Is your heating ON or OFF?

lostinrates

We got a burst pipe in the farm yard again todAy....right next to were it burst last year. Oh well. Plumber coming next week, and i'm glad i am running the electric heater in the kitchen now. If we can just keep the rest ok i'll feel relieved.

roobers_2

Mine's off because it broke on Wednesday...just when it turned colder, brrr....so I'm eating my dinner sitting in bed with the leccy blanket on! Oh well, saving on the gas I suppose.

I think it's the diverter valve as it had a similar problem this time last year but by the autumn it had started working again. Had already got a replacement for it back then, so hopefully my friend will fit it for me tomorrow and will get some warmth back in the house.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

@lostinrates Sorry to hear about the burst pipes. What an awful thing to happen to you in this bitter Weather.

My Heating is ON now in Bedroom which was previously kept cold and in Living Room when it is in use.
I tend to flit between Bedroom and Living Room to survive with the Bedroom becoming my new Living Room when it gets too cold to live out in the Living Room.
I hope everyone is doing well and we all get the right solutions to our heating problems and especially keep warm and healthy with special reference to my Scottish Brothers and sisters who have unique problems.

lostinrates

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver wrote: »

@lostinrates Sorry to hear about the burst pipes. What an awful thing to happen to you in this bitter Weather.

My Heating is ON now in Bedroom which was previously kept cold and in Living Room when it is in use.
I tend to flit between Bedroom and Living Room to survive with the Bedroom becoming my new Living Room when it gets too cold to live out in the Living Room.
I hope everyone is doing well and we all get the right solutions to our heating problems and especially keep warm and healthy with special reference to my Scottish Brothers and sisters who have unique problems.

Thanks. Its ok, we'll live . Its our own fault really for not draining the system down. Problem is, i can't turn to stop !!!! off ...very few things i cannot work a way around that i can do or cope with with my physical limitations, but that is oneof them. Dh and i should have done it when he cMe home but it had been ok, so thought it might stay they same.

mardatha

Been baltic up here for over a week but my heating stays on 24/7 as its coal. But we notice since the HA put in double glazing to keep the heat in, that its colder somehow - there's draughts that the old windows didnt have.
Back garden full of ice sculptures - a week's supply of frozen hens water dishes. I run hot water on it every morning, the ice plops out, and I arrange it artistically in the back garden. Homes & Gardens may want to come and take pics
It's getting very windy here now and we supposed to get snow this afternoon, we will see.
Just wanted to say to the ladies whose heating is off - please watch your health!! It's ok saying oooh I'm saving £££s and I can wear layers and I'm coping fine - but the tiniest wee chink in your armour and your immune system and things can to downhill fast. At least have an electric blanket on the bed and get into a cosy warm bed if you feel chilled to the bone or if you come home wet. Us oldies remember our mums saying "you'll get your death of cold" ...that HAPPENED. But it wasnt A cold, it was THE cold giving us pneumonia :eek:
People still get it, it doesn't kill as easily or often, but it takes a hell of a long time to pick up after it. I had it twice and I know. Take care all xxx

prepareathome

Oh Mardatha so sorry the windows are not sealed well - have you gone round with a candle or incense stick to see where the draughts are getting in - the silcone stuff can be stuck in place with fingers. With my old windows I had layers of masking tape over the gaps and it did make a big difference. My double glaze windows do keep the draughts out but have trebled the amount of noise that gets in, its noiser when windows are closed than open, seems to magnify the sound somehow.

As to keeping heat off and cold, I was reading an article the other day - government guidelines to social services on caring for all on their books before, during and after a cold snap and in it they said that after a cold snap they expect heart attacks within two days, a stroke within 5 and respiritary (spl) illness within 12 days - and all of these each year cause a lot of deaths. They said its like clockwork these things happening the set days afterwards. They were advising during the actual cold snap, so long is its short most people would say they are coping fine and get do seem to survive it, but the stress the cold takes on the body no matter what the age or even health of the person is a hard one. Its only now they are putting together those conditions and cold by cross checking weather against deaths after a cold snap and even after the winter is over, again this is when the conditions hit - its as if body has been in survival mode coping with the low temps then it can relax as temps going up and it finds its resources have been used up.

So everyone out there surviving at low temps please, please be careful, you might think hey I am coping well, and not even feeling cold at 11c but you do not know what pressures you are putting your body under to feel warm at that these low temps and they could be fatal. So many think only of hypothermia as the killer they need to guard against but now its known that is only one and not the most common cause of death due to cold.

Please take care of yourselves, stay warm and well.

mrsr

Just realised the WM isn't draining the out let pipe must be frozen:mad:clothes stuck in machine now.
My heating is off ,it was on first thing for a hr to get house warm,OH is out now but will put it on low when he gets home,he had a asthma attack last week and ended up in hos.He still has a chest infection so i think i am going to have to worry about the cost later as you say Prepareathome taking care of your health is important in weather like this and i did hear on the news yesterday about risks to certain people and asthma was one of then .Take care everbody and keep warm.

jackieb

It's off - but only because I woke up this morning and it's broken. I've phoned the gas man and he can't come until tomorrow - brrr!

lostinrates

Imo, a really important factor to coping with little or no heat atm is to keep spritis up. Of course take care and keep as warm is we can...those scrimping to save money...these are rhe weeks you were saving it for. For the rest of us, dweelling on on the ways we can die in this weather is really very unhelpful, and really could be the breaking of our spirits as well as our bodies!


So, imo, if you can get warm do, if its one rom, so be it, but keep smiling as well as taking the practical measures you can!

jackieb

lostinrates wrote: »

Imo, a really important factor to coping with little or no heat atm is to keep spritis up. Of course take care and keep as warm is we can...those scrimping to save money...these are rhe weeks you were saving it for. For the rest of us, dweelling on on the ways we can die in this weather is really very unhelpful, and really could be the breaking of our spirits as well as our bodies!


So, imo, if you can get warm do, if its one rom, so be it, but keep smiling as well as taking the practical measures you can!

I think i'll bake so I can get some heat from the oven. Thank goodness we got the loft insulated last year.