Is your heating ON or OFF?

Tiddlywinks

The heating has been on since Sunday... to keep my two geriatric cats warm .

I've got two old girls and one is just a bag of bones (despite tablets from the vet, eating all her favourite things and still running and jumping when she wants to).

They love the radiators - especially as they have a little mat each in front of them.

Just call me a sucker . Hope someone takes care of me like that when I'm older... .

VfM4meplse

I refuse to switch the heating on until next month and am only just coming to terms with the end of the summer. However I am now using 2 14tog quilts at night for extra cozy-ness

downshifted

Oh dear. Visitor tonight. So oil filled radiator on in small sitting room. Not tomorrow though.

calicocat

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I refuse to switch the heating on until next month and am only just coming to terms with the end of the summer. However I am now using 2 14tog quilts at night for extra cozy-ness

When it gets really cold I can have a total of 30 plus tog duvet on my bed, and a quilt to boot on top, but still have window open .

Anne_Marie_2

viv0147 wrote: »

I have a 25 room house

viv0147 wrote: »

I send my gas and electric meter reading online at the end of each month, I started off paying £64 a month DD, then it was increased to £83 a month, and after an annual review from next month it will be £54 a month. I will continue to send the meter readings monthly to avoid any nasty shocks.

Taking you at your word, and paying £54 for gas/electric. I cannot possibly think how you can have a utility bill for that little, for that size of house. Really would be interested to hear how you manage.

boddy

Not got the heating on timer yet but had it on a couple of times. During the colder weather I tend to go to bed earlier and read or watch tv. I do have one of those halogen heaters in the living for when I just need to warm up a wee bit. Rather than putting the heating on.

charlies-aunt

Heating is still off here but only because we don't let ourselves put it on until 1st October. We are fighting the cold by swopping from t-shirts and shorts to jumpers/fleeces and long trousers.

Iits chilly today though, the wet and windy weather doesn't help.:o

iammumtoone

Mines on for a little while again just to bring the temperate up to 18. Decided I want it to be 18 in the mornings that seems a reasonable level. I have got someone coming next week to quote for a thermostat.

It was off all evening last night and will be again tonight its just the mornings I am using it at the moment.

JellyBox

Just wandering if anyone has any tips for drying clothes indoors without heating now it's cold? My towel is now wet every morning from the previous day's shower, and I am dreading the next bedding wash due this weekend, as we already have a 48 hour drying time as a minimum and only one set of bedding! I might just give in to radiators for the bedding, but would be interested if there s anything I can do to help the day to day stuff.

butler_helen

JellyBox wrote: »

Just wandering if anyone has any tips for drying clothes indoors without heating now it's cold? My towel is now wet every morning from the previous day's shower, and I am dreading the next bedding wash due this weekend, as we already have a 48 hour drying time as a minimum and only one set of bedding! I might just give in to radiators for the bedding, but would be interested if there s anything I can do to help the day to day stuff.

If its cold but sunny we hang things on hangers on the curtain rail with windows open. However I'm not sure you could do this with bedding. A towel would be ok on a skirt hanger though. We also have the luxury of windows where the clothes don't touch the walls.

Otherwise we have most rads off and turn on the biggest to blast bedding if it really can't dry any other way.

However we have a tumble dryer so it's swings and round abouts which is cheapest.