Is your heating ON or OFF?

Prudent

skiTTish wrote: »

Our plumber informed us heating one room with a heater can work out more expensive than using the C/H :0

Thanks. It is a radiator that I have on. We have a very elderly central heating system with a strange flow sytem. We can turn the upstairs radiators on when the hot water is heating(the hour twice a day) and they will become warm without the heating actually being turned on.

huston_kw

We used one of those electric boxes (the ones that you input unit price, plug it into the socket and plug whatever appliance into that and it gives you a running cost of it - really cool gadget) it's defiantly cheaper for us to heat one room (living room) than to use CH as the living room doesn't really heat very well with the CH and has to be on hours before it heats it (rad is on the bay window wall underneath the window) - it's rent accommodation or we'd have it moved, oh even made the reflect thing like you buy in B&Q but still not that good, the landlady has had the walls pointed as there was holes & it was leaking in so hopefully that will help a bit off the problem, but who on earth put a rad underneath a window (same for DD bedroom)

worried_jim

Heating !!!!!!! I am still wearing my shorts in Brighton ! I don't care how cold it is , its not going on until November and it will be off on March 1st. Bah Humbug.

skiTTish

huston_kw wrote: »

We used one of those electric boxes (the ones that you input unit price, plug it into the socket and plug whatever appliance into that and it gives you a running cost of it - really cool gadget) it's defiantly cheaper for us to heat one room (living room) than to use CH as the living room doesn't really heat very well with the CH and has to be on hours before it heats it (rad is on the bay window wall underneath the window) - it's rent accommodation or we'd have it moved, oh even made the reflect thing like you buy in B&Q but still not that good, the landlady has had the walls pointed as there was holes & it was leaking in so hopefully that will help a bit off the problem, but who on earth put a rad underneath a window (same for DD bedroom)

No worries ,was just worried in case oyu were unaware of the possibility .
Surprising how many old folks choose not to use their modern efficient CH system and instead will use an electric/gas fire ,thinking they are saving money 'heating only one room' but it doesn't always work like that

geordie_joe

huston_kw wrote: »

(rad is on the bay window wall underneath the window) - it's rent accommodation or we'd have it moved,

Good job you are in rented accommodation then. The rad is under the window for a very good reason, moving it would make the room colder not hotter.

crawley_girl

I'm still off! Just back from my mum's and it is freezing cold there, glad to get home and into my slippers!!! Still in my cotton jim jams, no hoodie tonight

huston_kw

skiTTish wrote: »

No worries ,was just worried in case oyu were unaware of the possibility .
Surprising how many old folks choose not to use their modern efficient CH system and instead will use an electric/gas fire ,thinking they are saving money 'heating only one room' but it doesn't always work like that

Our central heating and rads are newly fitted (prior to us renting here, last year) we spent most of last winter working the cost of each, etc .. the person who did the rads really wants shooting. The rads in the living room and the master bedroom are far to small, having the CH on doesn't make a difference in them room, unless it's been on hours.

But no your right to have said that and I would of been grateful for the info had it been relevant to this silly house we in, hopefully the pointing will make a difference, the rest of the house warms up loverly (just not the front) apart from the kitchen where there is no heating, I leave the oven door / grill open after finishing cooking to heat it up (cooker off).

We only have the electric fire on for 15 mins and it heats up loverly (do this about twice a day)

amtrakuk

Heating on tonight. Woke up to a house at 16 degrees, doesn't sound to bad but its feeling damp. Sorry guys the switch has been activated!

amtrakuk

huston_kw wrote: »

Our central heating and rads are newly fitted (prior to us renting here, last year) we spent most of last winter working the cost of each, etc .. the person who did the rads really wants shooting. The rads in the living room and the master bedroom are far to small, having the CH on doesn't make a difference in them room, unless it's been on hours.

But no your right to have said that and I would of been grateful for the info had it been relevant to this silly house we in, hopefully the pointing will make a difference, the rest of the house warms up loverly (just not the front) apart from the kitchen where there is no heating, I leave the oven door / grill open after finishing cooking to heat it up (cooker off).

We only have the electric fire on for 15 mins and it heats up loverly (do this about twice a day)

Ive heard about fitting undersized rads... My brother has moved int married quarters and supprised to see a 1 x convector 3ft rad in his 16 x 12 front room. All I can assume is the house (70-80s?) is well insulated

Trinny

Hello there all

Heating is still off! but we live in South Wales so its a lot easier to persevere here than in the frosty north.

Just stocked up on Fleecy blankets - lovely double ones in either Lidl/Aldi at the moment roughly £4 each. Plain coloured.

This is the first year we have tried to keep the heating off. OH doesnt really feel the cold - so it depends on how long i can last. Just off to "preparing for winter" thread to get some ideas.

Trin