine even with some windows open for fresh air, but I expect I'll have to turn the heating on again later...

Goodbye summer!

FunkyFairy

have just put mine on:mad:

scotlass99

I haven't given in yet! I was kinda hoping next door would give in first and the heat would radiate through to our house!!

We have wooden floors downstairs so I am spending loads of time upstairs where it is carpeted! Have also dug out slippers and dusted them down!!

Ooh hope I can last as long as possible without it! Plus it is ancient gas warm-air heating and I would have to pay a rocket scientist to come out and get the timer set!! :rotfl:

kethry

Ours is still off - although i was cold last night, dug out jumper, socks and fluffy slippers, kept socks on in bed (only the socks, for some reason my feet get cold where the rest of me is toasty warm!)... did have the oven on yesterday to cook bread, so once we'd finished cooking i opened the door and the kitchen door and let the heat from the kitchen warm the house up. the problem is the smoke detector is outside the kitchen door (its a small ground floor flat) and even having something on the cooker, steam, will trigger it, its really frustrating - am thinking of disconnecting it because of the amount of steaming i will have to do before christmas - making xmas puddings in the pressure cooker.

(before you all yell at me, its a special smoke alarm cos i'm deaf, we have a normal, mains connected smooke alarm too, and that one is fine, only gets triggered if the toast burns or something *really* smoky is being cooked, and i don't mind that, its the special one (flashing light) that seems to get set off by steam, and OH is always home and his ears work just fine!)

i got really lucky at a scrap store a while back and got some really thick material that i think would do as a rug, so i just have to bind the edges with some binding and then we have rugs for the living room and bedroom - its laminate flooring in most rooms, except bathroom and kitchen, where its lino - so that will help, and i got some hooks for putting the curtain lining up behind the curtains just today, so they'll go up over the weekend to help even *more*. i'm making a quilt to pull over me if i get cold on the sofa watching the box, and after i've done that one (and a lap quilt for my grannie) and the xmas pressies which i've got to make.. i might make a big quilt for the bed - i've tons of scrap material to use up so it would only cost me the leccy off the sewing machine!

we also had wall cavity insulation put in over the summer by the housing association and i'm gonna make some draught excluders for the front and back door - with all these, hoping to keep the heating off till november at least! (we have a major dispute with powergen at the moment over our gas bill so trying my best to keep it as low as possible for as long as possible.)

keth
xx

redballoon_2

I have just given in and put it on but only on low and have shut the doors to rooms that we dont use (like the spare bedroom)

going to get thermostats on the rest of our radiators this week

november

Mine's set on a timer and thermostat. It hasn't come on yet at all. I took the thermostat out of the hall and put it in the living room where it reckons its 21 degrees c and thats what I tell the kids when they say its cold (they are teenagers). Its set to come on at 18.

Actually I like this temperature although it doesn't feel like 21 where I'm sat. I only just started closing my bedroom window 2 nights ago. Although last night I did think I ought to get the pj's out of the cupboard (just realised how that sounds - I'm in t and shorts at bedtime at the moment not walking around in the altogether!!)

When we had the new heating fitted the gas engineer said to just leave it on with the thermostat and the timer so we did. It hasn't come on and we need the main switch on for water (heats as we use) so I assume thats as economical as switching it off and on

We've also had double glazing put in though and new thermal curtains in the living room and are definately benefiting from both I think

pawpurrs

Got the woodie on tonight lovely and toasty.

DrBenway

still off and not got the jumper on. south coast.

thriftlady_2

It's on as of today, there's a definite chill in the air and its raining - got to get my washing dry and all our macs

kittykat100

I have now.... flippin freezing today