Is your heating ON or OFF?

jackieb

I went to my son's house today. He's moving in next week - there is no furniture but there are carpets, curtains and blinds. He's had the timer on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening so the pipes don't freeze. It was absolutely Baltic in there, and I was wrapped up for the weather. I'm surprised we couldn't see our breath in there! I don't know how some of your can survive with so little heating. You must be pretty hardy, or have wonderfully insulated homes, or be in a place where it's not as cold as here!

lostinrates

shegar wrote: »

Wow once a month that a bit too long I think, I love the smell of freshly washed bedding and I change mine twice a week, plus I do have 2 small dogs in with us :eek:,

Dogs do make a difference. Mine used to sleep on my bed and I always changed twice a week without her upstairs and just me in the bed four nights a week our sheets seem fine when I change them at a week. I still change twice a week when the weather is good for drying, but I'm feeling a bit as if I'm wasting money doing this now.

we have snow! I'm very excited. I've turned the heating on for a couple of hours before DH gets home and it really feels like ''winter'' now there is some snow in the air.

debtmess

ours is also set at 17 so it comes on when it go's under that, at night i turn it down to 13 and same again if it gets too cold it will come on, were all in fleece pi's now in some form or other, my 3 little ones are in all in one type and mine are standard fleece pj's

was tempted by halogen or oil filled rads but cannot trust my youngest not to burn himself

Fruball

I have to say that I am quite worried about those who are keeping their heating off - I know people used to live with no heating... but we used to live with no paracetamol, no antibiotics, no doctors either...

Even if you turn off all your radiators but keep one on, in just one room, then do it pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

In my job I often visit empty homes with no heating and its just too cold.

Don't risk damp or illness for the sake of keeping it off.

Just saying because I care about people and hate to think of people being cold xxxxx

Butterfly_Brain

Don't want to scare you but read this :eek: This man has been spot on for years



WeatherAction Extreme Weather Warning

Catastrophically severe blizzards - "widespread total white out" coming to much of Britain, Ireland, Europe and North/central USA during 27th-30th - much more intense than standard meteorology expectations.

Piers Corbyn, astrophysicist of WeatherAction long range forecasters said today, Frid 26 Nov

"We repeat our warning on 24th Nov that the period 27-30 Nov espec from 28th onwards will - due to solar-magnetic factors - suffer considerably more extreme weather than standard meteorology expectations and advised people to, for example, DOUBLE snow forecast levels which might be issued on TV on Friday.

This means the 10-20cm (4 to 8 inches) Met Office warning (issued Frid 26th) for NorthEast Britain especially North & NorthEast England for Sunday 28th should be DOUBLED to 8 to 16 inches.

"This means we can expect at least a foot of snow, total white-out and heavy drifting and the areas covered will be much wider than their present forecast with probably the whole of the UK and most of Ireland suffering extreme conditions.
"For the USA there will be catastrophically severe total white-out conditions in wide areas in the period 28th-30th

"WeatherAction's essence of winter summary public forecast will be released on Tuesday 30th Nov - see http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=274&c=5 "

Comments submitted - 1 Add your comment On 26 Nov 2010, Carl Botten wrote:

WARNING!!! I buy Piers forecasts and believe me this WILL happen every time on those forecasts that Piers has warned about HAS happened i would say 95% of the time so i for one am preparing for this scenario and have warned work colleagues

Doom_and_Gloom

We've had our heating on low for a couple of days now - we finally gave in when it was no longer warm under all the layers we used, lol. We only have 3 of the radiators on but it's still not overly cheap. I'm just glad we got 3 extra weeks that we didn't think we would be able to do without the heating.

Fruball

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Don't want to scare you but read this :eek: This man has been spot on for years



WeatherAction Extreme Weather Warning

Catastrophically severe blizzards - "widespread total white out" coming to much of Britain, Ireland, Europe and North/central USA during 27th-30th - much more intense than standard meteorology expectations.

Piers Corbyn, astrophysicist of WeatherAction long range forecasters said today, Frid 26 Nov

"We repeat our warning on 24th Nov that the period 27-30 Nov espec from 28th onwards will - due to solar-magnetic factors - suffer considerably more extreme weather than standard meteorology expectations and advised people to, for example, DOUBLE snow forecast levels which might be issued on TV on Friday.

This means the 10-20cm (4 to 8 inches) Met Office warning (issued Frid 26th) for NorthEast Britain especially North & NorthEast England for Sunday 28th should be DOUBLED to 8 to 16 inches.

"This means we can expect at least a foot of snow, total white-out and heavy drifting and the areas covered will be much wider than their present forecast with probably the whole of the UK and most of Ireland suffering extreme conditions.
"For the USA there will be catastrophically severe total white-out conditions in wide areas in the period 28th-30th

"WeatherAction's essence of winter summary public forecast will be released on Tuesday 30th Nov - see http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=274&c=5 "

Comments submitted - 1 Add your comment On 26 Nov 2010, Carl Botten wrote:

WARNING!!! I buy Piers forecasts and believe me this WILL happen every time on those forecasts that Piers has warned about HAS happened i would say 95% of the time so i for one am preparing for this scenario and have warned work colleagues

Not at all scary to read this... I've been predicting the same thing by gut instinct for the last 6 weeks.

Its gonna be a shocking winter, I am sure of it.

Thank goodness I am somewhat prepared.... but if it really gets bad then friends are gonna consume my supplies I am sure... and I don't have enough for everyone!!!

Que a BIG SHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just look at the berries on the trees - i've never in my life seen anything like it... and nature knows best

susank

We have white out conditions already tonight and lots and lots of snow - hopefully people will keep OFF the roads as half of them cannot drive on the stuff and cause problems for others who can! - I will be staying in with my supplies and keeping warm hopefully - nothing like shovelling snow to warm you up though!

The heating is cranked up - we need to be warm!

ellanutella

Feeling decidedly less smug than my previous posts. It's still off but it makes no difference having it on. We've got used to hot water bottles etc but OH had a friend over from work on Wednesday and she was cold so I put it on. Didn't make a blind bit of difference. I only put one radiator on, but it was the bigger one. The smaller one is under the window but is practically covered by a long coffee table full of dvds and games so it's no use having it on just so it can melt the dvds and not heat the room. We've got sash windows, thought they'd be alright because they're double glazed but I think we'll be a lot warmer if I can winter-proof them a bit, so that's my job for the weekend.

We're still toasty warm under the duvet with hot water bottles and slippers and everything but I'm annoyed that I can't make it warmer for guests. Probably see if I can move the coffee table somewhere. As for snow, no sign of it and we've a cupboard stocked full if it does make an appearance!

bluebag

Got the heating on, flleece blankets, sock, slippers, wheat bags and hot choccie all round tonight. We haven't had any snow here yet(fingers crossed), but it is a bitterly cold -4.

I am partial to a smoke but only smoke outside, have to say this cold snap is very MSE as I don't go out much for a fag in this freezer!

I'm off tomorrow to get extra supplies in just in case the forecast ^is correct, although I sincerely hope that lot doesn't come off.