Is your heating ON or OFF?

Nelski

Quasar wrote: »

Ohh it's been a warm day here in London! I was out and about with a light jacket on and I had to take it off at one point. Now, sitting here I'm wearing a light top and have no heating on! :T

sat in the garden with my neighbour today - glass of wine and sunglasses on.......heating pah:rotfl::T

katholicos

Still off. Been crocheting tassles on a crocheted blanket i've made (it's my first crocheted 'thing'...i only know two stiches lol!) so we have had the blanket over our knees this evening. The dehydrator is warming the kitchen up and there is no need for the heating to be on at the moment. Just let the dog out to do her business before she goes to bed and noticed the outdoor thermometer reads 12 so i reckon its about 15 indoors or something like that.

jackieglasgow

Well we should all be heating free this weekend according to the weatherman. I have just done my online monthly meter read. My gas meter has only moved up 15 digits since last month, and that's with hot water for dishes and a wee burst of heat on twice. More credit in the account for the winter then

shegar

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Well we should all be heating free this weekend according to the weatherman. I have just done my online monthly meter read. My gas meter has only moved up 15 digits since last month, and that's with hot water for dishes and a wee burst of heat on twice. More credit in the account for the winter then

Yes its still very nice here in East Anglia, been in T shirts again today, temp 19 degrees,hardly had the heating on so far this autumn, very mild , me too got good build up of credit on the metres, but if it do turn cold my heating will be on in a flash....:)

langdale_2

I have had my heating on a couple of times it goes cold quickly in my house an older pre war semi and also to get the washing dry!!

katholicos

Still off, worn short sleeved t shirt all day today so the heating won't be going on, least not this afternoon/evening.

BallandChain

I have a summer dress on. It's been lovely in the South East!

Waynes_World

:rotfl:What heating?

OK - long story...we used to have GSH up until 3 years ago. 15 year old boiler went wrong, got bodged by emergency plumber and couldn't afford at the time to replace it (it's since been condemned as dangerous and when BG replaced the meter earlier this year - they left it capped so no supply into the house past the meter).

Spent that winter heating water by immersion (on E7 tarriff) and heating house with log burner (kept all doors open to let heat flow around house...get most logs and wood for free by the way :j)

Should mention at this point that wife and myself (although only in 30's) grew up in the era of no central heating , you know, the days in the 70's with ice on the inside of the windows etc :rotfl:

Anyway, the winter without the boiler passed and didn't bother getting GSH boiler replaced as heating DHW on E7 wasn't any more expensive. Space heating on logs worked fine (in fact have been know to have to open windows as the thing gets so hot)

Since been through the 2 hardest winters in years without CH - no problem at all. House is fully double glazed etc - never felt cold although have had to wear jumpers at times.

Two big improvements since last winter - just had walls insulated this week, plus we invested in a solid wood floor with thick insulation under it (concrete floor below that) - so looking forward to being even toastier this year.

As for washing which was mentioned earlier in the thread....we have no tumble drier (don't believe in wasting the money on the electric in that way). Our garden is South(ish) facing and about 10 years ago we put a pergola up against the house covering the patio - the full width of the house. About 5 years ago, we covered it with corrugated plastic and fixed hooks underneath it to hold a washing line - worked a treat. The past week we've had to rip the plastic off (so that the engineers could fit the cavity wall insulation) and have splashed out on Twinwall sheets for the roof. Not only looks nicer, but it helps to trap more heat from the sun onto the patio

So in short - we don't have central heating anymore (we just have redundant radiators which will be ripped out next year). The house doesn't get cold and the kids don't moan that their fingers are falling off.

Are we mean/strange/over-frugal? We don't have a gas bill any more (elect bill is £250 qtr which is less that we used to pay for combined gas/elect, bearing in mind we also cook on elect - gas pipe never went into the kitchen - we only used to do water/CH on gas).

Before you say we're mean....we actually have the funds these days to replace the gas boiler. We haven't replaced it through choice (OK - we're weird then). We're instead (although I hate the term) - trying to be "green" :mad: while at the same time saving a stack of cash (which we're paying the mortgage down with instead :T)

We've survived the two hardest winters in 30 odd years without feeling cold, our bills are less that they used to be, and as a bonus, we seem to suffer less from colds etc.

Is there anyone else out there in our situation? Are we the only ones who have decided to not replace the CH and try to do things in the old fashioned ways? I'd be interested to hear.

SalAmander_2

Mine's still going on for a random hour or two here and there - partly to help with drying washing.

shop-to-drop

We (mum,dad and 3 kids) had no heating, or even hot water for much of last winter, not even an electric heater. It was cold was it not last winter but we survived. The direct debit has been dropped significantly. It's fixed this winter but hope to hold out as long as poss. Last year we waited until 1 December ish to put it on but it broke sometime after.