Is your heating ON or OFF?

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Electric storage heaters still off. Bathroom towel rail (electric) on for 45min a day to pre-warm & dry towels after showers). Open fire used for burning cardboard & burnable rubbish every evening for small burst of room heat.

When the 1st frost comes - daily open fire from around 4-6pm using scrap wood and coal if no wood then maybe a couple of the storage heaters on low. Electric blanket before bed for 20mins.

I also swear by light thin thermal layers under the clothes (but not very sexy)

The house is pretty well insulated but I air all the rooms every day to reduce dampness, and wear layers. When it's *really* cold (ie snow on the ground then all the storage heaters go on & maybe short blasts of the bedroom convector heaters)

No mains gas in our Somerset village - so count yourself lucky if you have timers/thermostats etc etc!!

redruby

Ours is off, and will be staying off till 1st Nov at the very least, blankets and hot water bottles here !

Popperwell

joolzred wrote: »

I also swear by light thin thermal layers under the clothes (but not very sexy)

Think that's the route I'm going...I have five sets I can use so I can wash some...and work my way through them, never believed I would ever be buying such items in my lifetime.

redruby wrote: »

Ours is off, and will be staying off till 1st Nov at the very least, blankets and hot water bottles here !

This is also true, tonight my ordinary socks are cold in bed so I may have to dig out the PJ's and bed socks...what a way to live in 21st century UK supposedly one of the richest world economies...

Al1x

off... little bit chilly but not cold enough for heating yet.

lyrolee

8c at the moment, 6 candles lit in the fireplace, fleece dressingown on and fleece covers over the beds and my knees. The house is fairly well insulated but I must get on and line the curtains before it gets too cold.

daisiegg

You all put me to shame...mine has been on for a week or so with thermostat set to 22. It's on for an hour and a half in the morning and two hours in the evening. Our last five months or so of fuel bills have been even lower than expected for the summer so we are quite a bit in credit, so hopefully shouldn't be too bad.

slipthru

Starting to feel the cold in the evening but hoping to wait till oct before putting the heating on.

spike7451

I've just been down to bung £15 onto the gas card,have'nt topped up in months much more than £5 every 2 months,but I've been noticing it's been getting chillier over the past few days.

BTW...

DONT FORGET TO CHECK THE ANTIFREEZE IN YOUR CARS!

Syman

DW dropped a hint last night "are you going to be testing the heating this weekend before it gets cold?"

Will switch it back on in October NOT BEFORE!!

she was not happy, i could tell.

welsh_mummy

Think I will have to throw in the towel and put heating on later as defo much colder in the evenings now. Mentioned this to OH and he said thank god, turns out he has been wanting to put it on but too scared to mention it!