Can you ask someone in their own home..

pearl123

"When in Rhome do as the Romans do." No I would not ask for the heating to be put on.

DUKE

It's a difficult one victory but have you ever thought that they may be hot when they come to your house? The reason I ask is because most people who come to mine say that it's hot, & that's sometimes without the heating being on. We're lucky as our place faces south & always gets the sun, so even on a cold day like today I'm sitting here & am almost as hot as I'd be sitting on a beach. I never felt the cold before I moved here & I think it's turned me into a bit of a wuss, so when I visit others I always feel cold. If it's too cold I just don't visit people who wont for whatever reason put their heating on. I don't think that some people realize the problems caused by having no heating on. One person I know who really was too mean to put theirs on complained that his electrical equipment was no longer working, his home was damp, he was constantly ill .... Like I said it's a difficult one.

Oh after all that I forgot to answer the question, I'd probably hint that I was cold or wear loads of clothes.

Tamara_2

We live in a rambling old house that can feel very cold. We have woodburners, gas fires etc so just tend to heat the room we're in at the time. But if people are coming to visit, the heating always goes on a couple of hours before to warm up the house. My sister lives abroad and is used to constant hot weather, so the heating has to be on all the time when she visits. However, last time she was here, we had the heating on and she put the fan heater on in the living-room as well! I think it's just what you're used to.

Jobseeeker

People ask me to put the heating on all the time but I don't actually have any, neither do my neighbours, there's no gas supply in the street.

You get used to it after a while.

jellyhead

Dunroamin wrote: »

Since when have electric blankets been a luxury?

I always thought they were? I remember grandparents talking about them with longing back in the 70's when we used hot water bottles and the windows had ice on the inside.

Actually my youngest's room's had ice in recent years but he's so warm, he'd sleep with the window open and no pyjamas in winter.

Until this thread I had no idea that electric blankets were cheap to run. I wouldn't want one, but a throw might be nice if I'm at the computer. It's in the kitchen which has a single glazed window with a metal frame, you can feel the cold seeping through it.

I wear slippers, hooded fleece dressing gown and sometimes have a blanket too. I set the heating to 20 last night because being chilly gives me asthma but the 4 males of the house were wandering around in just their boxer shorts complaining of it being tropical :rotfl:

My mum's house is horribly hot, we can't stay long. They put the fire on too! Most of them have Reynauds (?) and always have cold fingers.

jellyhead

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

I think you need to put on layers. Tights, then thermals top and bottom, then thin jumper then thicker jumper and a cardi over the top or gillet.

I really don't think you can ask for the heating to go on. If they can withstand it you should be able to get by with layers.

We live in an old and drafty house. The heating is set at 17 because it cannot get above that figure even if you have the brand new boiler chugging. It has single pane huge sash windows. We have come accustomed to layering. Sometimes we sit under a blanket if it is extremely cold. We also have a log fire which we regularly light.

I think you will just need to go prepared to layer up.

My mum gave me a thermal vest last year for when I'm out delivering newspapers in the snow. If my chest gets cold it affects my asthma. The vest is amazing, it really works! It's not one of those creamy coloured things that look like bandages which is how thermals were when I was a kid, it's a silky sort of ting, and I think it's made by Trespass.

OP I suggest getting one just for visits to this house

Ames

Asda do good, cheap thermals.

CupOfChai

I loathe hot water bottles. They smell, and they only heat a little patch, and you always end up jumping because you've accidentally brushed against a little bit sticking out of the cover. Electric blankets aren't all that expensive to buy (well they can be, but you don't need the super-duper designer one), and mine's cheaper to have on than it is to boil the kettle for a hot water bottle.

As for the original question, whether I'd say anything and how I would say it depends on who exactly it is. E.g. with someone I wasn't as close to I might try to be a bit more polite, maybe I'd say something like "Ooh I'm chilly, are you not cold?" as a sort of hint. Whereas at my parents' we speak to each other more along the lines of "Christ it's bloody freezing in here! Get the heating on!"

tiggerjj

sounds like you are visiting my parents! they are famous for not putting on the heating on, and everyone from the village puts their thermals on the visit. its been going on now for so long that its become a village joke, my dad is just stingy!
however once the fires are lit at my parents it does warm up, and then everyone is too hot!
dad just runs warm and well the rest of us can wear jumpers.....

Birdie85

If I know I'm going to a cold house I'll dress accordingly rather than risk sounding rude by asking them to turn the heating on however much I'm dying to! My brother and his wife are so stingy with the heating that their house is always freezing, on top of the facts that they're a no shoes house and I've always got cold feet, I tend to suffer when I visit! I now make sure I've got an extra jumper and a scarf on and will bring a pair of slippers to wear when I visit! They're yet to take the hint that their house is blinking cold... not even when I cut my visits short because I need to warm up!

I have to admit though that because my home is always warm (it's very well insulated and south facing so warms up quickly and stays warm) I've become quite soft, I don't really like visiting many of my friend's houses because they're never as warm and cosy as my own! I often wonder if I would be frowned at for turning up with a Slanket!