Is your heating ON or OFF?

flippin36

Its still fairly mild here, but I'm finding the house is beginning to feel a bit damp and smell a little musty (like an old cottage but its a new build). Never known it to be damp and can't see any damp problems, so I think I'll put it on for an hour a day to air the house through.

SpikyHedgehog

flippin36 wrote: »

Its still fairly mild here, but I'm finding the house is beginning to feel a bit damp and smell a little musty (like an old cottage but its a new build). Never known it to be damp and can't see any damp problems, so I think I'll put it on for an hour a day to air the house through.

My house is 4 years old, and when we moved in, in March, we were advised to keep the heating on low to help dry the house out.

I said something at work today about not having had a hot water bottle last night, and my colleague who is always moaning about how poor she is said she doesn't use hot water bottles, that's what central heating is for! I'd rather have a warm bed and cooler air to breathe.

carefullycautious

Still off here in the midlands.

Has anyone found that if they turn it on they get used to it and have to keep putting it on.

Plus what temperature have you gone down to before you have given in?

rosalie-lavender

We had friends to stay last year who live in a rural part of central Finland where the temperature drops to minus goodness knows what degrees. I was amazed to find out they had never come across hot water bottles before. They thought they were a wonderful idea and took some home with them.

Fruball

Off here atm - however, temp in living room has been brought up to 20c just having the de-humidifier on to dry the new plasterwork!!!

Kids went to bed with warmies (wheat bags) and haven't complained of being cold at night yet.

ellanutella

Still off here. Put the gas fire on last night for 10 minutes as I felt bad for the kittens but that's been it, aside from "testing" it in that September cold spell! My target is October 15th but it won't go on unless it actually is cold.

Very different situation from last year when I got to November 27th before putting it on! Last year was a well protected bedsit in the South West, this year it's a roomy 3 bed terrace in the North West with 3 kittens. I wouldn't normally be too soft about them but they stay in the living room at night and patio doors plus laminate floor means it's probably the chilliest room in the house. Bills wise, we tend to pay around £150 every 3 months for gas and electric, definitely not going on DD after seeing some of the prices people pay on here, doesn't seem like a good deal at all.

carefullycautious

For kittens i would use cardboard boxes with holes cut in front lined with a piece of offcut carpet and a warm blanket. Mine used to love to curl up inside.

Cheap too.

lilac_lady

I used my heating manually last year and will do the same this winter. If it's on a timer I think there's times when it doesn't need to be on. I leave the thermostat at 18 degrees as I hate a stuffy, warm house but I don't like a freezing cold one either.

jammy_dodger

i have had to put mine on the past couple of days as catering for guests from over the pond ,so they were feeling the cold here in north east scotland

i have been indoors in t shirts

i put it on for a few hours in the evenings and supplied hot water bottles for night time use and extra fleece blankets

guests gone now so its firmly off

a fine sunny day here too so can catch up with all the washing

sadie70

not had mine on yet but any day now i think as it gets cooler.