Is your heating ON or OFF?

lostinrates

mama67 wrote: »

I am on oil and pay for mine by monthly direct debit on a budget plan scheme, which also includes the annual service and any parts and labour for other callouts throughout the year.

The anniversary for mine in 31 July so I usually have enough in credit then to get half a tank and then get another half around now ready for the winter so at the moment it is full this will then last through until next July. The comapny also pays interest on any credit balance on the account.

We do have a coal fire which we tend to use at night and only have the ch come on for an hour before bedtime to take the chill off the rooms, our bedroom does not have any heating at all, the boys have radiators and they take hot water bottles up with them, they also have double sized duvets on single beds so no gaps.

That sounds like a really good scheme: that I know of there isn't anything like that around here..

jackieb

I can't understand it when someone says the sun is heating up their house and it's cosy with no heating on. My heating has only been off for about 3 hours and it's absolutely freezing in here - I look like Rudolph's long lost cousin! I'm wrapped up but i'm shivering and my fingers are frozen. I don't smoke, my circulation is okay so it's not that - it's just that i'm cold. I'm off to iron to see if the steam can warm me up. I might bake later on so I can get some heat from the oven! There's no way I couldn't have the heating on at all but i'm trying to cut back. I was round at my son's this morning. There's no-one living there yet but we were waiting for a delivery. He is heating his empty house for an hour in the morning and another in the evening so it doesn't get damp - and it was like a fridge in there - there was no real need for the fridge/freezer we were waiting in for!

suki1964

mama67 wrote: »

I am on oil and pay for mine by monthly direct debit on a budget plan scheme, which also includes the annual service and any parts and labour for other callouts throughout the year.

The anniversary for mine in 31 July so I usually have enough in credit then to get half a tank and then get another half around now ready for the winter so at the moment it is full this will then last through until next July. The comapny also pays interest on any credit balance on the account.

We do have a coal fire which we tend to use at night and only have the ch come on for an hour before bedtime to take the chill off the rooms, our bedroom does not have any heating at all, the boys have radiators and they take hot water bottles up with them, they also have double sized duvets on single beds so no gaps.

That would be an ideal scheme here - but no body runs one. The other year the council got an oil stamp system up and running - although I dont think every supplier uses them

Like you I have the coal and wood - just lit now as it happens. Once that gets going that will warm all the bedrooms up here as well. Like you the bigger duvets so no bums getting cold, and I also have some excellent flannel sheets for the real cold weather - makes it feel like you are getting into a warm bed - no cold sheets

Im lucky that I can pay for oil, my point was that since I can actually see my use, its made me cut back on heating. The mains gas is like spending on a credit card in my mind - too easy done without thought on how to pay for it at the end of the day

suki1964

jackieb wrote: »

I can't understand it when someone says the sun is heating up their house and it's cosy with no heating on. My heating has only been off for about 3 hours and it's absolutely freezing in here - I look like Rudolph's long lost cousin! I'm wrapped up but i'm shivering and my fingers are frozen. I don't smoke, my circulation is okay so it's not that - it's just that i'm cold. I'm off to iron to see if the steam can warm me up. I might bake later on so I can get some heat from the oven! There's no way I couldn't have the heating on at all but i'm trying to cut back. I was round at my son's this morning. There's no-one living there yet but we were waiting for a delivery. He is heating his empty house for an hour in the morning and another in the evening so it doesn't get damp - and it was like a fridge in there - there was no real need for the fridge/freezer we were waiting in for!

I think its what you get used too

If you are used to being a an over hot work environment and usually have your house heated like a hot house - then any drop you are going to feel

I used to be like that -till it cost me 900 quid one winter for the oil :eek:

Now I have "acclimatised" to a much cooler house and now the sun coming through the window does make a huge difference

jackieb

I think maybe where you live makes a difference too. I live on the north-east coast of Scotland. It's on the corner and we get the wind blowing off the sea. The old houses are mostly built gable end facing the sea to try and protect them from the worst of the offshore weather.

lostinrates

suki1964 wrote: »

I think its what you get used too

If you are used to being a an over hot work environment and usually have your house heated like a hot house - then any drop you are going to feel

I used to be like that -till it cost me 900 quid one winter for the oil :eek:

Now I have "acclimatised" to a much cooler house and now the sun coming through the window does make a huge difference

This: and that minor adjustments can be made to how you live. e.g. I arranged our furniture when we moved in, but now its colder I've moved a sofa so that the sun, when its there, gets more into the room where we sit, not behind the sofa. Making full use of the sun cn make a really big difference, as does not having well lined, and interlined curtains...I'm feeling the lack of those atm! Also when planning a room, thinking about where to put the heating....heaters behind interlined curtains under windows always seem such a waste to me.

suki1964

jackieb wrote: »

I think maybe where you live makes a difference too. I live on the north-east coast of Scotland. It's on the corner and we get the wind blowing off the sea. The old houses are mostly built gable end facing the sea to try and protect them from the worst of the offshore weather.

I feel your pain:eek:

Im the NE tip of NI - and the wind here would cut you. Its not for nothing wind farms are spouting up all around me and the sea bed is being mapped out for wave energy ( or whatever its called )

And me a southern softee for so long :rotfl:

jackieb

lostinrates wrote: »

This: and that minor adjustments can be made to how you live. e.g. I arranged our furniture when we moved in, but now its colder I've moved a sofa so that the sun, when its there, gets more into the room where we sit, not behind the sofa. Making full use of the sun cn make a really big difference, as does not having well lined, and interlined curtains...I'm feeling the lack of those atm! Also when planning a room, thinking about where to put the heating....heaters behind interlined curtains under windows always seem such a waste to me.

I do have heavy lined curtains in the livingroom (and blinds and double glazing ) and they're so 1980's. Good quality but so ugly. We inherited them from the people who we bought the house from, but i'm not going to take them down until I can afford to replace them with similar quality ones. It's doing my head in though.

~moneysavingnovice~

Going on for about 2-3hours a day at the mo. And it's only going to get worse!

Oh well, glad I lasted this long- last year we had it on through the night routinely thinking nothing of it.. until the £500 gas bill arrived!

jcr16

i have to say the last few days our heating has been on for a few hours each evening. once kids are soundo in bed and their snuggled down it generally goes off, hubby and i snuggle together under a duvet on the sofa if were cold. well even when were not tbh, if nice just to cuddle.

it is getting loads colder down here at mo. freezing today.