Is your heating ON or OFF?

Rebekah24

At night i just bundle up for bed! Jumper, slipper socks, duvet and blanket over the top!

Nothing worse than waking up gasping for air in a stuffy room!

valentina

Like you Nuala, we never have the heating on at night; it goes off about an hour before we go to bed.

keicar

Never had heating on in the bedroom, or overnight, what's the point if your tucked up in bed?

Just make sure that you all are warm in bed with plenty of hot water bottles etc.

As a kid in the 60/70's my bedroom was in the attic of our Victorian terrace, I remember my glass of water freezing and ice on the inside of the windows, but it never worried me with my hottie botty, and touch wood have always stayed pretty healthy.

When ever I stay in a hotel room with heating on I always get a sore/dry throat.

I don't recommend it but my gran used to heat a brick in the oven when she was cooking, wrap it in a towel and put into the bed!

nuttybabe

thats what i have always done but if the temp drops to below 9 then it can cause hyperthermia?????

i know someone who had the heating on ALL the time last winter. Wouldnt it be nice to have the money to do that!!!! :P Although I still wouldnt, I kick the covers off at night with no heating on - i cant stand being hot in bed.

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nuttybabe wrote: »

Hi

Ours is still off (although dh did say he wanted it on today - NNNOOOOOOOOO) and its roasting in the living room as the sun is blaring in the windows! Dh is working from home today and he got up, went into living room and turned light on! If he had opened curtains providing light he would not have been cold as it was sunny and instantly felt warmer when i did open the curtains. Men!

I have a quick question about the temperatures. Obviously people have their heating on during the day/evening etc. But what if the temperature dips to 9 at night. Do you all have the heating on throughout the night?

I have never had heating on at night no matter how cold it got but according to that chart I should have. But then the doctor at A&E when I had to take ds2 into hospital told me not to have central heating on in the evening/night as it sets off my sons croup and that he would be better off with extra blankets. So am a bit confused now?

croup is avoidable if there available moisture. Warm dry air holds onto its moisture so is too dry for good working of lungs. A bowl of water in his room may help

The room I am in is so hot because of the sun being low in the sky and the rays are shining in. It is 24 in here and I am working out a way to put a short blind or curtain up to shield us from the low sun in autumn and winter. Fortunately in summer the verandah acts as solar shading and the house is cooler than outside

re visitors: I obviously don`t have that problem here but we get warmly wrapped up with layers when we visit our dd.

Can I also suggest that you get going with imeasure as the graph is so helpful and the site gives you a rough idea of what your costs might be

NualaBuala

Nuttybabe, I really don't think you need to worry. The chart is just guidelines for a particular set of circumstances. After all, central heating is a new invention and you see people surviving outdoors in freezing conditions.

The most important thing is to maintain our body temperature and there are several ways of doing that. A heat source (like a hot water bottle, a fire or central heating), insulation (like keeping our body heat in with clothes and duvets), hot food and drinks etc.

AlexH1

hi. still off

puddle96

NualaBuala wrote: »

I never knew people used heating at night Nutty, it just never occurred to me. Once I have enough covers and warm PJs, bed socks etc I'm fine. I hate the stuffiness of centrally heated air so prefer it that way even if I could afford heating on at night.

Edit: I have a feeling that chart is for people who are just sitting there. Blankets, duvets etc keep our body heat from escaping when we're in bed so we don't get hypothermia.

I've obviously caused some confusion by posting the chart. They are just guidelines and will depend very much on the following - age(very old/very young/somewhere in the middle), general state of health, your body mass (skinnies feel the cold more!),how you are compensating for the lower temperatures i.e. the layers of clothing/fleeces/blankets etc you are or aren't wearing or sleeping under, the food you are fuelling your body with - hot meals or cold baked beans and your level of activity/inactivity.
Obviously everyone is different, has different temperature preferences and different amounts of cash to spend on heating. The chart merely points out what can happen at various temperatures if you don't take care. Working in the NHS I see victims of the cold every winter (and not just the elderly) so please keep warm
Puddle

nuttybabe

thanks for putting my mind at rest.

So basically as long as we are wrapped up warm, eating hot meals and drinking hot drinks to keep warm (and like my kids dont stop still for longer than 10 seconds!!!) we should be ok without the heating off for a bit longer! Will just keep up what we are doing then. Thanks.

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hypothermia explained
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/276284.stm

Being in a low temperature in the house should not be seen as a kind of challenge, just be aware that you are breathing the cold air deep into your lungs and into your body core and your physiological processes are having to work a lot harder to keep your body up to the correct temperature. Heart attacks and strokes in this sort of weather are definitely not myths. Strength of mind won`t be what comes to mind if you or someone in your family get seriously ill