Is your heating ON or OFF?

shegar

We woke up to a fresh layer of snow this morning, also had -6 so its definately a white christmas, which is nice, happy christmas to you :Dall........

UnderPressure

Just wanted to stop by and wish everyone on this thread a very merry christmas, I hope you all have a brilliant day

Heating uhhhhh not been off here used £140 in heating oil in 2 weeks so far

butler_helen

afternoon all! Thanks to this thread I've save loads in heating and spent loads in jumpers/blankets etc. Our heating is definitely off and will be for a while... probably because we're not there... MSE for me but not my family

Merry Christmas everyone!

*fingers crossed for the new year bill being reasonable*.

bluebag

butler_helen,

I hope you have left the heating on frost-guard in this weather.

shegar

Another -6 this morning, but the sun is out now and it looks all very christmassy......im going to the beach at 11 this morn to watch all the idiots go swimming.....!!:eek::eek: honest they do that on our coastline at 3 beaches every christmas or boxing day ...I know its for charity:D I do myfair share for charities but that I WONT do....:cool:

costaerer

mines been on constantly for about two weeks! it was -12 fri night and -10 last night. not so much warmer in the day!

lostinrates

On at 50 all the time still atm. Still waking up with ice on the inside of windows and the loo was frozen again this morning. We're leaving the heating on low for pipes, but just trying to keep the sitting room warm while DH is home. We got the whole house warm yesterday for family here, and the cold feels much worse today because of being so warm yesterday.

we're forecast a thaw this week, but having had overnight temps of -14 and -17 in the balmy south of the country I'm really concerned about people living in more northern parts of the country. I'm also thinking that its about now it usually gets really cold, so concerned about what the net month will bring.


My main issue now is I'd like to do some laundry but its so cold and still I don't think anything will dry on the line, despite it being a beautiful day!

Tulip09

My heating is on but at 10 Degrees to stop my pipes freezing again and to keep the chill off in the rooms but i have just lit a wood fire. I have used 250litres of oil since December 15th:eek: and since the price is doubled in the past few weeks i really need to start conserving it. The farm down the road is selling wood at £2.50 a big sack so i will be going there later on to stock up :T

mrsr

Mine has been on a lot over the last week,getting really worried about the bill.The sun is streaming through the windows but i still felt really shivery the grandchildren are here as well so need it on for them.Hopfully i'll be able to cutt back over the next few days,everytime i hear that boiler fire up i think of the money it's burning and worry worry

Soubrette

Our heating is on 24/7 and on high because of the water pipes. We've had two days where the pipes froze and had go be thawed but thankfully nothing has burst.

We're heating the loft with a fan heater and have the hatch open all the time - it's subtropical here We're walking around in t-shirts and shorts and feeling all stuffy because the heatings on all night. Who would have thought we'd have been moaning about the heat during this, the coldest winter it seems, since records began *rolleyes*

The earliest the plumber can come out is 4th Jan (after his initial assessment), he thinks some pipes running under the flat roof may not be lagged and so will have to go through the bathroom ceiling - replastered last year :mad: - to lag them, otherwise we'll have this problem every year it's this cold.

Still, at least no burst pipes (feel very lucky there) and we don't have to worry about the dog It's the first year we've ever had problems with the pipes which were installed with the new boiler about 8 years ago. I'm looking forward to next week when the temperature looks like it's going above zero and we can at least turn the heating down.