Is your heating ON or OFF?

pollys

It's cold, wet and windy in Yorkshire today. Children at school. DH home from nightshift so tucked up in bed. I've had a bath and am now wrapped up on the sofa. No heating on but sciatica playing up so if I "don't manage to get moving" soon it will have to go on.

Anyone got snow today ?

Pollys xxx

mjm3346

Windy, cold, overcast, pouring with rain and bringing most of the leaves down in Hertfordshire, the heating is going on now for an hour and if it stays like this it will be going on again. Its a really miserable day, so dark it's hardly worth having the curtains open.

mummygems

Cold here in Essex today and very windy and pouring with rain. Its 4oC outside at the moment. Had heating on for an hour this morning whilst we were all getting up. Just me in at the moment as DD1 is at school and DD2 is at pre-school. Will not be putting the heating on until this evening now as we can either layer up or go out lol.

de1amo

be interesting to know whether this economising with the heat causes more or less colds--i get more colds because i go from warm to cold places during the day--but being cold isnt nice but does it cause you colds??

suki1964

Well my heating is on downstairs now for about 4 hours a day, at times to work around my parents, hour in the morning to heat the rooms, two wee 3/4 hour bursts during the day and an hour at tea time and again around bedtime. This is to keep their rooms such as bathrooms and bedrooms at a level that's comfortable for them (both elderly and one disabled)

I dont have any or the rads on in my rooms other then the bathroom

However the stoves are getting lit about lunchtime ( big house - one in each living room) My stove heats my bedrooms as well - warm enough for tee shirts inside - 3oc outside

mummygems

de1amo wrote: »

be interesting to know whether this economising with the heat causes more or less colds--i get more colds because i go from warm to cold places during the day--but being cold isnt nice but does it cause you colds??

I always have this conversation with my DH. Germs cause colds, the cold doesnt cause colds (but in saying that I am sure if your soaked through and in a cold place you can easily catch a horrible chill which can feel like a cold).

I think the heat just encourages the germs to spread (thinking about school, pre-school, shops etc).

guccigoo

i am so tempted to put it on, its about 4c outside now and 15c in my front toom and im so cold. Think im going to have to put it on when kids get home. Just drinking a nice coffee to try and warm me up.

~moneysavingnovice~

I think it's going to have to go on this eve. But I refuse to turn it on until OH gets home (around 7.30pm and even then for 1.5hours at the most).

Will probably have to go on for an hour in the mornings too now. Brr!

Queen-Bee_2

OFF (London, 3pm). I'm sitting studying with a blanket over my knees!!
QB

Caterina

Was off for a few days but now on again (on DH insistence). As he is the main bill-payer (and the one who gets up early and has to face the otherwise freezing cold bathroom in the morning) I can hardly object! But I put my foot down at having it in the evening too - unless it gets much colder we are going to stick to the woodstove, I hope!