Is your heating ON or OFF?

Fire_Fox

Heating still off and I am still in t-shirts but with a fleece around my legs. Bless the neighbours!

Kizzie_nikita: buy an electric underblanket, sit up in bed and read or watch TV or electric overblanket for the sofa, you will be toasty for pennies they cost as much to run as a lightbulb. Did it all last winter and will again this year.

WantToBeSE

I really feel for you kizzie- i hope things dont get worse for you (or colder). Have you popped over to the 'Preparing for winter IV' thread? You may find some really great tips there on how to stay warm. I agree with Fire Fox, get an electric blanket if you can. Look on freecycle, and also Facebook has local selling sites that you can ask on as well.

Heating is most definitely ON this morning. Fingers crossed it doesnt need to be used too much during the day!

xcarlyx

My dads been currently putting a electric heater on in the room.

Also at work sadly we have no heating except a little electric fire in the office. Need thermals.

I_wanna_live_for_free

Heating on in the evening, leccy blanket on the bed, bliss. :D
OH left it on overnight accidently, no wonder I woke up all toasty! Am guessing the timer wasn't set right.
Got the tumbly going now to get yesterdays washing cleared as it persisted down all day so the kitchen is warm now.

I drink hot drinks like they're going out of fashion so they must help plus I take gingko biloba which helps circulation - since I've been taking it (about 2 years now) I rarely if ever, get cold fingers.

mummygems

Well we had to have the heating on for an hour this morning as it was just too cold (the thermostat clicked at 11oC). At 6am (when the kids got up) the water outside had frozen so I popped the heating on. Our thermostat is only set at 15oC but it warmed us up nicely and its now off again.

The rest of the week is meant to be warmer so am hoping I wont need to use it again until at least next weekend!

Half the battle with the heating is once its on you really notice when its off lol.

denideth

We only have the heating on in our house for an hour or so, mainly due to cost. Our living room is quite large so it takes ages to heat it up (laminate flooring doesnt help either). It's not uncommon to see your breath in my kitchen. To keep warm when I'm at home I just throw my fluffy PJs and dressing gown on and top it off with a hot water bottle, blanket and a cuppa.

babyshoes

Those complaining about the heating not being on at work - your employer does have a legal requirement to keep the work room at a 'reasonable' temperature, or provide suitable clothing/fans etc if they can't heat/cool the whole space for practical reasons (eg a cold store, work outdoors etc). In terms of cold weather, the HSE recommended (though not legal) minimum is 16 for fairly sedentary jobs (offices, schools etc) and 13 for active jobs. If your work place is below these temperatures your employer should remedy the situation, either by turning the heating on or providing something else to keep you warm. I guess the theory is that at these temperatures or above, a healthy adult can keep warm with normal, sensible clothing.

There is lots of information on the net if you want to read up on it, the above is my own understanding based on a brief reading of different sites.

Buellguy

Unfortunately off, as I'm sat here waiting for British Gas to come and look at my broken boiler. Just lucky we had the woodburner fitted - all we need now is hot water (no way I'm putting the immersion heater on - not made of money!!)

GetRealBabe

Hi

On today. It's cold in East London.

retepetsir

kizzie_nikita wrote: »

That may be why my house mate gets really bad feet when it's cold. I just read that any temp under 12C starts making your blood thicker which makes your blood pressure worse, which may in result be why he's got such painful/pooling feet when it's cold!

Unfortunately, we're really money savvy as it is, we only spend £25 a week on food so £12.50 each, we don't go out, make our own meals, do lots to save/not waste money, but as per the circumstances at the moment, it's just impossible to use the heating anymore than we do, i mean we don't usually put it on for more than an hour which would raise it from around 10C to 14C, but today our hands/feet were so painful i could barely type on the pc so we put it on for another hour.

We're livving in quite an old end house, so i guess it doesn't hold heat as well either as if i wanted a room to be 18C i'd have to have the heating on for hours on end as an hour after turning the heating off it's freezing again. It's times like this you wish you was living back at home with your parents as we always had the temp at around 21C!

What can you do, when your cold and can't afford to have the heating on much? Nothing, wrap up and wish the summer comes quicker!

You can buy microwaveable boots from places like Amazon for around £10. That would certainly help your housemates feet (obv a little bit of electricity to warm them up first) and they stay warm for a while.

I've bought some for my partner who has poor circulation.

Also with a few people mentioning heated underblankets, we got one of these a couple of years ago and it's been one of our best purchases. However there's the initial outlay at the beginning (ours was £50 for a Homefront Double with dual controls), which you may just want to spend on heating? You can get a heated throw for around £20.