Is your heating ON or OFF?

Dimey

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

BTW. Kids are getting soft these days.

Warm room indeed.

When I got up for school in the winter, there was ice on the inside of the windows.

Ah yes. I remember that too.
And the coal fire had to be made before any heat warmed the house.

forgotmyname

Coal.....COAL... When i were a lad dinosaurs were still making coal... It hadn't been discovered yet.

If they had discovered it we wouldn't have known what to do with it, Fire hadnt been invented either.

If we wanted warmth we farted. can i say farted? When winter were really bad we stayed indoors when going to the toilet. That was the only warmth we knew.

Sorry....

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And if you tell the kids nowadays, they don't believe you.

Westywoodpecker

off... & for quite a while yet

Coal????? lol

wkdboi

Hopefully won't be putting it on till Mid December as electricity bill is £130 mnth and don't need any extra atm

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I haven't started to put my heating on as yet although I was a bit tempted last night ,not really cold just thought it might make the room seem a bit more cheery,but I had bought a new fire for the sitting room a few months ago from B&Q and it not only gives a quick blast of heat but also had a flame effect which you can use independantly so it looks like a flickering coal fire but isn't IYSWIM.It did the trick beautifully and saved me running the CH .I only put the CH on for an hour at a time anyway just to warm the house through and my heating bills have come down quite a bit because its not going on at a set time each day .I have insulated walls and double insulation in the roof .My son-in-law is a surveyor and he did a quick survey of my property and it came out as A rated as I had done everything possible to make it as low-energy and heat contained as I could .My combined heating and electric bills last year were just under £600 so I am pleased that the measure I put in place over the past couple of years have worked.I have a thick knitted blanket that goes over my knees when its a bit chilly but I do try not to put the heating on until at least October

WantToBeSE

No heating on yet. It doesnt seem that chilly here this morning.

rising_from_the_ashes

Dimey wrote: »

Oh yes. I have underfloor heating and its taken a couple of days to completely warm the whole place but we are toasty warm again now. Its freezing outside.

Where are you?

iammumtoone wrote: »

Whatever did kids do before central heating?

We wore lots of layers ......

Dimey wrote: »

Ah yes. I remember that too.
And the coal fire had to be made before any heat warmed the house.

Oh yesssss!

Still think it was a lot healthier - I honestly can't remember any of us being off school ill or having really bad colds etc

WantToBeSE

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Still think it was a lot healthier - I honestly can't remember any of us being off school ill or having really bad colds etc

I agree with you, Rising.
My sons asthma always plays up when i first put the CH on, and it always gives me headaches. That alone must mean it can't be too good for us.

I am lucky in that i am mid-terrace so don't generally get TOO cold as the other houses have young children so whack the CH up quite high

luxor4t

WantToBeSE wrote: »

No heating on yet. It doesnt seem that chilly here this morning.

The same here in South Wales. I am wearing two thin layers.

Back in the old days we had an anthracite stove (posh or what?) in the kitchen that heated water too, and a gas fire in the front room. If it was really, really cold my parents lit the small paraffin stove on the landing. We had a three storey house. No wonder the windows were frozen on the inside in the mornings!