Is your heating ON or OFF?

Jenny.W

Fruball wrote: »

This is a long standing debate!

I've always wondered about this too.

I think that when you flick the heating on "as and when" you need it, then surely the boiler has to work harder to get the house up to temperature compared with a constant tickover of heat on and off to maintain a temperature, but that's just my opinion.

I appreciate an experiment is only valid to the house it's tried in due to boiler efficiency, insulation etc, but I may try it myself to see what's better for us.

shegar

I sit here in front of a beautiful open fire tonight and its bliss.......

cutestkids

We have the storage heaters on as it has been really frosty here at night and the daytime temperatures are between 3 and 5 degrees

shegar

At the moment I have the GCH on, cos its only about 4 degrees outside, we did have sun out this morning which warmed everywhere up, but its clouded over and rain and temp feels like freezing to me..........I will light the fire about tea time, it cheers the place up...:D

fuddle

My heating has been on all day. I'm in my thermals and still it's chilly upstairs. Heating won't be turned off til 9pm tonight till 6.30am in the morning. This morning when I came down, just as heating was coming on, I felt the stairs banister, boy was that icy cold!

dronid

fuddle wrote: »

My heating has been on all day. I'm in my thermals and still it's chilly upstairs. Heating won't be turned off til 9pm tonight till 6.30am in the morning. This morning when I came down, just as heating was coming on, I felt the stairs banister, boy was that icy cold!

Do you have insulation Fuddle? It really shouldn't be that cold upstairs as heat rises... unless it's rising right out of your place!:eek:

redruby

Ours has been on a few times since Nov 6th, but have now put it on timed, was -2 here this morning, and just too cold without it, guess thats it now for the winter !

muffin_man_7

i woke up freezing this morning ithought one of kids had left back door open it was that cold but door was shut liv room was 8c bbbbbrrrrrr aand it was white oustide all icy
if i could of put heating on i would but im out of gas cant seem to work out how much extra i need to put on now at this fate it will be off most of winter. we only had the prepay gas m put in in january and struggled then as well does anyones have any idea any help appreciated i m going to top up in the morning and woulg like it to last more than a couple days we dont have a gas fire no debt on meter just cooker gch andcombi i dont mind being all layered up but theirs a limit to how many layers i can have. my feet and hand get cold the most. even with gloves on??????

fuddle

dronid wrote: »

Do you have insulation Fuddle? It really shouldn't be that cold upstairs as heat rises... unless it's rising right out of your place!:eek:

Apparently it has cavity wall insulation but I can't see how really. We get draughts through the gap under the front door (even with a curtain and draught excluder) plus the bedrooms are laminated, which I don't think helps the situation. The back bedrooms are an extension which just can't be insulated but it's all ok as I'm moving in 2 weeks Also I keep the downstairs door closed to keep all the heat in the living room so I doubt that will help.

Giddytimes

So far we've managed without switching the heating on once since we moved into this new flat (June), it's become a game.

I think being in a flat means we're warmer than a house, although I have had to put two jumpers on this evening. Every time I think about turning it on I remember our combined Gas & Electric bill is only £32 a month right now and reach for another pair of socks.........:D
We're in the process of buying an old Victorian Terrace so I'm sure our increase in Gas & Electric there will more than wipe out any small savings we're making now.