Is your heating ON or OFF?

bluebag

debtmess wrote: »

its cold here tonight, i really must sort my chimney with heating on 18 my feet are still cold

think i need to make a dehumidifier a priority might make it a little warmer

Blow a couple of binbags up balloon stylee and shove 'em up the chimney, will reduce the draught a bit.

katholicos

shegar wrote: »

Do be careful wearing damp clothing in cold houses, you should never lay in damp sheets, thats not good at all......:eek: as my mother would say "youll catch the pip"...cut back somewhere else so you can have the heating on more often in the cold.........you are risking your families health..........

I'm afraid savings can not be made elsewhere, we already eat out of date food and bargain basement food. There is no money spare so we just have to tough it out. I am doing online readings weekly with my energy supplier and i am still in credit at the moment... so as long as i have some credit to use i will continue to use the heating as frequently as i dare. Fortunately there is just me and DD here most days/evenings, and DD is at Uni 4 days a week and at the weekends stays with my parents. I have health problems so wear my thermals and have blankets and throws in the living room and make full use of my hot water bottle and (microwaveable) wheatbag/warmer.

superflygal

Its probably been mentioned before, but I dry all my dripping wet windows with a (used) handtowel each morning (prob not mega hygienic, but its only on the windows!) and open all the upstairs windows. As someone just said, eliminate the moisture in your home, and you're halfway there!

We go out nearly all day (except lunchtime) and profit from shop's heating and playgroups'! So we only really crank heating on in evening, and then its used to dry clothes!

I do tend to iron wet clothes, then put them on the radiators to dry. Also when after i've used the oven I leave the door open to use the residual heat from that.

We aren't destitute, but we aren't well off either, and I like to think we are helping reduce our carbon emissions a little by not luxuriating in a swelteringly hot home. I must say, I now find it unbearably uncomfortable when our house is hot. Although, when friends and family come to stay we normally have to whack it on, as we normally get 'Brrrr its freezing in this house' and guests walking around wrapped in blankets carrying hot water bottles etc.

Our little children are fine in a cool house and don'e get any more colds than those in hothouses. They also manage to sit around in warm clothes without dithering! Our GP told us that tickly night time coughs are exacerbated by heating too, and said to keep heating off.

Less is more I say! There's nothing nicer for me than a warm bed without central heating on. We did have cavity walls filled though, which I really think made a big difference.

It was 1 degree Celcius when I went to work at 4.45 am yesterday morning, but home felt OK.

Back to bed now!

SFG x

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To all of you fretting about children being in cold houses. Don`t fret. My 6 younger siblings and I were brought up from the end of the 40`s in a corner terraced house with a large bedroom over a big cold shop. All 5 of us girls slept in that bedroom and there was room to spare as it was big. The whole house was very cold apart from the one room next to the freezing kitchen. That one room had a fire. Going to bed we all got dressed up and we all had coats and army blankets on our beds in winter. Condensation ran down the sash windows and they froze solid in winter. We survived on very little and never had fancy food, only nourishing good food like pea and ham soup etc. We grew up and now in our 60s are exceedingly healthy. None of us with asthma and the like. Those of you who are doing similar now may well be providing ideal conditions for your children to grow up healthy v the molly coddled and overheated conditions for many

marmiterulesok

debtmess wrote: »

its cold here tonight, i really must sort my chimney with heating on 18 my feet are still cold

think i need to make a dehumidifier a priority might make it a little warmer

If you shove an old pillow wrappped in a bin bag up the chimney opening,that'll help keep draughts out.Tie some string to the bag,so that it hangs down and is visible (as a reminder to remove the pillow if you decide to light the fire).

Someone suggested this recently on the OS board,sorry I can't remember who or which thread.

lostinrates

superflygal wrote: »

Less is more I say! There's nothing nicer for me than a warm bed without central heating on. We did have cavity walls filled though, which I really think made a big difference.

I so agree!

Although last night I felt really cold. I was up a lot in the night responding to various demands from dogs and feral cat so felt tired too. In the end I turned the electric heater on , and then off again when feral cat woke me about an hour later. Just taking the chill off helped while I was getting in and out and in and out of bed.


This morning its all off. My windows were drier, even miles away from bedroom where the heat had no possibility of permeating, and in fact windows in there were better than usual but damper than some other rooms in the house. I have no idea what made the difference but I wish I knew so I could repeat it!

superfly girl, I also dry windows with used handtowel,suitable things about to go in the wash or if all else fails a cleaning cloth. I use this after a squeegee to mop up the squeeged and to catch any remaining mist of damp. It still comes back!

I_luv_cats

Heating off!! Cosy blanket ready to go!!! Central Heating will go on for wash days and odd bath nite!!

I could put on my halogen heater or convection heaters for a quickie.

I grew up in a cold and draughty farm cottage, I would have ice on the inside of my bedroom window!! I did try a laminate draught stopper but it would keep me awake rattling all night!!! It prob hardened me up a bit!!

shegar

Oh yes I quite a agree about having a cold unheated bedroom,I never have heating on in the bedroom 365/24/7 ......I sleep with my large window open, and love it, im not cold in my warm bed with a 13.5 tog on top, and a heavy fleece throw on top of that.....I love to breath a good air frost in:D .it also helps my sinuses:D

I never wear any clothing to bed, just jump in raw.:eek::eek: but I do like my other rooms heated during the day at 21 degrees.....I just cant sleep with closed curtains and shut up windows, its okay as long as your toasty warm in bed, no harm done, I wake up every morning....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D thats a good start to the day ...!!!!!:T ha ha..

lbr102

kittie wrote: »

To all of you fretting about children being in cold houses. Don`t fret. My 6 younger siblings and I were brought up from the end of the 40`s in a corner terraced house with a large bedroom over a big cold shop. All 5 of us girls slept in that bedroom and there was room to spare as it was big. The whole house was very cold apart from the one room next to the freezing kitchen. That one room had a fire. Going to bed we all got dressed up and we all had coats and army blankets on our beds in winter. Condensation ran down the sash windows and they froze solid in winter. We survived on very little and never had fancy food, only nourishing good food like pea and ham soup etc. We grew up and now in our 60s are exceedingly healthy. None of us with asthma and the like. Those of you who are doing similar now may well be providing ideal conditions for your children to grow up healthy v the molly coddled and overheated conditions for many

Thank you for that post Kittie. I love hearing stories about times i was'nt around in so it made a really interesting read for me!

GetRealBabe

Hi

Off but will go on this evening.