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Is your heating ON or OFF?
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I cannot for the life of me understand why the living/dining area is so very cold all the time?
Have you open air bricks in there Pipkin?
In our kitchen, there were two open air bricks where the draught ran straight through. I live in a council house, so cannot remove the air bricks, but the kitchen was always freezing.
Anyway, my Dad made me a cover for the outside, which I just remove when the cooker is on and it has made a huge difference.
Pipkin xxxxThere is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter0 -
!!!!!!_here wrote: »There's the proof it's getting cold !
Is that innuendo or have I missed something on the thread?0 -
OK I admit it - our heating went on yesterday! (But we are expecting a rather older friend to come and stay today - so that's my excuse!)Resolution:
Think twice before spending anything!0 -
I gave in and put the heating this morning - it was 15 in the front room and 12 in the kitchen, the bathroom is above the kitchen and these two are the coldest rooms in the house, I just couldn't have a shower in the freezing cold! So I put the central heating on for about 20 mins to warm up the house, had a hot shower and then turned the heating off. I don't mind not having it on at night, I wrap up in a duvet, with fleecy jimjams and dressing gown on top, last night tho I did have a hot water bottle to get in to bed with, the bed was freezing!KEEP CALM AND keep taking the tablets :cool2:0
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Time to put the flannelette bedding on methinks.0
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Well I have failed and put the heating on.....just got back from a wet and windy protest at our school (council trying to close it) and was frozen brrrrggggg. I am a bit disappointed that we couldnt hold off any longer but its not worth being ill. I will just have to worry about the bills when we get them:eek:
JAN GC- £155.77 out of £200FEB GC £197.31 out of £180:o. MARCH GC - out of £200
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Hi all
Am sitting here with numb feet and sore knees (reckon it's the cold seeping up) but my heating is on but down low. I actually feel when there's no heating on at all in my house it gets a sort of "dampish" smell. Very unwelcoming.
Anyway, I think I might have to crank it up a bit because the BBC weather man said Scotland will go all the way down to 1 degree tonight (15 degrees from Birmingham down though which is odd).
DS and I are off to get water bottles and fleecy socks today (and he's begging for something to stop the sofa being so cold - leather).
I too am trying to hold out until November for some "real" heat.Grocery Challenge M: £450/£425.08 A: £400/£:eek:.May -£400/£361 June £380/£230 (pages 18 & 27 explain)0 -
Still no heat here in wild and woolly Norfolk - been a bit chilly but bought a lovely new blanket to wrap up in in the evenings! Kids are complaining but until they put on sock and slippers and jumpers and still tell me they are cold we are not putting it on! But mum and dad are babysitting on Wednesday so might have to give in for a night but htat's all - still hoping for November 1st - we are away in half term I hope (friends willing!) so might just make it!Sealed Pot 617 - target £150 only managed £27 in 2009!0
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No heating on here. OH is using his laptop wearing a hat and fingerless mitts!!0
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