Is your heating ON or OFF?

BitterAndTwisted

OH! It's the heating thread not the chat one. I am reporting that the internal temp here is 12 degrees and there's no heating on. It's very curious: it was 12 when I went to bed last night and I expected it to have dropped a bit. I have windows uncurtained in the living-room twelve and a half feet wide, five feet high and single glazed. How odd is that?

I was chatting to my next-door neighbour yesterday talking about heating bills (always preying on my mind) and told him I was very grateful for the heat that I must have been parasiting off them last winter and joked that I probably owed them money. He was kind enough to laugh.

gettingready

20 degrees but feels cold inside brrrr

got to check where my windows are facing

I hate not having a radiator in the kitchen, have c/h but not in the kitchen - what logic is that?

all my warm air runs and issapears in the kitchen - no, have no doors there so can not shut it
got an electric radiator in the kitchen if that is on the temp kind of evens out

but trying not to put it on,,,,

next bill due on the 21st, hope it will be less than the last one

BitterAndTwisted

If you have no door to the kitchen and all the heat is disappearing in there I'd be tempted to get a heavy curtain put up, or even a good heavy blanket. You can always repair any fixing-holes and whatnot before you leave. To heck with disappearing heat!

gettingready

Can just about imagine the joy of the cats to have a curtain to swing on LOL

CH was put in when I moved in here (council flat) and they have refused to connect/put a radiator in the kitchen saying their policy is not to.

Asked them why? They said "As you cook in the kitchen it is warm in there anyway"

So all I have to do now is to get someone to come in and start cooking at say 4am so it is nice and warm by say 6am....

Jesusssssssssssssss, what a total utter nonsense...., isn't it?


When I wint the lottery, may get someone to get some extra pipes and add a radiator in there, such a total utter madness.. and kitchen is quite cold

gettingready

and walking into the kictehn in th morning brrrrrrr if I block it with blanket/curtain - wont be able to go in there in the mornings at all, can you imagine? brrrr

BitterAndTwisted

My own feeling is that I would much rather have a cold kitchen than a cold flat that was costing me a mint to keep warm enough. I wonder how much it would cost to get a contractor to put some extra pipes in and install one radiator? Or a joiner to hang a door? Something to have a ponder over when there's enough money coming in. Think yourself lucky, your kitchen cannot be as cold as mine!

prepareathome

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CH was put in when I moved in here (council flat) and they have refused to connect/put a radiator in the kitchen saying their policy is not to.

Asked them why? They said "As you cook in the kitchen it is warm in there anyway"
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My kitchen is the same - no heating in it and HA won't put one in. Do to health issues when we had new kitchen fitted I had a wall mounted oven put in and as it has a fan to keep the surrounding cupboards cool that means kitchen is even colder when oven is on rather than reverse. I do love having hob and oven separate and love my kitchen in general. I use my slow cooker a lot and that does heat up the kitchen a bit, but usually during cold weather I am to be found working in kitchen all muffled up. One day if I can afford it I to will pay to have a radiator put in, there is one wall where it could go. My downstairs toilet has no heating either and boy is it cold, its right by back door, although using the bubblewrap on the window has helped a bit and I have put a metal shade on the ceiling light which helps reflect a bit of heat back in but definitely not a place to linger. Did use heating lightbulb but its so expensive to run.

Rest of house is fine with thermostat at 18c, so far this winter had no urge to raise it higher, but had had to turn radiator on in bedroom past few days ( I spend a lot of time in there). So far this year we have used less gas than have done in past as at last have managed to insulate house well. We are averaging about £8pw which is half what we were putting in last year, not bad considering the price hike last year.

Aarons_mummy

I have no heat in my kitchen either, I have an under unit electric heater but it costs a fortune to run so slippers and a blanket/thick jumper for me! I hang a towel over the door as it's glass paned and have a draught excluder at the bottom to stop the heat disappearing.

Still frosty here this morning but 3 degree's outside and we have thick jumpers on so no need for it to be on today yet hoorah!

mrsr

I have put mine on for a shower this morning i couldn't face that bathroom in this frosty weather.The LR with the door shut all night held the temp at 15c,the Ch was only on for a hr last night then some candles on the go,wish the rest of the house had held the heat as well.

lostinrates

First day with ice on the widows inside, but only the thinnest scraping. It's and easy to work with the horses in hard frost out there today...no mud. .