When do you turn on your heating, if at all?

Chrysalis

Last year I caved when my ambient temp hit 4C.

Anything above 10C I can usually tolerate.

Rough guide for me.

Above 14C no need for anything other than layers of clothes. Above around 17-20C t-shirt is good.

10-14C, electric blanket is enough.

Below 10C, some form of room heating.  Central heating is the most expensive form of heating, so its a last resort and used sparingly.  But if I feel my health is threatened I will turn it on.

Most years, its not even a consideration in Nov or Dec, as usually things dont get cold until January due to season lag.  Although last year was different as we had a highly unusual cold December.

ArbitraryRandom

Chrysalis said:

Below 10C, some form of room heating. Central heating is the most expensive form of heating, so its a last resort and used sparingly.  But if I feel my health is threatened I will turn it on.

May I ask what other forms of heating you consider? I'm assuming you mean access to free wood or similar. 

Only asking as central heating (with radiator controls used for unoccupied rooms) normally works out cheaper than most other forms of room heating due to the relative cost of gas and electricity. 

RavingMad

Having Hive and a log burner installed last year, I went too far in economising ie living room was nice and toasty but rest of the house was too cold for the family's liking.  Shaved 4k kWh gas off our avg usage of 12.5k so a small win to go towards paying for logs.
This year, the plan is to heat the house up to 18 degrees upstairs in the morning /evening/ weekends and use burner to top up living room.  
I think I'm right in that gas (Tracker tariff) is cheaper than buying logs 

QrizB

Not only has my CH been on (timed for morning and evening) since the late teens of October, today I switched to the winter duvet and fitted my electric blanket.

I'm ready for winter now

FreeBear

RavingMad said: This year, the plan is to heat the house up to 18 degrees upstairs in the morning /evening/ weekends and use burner to top up living room.  
I think I'm right in that gas (Tracker tariff) is cheaper than buying logs 

Pretty close to what I'm doing this year, except temperature is currently set for 18°C day & night, going up to 19°C during the daytime. Late afternoon, I've been lighting the stove which can see the temperature climbing to 24°C (too hot...). keeping the lounge door open, the warm air helps to keep the rest of the house at around 20°C.

I'm fortunate that I've a steady supply of low cost logs (I have to cut, split, and season them though). If I had to buy them in at current the current price of ~£200 per load (around 2m³ loose), it would probably cost me over £1K to stock the shed. At that price gas would be a lot cheaper even if it were at 10P per KWh.