Is your heating ON or OFF?

Confuzzled

fedupandskint wrote: »

Still off for now - trying really hard to hang on until 1st November

Sat with my thick dressing gown on and comfie warm clothes and all ok so far

i was going to try for nov 1st as well til i saw this weeks forcast... it's to be a daytime high of 4 degrees on wednesday here :eek:

seeing as the daytime highs have been around 9 and we're starting to really notice now i've decided tomorrow night my storage heaters are going on for a few hours to be on the safe side

Quasar

Still off for me, and my resolution is to keep it off until November, but with the sort fo weather that is forecast... dunno, on the one hand I want to try and soldier on, on the other I don't want to make myself ill.

MrsTinks

Well the £344 for 800litres of oil is enough to make me want to use it sparingly! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!
We've had it on a couple of times - 1 hr burst - when the temps really dropped here. More for Little Miss than us to be honest. Easy for mum and dad to put on a jumper and thicker socks, harder to explain to an 18 month old why she'll get cold feet and a cold if she runs around in a t-shirt because she takes off any attempt of multiple layers and then feels as cold as an icicle! Might not bother me so much if it wasn't for her tendency to develop any infection into a UTI *sigh*
As a rule though the heating is still off... the number of *bursts" can still be counted on one hand!

bluebag

Grief, it seems really weird that when I was little we only had a coal fire in one room, we never lit it in the week mornings either as we all went out to school/work.

When I was a teen we moved into a shiny new council house with central heating. I remember reading at school that with nuclear power having been installled in Britain we would shortlyall be able to heat our homes for almost free.

What happened, I ask myself, now in my fifties, watching the bills and sat with a fleece blanket on my knee and my sheepskin slippers on ?

It's nuts!

Willow92

I'm getting a bit chilly, time to get under the duvet.

bluebag

Willow92 wrote: »

I'm getting a bit chilly, time to get under the duvet.

Oh yes it's always a pleasure to go bed in the winter and get all snuggly.
It's velcro bed syndrome I have trouble with in the mornings though.

Dippypud

bluebag wrote: »

Grief, it seems really weird that when I was little we only had a coal fire in one room, we never lit it in the week mornings either as we all went out to school/work.

When I was a teen we moved into a shiny new council house with central heating. I remember reading at school that with nuclear power having been installled in Britain we would shortlyall be able to heat our homes for almost free.

It's nuts!

I remember when Harold Wilson said we would have North Sea Gas for free...:rotfl:

That was then, don't you wish.

Regards, Pud

in_spired2

suzybloo - when that happened to one of mine I got told to turn off all the other radiators (if they have valves) and leave that cold one full open (with the room thermostat set high to ensure the heating came on). It did the trick - cleared the valve or airlock or whatever was causing the problem and the rad heated. Left it on for several minutes, then turned on the other radiators and put the room thermostat back to its normal temperature.

Just wish I could get rid of the hammering and kettling and whistling sounds now (had them before the cold radiator)

sb44

in_spired2 wrote: »

suzybloo - when that happened to one of mine I got told to turn off all the other radiators (if they have valves) and leave that cold one full open (with the room thermostat set high to ensure the heating came on). It did the trick - cleared the valve or airlock or whatever was causing the problem and the rad heated. Left it on for several minutes, then turned on the other radiators and put the room thermostat back to its normal temperature.

Just wish I could get rid of the hammering and kettling and whistling sounds now (had them before the cold radiator)

Oh yes, I had forgotten about that bit ie turning all of the others off.

Is it working now?

shegar

Quasar wrote: »

Still off for me, and my resolution is to keep it off until November, but with the sort fo weather that is forecast... dunno, on the one hand I want to try and soldier on, on the other I don't want to make myself ill.

Its not worth getting yourself ill over saving a few pounds for an hour or two to get your home warm, whats the point.?

I read most people will not put their heating on until Nov 1 st, well why not have it on now when its cold? it may not be cold enough on Nov 1 st to want it on ........we are only a couple of weeks away from that date , why not be comfortable now when you need to be..????

I never have a "heating date",,if its cold then put it on if its too warm turn it off..... theres probaly some other way in your household that you can save say £10.00 to be able to put the heating on for a couple of days.......like you say its not worth getting ill over.....:)