Is your heating ON or OFF?

shegar

Oh dear me its been so cold this morning, and Ive had the heating on all the time.....ive now got to take the dogs out for a walk down the beach:eek: so id better rug up for that,its dry here but its the cold wind that seem to go through you.......

anguk

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

My Grandma, who is in her 90s, has never had central heating, she blames it for all sorts of ills. She had the coal fire in the living room and a portable 2 bar electric fire in her big kitchen, electric blankets and hot water bottles in all the beds and all the doors had curtains up and sausage dog draught excluders. She did get an electric storage heater in her bedroom about 20 years ago but I think she's only rarely used it and she hated it when the city went smokeless because her landlord removed the coal fire and put a gas one in.

She blames central heating and chemical cleaners for most childhood illnesses and the rise in allergies. And don't get her started on the use of cleaners that sterilise everything and claim to get rid of 99.9% of germs! :eek:

amtrakuk

I love this time of year for all the wrong reasons!

Heating goes on... Slow cooker comes out for those warming comfort food dinners of stew and dumplings

It was only when I was at my mums this weekend we identified a prime candidate for why I get cold feet despite the room being warm. I live in an old end terrace house, all windows double glazed except for an old wooden sash window on the end of the house in the attic room. A cold draft is whistling though it, running down both stair cases to the ground floor. Does anyone have any cheap tips for stopping the draft?

Gothicfairy

I am still on track for a heating free winter..It is cold but I bought a fab pair of fleece mittens from ebay and a warm faux fur coat (went for starting price of 99p) and I will be wearing that in the evenings sitting in front of the telly.
I think the dogs and cats help and as the downstairs is not that big we draw the curtains and shut doors and it soon warms up.

I think it is more about getting moving or put more clothes on but that is how I was dragged up so it comes natural (ish) to me and I remember ice on the inside of windows (farmers lass) and that was in the 80's

Confuzzled

amtrakuk wrote: »

It was only when I was at my mums this weekend we identified a prime candidate for why I get cold feet despite the room being warm. I live in an old end terrace house, all windows double glazed except for an old wooden sash window on the end of the house in the attic room. A cold draft is whistling though it, running down both stair cases to the ground floor. Does anyone have any cheap tips for stopping the draft?

i can think of several things

expanding foam... there are some that can be peeled away when necessary, get a caulk gun pop a tube of it in and seal away. as it's in the attic and i doubt anyone sees it much this is quick and guaranteed, it's also great for rotting windows to hold them together another year (i've had some crap landlords, can you tell?)

if the cracks aren't too big you could buy the strips of foam rubber that are meant to go along the bottom of doors to stop a draught. these have adhesive on one side so clean the window well, dry it thoroughly then stick in place. these come off very easily so are good for rented but they tend not to be very wide so they won't always fill large spaces

papier mache is great for an old window you don't need to look at or open. make it up (google instructions) and paste it in place. this is removeable as well though this and the foam option can be a bit of a pain to take off

i'm in rented and the landlord doesn't want to replace the badly warped wood frame double glazing. my bedroom window opens out as normal but also allows the window to swing out from the frame with a second small latch on the side. this bit is so warped it was all i could do to get it to latch (i'm surprised the latch didn't break!) so now i have some large gaps.

what i did was to roll up packing paper i keep getting with orders (marks always sends tons!) i roll it up in longish strips over and over about 1 inch wide then crease down the length to make it fold again. i stick a butter knife inside this crease and push it into the cracks. the wider the gap the more times times you need to fold the paper over to make it thicker before you start.

i used this last year and it was really effective. even though i get condensation at the bottom edge and corners of my bedroom window the paper barely gets wet, didn't stick to anything when i removed it and left no trace. the nice thing is, if i do have any problems i just stuff more paper in to replace what i had to take out! it's worked very well this year so far as well and it's simply the cheapest option

best of luck

debtmess

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

sounds similar to when i was a child but i grew up in the 80s

we lived in a breeze block house end terrace (now long pulled down due to how shoddy they were) we only had a gas fire for the whole house single glazed windows and when it rained our downstairs hallways was like a pond, damp crept throughout the house and silverfish were very common

and when i look back we managed but i worry mine are too cold

BallandChain

amtrakuk wrote: »

I love this time of year for all the wrong reasons!

Heating goes on... Slow cooker comes out for those warming comfort food dinners of stew and dumplings

It was only when I was at my mums this weekend we identified a prime candidate for why I get cold feet despite the room being warm. I live in an old end terrace house, all windows double glazed except for an old wooden sash window on the end of the house in the attic room. A cold draft is whistling though it, running down both stair cases to the ground floor. Does anyone have any cheap tips for stopping the draft?

Seal bubble wrap around the gaps!

mrsr

Not going to need heat on today sun shinning through windows it's really nice.Hope it's the same for everybody else.

Fruball

mrsr wrote: »

Not going to need heat on today sun shinning through windows it's really nice.Hope it's the same for everybody else.

Sadly, not here. We have drizzle and damp

Heating is on and will be on now til spring, albeit on low.

~moneysavingnovice~

There are some good aspects of going to work- not having to heat your house all day

Heating is now regularly on for 1 hour in the mornings and around 3 in the evenings.

Am currently £270 in credit for my gas+elec so hopefully will be able to cope with the bill when it comes in!!