Have you been leaving your heating on 24/7 in this big freeze?

VfM4meplse

I've left mine on the timer but if I'm in the house it's on 5am - 11pm, which is handy for drying clothes too...

geri1965_2

Mine comes on for an hour in the mornings, from 6am to 7am, is off all day until I get home from work (OH doesn't feel the cold) then on from about 5.30 - 10pm. Don't need it on at night as I am warm enough in bed with my memory foam mattress.

LittleMissAspie

During the evil cold snap ours is on at 18 degrees from 6.00 to 7.30am, then it's off all day while we are at work. I leave the bathroom window open all day and when we get back from work the house is usually 10 to 13 degrees.

We then put the heating on 17 degrees until bedtime so usually about 2-3 hours. At bedtime we turn it down to 14 degrees otherwise we wake up cold at 4am or so.

Once the weather goes back to being a normal winter, we'll reduce the morning heating to one hour and the evening heating to 1-2 hours and not have it on overnight at all.

I'm not sure what a normal bill is because we only moved in the autumn. November gas and elec was £50 but I expect December to be higher as it was colder.

shegar

Mine heating is on 14 hours per day, as my husband is disabled and sits all day, like to keep the temperature at 21 degrees and thats comfortable for both us.............no way will we ever go cold , our health is more important to us than money..........

MrsE_2

tiff wrote: »

Ours was on all night when the night time temps were well below zero, not just -1 or -2. Dont usually do this but the whole house takes ages to heat if you dont leave it on. Plus we were worried about burst pipes. This is the first year we've had to do this.

Same here, seems to take forever to heat up in this big freeze if you let it get really cold.

tiff

They are predicting that we will get winters like this from now on so I'm looking at an additional source of heating for our living room, we have an open fire place that we've never used as we have never needed it.

elsien

Mine's on all the time, partly because I like to be warm and the dog gives me no peace if she gets hypothermic, but at the moment because next door's pipes have frozen, they have no water at all, and I'm worried that as my house is the same as their's, my pipes will freeze as well if the temperature gets too low.
I do like my real fire, so in the evening I turn the heating down and snuggle up in front of the fire.

mandi

My Ex is a plumber. His advice is to keep the boiler ticking over to prevent burst pipes

suki1964

Cant afford to have the heating on all night so compromised - heating comes on twice in the night for 15 mins - no frozen pipes here and its been minus 10 and lower every night for what feels like forever

Hodgehappy

We leave ours on to keep an even temp all the time too heard it was more economical that way to leave it on low rather than turning on & off all the time.... dont know if there is any truth in that??? :question: