Is your heating ON or OFF?

lostinrates

well, we had totally iced up windows in everyroom this morning. In the hall where there is no radiator it was incredible! Not just ice at the botom or the drips of condensation but really thick ice where it froze over and over.

But its ok if not toasty now, it helped there were more people in the house..just me doesn't keep the house very warm! I'm leaving it on until after a hot and toasty bath and off or on very, very low before bed.

bluebag

debtmess,

Fan heater cost will depend on your KWH rate, mine is 8.5p per KWH so for me to run ONE heater it would be
17p -8.5 X2Kwk.

It may be cheaper to run your gas heating as although electric heating is 100% efficient it is roughly 3 times more expensive. If you can turn down the radiators in the rooms you are not using the gas may be cheaper.

Also if you are running 2 X 2KW heaters, be careful you don't overload the electric circuit, 4,000 watts is roughly 16 amps @ 250 voltage. Add in any other electric appliances you may have and you can come a bit close to the limit of the circuit. A burned out circuit would seriously rain on your parade.
Keep well.

debtmess

bluebag wrote: »

debtmess,

Fan heater cost will depend on your KWH rate, mine is 8.5p per KWH so for me to run ONE heater it would be
17p -8.5 X2Kwk.

It may be cheaper to run your gas heating as although electric heating is 100% efficient it is roughly 3 times more expensive. If you can turn down the radiators in the rooms you are not using the gas may be cheaper.

Also if you are running 2 X 2KW heaters, be careful you don't overload the electric circuit, 4,000 watts is roughly 16 amps @ 250 voltage. Add in any other electric appliances you may have and you can come a bit close to the limit of the circuit. A burned out circuit would seriously rain on your parade.
Keep well.

thank you x doesn't seem to be a very easy way around it, i was planning on using fan heaters for 30 mins in morning whilst boys getting dressed and hour tops in evening when they get bathed and sorted for bed

i don't have thermostats on my radiators, but on my combi boiler (it does my water and heating) is numbers 1 to 5 for both heating and hot water, i think this controls the rads and water, both are currently on 3

guccigoo

well my living room is a toasty 19c at the moment, switched heating on about 2.45 to warm it up before the kids came home, apart from that it was on about an hour this morning

bluebag

debtmess wrote: »

thank you x doesn't seem to be a very easy way around it, i was planning on using fan heaters for 30 mins in morning whilst boys getting dressed and hour tops in evening when they get bathed and sorted for bed

i don't have thermostats on my radiators, but on my combi boiler (it does my water and heating) is numbers 1 to 5 for both heating and hot water, i think this controls the rads and water, both are currently on 3

Yeah, short bursts with the fan heaters is OK, works even better if you point them right at you.

It grinds my gears that heating is so expensive and many have to suffer this freezing weather with minimal heat.
It's the internet age FGS!, kind of understand it 40 years ago, things were supposed to have moved on???

I'll be carrying water in a jug on me head next!!

debtmess

seems the companies are the only ones laughing this time of year tbh i think £35 a week is excessive, hate to think what it would be if i had heating on say 12 hours a day

shegar

Its bitterly cold out, and the forcast is to get colder this week....:eek: im very warm indoors, I had a nice shower and now got my dressing gown on, thats me for the day.....:)

Sarahlou_2

nutsohazelnuts wrote: »

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!

That sounds so cosy!

Sarahlou_2

My lounge is bleedin freezing at the moment as guess which plonkers decided to decorate this weekend....... so the blinds are down and newspaper on the windows brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Luckily our CH is relatively new so blasts the heat out! But normally, the bottom of the stairs is our coldest spot.

uolypool

On now, after using my neighbours heat the other week I am back to using my own, its been so cold here and its only going to get worse.So using some of the credit that I have built up over this year