Is your heating ON or OFF?

fuddle

We're trying 2 24 hour experiments. Were costing up how much it costs to have the heating on low all day (not overnight) compared to putting it on for a couple of hour bursts through the day.

WantToBeSE

Good morning.
It's DEFINITELY feeling like winter this morning, and the heating is ON! I woke up at 8am and was soo cold i had to go and put the heating on and go back to bed to warm up! It's not been this cold so far this year.
I guess this is the start of the proper cold winter weather..argh!!

mummygems

FuddleI would be interested in hearing the results of your experiment as we are always wondering the same thing. We have out heating on and off on a timer but the in laws have their heating on at all times if the inside temperature hits a specific low.

Our heating is still off although it does feel a lot colder indoors today. Kids have their slippers and dressing gowns on and I have a fleece blanket (and the laptop on my lap lol) to keep me warm.

I also suffer with really cold feet but find my fleecy slipper boots a must to keep them warm (Primark £5). Sometimes I even have to take them off for 5 mins as my feet get too hot lol.

NikkeiPositivity

Hi all,

Our heating is currently off and we're hoping to keep it off for as long as possible. I'm now sleeping with two duvets on and when I sit downstairs its under a blanket. The funny thing is this year we've used less than half the heating units we used last year, but more than double the electricity units, so I think we need to work on reducing that!!!

Lily_The_Legend

Flicketydodah wrote: »

We haven't needed our heating on yet, maybe its because we live in a mid terrace but our house has really kept warm. Must say though I have followed a lot of the tips on here regarding getting house ready for winter and seems to have helped a lot without spending much money its amazing what you can get of freecycle etc and make for very little expense that makes the house really cosy.

Welcome to the forum! :hello:

Own_My_Own wrote: »

Still off here. Really cold earlier, but everyone bar me is out, and I just tried my homemade Werthers Vodka, and am not cold anymore:rotfl:

That sounds yummy! :drool:

Lily_The_Legend

The heating is still off, for now!

Feels quite a bit colder this morning and when I got up DH was sitting downstairs saying his feet are cold.

Don't think it'll be much longer now.

bluebag

fuddle wrote: »

We're trying 2 24 hour experiments. Were costing up how much it costs to have the heating on low all day (not overnight) compared to putting it on for a couple of hour bursts through the day.

My own experience was it cost slightly less to keep it on at a low temperature all the time, but it may be different for others depending on boiler efficiency, house size, level of insulation and so on.

Our house has huge ceilings and flippin' walls of glass and it takes an age to get warm, when I have had it on in bursts instead of constant the boiler goes into nuclear missile take off mode for about an hour, whereas on constant it just seems to hum along.

Would be interesting to see the results if you would share them.

bluebag

Popperwell wrote: »

Hi Bluebag,
I hope that you are starting to warm up, my feet are a little warmer now. The thermometer in my bedroom seems to change very little but some nights it seems colder...my hands are warmer tonight. Strange...

If a lodger is a goer in the future I will probably need to be able to put the heating on more...then again the extra money may mean that I can...

I have over the years found it's false economy to scimp too much on the heating in my house because it's old and huge.
Health wise I suffer so much in the cold so to me it's quite high on the priority list and I would rather heat than eat so to speak

I find it economical to leave it on low almost all the time, but not at night as I'm all cosy in bed, but clearly not everyone has that option and I truly feel sad that people are cold in a 'developed' country.

Tragic really that anyone in a modern society can suffer from hypothermia, national disgrace if you ask me.

Popperwell

fuddle wrote: »

We're trying 2 24 hour experiments. Were costing up how much it costs to have the heating on low all day (not overnight) compared to putting it on for a couple of hour bursts through the day.

Do let us know how that goes as I too would be interested in the findings Fuddle.

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Good morning.
It's DEFINITELY feeling like winter this morning, and the heating is ON! I woke up at 8am and was soo cold i had to go and put the heating on and go back to bed to warm up! It's not been this cold so far this year.
I guess this is the start of the proper cold winter weather..argh!!

The temperture never seems to get higher than 18c(64.4f) according to the thermometer I have in the bedroom and seems to dip to 12c(53.6f)most nights. And yet I feel colder some nights.

bluebag wrote: »

I have over the years found it's false economy to scimp too much on the heating in my house because it's old and huge.
Health wise I suffer so much in the cold so to me it's quite high on the priority list and I would rather heat than eat so to speak

I find it economical to leave it on low almost all the time, but not at night as I'm all cosy in bed, but clearly not everyone has that option and I truly feel sad that people are cold in a 'developed' country.

Tragic really that anyone in a modern society can suffer from hypothermia, national disgrace if you ask me.

Bluebag, I don't know what happened but my feet were cold until approx 4am and then suddenly I was lovely and cosy and warm for the rest of my time in bed and it may seem lazy but asthere is nothing for me to do and nowhere to go, I just stayed put.

I cannot see any point getting up just to sit on a chair to listen to a radio when I can lay down and listen...I agree with all that you say.

I hear according to Money Box today on Radio 4 that though the energy prices are going up now we can expect this for the next ten years and they suggested that most of the increase is going to the Government for a variety of reasons including upgrading the National Grid and all the Green taxes we are having to bring in to cut carbon emmissions...:mad:so if we cannot put our heating on now, I see it getting no better. In fact people who are able to put the heating on at present may be joining us down this route.

penelopedee_2

We tend to have our heating on all day (not overnight) with the thermo on 16 at the moment - but will probably go up to 18 or even 20 if it gets really cold. Its worked out a bit cheaper for us in an old open plan terrace than just putting in on for a few short blasts, but this is with a new efficient boiler.

Hasn't kicked in until about an hour ago today and I could feel the sudden drop in heat when the sun went about 4pm.