Is your heating ON or OFF?

bluebag

reddleman wrote: »

Temperature in my front room down to 6 C so I'm wearing a fleece indoors and not turning on the CH or gas fire. I'm determined to spend less than £100 for gas this year.

Please be careful, that is really a low temerature and could easily cause health problems, particularly if you are not that young.

Blood clots, strokes and heart attacks can be a risk below 16c.
Maybe you could keep one room warm.

reddleman

Please be careful, that is really a low temerature and could easily cause health problems, particularly if you are not that young.

Blood clots, strokes and heart attacks can be a risk below 16c.
Maybe you could keep one room warm.

Don't worry! I'm used to the cold. I grew up in an old house and sometimes couldn't see out of the windows because of all the ice on the inside.

I don't like indoor heat, just summer sun heat. In fact, I cope much better than most people in heatwaves. I enjoy going running on hot days.

YORKSHIRELASS

I am cold and fed up, I hate winter! I have been working from home this morning. The multifuel stove is burning merrily away and I have had the heating on from 9 to 10.30 am but I am still cold.

The temperature in the kitchen diner where I am working is 15 degrees which isnt that cold but I cant get warm - despite wearing a long sleeved top, two jumpers and a fleece. I have had lots of hot tea this morning to warm me up but that means lots of visits to the bathroom and its arctic in there!!!

Well I have finished working now so off to get the hoover out, that should help. Oh and our Jack Russell is fine. He has his basket right in front of the stove - so no worries there!

Broomstick

We have modern stone floors throughout the ground floor of our house and are in a flood zone so I don't want to go the carpeting route, but it's flipping freezing without anything on the floor. For the last month or so I have been experimenting with duvet carpeting and I reckon it works. I intend to keep it down for the winter.

We currently have on the floor of our front room (my office/workspace) in a big patchwork without gaps:
one futon 'bed in a bag' unrolled and put inside an old single duvet cover to keep it clean; two ancient single duvets that had been used as mattress toppers until they needed replacing - these have been washed and one put inside an old duvet cover and the other inside a double sheet that's been sewn into a sort of duvet cover. Then I went to Argos and bought their cheapest two-double-duvets-in-one set. The thicker of these is in a double duvet cover on the floor and the thinner one is folded up and fitted into two pillowcases overlapped end to end like a big flat bolster and that just fits underneath my computer desk to keep my feet warmer.

The whole thing looks a mess and we are careful not to wear shoes on it, but it has clearly improved the base temperature in the room. The only thing I have bought was the cheap duvet set and everything else has been created from old bedding that I hadn't got round to getting rid of. It's all washable and if/when we next go on flood alert it will be easy to roll up and put upstairs.

B x

shegar

I would hate to try to walk on duvets, must make you trip.?...Do you not wear slippers or similar ?.........................

Broomstick

I wear slippers and my DSs slippers or socks. The room is not so big that we have a long way to walk and nobody has fallen over yet! If I hadn't been able to find some way of insulating the floor then I wouldn't be able to use the room if it got much colder.

bluebag

Broomstick wrote: »

I wear slippers and my DSs slippers or socks. The room is not so big that we have a long way to walk and nobody has fallen over yet! If I hadn't been able to find some way of insulating the floor then I wouldn't be able to use the room if it got much colder.

I take my hat off to your invention, neccesity being it's mother of course.

Maybe you think it looks a mess, but it does the job, is incredibly energy efficient and is adaptaptable to the changing circumstances of flooding.

Maybe later you could invest in some way to improve the look, even out the layers and encase in some matching covers.

Sometimes we just have to find a way round things.

carefullycautious

We were told we had the best combi boiler on the market,but it is still eating gas and electricity. We are in a small 1bed bung just 2 of us and one months gas and electric is £105 pounds. Only on for an hour or so morning and evening. God knows what would happen if we needed to have it on for any more hours.

Feel for those who cannot afford even this.

moments_of_sanity

Our thermostat is set to 15 degrees and located in our bedroom, we do keep the living room warm by keeping the door closed and our living room sits at about 19 degrees.

We had a miniature dachshund who used to feel the cold but now have two border collies who sit panting if it gets above 20 (still it gives me a good excuse for keeping the heating lower) :j

I have a 4 bedroom semi and it costs me approximately £100 per month for gas and electric.

Austin_Allegro

Broomstick wrote: »

I wear slippers and my DSs slippers or socks. The room is not so big that we have a long way to walk and nobody has fallen over yet! If I hadn't been able to find some way of insulating the floor then I wouldn't be able to use the room if it got much colder.

Interesting. I initially thought you could use bubble wrap then realised it would all pop when you walked on it!

I lived for a short while in the Himalayas in India, and it was common there for people to have loads of blankets and persian rugs and cushions on the floor in winter, when it gets really cold. When summer came they could just pack them away.