Is your heating ON or OFF?

carrieparkinson

im in


heating still off

Fruball

newleaf wrote: »

Ours is still off, although mr newleaf is grumbling a bit now, and the cat keeps peering up the chimney as if to say 'what's up with this then?' :rotfl:
I'm hopeful of making it to 1st November

not a cat fan here but that is funny :rotfl:

Fruball

Mine is on but if I was lucky enough to still have a real fire, then for sure it would be off.

Got warmfront people coming this week to assess my boiler (its a VERY old Baxi boiler)... I am hoping they will condemn it and replace it with grant money... and if i possibly can, i will work towards having a real fire put back in - these houses must have originally had real fires as they have chimneys (late 50s/60's built).

Soooooooooooooo hoping to have real fires again... Family said oh but they are messy/dirty etc but i don't mind that.. There is nothing like settling down in front of a real fire

Or a woodburner.... i'd be happy with either

betterlife

mine is on, but had my walls insulated today so hopefully will stay warmer for longer once turned off, and thursday having new boiler which should use 35% less gas yippee!!!

Caterina

Still only a half hour in the morning, supplemented by woodstove in the evening for an hour or so (a couple of smallish logs) and hot water bottle in bed.

alice-mary

I had my sister and her son stay here on Friday and Saturday evenings so the heating went on for a couple of hours.:mad: He went back to Uni on Sunday eve and sis went home today so heating off again! Hot water bottle, fleece blanket etc is enough for me unless there is snow or ice on the ground.... at least until November anyway!:D
Alice

mrsr

Mine is still off here at home.
Have been in our static caravan over the weekend OMG! last night was freezing i had the panel electric heater on in the bedroom but it made no differance,every time in put my head up from under the duvet i could feel the cold icey air.The dogs were cuddled up to me i had to cover them up with my jumpers,we are going again weekend after next mainly to close it up for the winter i will be taking a extra electric heater with me.

bluebag

mrsr wrote: »

Mine is still off here at home.
Have been in our static caravan over the weekend OMG! last night was freezing i had the panel electric heater on in the bedroom but it made no differance,every time in put my head up from under the duvet i could feel the cold icey air.The dogs were cuddled up to me i had to cover them up with my jumpers,we are going again weekend after next mainly to close it up for the winter i will be taking a extra electric heater with me.

Caravans can be freezing as they have very little insulation. You may want to take a fleece blanket for underneath the bedding, or as I do use a sleeping bag under the duvet to keep the draughts out. Plus about six hot water bottles.!!:rotfl:

lbr102

marmiterulesok wrote: »

In my building the only control I have over the heating is in the winter months,and even then it's limited.What I mean by this is that I can either have the heating on or off during the day.It goes off automatically at about 10pm and I think it comes on at 6am,if you turn the radiators on,that is.So if I'm freezing cold in the night,I can't put the heating on,because there is none.
The radiators simply don't function in the summer months,of course.
All of the above seems to be the general rule here (in Switzerland) if you live in rented accommodation.
I think it's ridiculous that I can't have the heating on at night or later then 10pm if I want,but there's not much I can do about it....

Is this similar with rented accommodation in the UK?Surely not....

My friend lives in a flat and it sounds quite similar. Only she can't put the heating on at all in flat from March 1st until October 1st! She found this out after trying to put it on in August because she was chilly. The caretaker for the flats said it comes on on October 1st and then it only comes on at something like 8pm and is on until 6am. She can switch it off if she wants but can't switch it on in the day!

It seems crazy - last year I remember having a week off work and the car thermometer didn't read above -8 each time I drove in the daytime. If it's like that again and she was at home she would be so, so cold!

Edited to add:

By contrast my last rented flat we could have heating on when we wanted, just as we can in our current rented house. And we are very lucky as the landlord installed a new boiler in June before we moved in and it is amazing!

bluebag

marmiterulesok wrote: »

Is this similar with rented accommodation in the UK?Surely not....

I lived in a rented flat with this type of setup many years ago, flippin' freezing! The brass monkeys in that flat were looking for the exit.
We bought a portable electric heater in the end as we did have to pay for our own electric.
Looked for a new flat with better heating after the first very expensive, frozen to death, tooth chattering winter.