Is your heating ON or OFF?

HelenYorkshire

Not posted for a while but jumping back in.... Hard frost the last couple of days, hallway temp down to 9 on a morning, so I kick the heating on to 12 or (gasp) 14 just before and during shower. Then once windows open it's off again!
Now electricity is a different matter, I may live to regret supplying a meter reading so much higher than their estimated bill!

lostinrates

Brrrr, chilly this morning! The dogs were keen to cut walk short this morning, and the chickens didn't go out when I opened their door, just grimaced and headed to the feeder instead.

Kitchen warming up for me to go in there and clean and woodburner lit. Regardless the cats are huddling under a duvet in the sitting room, not by the fire, so guess the room is not warm enough yet.

Aarons_mummy

I had to put it on this morning -5 still and incredibly cold and I am coming down with a cold. Bah.

Almost spring though so hopefully not too much longer of needing it on.

prudent_princess

Aarons_mummy wrote: »

I had to put it on this morning -5 still and incredibly cold and I am coming down with a cold. Bah.

Almost spring though so hopefully not too much longer of needing it on.

I had to put mine on this morning! Brrrrrr!
It was minus 4 outside and my indoor temp was 9.

Like you say only 3 mths to Spring!!:j

skintas_2

mine is off, its cold outside, the sun is shining nice and hot thru my windows keeping my flat warm waiting on load to finish to dry in front of the windows, hang of the curtain rails

lostinrates

B and T I got a picture of roasting dog for you but I am using a mac device and can't work out how to post it here for you as image hosting websites aren't finding the pic...presumably geared up for windows?

shegar

lostinrates wrote: »

Re the insulation and heating on, is that that you leave it on but it doesn't always click on...I mean, isn 't the point of insulation that it shouldn't need to be on on all the day?

Yep ive got the hall stat at 21 degrees, but with most south facing windows the rooms keep at all well above 21, so its clicks in if it go lower than that.............My god its cold out there right now, forcasted a -5 tonight, but I do like good hard frosts in the winter, then we usually get nice sunny days....:D I really feel so sorry for all these people out there with oil central heating and having to find x amounts of dosh up front, thats real bad when your on a tight budget........Also all the people that have to pay for wood for burners cos thats real expensive heat.........So many people want burners that it soon pushes the price of wood up................

lostinrates

shegar wrote: »

Yep ive got the hall stat at 21 degrees, but with most south facing windows the rooms keep at all well above 21, so its clicks in if it go lower than that.............My god its cold out there right now, forcasted a -5 tonight, but I do like good hard frosts in the winter, then we usually get nice sunny days....:D I really feel so sorry for all these people out there with oil central heating and having to find x amounts of dosh up front, thats real bad when your on a tight budget........Also all the people that have to pay for wood for burners cos thats real expensive heat.........So many people want burners that it soon pushes the price of wood up................

the real thing pushing the price up is not just wood burners but the drive for wood boilers, and the fact that previous by product is now usable as pellet for pellet burners.

The irony is, ATM a lot of those systems are pretty in green as the pellet is sometimes shipped from new Zealand....hardly low milages:eek: there is a grant for wood boilers now in a commercial situation, the pay back for which is exceptionally good, and it is meant to come in next autumn winter for domestic situations. Who knows whether it will or not, but seems less green than solar or things like airsource, so the grant seems particularly odd. We can install two, one as a business and one domestically, and worked out the pay back would be worth us buying, installing and never bothering to use, because it's so good. Nice if you do it, but pretty insane pay back.

BitterAndTwisted

lostinrates wrote: »

B and T I got a picture of roasting dog for you but I am using a mac device and can't work out how to post it here for you as image hosting websites aren't finding the pic...presumably geared up for windows?

Eh, I'm a Mac user as well but I don't pretend to know anything about this hosting lark. If you can encode it as a jpeg you could always email it to me. Then I could use it as my wallpaper and gaze at it all day.

About the wood. I can't understand what the problem is. Everywhere I go (and this is in the city) there's wood almost everywhere just for the taking. When I was a nipper we'd go out for walks nearly everyday with my Mum carrying a wicker basket thingy just for picking up twigs and bits of wood for the coal-fire. Sometimes whole branches.

One of my grannys was German and she used to come and stay every winter with us for months wherever it was we lived (Forces). She never learned to speak English but picked up a phrase from my Dad about our foraging activities (wood, brambles. windfalls,mushrooms). She thought that fire-wood in English was called "more bloody wood". Bless.

lostinrates

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Eh, I'm a Mac user as well but I don't pretend to know anything about this hosting lark. If you can encode it as a jpeg you could always email it to me. Then I could use it as my wallpaper and gaze at it all day.

About the wood. I can't understand what the problem is. Everywhere I go (and this is in the city) there's wood almost everywhere just for the taking. When I was a nipper we'd go out for walks nearly everyday with my Mum carrying a wicker basket thingy just for picking up twigs and bits of wood for the coal-fire. Sometimes whole branches.

One of my grannys was German and she used to come and stay every winter with us for months wherever it was we lived (Forces). She never learned to speak English but picked up a phrase from my Dad about our foraging activities (wood, brambles. windfalls,mushrooms). She thought that fire-wood in English was called "more bloody wood". Bless.

What a great story.

Are they just saved as jpegs? If so I can certainly email you a couple of dog dog pics