Is your heating ON or OFF?

kezlou

In our old house we did that, back room was the hottest so we spent winter in there.
DS2 room used to be lovely and warm, so ds1 used to camp in there, great considering the electric kept going off with the snow and high winds.

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Had the woodburner on in the evenings for a few days now - we,ve spent most of the summer tracking down free firewood to chop up and store.

Last winter was a nightmare for our bills, DD was at home alot and even at 16 (then) did not understand the concept of wearing more clothes when cold, she just wacked the thermostat up Grrrrrrrr....

This year it will only be switched on when absolutly necessary, teenage kids have been bought additional duvets and fleecey blankets, as well as new dressing gowns, slippers etc and told no bloomin moaning till they contribute to the household bills - evil mum.......

Does anyone know if you can buy thermostats that you can 'lock'?

Al1x

Islandmaid wrote: »

Does anyone know if you can buy thermostats that you can 'lock'?

Don't know about ones you can lock but our thermostats are portable so can easily be hidden

VRose

DH and I have started repeating our daily heating conversation.
We are in a 3 bed detached house we share with 3 kids who I am very grateful are happy to put on extra blankets and clothes where needed.
Our issue is getting washing dry and dealing with condensation. This bothers us more than the cold!
We do have a tumble dryer, and I have started giving clothes a quick 10 min blast in it before hanging them on airers. It can take over 24 hrs to dry some clothes in our house and that is with a window open.

Pandora_2

Ooh my house is lovely and cosy and warm after just 45 mins worth of central heating on the lowest setting!! It's pretty much dried all the blankets I washed so the residual heat in the house should finish them off overnight. Will do a bit more winter proofing the house tomorrow so hopefully won't need to put the heating back on for a while, but if I need to then I will. No point getting ill just to save a few pennies as it will cost more in medicine and lost days at work. Hope everyone else is managing to stay warm

Al1x

we are quite lucky that our house hasn't dropped below 20oC yet. even in winter it doesn't get much lower than 18oC.

we are hoping it will be a bit warmer this winter as we have just got double glazing in the last room that needed it.

totallybored

Mine is off and I'm hoping it'll stay that way until at least November. 2 years ago I made it to December but last year I gave in at he start of October. I'm in London so it's not too cold yet and I'm comfortable with no heating until the temp inside drops to 16 degrees. I only ever need to heat downstairs on an evening until I go to bed or during the day if I'm at home in winter. I never leave it on over night. If I had double glazing and smaller rooms I'd have it on even less.

jackieb

Last week I checked my online gas and electric bills. I don't get in paper bills and I pay by direct debit so I often forget about it. Sent in proper readings and i'm over £900 in credit! Last year I got over £800 back yet they still put up the direct debits!

forgotmyname

No heating yet. House built late 90's so fairly efficient.

Curtain over the front door has gone up though. And winter bedding getting closer to being used.

Surprised how much heat a curtain over the front door retains.

I would love to go around with a thermal camera and see where the hot and cold spots are.

Popperwell

I must put a new thermal curtain up across the door, it really does keep in/draughts out and as I can go out via the back door I find stuffing newspaper around the front door also helps when its very windy.