Have you put your heating on yet?

dinglefoot

I'm one of these "cold mortals" who is always freezing, but I just keep thinking of the pennies! When it was October, although I was freezing, whenever my OH went to turn the heating on I'd say "it isn't even November yet!"
18 days in I'm rather chilly, sitting on the sofa wrapped in a duvet, but I refuse to give in yet! If the temperatures really are dropping so low this week I'll have to though

Kite2010

Does lighting the coal fire count as putting the heating on?

GlynD

Kite2010 wrote: »

Does lighting the coal fire count as putting the heating on?

I would say so. Our coal fire has a high output back boiler and we have the radiators on when the fire is lit. We wouldn't be doing that if it wasn't cold.

zebb

Further to Sleepless in Suffolk's post, he implied it was quite an expensive system to install yet with the resutant savings he might well get payback in 4 years or so.

However, people may want to investigate an idea which provides a similar but not so sophisticated solution. I installed 4 Terrier i-temp i30 Programmable TRVs around the house last year. You program each independently to come on when you want (as long as the main boiler is on that is!). So, for example, we set the bedrooms only to be on in the morning and late evening whereas the lounge only comes on in the evening. Its dead easy to override them if you want extra heat. Cost isnt too bad - around £26 each - and I see Hamilton Gas Products still have the 'buy 3 get a 4th one free' offer that enticed me last year. There may be other makes available on the market now that do a similar thing but I havent looked as am quite happy with the results.

Zebb

WarrenBunny

Dennis99 wrote: »

Prices up around 10% so my usage is going down by 20%, I'll show 'em! I'll sit here with 2 fleeces on before I give in.

I'm trying to do the same. I have two jumpers and a fleece on :P

G6JPG

GlynD wrote: »

SleeplessinSuffolk your post is virtually unreadable because you haven't split it into paragraphs. I see you're new and that means you haven't yet adjusted to the needs of this particular site. Text just doesn't work here in a huge continuous lump.

Would you ever be so kind as to press the edit button and split it up or would you prefer I reproduce it for you and do the editing on your behalf?

He did put it in paragraphs; he just didn't put blank lines between them. If you look, you'll see a few short lines. So the text wasn't "a huge continuous lump", though it was perhaps less easy to read than some. (But I found it interesting all the same.)

G6JPG

I'm sure we've had this survey (or something similar) before, and it's always had no mention of thermostat(s) - so it's impossible to tell whether "left on all year" just means profligate (or special needs, such as disabled), or thermostat(s).

In future, can we have that section split, into "left on all year but with a thermostat", and "left on all year without"?