Is your heating ON or OFF?

23rdspiral

hi, i've borrowed a themometer thing from work and currently my bathroom is a brisk 6.3 degrees! needless to say i dont have the heating on much! :snow_grin

apart from the cost i dont like a hot house and we run an open fire in the evening which makes downstairs toasty enough. as of this weekend, the central heating timer is on for an hour in the morning, an hour in the evening and an hour before bed, which is fine for us.

the gadget is also telling me the bathroom isnt damp (apart from when drying washing), so i'm not worried on that score. the rest of the house is warmer as the bathroom has a large outside wall and a useless 'towl rail' radiator.

what's your coldest room? what's your limit? and do you think i'm being too frugel with the gas bill?! :rotfl:

jackieglasgow

Mine is the downstairs loo, which is on the partywall, and at the front of the house. It is always cold, I think the only cure would be thick curtains lined with electric blankets and a shagpile carpet. Still, it stops the children doing number 2's in it! :rotfl:

saver_1_2

I try to keep all rooms comfortable. We have c heating through out the house. I try to leave it off as long as possible but if i put it on late it takes ages for the house to get warm. where as if i put it on early i worry about the huge bill we will receive.I can't win. Ive had my heating on since 10 this morn and at 14.30 now it's on 18c in the living room but it is around 1c outside.

You must have a decent c.heating system to only have to put it on for one hour three times a day. But as you say you don't like a hot house so it's what suites you

mlz1413

when I bought my first house it had 2 storage heaters one upstairs and one downstairs, the house was always freezing and I used to get dressed in bed due to the cold. I hated going to use the loo as the plastic seat would freeze to your legs.

So when I had saved up enough to get central heating put in I had a rad in the loo and one in the bathroom - not because I needed them, but because I wanted them.

I vowed never to be cold in the bathroom again, so my bathroom has under floor heating and a brilliant towel radiator (which never has a towel on it!)

nutsohazelnuts

My entrance hall, kitchen, bathroom and upstairs rooms are 9 degrees Centigrade at present. Outside is a few degrees colder I should imagine. The sitting room where my wife is having a snooze and I am tapping away quietly is a comfortable 20 degrees Centigrade thanks to the gas fire. It's also rather dim so I have the lamps on at three in the afternoon. Whatever next!

valk_scot

Our permenantly on radiater (you have to have one radiator fixed open if the CH is on with our combi boiler ) is the heated towel rail in the bathroom, so that's always warm. I put the kids school uniforms on it at night so they're lovely and warm on a winter morning, lol. My kitchen is unheated though it never gets that cold with all the cooking going on. I don't heat my bedroom or DS's at all and as our bedroom is on an exposed outer corner of the house with only the utility room under it's definately cold in there. The really cold room however is the utility room, down in the depths at the back. It has no heating, two outside walls, stone floor, 20' high ceiling and a back door with a permenantly draughty cat flap. It is cold...cold enough to store the sacks of allotment tatties in, and to use to store extra milk, salad veg, butter etc. There's a pulley airer in it too but I think anyting I put up there would still be wet next spring, lol. Definately the coldest room.

Rebekah24

I dont have heating in the kitchen/bathroom so they are preeety cold right now! The kitchen with secondary glazing is currently 5. I rarely go in there, just run in, grab the teapot and run out again!!

Only putting the heating on when fiance is over atm, Keeping bundled up!

I think the whole 9 lower limit thing is a bit high! lol.. I manage fine a lot cooler, wrap up and keep moving!

jaxx46

3 deg in my utility room brrr, still means the fridge doesn't have to be used for cans.

BUXTONRABBIT

My bathroom is extremely cold. Cold enough to see your breath in and for icicles to form on the ceiling. that is because the radiator has stopped working. We have been putting an electric radiator in for an hour before the showers though. Rest of the house is nice and warm thanks to the grumpy old man's heating allowance which arrived this week.

bargainbetty

My bathroom is freezing. I had to have some work done over the summer and they kindly replaced the vent cover the serves as an extractor to the central air shaft in my block of flats. Lovely and cool in the summer, but I am genuinely thinking about shoving rags into it now - howling gale sucking warm air out of the room and if you are the first one in in the morning, dear lord that seat is cold!

Saves on morning coffee though - a cold backside will certainly wake you up in the morning!