Is your heating ON or OFF?

pollys

According to our local weather station it's -10 at the moment. Think the car is going to need some serious scraping at 7am tomorrow.

Heating was switched off about an hour ago. Still feel warmish.

Pollys

seanspotatobusiness

The heating has only been switched on during bath-times but that restriction may be lifted soon. The temperature upstairs is about 10-11 C and the kitchen 6 C! Hot water bottles and electric blankets (etc) abound!

shanks77

marmiterulesok wrote: »

Just read your post.Do you have any fingerless gloves?They can really help.I use mine a lot.

Take care x

No i dont but will look into it thanks for tip xx

kymbogs

Well our heating is off. As is the hot water. Boiler on the blink :-( as of yesterday evening, I have Homecare with BG but can't come till tomorrow morning. It's been a cold time for me and the kids today! Not at all jealous of DH in his warm office and having their office Christmas lunch today...hmmm...

shegar

Its so freezing cold again, yes heating is definately on, and its the shortest day today ,

debtmess

mines on x topped up again today so had 48 earlier how long that will last who knows

if i manage to get away for xmas to familys, what temperature do you recommend leaving thermostat at ? don't want to come home to burst pipes

mrsr

Had mine on for a hr first thing then off till 5pm Ds brought his children over so needed it on all evening for them

bluebag

debtmess wrote: »

mines on x topped up again today so had 48 earlier how long that will last who knows

if i manage to get away for xmas to familys, what temperature do you recommend leaving thermostat at ? don't want to come home to burst pipes

I don't know to be honest and I'm scared of sticking my neck out and saying X or Y and then you come home to no ceilings and a massive flood and I would be tortured with guilt forever and ever!

Fruball

bluebag wrote: »

I don't know to be honest and I'm scared of sticking my neck out and saying X or Y and then you come home to no ceilings and a massive flood and I would be tortured with guilt forever and ever!

I kind of agree with you there. If it were me, I would set it to around 16c just to be on the safe side. I am sure that others would set it lower, but I wouldn't take the risk, and it would still cost me less than if I were at home.

Some home insurance policies have a clause where you must have the heating on for a minimum amount of time in cold weather. For those who are keeping their heating off, this might be something you should check as it could work out very costly if something did go wrong.

~moneysavingnovice~

On cos we've now all got flu