Is your heating ON or OFF?

Mrs_Thrify

It is 22C in our house today with no heating on. I am doinng the chores in a t.shirt/shorts. I hope this heat lasts a bit longer?

ScoobieGirl

itsrainingmen wrote: »

Does anyone know if there is any truth in the advice 'it's cheaper to leave your heating on all the time on a low setting as it costs more to heat a house from cold?

No truth at all. It will be cheaper to keep heating the house at a constant temp over the time it would take to heat the house from cold, but you would have wasted a lot of energy keeping the house heated when it was not needed.

To confirm this take a meter reading, have the heating on all the time then take a reading 48h later. Then use the timer for 48h, making sure that the thermostat is at the same temp and take another reading. Compare the two readings and this should confirm it. Note for this to be a fair comparision the external temp must be considered. That is if the night and day temps are similar it'll be a fair comparison. If one half of the test has freezing nights & the other has hotter days, make allowances, or try it again.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Unity wrote: »

Definitely a north/south divide thing , but then in the North East we usually get our weather direct from Siberia. DD moved to Glasgow and swears it is warmer up there! Yet there will will still be shirt sleeves and strappy dresses in the Bigg Market. Winter drawers on? - I think not :rotfl:

Being from the North East myself and right on the coast I think we're actually in Siberia some days.Seriously though I think it is a north/south divide and we are a hardier lot here.My daughter lives in Portsmouth her husband coming from down there and how they moan about the cold when they come(even when we all think it's lovely)it's just so damp they say.His relatives are just the same as is my sister who lives down south.They are right old softies.
Had to laugh about the Bigg Market comment,we drive through the town on our way home quite often and it's an entertainment to see the revellers dressed in their skimpiest stuff and older folk wrapped up in hats scarves and brollies.

Unity

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

Being from the North East myself and right on the coast I think we're actually in Siberia some days.Seriously though I think it is a north/south divide and we are a hardier lot here.My daughter lives in Portsmouth her husband coming from down there and how they moan about the cold when they come(even when we all think it's lovely)it's just so damp they say.His relatives are just the same as is my sister who lives down south.They are right old softies.
Had to laugh about the Bigg Market comment,we drive through the town on our way home quite often and it's an entertainment to see the revellers dressed in their skimpiest stuff and older folk wrapped up in hats scarves and brollies.

Mind you - I must admit when DD used to live in Edinburgh she found it much colder than Glasgow (a much shorter distance than I thought until I checked it out:o) and we in turn always found it much colder than here. We couldn't credit the number of people sitting in pavement cafes up there when it felt so cold :eek:.

It's like that old Victoria Wood line - "Apologies to our viewers in the North......... it must be awful for them :rotfl:."

parsnips

no heating on as yet, i bought some lined curtains for the living room and bedrooms and it really makes a difference,

it has definately delayed me putting the heating on so far.

next step is sitting under a blanket THEN when its too cold for the blanket i will put on the heating,

im not a scrooge but the gas and electric is sooo expensive

lauren_1

We tested it for half an hour this morning, which just happened to coincide with me getting out the shower.

But still adamant its not going on until the 1st....

Little_Star_3

not yet, been freezing today, but still. Kinda hoping to not have it at all all winter tbh

Westywoodpecker

Thought it was a while since we had an update

We are still a no heat zone at the moment, although our teenagers are beginning to question why their bedrooms are cold

Harriett

We have had to resort to the heating.
Put it off as long as possible but we did it. And it was oh so nice.

But it wasn't on that long, we could just picture the temperature going up in the house and the balance going down in the bank, so it went off as soon as the chill was taken from the air.:rolleyes:

mardatha

Mind you - I must admit when DD used to live in Edinburgh she found it much colder than Glasgow (a much shorter distance than I thought until I checked it out:o
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Up here, its an east/west divide. The west is warmer but wetter. The east is colder and drier. I'm under an hour south of Edinburgh, yet my garden is a full month behind theirs, cos I'm high up. Whenever the weatherman says "snow on high ground in Scotland" THATS ME ! lol