Is your heating ON or OFF?

bluebag

kittie wrote: »

Off and I am in short sleeves as the tv is providing enough heat. I live in an eco house

I can get very envious of some people ya know!!:)

smileyt_2

Mine is still off. Luckily my foster son has the warmest room in the house as his bedroom. It's roasting in summer but retains a lot of heat in the winter if there has been any sunshine. He spends a lot of time in his room and complains if the heating is on for too long as it makes it too hot. So I can economise on the heating.

I did get up at 2am this morning to fill a hot water bottle and put an extra quilt on my bed, though.

Will keep the heating off as long as possible, although it will have to go on by half-term as I have friends coming to stay and their house is always warm - they won't appreciate shivering in a cold Victorian terrace :rotfl:

It's warmer tonight though, and the weather forecast looks to be staying in double figures all week even during the night (well, lowest is predicted to be 9 degrees C) so hopefully will be able to hold out until at least next weekend.

sb44

If you are cold in bed, as well as having a quilt underneath your bottom sheet, put a fleece on top of you underneath the top quilt, you will be snug as a bug in a rug.

dundeedoll_2

OFF (South Midlands)

It really hasn't felt cold enough in the house for me to think about putting the heating on yet, but having said that my digital thermostat in the hallway (that displays the current temp) has been on only 15 most of the day, so it is a bit colder than it has been.

The heating is timed to come on 6.30am - 7.30am and then 4pm - 8.30pm, with the thermostat set to 14 am and 15 or 16 degrees pm. (Even if I was to set it at 18 degrees the hallway is ALWAYS like a fridge!

A little tip tho'.........I lit 4 candles (not tealights but 1 size up IYKWIM) and the living room is really warm!

I must admit that I have got one of those little pet fleece blankets from the £ shop over my knees.

nuttybabe

When I got up this morning I found the kids wearing shorts and t-shirts!!! :eek: Heating will not be going on for a while!!!

Confuzzled

OFF

i'm in fife and while it's def getting quite nippy here i have resisted the urge fairly easily thus far.

i did test the living room and hall radiators for about 30 minutes last week, it's more prudent to have them checked BEFORE they're needed, don't want to get caught out! i still need to test the one in my daughters bedroom but i'll wait for a really cold night, might as well get a little benefit out of having it on!

so far it's just been wearing my slipper boots more often, long sleeve shirts and my fleece blanket over my lap when i'm working at my computer. i suspect we'll hold out til at least mid october... besides, why turn my heat on when i know for sure my downstairs neighbour is, as it can be really cold all day and early evening then around 9-10pm it suddenly warms up considerably, it's not the sun doing that

gravitytolls

I lit the fire today ~ Norfolk,, cold, wet, windy.

missychrissy

I managed to last until last week in October last year before switching on my gas central heating. I would love an open fire as I come across a lot of 'free wood' when I'm walking my dog and could have a few nights free heating. I have an inset gas fire that I really don't like. I think that it would probably not be worthwhile to go to the expence of converting to a woodburning stove but I would really love one. I would really like to be as self sufficient as possible and be able to survive if power stations/shops etc. closed down.

Al1x

Ours is still off. mind you it was so cold saturday morning that when i went to my parents to pick up my daughter (they were babysitting) I stayed up there half the day sitting by their open fire! toasty

i still plan to wait till at least October to put our heating on!

bluedog

Mine is definitely off .... my boiler has conked out so I've got no hot water either until thursday at the earliest, depending on whether they need to order any parts for it. It seems boilers are apparently going on the blink at a rate of knotts atm and that's the earliest an engineer can call. Not funny as my joints ache like billy-o today too with this damp weather and bang goes the idea of a long soak to ease them in a hot bath too.