Is your heating ON or OFF?

Jadek

I live in a converted Victorian house and my flat is on the top floor with my kitchen up in the loft space. It's lovely as the lounge has very high ceilings and the kitchen overlooks it - gorgeous I thought went we first started renting a few months ago, however I never really thought about how cold a large room with high ceilings can get!

When I come home I just wrap myself up in a couple of blankets and plonk myself on the sofa and we've got a nice warm 13.5 tog duvet that gets so hot it feels more like a 20 tog! But alas my boyfriend isn't as fine with sitting around wrapped in blankets and as he works early morning shifts and is home most of the day our heating stays on for about 10 hours in a day at the moment (and I work 9.30-6 so can't moan at him to turn it off)!

Luckily we have a pay-as-you-go gas meter though so there won't be any nasty gas bills to pay in a couple of months. If we start having to top it up too often he'll just have to make friends with the Eskimo blanket I have sitting in the bedroom (or he'll probably just switch on the electric heater my dad gave us when our boiler wasn't working and then we'll get a nasty electricity bill instead!).

Petlamb

Jadek, I know exactly what you mean - this place is a student house, and an old victorian house that was converted into a "HMO" house; basically lots of bedrooms.

Either way, with it's high ceilings, rubbish windows, and poor central heating, not to mention holes in places, and likely sod all insulation... lets just say, its very hard work to keep anywhere near warm. We have bills though, and I'm dreading having to find the cash for the one next month - July 1st till December! ><

Mrs_Thrify

Hi all, it has turned that cold here in Hampshire that the rain has turned into snow. Our coal fire is doing a wonderfull job, just put a convector fire on up on the landing, upstairs. Fleaces in full use.
The fairy lights have that cosy look and in the SC is a veggi casserole - cooking dumplins later. All cosy, may even fill the hot water bottles this evening.

It looks all Christmasy with snow on the roof tops.

Jadek

Vampiric_Addiction wrote: »

Jadek, I know exactly what you mean - this place is a student house, and an old victorian house that was converted into a "HMO" house; basically lots of bedrooms.

Either way, with it's high ceilings, rubbish windows, and poor central heating, not to mention holes in places, and likely sod all insulation... lets just say, its very hard work to keep anywhere near warm. We have bills though, and I'm dreading having to find the cash for the one next month - July 1st till December! ><

Oh wow a 6 month bill - I don't envy you there! I didn't even realise you could get 6 month bills, British Gas only gave me the option of quarterly with my electricity (which I'll probably change to monthly direct debit anyway - not having to pay bills for 2 months out of 3 sounded nice until you get hit with all the quaterly bills at once!).

Wickedkitten

Vampiric_Addiction wrote: »

Jadek, I know exactly what you mean - this place is a student house, and an old victorian house that was converted into a "HMO" house; basically lots of bedrooms.

Either way, with it's high ceilings, rubbish windows, and poor central heating, not to mention holes in places, and likely sod all insulation... lets just say, its very hard work to keep anywhere near warm. We have bills though, and I'm dreading having to find the cash for the one next month - July 1st till December! ><

You should see if you can't get your tariff switched to an online one that you can update as you like. I keep ours updated every month so I can track how far we are in credit.

valk_scot

Wickedkitten wrote: »

I actually took a cardboard box and made ours a hut out of it that is stuffed with blankets, they love curling up together in it.

My two don't much like sleeping together except....if it's a really cold morning the fat long haired cat will get under a duvet and sleep there and the skinny short haired cat will sleep on top of the duvet snuggled up to the cat shaped lump. Which strikes me as being the wrong way round, but he ho, they are cats!

jennihen

I caved in this morning and put the heating on for the first time - it was really nippy!!
I'm in a terraced, DG, new build 3 bed house with a condenser boiler.
This is a record for me!! Hope I can see a difference in my gas bill.
Last year the boiler gave out and it took 11 days to sort it out!! No heating or hot water!!!

Toonie

Although layered up, we also have the heating on and steaming cups of tea in front of us. It's very chilly here and we're both trying to stave off colds. I'll be turning it off soon though as I'm going to be cooking dinner and the oven door is useless and lets out loads of heat.

Mrs_Thrify

We confess to switching the CH on for the first time today, it is getting colder with all the snow.

littlesnuggy

Mine hasn't been on yet! This morning was the coldest I've seen the temperature (which handily is on my energy monitor), at 8 degrees. It's up to 11 degrees now, and I'm just wearing two jumpers and sitting under a blanket. My hands are a bit cold, but that's it! Just had an offer accepted on a house with a functional fireplace though, and can't wait to get in there and have a roaring log fire to heat the place!