Is your heating ON or OFF?

marmalize

presume kitchen is the coldest as the window is open and the back door is barely worth the title...lol

however as i work split shifts i am up and out in around 30 mins at 7.30 so as yet i havn't bothered with putting the heating on in the morning..
then when i get back at 2pm it doesn't seem worth it as i am back out at 4.30 (am currently wearing a fleece jacket and a pashmina scarf while checking email ect...)..then when i get back at 9pm theres not much time for it to warm up before i give in and go to bed with my hot water bottle...so basically i am cold all day (unless i visit parents as i do most days ...their house is like a sweat lodge!!)
i wish i could say this gives me really low bills but it doesn't seem to, the last 2 winter bills were both over £200

guccigoo

probably the kitchen for me as it has no radiator in there and under the lino is concrete floor, also the back door in it has single paned glass whilst the window is double glazed! Also the back door has the draughty cat flap which i have covered today with a plastic bag and sellotape:rotfl: my cat sleeps all day so will uncover it when i go to bed so she can go and do her buisness during the night

CommitedToChange

my front room is a lovely 10c and I suspect that the bathroom is around 5c - I can't really afford to have the heating on so if it gets to 12c with a fan heather on for half an hour I'm happy.

I'm currently sat on the couch under a blanket with a hot waterbottle - my hands are freezing though. :-(

eilidh_s

My coldest room is my bedroom which is about 18degrees. I have underfloor heating downstairs that runs of an air source pump and I have a heat recovery system, my en suit upstairs has a towel radiator and thats the only heating I have upstairs. The whole house has an average temp of about 20degrees but on a sunny day the south facing living room can easily hit 35.

Penelope_Penguin

23rdspiral wrote: »

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

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

I suspect that our 2 toilets are the coldest - the only rooms in the house with no radiators We just keep the doors closed, so they don;t steal the warmth from the rest of the house

I'll add this to the "Is your heating on or off" thread later.

Sarahsaver

bathroom 15 deg. Utility room has no heating and it is probably freezing cos the fridge in there has gone down to minus 2

rachbc

def the kitchen as no rad in there though hubby will be correcting that next week. I foolishly thought it'd be warm enough when i was cooking without - which it kind of is but going in there when not cooking its freezing. Plus it has no door and the cold air seems to go right through the downstairs so a lovely big flat panel radiator going in asap

Hellyboo

My kitchen backs onto the very draughty and unheated conservatory and with a stone floor it is baltic in there. I often have the window open for the tumble dryer so there's no point having the radiator on in there, but it makes standing on the cold floor to do the washing up unpleasant! I'll put my thermometer in there and see how cold it really is. Of course with a potty training 3 year old (who often walks around with no trousers on :O ) and a 5 month old baby I have a good excuse to keep the rest of the house toasty!

helenhugs

Toilet room downstairs is freezing, as is the little hallway before the kitchen, once in the main part of the house though its generally not too bad. Downstairs toilet you have been able to see your breath in for ages. Definitely a toilet only for boys in the winter, girls couldn't cope with having to put their bums on that freezing seat lol. We too close the door so the room doesn't steal the heat lol. Doesn't matter how high the heating is on it always feels cold with the kitchen door open.
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debtmess

will be going on shortly, i popped home after college and it was on when thermostat was at 13 so must be cold

found out last night my flat is only mad of breeze blocks and covered over with pebbledash stuff makes sense why it doesn't hold heat and eats my gas.

stuffed newspaper and old blanket in the airblock in my room and rehung the front so its no longer a hole, friend is searching out a duvet for fireplace and i have brought 2 fan heaters for 9.99 from robert dyas this afternoon, going to try them in a bit and work out how much they cost by looking at meter there 2kw each (im on pre payment meter, im sure its around 25p per hour, can anyone clarify for me ? have 2 to use)

bluebag, im away 24-2nd hehe will be a nice break, heating will be kept at 13 though why im away, mums house like a furnace, will be walking around in shorts n tshirt, she only spent around 550 over the last year for gas (dunno how lol) but she has insulated walls and loft so shows how much of a difference it must make