Can you ask someone in their own home..

Georgiegirl256

jellyhead wrote: »

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

That vest sounds good! I too have asthma and the cold always goes straight to my chest. I might invest in one of those.

OP, I'd casually ask if they have a window open, they might take the hint and ask "why? Are you cold?"

ska_lover

What is wrong with dressing according to the weather, rather than walking around in a tshirt and whacking the heating on. If one of my guests complained they were cold, id offer them a blanket or a jumper..unless they would like to contribute toward my gas bill

Person_one

ska_lover wrote: »

What is wrong with dressing according to the weather, rather than walking around in a tshirt and whacking the heating on. If one of my guests complained they were cold, id offer them a blanket or a jumper..unless they would like to contribute toward my gas bill

Even cavemen lit a fire.

bestpud

I'd ask, jokingly, if their boiler needs fixing as it's brass monkey!

I'd not be bothered in the slightest if someone asked me to put my heating on.

We temporarily put ours on a couple of weeks ago as friends were coming round for the evening. We reasoned that we sit under blankets etc but it would be a bit tight to pass friends a blanket as they sit down!

Goldiegirl

Some friends that we visit seem to have a chilly house, and they don't seem to put the heating on very much.

I don't think they feel the cold, they sit there in their shirtsleeves, even in winter.

When we visit at this time of year, we always put on a few extra layers, including our thickest socks, as they like visitors to take their shoes off.

On the subject of electric blankets - my parents house was very chilly. They never had central heating. The living room was warm, but once you left the warmth of that room with the gas fire, it could be arctic. We never had electric blankets - a hot water bottle was used to warm the bed.

However, when I met my husband, he was horrified that I didn't have an electric blanket, and he bought me one as a Christmas present the first Christmas that I knew him. It was great, I loved it.

We've got central heating now, so I've never felt the need for an electric blanket here, and the thought of one brings on a hot flush at my age !

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I don't feel the cold much - I'll shut the backdoor and put on a jumper first and then I can only have the heating on for about half an hour before it's too hot (set to manually come on if it goes below 15 Celsius).

One of my friends really feels the cold. She'll ask if she can shut the backdoor, which I take as a hint to pop the hearing on. In her defence, she always wears big jumpers and scarves when she comes round outside a heat wave. And she is open about the fact she runs up a huge heating bill aT home, to the horror of her OH.

The Lovely Fella's hint is that he'll sit down and not take his hat off. Mind you, it's not as if he's got hair to keep him warm . But the rest of the time, he insists that, as a boy brought up on moorland, he just doesn't get cold and prefers the fact that the big radiator is switched off downstairs (when it isn't leaking, it pumps out far too much heat - the little one by the sofa is all we need) and my bedroom windows are always open.

I'd be convinced, were it not for the fact that he made the bed the other night by putting two quilts on it. And got into bed still wearing his t-shirt.


So I've just spent today moving furniture around, adding a rug downstairs, putting fleece throws and brightly coloured plain cushions on the leather sofa and messing Round with the various lamps I own, to make it look less clinically bloke-like in the living room area. I even found a pillar candle and stuffed it in a bowl with glass nuggets and stuck that on the coffee table I moved in front of the sofa.

My theory is, as he mentioned ages ago that adding a throw 'makes it look cozy', bunging the girly sort of things in my decidedly ungirly home will convince him that it's warmer than he thinks and I can avoid the gas bill of doom next spring :whistle:

If he still drops hints, I'll just have to turn the heating on for him as well, I suppose, because I'm not actually offended by someone being cold, I just don't put it on unless I can see/am told they're uncomfortable.

duchy

Forget hot water bottles -look out for a stone hot water bottle. Stays hot til morning (and my Mum used to wash in the warm water from hers in the morning) and far more MSE than an electric blanket....Doubles as a door stop in the summer

victory

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/stoneware-hot-water-bottle

Good ol' ebay have some:D

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

victory wrote: »

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/stoneware-hot-water-bottle

Good ol' ebay have some:D

They're called pigs, if I remember rightly. Useful if your feet got cold (no good for cuddling up to though) - but you had to have a bed made with sheets and blankets, or they'd fall out the bottom of the bed with an almighty bang at some point during the night.

I favour the bed warming properties of a lovely fella +/- a cat or two. Means the bed gets turned into something resembling a nest by morning with all the moving around to accommodate everybody, but you don't get cold or risk having a huge dink in the floorboards.

HPoirot

duchy wrote: »

Forget hot water bottles -look out for a stone hot water bottle. Stays hot til morning (and my Mum used to wash in the warm water from hers in the morning) and far more MSE than an electric blanket....Doubles as a door stop in the summer

victory wrote: »

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/stoneware-hot-water-bottle

Good ol' ebay have some:D

I always thought these were doorstops - somehow I fathomed they could be filled with sand to make them heavier . Thank you both, you live and learn every day!