Is your heating ON or OFF?

attentionseeker1

Fruball wrote: »

I am like a snake, I need heat to be active

I feel exactly the same- I feel so sluggish without heating. I'm trying to work out if it is more cost-effective to have heating on over a long period of time but on low or to turn it on/off a couple of times a day...

cutestkids

attentionseeker1 wrote: »

I feel exactly the same- I feel so sluggish without heating. I'm trying to work out if it is more cost-effective to have heating on over a long period of time but on low or to turn it on/off a couple of times a day...

I think that generally it is more cost effective to have it on only when you need it,
I think FUDDLE ( I might be wrong there) tried an experiment a few weeks back with having it left on low all the time V using when needed and it was quite a bit more expensive leaving it on all the time.

Fruball

attentionseeker1 wrote: »

I feel exactly the same- I feel so sluggish without heating. I'm trying to work out if it is more cost-effective to have heating on over a long period of time but on low or to turn it on/off a couple of times a day...

This is a long standing debate!

I have mine on low 24/7 and my heating bills are no higher than when on twice a day. I also think that if you allow the furniture, internal walls etc to get really cold, it takes a lot longer to warm the house up.

For me it definately works better to have it on low all the time and turn the thermostat up a little in the evenings if I don't have a fire, or if it is extra chilly outside.

Soubrette

attentionseeker1 wrote: »

I feel exactly the same- I feel so sluggish without heating. I'm trying to work out if it is more cost-effective to have heating on over a long period of time but on low or to turn it on/off a couple of times a day...

Why not take a reading every day for a week on one system and then every day for a week on the other system and see which one uses the most electricity/gas? This is assuming that your use of other things is fairly constant, if it's not then it may be better to take readings over a month each way.

Don't forget to report back

shegar

cutestkids wrote: »

We are all electric with storage heaters in the living room and hallway and panels in the bedrooms.
The storage heaters are on but it is really difficult to control the heat at this time of year when it can be cold and frosty one day and the wet and fairly mild the next.

I do detest storage heating,never got heat when you want it, certaintly this time of a day ,they are usually running out of heat....People say they are ok if your using them properly, well I had them for 18 years , and they just dont have enough heat in them to warm rooms in the winter after tea time.........

When you sit down you need the heat.........Ive got GCH now and its beautiful and warm and when its cold it goes on and when its hot it goes off, so flexible....

Ive just lit the coal fire and its so nice and comforting on a cold and sunny day like today...........Keep warm folks.......

Rainy-Days

My heating is pretty much on all the time now. It goes off after 8am and then when I come home from work after lunch - depending how how cold it is in the house and outside - I pop it on. Then I put on to timed again after our evening meal and it goes off at 9.30pm.

We have not used that much extra. I keep a running total each week and I mark it on the calendar. I cannot bear to be cold and I would rather do without something else than sit in a freezing house and be miserable.

Pooky

Off - still fairly mild here during the day so just have a fire (using free wood) in the evenings when it's nippy (and to get the washing dry). We've had a couple of days where it's rained solidly and the house began to feel damp so the heating went on low for a few hours to take the moist air away but aside from that I haven't felt we've needed it.

DH is disabled and we're home most days but we layer up and use lap quilts if we're sitting reading or crafting.

Our boilers 34 years old so it's not as efficient as it could be we are all insulated up in the house though and once it's warm, it stays warm for ages.

RevolvingDoor

We have only electric and we have our downstairs heater on and we have for about a month now. We have three heaters upstairs but I only use them when it's really cold! I just use a hot water bottle or put on a jumper if I feel cold until I really need the extra heat.

southantrim3

We had freezing fog at the weekend, heating definately ON...!

dronid

OK, heating went on today! 0 degrees here and we have to be up at 6am - so it's on from 5.30 to 7.30 and then 5pm to 6pm and 9.30-10.30pm. Just enought to take the edge off. Depending if it really cools down depends whether it stays on! Brrr