Is your heating ON or OFF?

mummyjane

Our heating is still off, although the fire has been on for half an hour or so each evening just to take the edge off. We seem to be going to bed earlier and earlier though as we're trying not to give in to it! Might have to bite the bullet soon and have the central heating on for an hour in the morning as the house is starting to feel very damp.

lostinrates

MUCH warmer this morning, if squally outside. No conensation either. No need for the wood burner or any heating today.

jackieb

I can't believe some of you have landlords who won't let you insulate the loft - that's mad! I got mine done (also for free) a couple of months ago and it's made a huge difference.

elgar_2

hello...just to join in again...ours has been on. It has been could and after finding a damp mouldy drawer we have put heating on to help dry out bedroom, which is much colder than rest of house, as husband found if he turned heating to 20 and opened all flat doors bedroom became slightly more bearable!!

We then turn heating back down to 10, as i dont want flat to get colder as I always think it takes more to heat a cold place than keeping somewhere warm.

I will go slip off again now

elaine

ailz95

I'm thinking that we may have to turn ours on just to get rid of the damp. Hadn't realised until I tried to shut the bedroom door - which was new last year and still not painted or anything - which has swollen and won't shut. Oldham is so very damp

Diflower

We gave in and put ours on yesterday evening, the temperature in here was dropping by the hour. Candles helped, but the rest of the house really felt cold so we decided it was best not to let it get any colder.
It only took an hour or so to make a real difference.
So really it's now 'on' at the main control, although the thermostat is set so it's not actually coming on at all today.

determined_new_ms

we have now finally bit the bullet and the heating is going on in the morning & in the evening. Thermostat set at 19. Almost Dec can't be bad!

mrsr

lostinrates wrote: »

MUCH warmer this morning, if squally outside. No conensation either. No need for the wood burner or any heating today.

I think i'm in Wiltshire the same as you,its very squally this afternoon and dark.No heating on yet ,wish i had a wood burner like you must be lovely to have that blasing away.

Cat501

Off, because my old boiler has finally kicked the bucket. No other form of heating in the house, so waiting for the Housing Association to bring me 2 temporary heaters till they can fix it.

lostinrates

mrsr wrote: »

I think i'm in Wiltshire the same as you,its very squally this afternoon and dark.No heating on yet ,wish i had a wood burner like you must be lovely to have that blasing away.

Yes....I think you're in Wiltshire too

Its squally, but here overcast and dull rather than dark. The woodburner is our ONLY heat, at one end of a largish house, so while its lovely in that one room and does impact the temps elsewhere in the house, its not terribly balanced form of heat. Our bedroom is at the other end of the house and it can feel a bit brisk going up there after being in the warm room. TBH this woodburner would not have been my choice, but I'm very grateful for it.:)

I do love real fire though, its beautiful and answers a sort of deep part of the soul...something to do with evolving into creatures that could make fire I guess.