Does anyone here not have central heating and what do you use/how do you cope?

rhosynbach

no c h here we have a coal/wood fire in the lounge and when it gets very cold electric heater in kids bedroom for 1 hour before bed.
unfortunatly we are very rural and the cold wind from the sea has been known to freeze the windows in the bathroom and bedrooms when it is realy bad so we have a heater on for baths exetra

j.e.j.

Judi wrote: »

I can scrimp and scrape on a lot of things but i wont be cold.

Same here! One of my relatives won't put the heating on and you sit there in the winter with your knees knocking together!! I've taken to visiting them in summer months only

I put the heating on in our flat for about 10-20 minutes if it's cold. It doesn't take long for the place to warm up. You can put extra layers of clothing on but I find you still get cold hands and a cold face!

stir_crazy

I have central heating but when I moved into our present house, there wasn't any. We made do with the gas fire in the living room (which wasnt serviced but since I'm not dead, will assume was safe) and electric blanket on the bed. Both winters before we managed to safe for CH, I discovered that the glass on the back door had iced up. Drying clothes was a nightmare. Going to the toilet filled me with dread because the bathroom was ice cold. Now that we have CH, I try not to use it much until it does get very cold, but I'm so glad its there!

silverchair

The place I grew up in didn't have central heating. We had one electric heater in the living room and an electric emersion heater for the hot water. No double glazing though.

As long as you stood in front of the heater in the livingroom you was OK, but I remember forever being told off for "hogging the heat" especially if we had visitors.

Lots of layers, thick jumpers, flannelette blankets & flannelette PJs. Kitchen was warm so most visitors would sit around the table with their hot drink if they came.

I remember that we had ice on the inside of the bedroom window one winter.

Wow that brought back memories.

My mum loved the place and was always grateful that she was able to get that council place as well as having decent neighbours. It was eventually knocked down so we had to move out (2nd to last ones to move too), but she still talks about it fondly. Unfortunately although it was rebuilt with all the modern stuff the new tennants have made it into a getto.

The house we bought had 2 electric heaters all on the lower floor (its a 3 floor place). First thing we did was to install central heating. We was going to have a open fire in the livingroom aswell, but felt it was over doing it. Its lovely to be warm & snug.

lostinrates

This week our central heating is being installed. We have been without for two years. I have lived without it before too and even when it's uncomfortable, enough precautions taken its not the end of the world.

The slight complication is that I do feel the cold (I have underactive thyroid along with a plethora of health conditions) and I am now on pills the side effects of which are dramatically increased in cold weather.

On the plus side, for my dh, who has psoriasis, his skin is never so healthy as when he is in an unheated and in air conditioned environment,

You do acclimatise a lot, we pant like working Labradors when visiting other peoples homes at christmas, and shopping centres or overheated shops. But you still feel cold when their is ice on the inside of your windows!

I know while I will be more comfortable when we can kept the house heated (though we shall not make it over warm, merely not cold) I shall miss the beauty of those ice windows with the sun rising in them, because nothing 'made' is so magical. And the appreciation of the wonders of heating etc will be huge.

londonsurrey

lostinrates wrote: »

we pant like working Labradors when visiting other peoples homes at christmas, and shopping centres or overheated shops.

Am I the only one with a sudden urge to scrittle you behind the ears? :D:D

podperson

We've never had central heating. At the moment we have storage heaters, only really use them in winter and they heat up the rooms really quickly so don't need them on for that long.
Where we used to live we had a mix of calor gas heaters and the electric plug-in ones. I hated the electric ones as they just seemed to heat a radius of about 1 metre around them so I would be sat on top of them with 6 layers on in winter

lostinrates

londonsurrey wrote: »

Am I the only one with a sudden urge to scrittle you behind the ears? :D:D

Mmmmmm, doggy Indian head massage. Sounds good to me.:D

londonsurrey

podperson wrote: »

We've never had central heating. At the moment we have storage heaters, only really use them in winter and they heat up the rooms really quickly so don't need them on for that long.
Where we used to live we had a mix of calor gas heaters and the electric plug-in ones. I hated the electric ones as they just seemed to heat a radius of about 1 metre around them so I would be sat on top of them with 6 layers on in winter

I've just discovered a wonderful thing - my cats have these metal heating pads, running at about 15W.

I'd created these raised cat beds from two fruit crates, one on top of the other, so it's off the ground. The top crate is the cat "basket", with the heating pad in it. There is soft bedding covering the heating pad.

And then I put a third crate on top as a roof. The cats love it.

Well, I've since discovered that if I put it below my desk, I can stick my feet in the heated "nest", with or without my cats on my feet, and it's gorgeous and warm!

CoffeeCake_3

We've never had central heating in our house (lived here for 27 years). The only source of heat is a gas fire in the lounge, which is used sparingly due to fuel costs.

We just get by with lots of layers of clothing, and blankets / slankets. I've got an underactive thyroid so I feel the cold and I hate this time of year :-( As I've got cold hands, I have to wear thick ski gloves in the house.