Is your heating ON or OFF?

BitterAndTwisted

parsonswife8 wrote: »

Our gas heating is still on. Despite quite a bit of sun over the last few days, it is still cold. I would rather pay the bills then get ill, having had pneumonia and pleurisy and being hospitalised a few years ago.
It is not worth jeopardising your health.

Unfortunately for a lot of people there is no choice about being able to have the heating on or not. I'm no masochist but I really couldn't afford to have the heating on when the temperatures outside were well below freezing for weeks on end: I just don't have the income to pay for it. There's little satisfaction to be had being layered up in multiple layers of thermals and fleeces when the thermostat is reading 10 degrees Centigrade. I can assure you!

You are very fortunate indeed to have had the choice.

NualaBuala

I switched off my heating last week. :j I'm looking forward to seeing the difference when I get my next gas bill!

greenpixie_2

I don't actually pay for my heating. I live in halls and just pay £63 a week that includes electic and heating so i can use as much as like and the rent won't change.

I think they are turning the heating off soon, i love my radiator at the end of my bed and warming my feet on it when i'm lying on top of my bed on my laptop

smileyt_2

Mine has been off for a couple of nights this last week, and only on for an hour and a half the others. Tonight I 've put it on for an hour and a half because it has rained all day and the house feels damp and chilly. My consumption has gone down though (I measure it using imeasure) so I'm really pleased about that - I've dropped from band C to band B :j

Mrs_Thrify

It is realy warm here in our house in Hampshire. The outside is getting warmer, my computer says 10C and at this time of night.
Just looked at DD's temp thing on the wall 22C no wonder peole are starting to take jumpers off . The coal fire has not been lit for 4 days and Ch is still on for 4 hours per day. We have started to talk about turning Ch off but I bet if we do it will go cold again!.
It is the first day of Spring tomorrow and the clocks spring forward in a week on the 28th.

mardatha

....meanwhile back up here at the ranch LOL we have a pure white frost and the gritter's going up and down the main road !

BitterAndTwisted

You poor freezing Scottish morsels! I've got all the windows flung wide open and the thermo is reading 16 degrees centigrade, thank goodness. Maybe us soft southerners have finally seen the back of winter. It does feel like it but at this time of year anything can happen. The birds on the river outside can feel the sap rising, it's been World War Three out there for the last week with the ducks and coots argy-bargying. The willow outside is also in full leaf now

mardatha

My god. I got my windows open and its minus 2 !! WAAAAAAHHH !:(

ceridwen

Cor - thats cold still that is.....:eek:

Errr....dont think I'll be swapping my urban:( surroundings for where you live Mardatha - attractive as I bet it is...:).

I've just been out t'back in my dressing gown seeing what plants survived the winter and just felt slightly "fresh" - but not cold at all.

You wouldnt think we were in the same country would you? (ie Britain).

Mrs_Thrify

Morning all, the sun is out today after all the rain yesterday.
Conservatory is 18C and as soon as I opened the dood the dog moved in. He likes looking out of the door. The house is 22C and we have had the CH on for it's 1 hour 8-9am. No heating on now. CH will be on again 6-9 pm. I do not think it is quite time to turn CH off just yet as mornings and evenings are always colder.